Griot Poems - Poems about Griot

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

... Open myself to love, To receiving love, To giving love, Loving is a choice, Love is love, I am grateful for the ability to love myself and my body through all of my changes and transitions. ......Read the rest...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...nnam, where's that tree at the centre of the clan? o, what happened to the people's iroko? where're my people's hope? the voice of my clan the famous tongue that came like the griot of my niger and s......Read the rest...

...Reba, you are big now, much too big to enjoy the fog Sitting in different shapes of everything we fear When trust was only those we know. There is no log Of wood, or time the stories that I did share......Read the rest...

...Tell us, you say, in your profound complexity Prophet, griot, artist, word maker Why do you litter our hearts with song? I do not write for the crowd in Dubai For the poetaster and rhyme maker I writ......Read the rest...