Long Bride price Poems

On a never lonely street was  where I grew up
There  we played from morning  till dusk
 Then we woke up neat and  free, but back home laced with dust
Slightly dirtier than...

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CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Creamy Melons
by Chao Luan-Luan
translation by Michael R. Burch

Scented with talcum, moist with perspiration,
like pegs of jade inlaid in a harp,
aroused by desire, yet soft as cream,
fertile amid a warm mist
after my...

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His looks and physique,
Add on to that someone else's mind and brains,
I am sure it will be like salt to the season-less.
Add to all that someone else's generosity,
It will be like spice to the spice-less;
And...

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Pave way for your younger brothers, this is the price i have to pay
as 13 year old, first born girl I have no say in my education welfare 
my dad by now has already received...

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As a young beautiful black butterfly 
Fresh and uncultivated,
Pure as gold and shiny as diamond
A dream of every man.
My mama is proud as Mt Kilimanjaro 
To have a daughter beautiful as rainbow 
Walks around with...

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It's time for me to do Marriage trade
Is it what some call bride price?
Never mind..I am a merchant so i call it trade 
Barter trade system is my best 
I give you a living thing...

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Oh how the King has loved you
your beauty is rare
                and your fealty unsurpassed
let us traverse the garden meadows
in the...

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I only asked for a pen,not a ,p*nis,
I only ask you to touch the books,not my boobs,
I need school fees,not the bride price,
Please,give me education, but not ejaculation,
Use the knife to cut veges,but not my...

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"No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. That includes one's self." - Sara Teasdale

I don't belong to me (it’s true), you don't belong to you.
Can't be denied, a simple truth, but one embraced by...

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The westerners eat Amala and Ewedu
We eat Akpo and Ofe Nsala
They dance Juju and Apala
We dance bongo and atilogwu the beat of life.
T^he Northerners speaks hausa whilst we speak igbo
They married with no bride price...

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Short but beautiful,
Beautiful and dutiful.
Dutiful in deligience,
Deligent and intelligent.

The mood of thy pleasantries,
Wroth fables of dignities.
Your egg-y shaped physiognomy,
Mount emotions in hurry.
The smiles of thy face,
Is embroided with bewitching triats.
The venom of thy eyeballs,
Pierce through...

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Too worthy to be behold
Too precious to be sold
No price on earth worth her
So I need her as bride with no price

Tell her father and his kinsmen
That am unworthy of their priceless
But neither am I...

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uncle
you forgot you had a niece
you work in glasses
you wear the best clothes
you reign in shinning shoes
you eat the world at once
you send your kids to fly 
you pretend to care
you pretend to call
you live...

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THE BRIDIE PRICE OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY
Quietly her love fathomed
The glittering incisor,
A puissant one unravished,
An aesthete affirmed.
Wide in comb of friend
A pilot stood aghast
In rapt marvel of a portrait.
With no joy of dislike he lust:
“I...

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Papa said my beauty would make life better
For marry I must this summer
Or we shall continue to suffer.
Bride Price shall make my family richer.
But I am in a dilemma.
Sam is sweet but Jude is Richer
Papa...

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In bridled hovel on denuded strand
Tanned damsel loiters on barter stand
Waiting for purloined fealty her title to brand
Festooned in ritual garb, decked with lavish garland
As noble peacock, her fecund colors are fanned
Waiting eligible suitors her...

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Who can save mama?
Being stripped naked
Mocked, turned and scorned
By villains, aliens beyond
Shall you? Shall I?

They came with perplexed clothings
Coatings with absconded beauty
I know we wallowed in with confusion.
Who can turn our minds back to our...

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A priceless dowry 
my love I gave for you
a purchase
so costly
you would know
my love was true
from the very heavens
the bride price went out
that you my love 
rest assured and never doubt
eternity by my side
you will...

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Nature Bride Price

Thou bride play possum

With her groom, love dies

Nature like a groom who pram

Divorce is his case, has eyes

Commanding earth to turn forward

The price of a bridegroom precious

Nature precession, like to come upward

Precaution the...

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