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Jembe Poems - Poems about Jembe


Drum Beat
...Enticing beat, ancient accolades, achieving ancestry backbeat barrage, buoyant beats crescendo chorus calculations dulled dirges, double drumming durations environmental echoed egos faint, ......

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Categories: jembe, music,
Form: Abecedarian
Strong Heart
...Having been born in ghetto in Mathare, twas' my best place to have ever fallen for Experiencing a short motherly love, that led to total absence between the two of us Fatherly love, never ex......

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Categories: jembe, christian,
Form: Bio



Africa Chants
...The beat of the jembe, a pulse of unity between embodiment and self. The seeds of Ubuntu, our grandmothers sowed in murmured displays. The grunt of a Kudu, an imprinted bellow of pride in the herd......

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Categories: jembe, addiction,
Form: Epic
An African Morning
...AN AFRICAN MORNING Stretching and yawning Me every dawning The cock crowing Dawn’s breaking Sun rising. Cows mowing wanting milking Sheep bleating wanting grazing The wind blowing Cold biting Tre......

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Categories: jembe, africa,
Form: Rhyme
Beat Afri - Can - Do
...BEAT AFRI - CAN - DO Jembe Jembe! It calls the dancer Afri! Long asleep from the curses Because he cant overcome So he wails the future of the soil Jembe! Jembe! A wave has transcended our......

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Categories: jembe, black-african amerdance, dance,
Form: I do not know?




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