Short Griot Poems
Short Griot Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Griot by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Griot by length and keyword.
Her Voice Awaken the Moon
yon full-throat’d weaver –
she comes home, thither!
again & again
oh, by the shores of my niger
& she comes, singing
like the griot of my old clan –
again & again
she vibrates her clan-famous tunes
with her eden’s golden voice
softly high & loudly calm
by these niger chambers –
& the weaver sings, again!
with her retinue of songs
& her voice awaken the moon....
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Categories:
griot, allegory,
Form:
Sonnet
loving care
Open myself to love,
To receiving love,
To giving love,
Loving is a choice,
Love is love,
I am grateful for the ability to love myself and my body through all of my changes and transitions.
I am grateful to receive the full flow of love that others have for me,
without resistance.
I am grateful for love.
Love cannot be absent wherever I am, for I am love
and love is love
I open myself
and there is love....
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Categories:
griot, appreciation, black african american, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Poem
In the beggining
The water was everywhere
A vapor moist with meaning
Substancing atom and seed
With love urged upon need
Until sound appeared in picture
And time tasted its first rapture
The tongue singing
The wing dilating
Thought upon thought
Mind and memory in vision wrought
The word had ancestry here.
And I griot, poet, sage
Its sacred keeper without a wage
Am the river in which the rage
Of words make war in love upon the page....
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Categories:
griot, on writing and wordslove,
Form:
Free verse