All Around South Had To Hike
...All Around South Had To Hike
All around South did have to hike,
And every single bit of it did like,
To bare bone,
When alone,
Even riding trike when a little tyke.
Jim Horn
Crab with c...
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Categories:
gullah, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
U and I
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Born in the gullah cypress shade
of South Carolina
Dirt poor
Rich coffee bean skin
Teardrop-shaped pearl eyes ...
midnight black forest feminine
Uneducated and illiterate ...
Livin...
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Categories:
gullah, grandmother, loss, love,
Form: Bio
The Gullah
...The Gullah people drift with the tide,
existing by the Charleston seaside.
Their lives more often unduly harsh,
yielding and melding with the marsh.
Africans of Dominican voice impressed.
Tales ...
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Categories:
gullah, people,
Form: Rhyme
A Gullah Angel
...“Be still sad heart and cease repining;
Behind the clouds the sun is shining,
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life a little rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.”- - Lo...
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Categories:
gullah, love, heart, old, heart,
Form: Narrative
Blue Window Trim -
...sea island natives
living reminders of trade
cotton rice and indigo
gullah life is made
five benne wafers
cast into new daylight
the hudu spell is torn away
rest easy then this night
bridges came...
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Categories:
gullah, adventure, black african american,
Form: Free verse