Griot Poems - Poems about Griot

...They kept a record of time, They were history’s shelves, They were memory pages, An honour that ran through the family. They sang songs of the land, To them, the sand was more than the travell......

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...They consume the hot dogs Too Like you But they don’t eat the dogs Never, never They do not eat the cats They do not eat the pets Never, never. Immigrants eat the wild hogs That’s hot Grio......

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...They are eating the dogs They are eating the cats They are eating the pets They are eating the wild hogs. In the early 20th “c”, Germans used to eat blockade mutton That’s absolute truth. It’s......

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...The breath came in and then was gone Just as the beautious visions resonated with my dna then resolved Each inspiration paired with expiration wonderfully frames the joy of living the joy of......

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...Chromatic Voglio chetu sia mio Ibi locutus sum J 'espere que je ne le regretterai pas Na ia jeg takkle meg selv Daar is geen skeuring tussen jou en my nie Es un honored haberna sentido as......

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...(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots) We may not be deemed apostolic recorders But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of Our life’s sojourn in the sh......

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...Manifestation of pain inside walls of your gospel Penned up truths that haunted your psyche but you made the pen a weapon that prospered against all that troubled you Troubled King with ske......

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...A bird’s eye view conversation overheard in a park somewhere near you Hey, Ori ... what’s up? Nothing much, Marque. Just flying low, bro. Big Ollie, the Ruby Cleaners ro......

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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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...SHURI Ba Ru Raa a bomb buray Ba Ru Raa a bomb buray Ba Ru Raa a bomb buray A SHURI african princess genis Wakanda forever Ba Ru Raa a bomb buray Ba Ru Raa a bomb buray Ba Ru Raa a ......

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...Jali, jeli African historian You’re a storyteller; Praise singer;griot Griot, jali, jeli You’re a storyteller; Singing, telling your tales; Words songs in harmony wails; Poet or musician; ......

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...Political Poetry Obama: what bard, what griot, what poet wouldn't want to tell -the miracles of our times in tales. What courage, what evidence that man can endure; fulfilling the destiny for whi......

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...yon full-throat’d weaver – she comes home, thither! again & again oh, by the shores of my niger & she comes, singing like the griot of my old clan – again & again she vibrates her clan-famous......

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...Derive pleasure from chiseled moves Reckon the Creator grants fuel Focus on otherworldly jewel Live as wise Griot, calm as doves. Wake up to life's amenities Portion of good is as good as dew ......

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...(In loving memory of my big brother, Reg) Right within my den Calligraphic letters you penned Surfaced as reminder of the love we shared I see picture perfect portraits No negatives. You ......

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