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Motherese Poems - Poems about Motherese


Cry of the Red-wattled Lapwing
... It’s not sweet as the Asian koel’s song. The red-wattled lapwing voices its irrecoverable loss. The bird’s sorrow scalds the night. It was brooding in the serene scrape nest. The black blo......

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Categories: motherese, bird,
Form: Free verse
On Words
...Let me speak of words Those machines of evil! The cogs and pulleys of influence, drumbeats of the longest march called the human endeavor First heard as motherese, later teaching the ABC'......

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Categories: motherese, wisdom, words,
Form: Free verse




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