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Eritrean Poems - Poems about Eritrean


Identity crisis
...I stand between worlds, neither here nor there, Feet planted in Eritrea, yet Arabic fills the air. My father’s tongue, Tigre, I do not know, Nor the Tigrinya of my ancestors, lost in echoes low. ......

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Categories: eritrean, africa, arabic, feelings, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Three Brave Young Men
...Pinchas, Yosef and Reuven Three brave young men Fleeing a war-ravaged land Came to a country of sand Ethiopian Jews driven out by a Soviet-backed Eritrean rout Separated from their love......

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Categories: eritrean, africa, faith, joy, miracle,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Eritrean Softball Game - 1959
...ERITREAN SOFTBALL GAME - 1959 One painful hot, and Eritrean day, More happenstance, than anything we'd planned, Our softball field, was moulded in the clay Of Africa, the time forgotten land. ......

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Categories: eritrean, africa, arabic, black african
Form: Sonnet

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