Pestles Poems - Poems about Pestles

... Ponder the old pestles and mortars used at times in apothecaries, older drug emporium quarters. Some of the porous surface was shared by grinding both mortar and pestle ending up in medicine......

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...Deep in dust Lost in the swamp Drowned by the heavy wind Left alone to the dark Left side, there's no hope And no papa's touch Then who? Molded and melted in the truck of hope And crying ......

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...The women bending and pounding in rhythm was a vibrant bucolic sight. The long wooden pestles were powered by the human current. While grinding raw rice, they stopped to rest, and to crack......

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...Dear men in the house of David, Look not at women in the bathroom And fall lustfully like King David of Ancient Israel, he did it and God cursed him, When skimpy skirt women are seen by, Close ......

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...Where birds are two We ask:where is the eagle? Where trees are two We ask: where is iroko? Where men become two We ask: where is Okonkwo? Gut in the forest of Titans He roared in the jungl......

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...Daily long I to hear again Sweet tales told me in warm moonlight When birds no longer chirped nor sang Sweet songs sang you in bright sunshine When mortar and pestles in unity pounded Long, long......

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...Living walls composed of tiny living building blocks Pinchers, claws, legs, holding on, gripping, intertwined Compelled to embrace each other in this crawly house Scratching on hardened shells, al......

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...In my dreams; I see the malicious red flames lick away our prized possessions and we watched mesmerized, while it destroyed years of labor. Years of slavery by our fathers of old years of suffer......

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...Aranmo laso Iseyin ni ohunso Aso ti aro olowo faramo olowo Iseyin of harried hills and skyscaping rocks of humming hurricane and haughty harmattan of succulent virgins and tasty lasses of fea......

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