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.
The breath came in
and then was gone
Just as the beautious visions resonated
with my dna then resolved
Each inspiration
paired with expiration
wonderfully frames
the joy of living
the joy of loving
the day will come
to honor this beautiful life
with one beautiful death
Categories:
griot, black african american, celebration, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
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.
Categories:
griot, allegory,
Form:
Sonnet
The bloody stranger stank of rank grass and
Animal grime and strutted unnoticed on
Our threshold on a long, misty night.
Lightning, unaccompanied by rain,
Exposed his grisly image,
Comprehended quickly by the village griot,
A humepenthe with seeing eyes, though blind,
Who could smell danger even from long-dug holes of
Doss-houses from distant caverns.
A common, vile dictator is abroad tonight!
Categories:
griot, horror, society,
Form:
Free verse
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.
Categories:
griot, on writing and wordslove,
Form:
Free verse