Cowry Poems - Poems about Cowry

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...The wind rattles and shuttles leaves into fall And grass wipes off its tears in the pour of night. I hear throbbing haunches and tramps of stallions. Garlands of blinking cowry shells Ferried lon......Read the rest...

...Needless of your seduction I have fallen; Deep in the ocean of love; I awaken. Do you know this feeling you have arisen? Coming forth like a caterpillar from its cocoon Such, is my sweet sorro......Read the rest...

...A FULANI GIRL’S COMPLAINT I carried water. I did all the house cores. I drove and bred the cattle one and alone, singing songs, running and climbing mountains. I milked, sold milk and bought you......Read the rest...

...Dream Catcher You hang crookedly from the white plastic hook, swaying slightly to the west. Caught to catch. Five cheaply dyed feathers splayed from winged birds My dime-store exotic. Amber,......Read the rest...

...The Gathering It started with the sun casting colors on the sand, sun tanned brown pointing cowry shells – golden baked An old seagull by the sea watches me collect a gathering of shells t......Read the rest...

...I love Africa, my beautiful Africa I can roam in the bushes I can run up the mountains Down the valleys Across the plains Or get lost in the forests Or the caves I can soak the sun On the sand at the......Read the rest...