Occualt
...Jai bajran bali
Bhooth sang khele hum aankh micholi
Aap jeeto mai haru kaeyd mai humare kaei nar kankal jo Ho amavasya ki raat.....
Yav
Ri-dr ba:G hum ooch
Eyen micholi
Sav ebhbhb...
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Categories:
eyen, age, black love, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans Translation
...Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To ...
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Categories:
eyen, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Roundel
Greeny
...I went a searchen for da green eyed monster
Yet da big fella was nowhere in site
They'd said he was really quite fearsum
He'd often appear on a saderday night
I went out wit my little woman
Th...
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Categories:
eyen, humor, jealousy,
Form: Quatrain
Native Tongue
...I speak native tongue
From the lees heart of
The keg and palm tree
In the kukuruku forest
To be suffuse with
The spirit of Anwu.
Dum dum gbidi gbom
Basks my body in
Drum beats of Egungun
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Categories:
eyen, africa, appreciation, identity, inspiration,
Form: Blank verse