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So Much Memory by Saddiq Dzukogi | Poems Rethabile Likes

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So Much Memory by Saddiq Dzukogi | Poems Rethabile Likes So Much Memory by Saddiq Dzukogi Now he answers to everything that reminds him of her, a crib rocking, a circle of faces crowing at him. He can neither leave his eyes open nor shut them. Splits the night walking between two cornfields, striding like he’s going for the thing he’ll never find. See how he runs his hands over his body, how his skin peels. After a night of crying, he can feel her limbs in his palms, versified, nothing made of flesh; nothing made of bone. He opens his mind and lets the leaves be his skin and lets a song fall inside another song: it...
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A Song in the Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks | Poems Rethabile Likes

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A Song in the Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks | Poems Rethabile Likes A Song in the Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back Where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows. A girl gets sick of a rose. I want to go in the back yard now And maybe down the alley, To where the charity children play. I want a good time today. They do some wonderful things. They have some wonderful fun. My mother sneers, but I say it’s fine How they don’t have to go in at quarter to nine. My mother, she tells me that Johnnie Mae Will grow up to be a bad wo...
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Location: Qoaling, Maseru, Lesotho
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The Rose and the Reseda by Louis Aragon | Poems Rethabile Likes

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The Rose and the Reseda by Louis Aragon | Poems Rethabile Likes The Rose and the Reseda by Louis Aragon The one who believed in heaven The one who didn’t Both loved the beauty Imprisoned by soldiers Which climbed the ladder? And which stood guard below? The one who believed in heaven The one who didn’t? What matters the name of This light on their steps? that one was of the church And the other baulked from it? The one who believed in heaven The one who didn’t? Both were faithful with their lips, heart, arms And both said that she will live, time will tel...
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