WINGS OF GUINEA
...Oh white dove
Fly over and above
The troubled plains of Guinea
Coo peace, halt this coup.
Guinea needs love
Now more than ever.
Oh white dove
Flap your tender wings
Over Yenge, over ...
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Categories:
nationale, 2nd grade, africa,
Form: Narrative
Madame
...The bric-a-brac shop waits on Rue Nationale.
In a sleepy French town.
It opens at ten,
And closes at one,
Till three.
Then on till seven in the evening.
Madame opens the shutters
Before going ...
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Categories:
nationale, devotion, french, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Why Do We Celebrate Bastille Day
...Fete Nationale finally came about on July 14th 1789
When the commoners stormed the Bastile so fine.
Their crops had failed that summer, and it went to their head.
They were spending ninety-percent...
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Categories:
nationale, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Marianne 'Bearer of Tricolour'
...Marianne (Bearer of Tricolour)
Marianne; the Goddess of Liberty and bearer of Tricolour,
Triumphant French Republic revolutionary figure,
Evokes solidarity with breasts exposed and baref...
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Categories:
nationale, anniversary, celebration, education, french,
Form: Verse
Follow Me, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Suis-Moi By T Wignesan
...Follow me, Translation of Piere Emmanuel’s Suis-moi by T. Wignesan
Everything begins on a morning like just another but
which becomes its own following day.
The next day of a common ...
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Categories:
nationale, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Haggling In An Empty Market
...Now the sun goes down to rest from its daily shining
How then have you come to an early grave
Passing in a boisterous way from the lip of dawn
Rambling around the God swollen foot .
Wailing, crying ...
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Categories:
nationale, funeral, sad, grave, sad,
Form: Free verse