Cowries Poems - Poems about Cowries

...Scattered on the sandy sea shore, She was thinking of the play of fate, She could have become a large sea conch, But the impatient waves left her alone on the shore. Now she waits to meet her l......

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...In my loneliness, I lie in my bed hopelessly listening to the chirping of crickets The consoling breeze blowing from the cracks of my window whistling tunes that re-echo from my bamboo bed sendin......

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...YÉMIÍTÀN If you would stay do stay Please tease me no longer My body, no more can bear But my heart, yet still craves My womb you make hollow My hopes many times dashed How can you be so hea......

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...I am black magic, sprouting out of dark humus The Shaman was Mother Earth, I was birthed strong Black earthen pots on fire made from wet woods, smoking And a forest of leaves sprinkled into water ......

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...Secrets hidden in the sands known only to the tiny crab or starfish wandering idly by as waves collect the ancient treasures send past truths drawing ever, nigh. Sand Dollars gliste......

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...I know village where blessings is their curse From their mountain of gold they mine penury Right in the village square is fountain of thirst where Fathers won't stop narrating to child The old t......

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... Last good days of innocence He did came with no trace with no chain no fame no frame or mark of true repentance In skeletons of liquid pawns carved in satirical steer Streets bubbling......

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...Upriver - a place where she goes to fetch water and firewood Hair is neatly decorated with a collection of cowries and coins Stretch marks that cover the entirety of her growing belly Beauti......

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...MY DREADLOCKS LOVER Your dreadlocks flutters like streamers Your thick dreadlocks spreads like tethers Your eyes are like coffee mix with white lily My lover, I come from a beautiful place ......

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...There is a folk I know quite too well, he does not refund when he owe, at least that's how well I can tell. Then came a day stars littered in the sky, he left the house again, To in th......

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...EULOGY TO MRS (Ph.D) ALIHAJA, AMINAT OLABOOPO I From ‘Asabari’, I stand on the moon Blowing the flute of ‘Okere’ Telling the tale of your heroic arrival. ......

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...Bonny Island You, who are drunk on the palm wine of the mighty Atlantic’s eternal fatuity laugh and make vain in perpetuity her attempts to blot you out of sight Daily taunt the thundering w......

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...Morountodun, this is the place you'll find me like the prey of a shrike choked through by your thorny words When the chase after Omo Ogun with your heart Failed to be anything worthy to steal th......

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...AJALA THE TRAVELLER My name is Ajala Not Ajala Jalingo but Ajala the Traveler! My Aduke will say, Ajala Ololufeemi Alarinka You love moving from one place to another. But I don't bother. ......

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...Africa is in need, Africa is in need Africans may be schooled, learned they may possess degrees and doctorates in their bags there may carry any cowries But Africa wants no mushroom dresses i......

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