Griots Poems - Poems about Griots

...Don’t be like that elephant that caused the infants to slaughter one another indifferent to its posterity he lifted the corrupt dropped the ripe and bullied the resolute warrior don’t be like......Read the rest...

...(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots) We may not be deemed apostolic recorders But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of Our life’s sojourn in the sh......Read the rest...

...Loneliness brings tears... Togetherness brings tears too: Despair can't bring joy... With needles of pain I crocheted emotions into a web of depression cocooning myself in defeat C......Read the rest...

...Never forsake the lineage in which we originated from because the ancestors are watching us Their eyes are on the sparrow anticipating us to soar into our excellence Wash ourselves in their ro......Read the rest...

...Smile if I could smile if I would smile as I should… I can see ancestors smiling down on you and me… They’re singing for us to lean on them when we feel weak for they are with us like ......Read the rest...

...EULOGY TO MRS (Ph.D) ALIHAJA, AMINAT OLABOOPO I From ‘Asabari’, I stand on the moon Blowing the flute of ‘Okere’ Telling the tale of your heroic arrival. ......Read the rest...

...Africa is raped. The continent of life is pumped dry, and the colonizer won’t stop, ’till he is stopped. And blocked. We pay colonial tax for the baskets we have weaved. Our own weaved baskets. We......Read the rest...

...Poets That We Are… Poets are umbilical cords— chosen links of the pregnant mind and its births—amniotic guardians of the poetic descendent. As mere servants of the word, we cannot be more o......Read the rest...

...Who Are WE but Who We Are… We are the conscience of the heart; custodians of its emotions—conjuring, molding and etching its most sacred feelings upon the canvas of time’s time; We are devot......Read the rest...

...ah! ’tis blue azure greet’ng the dark maidens dancers of the ancient drums of my warriors yea! the ever-ready danc’ng mbari maidens o, dancers amid the smooth-throat’d hunters – ’tis like an ev......Read the rest...

...We, are your friends We spend each and every day with you including the weekends Become your griots in the night, singing close to your eardrums Our race love to dance, but you pretend to clap at ......Read the rest...

...I heard, foremost; that you were grave, then heard that you were excellent. For by some ‘men’ you turned a slave, who served them everywhere they went. That you were grave: without remorse. ......Read the rest...

...The New Griots—Pouring Down Raining Words From the wombs of our pregnant minds may our charged words drop like God’s tears reaching the depths of the precincts of your souls seeping like Hi......Read the rest...

...COME, LETS BEAT THE ANCESTRAL DRUM Sitting here flowing through the meters of time like a smooth spring stream meandering through forest greens, I peruse the many folds of the caverns of this......Read the rest...

...The golden silence melts away, and joy un-named From the phantom pipes exults me For no silence can so rhapsodized and doubts tamed That man deserves better glory. And what if sin could, levelling us......Read the rest...