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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_6872" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6872" style="width: 367px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=6872#main" rel="attachment wp-att-6872"><img class="size-full wp-image-6872" alt="Serer Woman" src="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/serer-woman1.png" width="367" height="421" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-6872" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[Serer Woman]</strong></figcaption></figure>Woman<br>
Of the kingdoms of the Sine<br>
and <a class="zem_slink" title="Saloum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saloum" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Saloum</a>,<br>
May God lengthen your life.
<p>To Serer’s<br>
Ancient saints, ancestral spirits<br>
And all the tribes of Senegal<br>
Brotherly greeting.</p>
<p>I am a<br>
Wandering Piper<br>
Standing on the knoll of your knee<br>
To sing you songs…</p>
<p>Pleasant Woman</p>
<p>The<br>
Sizzling aroma<br>
Of pounded coos, of gourmet thiéboudienne</p>
<p>Slender vines<br>
Of healing fragrance;<br>
Groves of pines intermixed with tangerines</p>
<p>Waves<br>
Submitting kisses to the <a class="zem_slink" title="Cap-Vert" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=14.7447222222,-17.5202777778&;spn=0.01,0.01&;q=14.7447222222,-17.5202777778%20(Cap-Vert)&;t=h" target="_blank" rel="geolocation">Cap-vert</a><br>
of Dakar,<br>
Submitting kisses to the cliffs of Toubab Dialao</p>
<p>Showy<br>
Flowers of the River Sine;<br>
Dyilor’s fermented milk, gaping the mouth of Sahel<br>
Gaping the mouth of <a class="zem_slink" title="El Hadji Diouf" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hadji_Diouf" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">El Hadji Diouf</a>…</p>
<p>Lyrical Woman</p>
<p>Youssou N’Dior<br>
Strumming kora at Khoye,<br>
<a class="zem_slink" title="Akon" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/akon" target="_blank" rel="rottentomatoes">Akon</a> striking<br>
balafon at <a class="zem_slink" title="Serer religion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serer_religion" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Raan festival</a><br>
Earth<br>
Trembling under the giant feet<br>
Of Yakhya Diop</p>
<p>Eagles soaring<br>
Beneath the plumes of clapping<br>
desert wind</p>
<p>Winged shadows<br>
Plucking prosody from the nerves<br>
Of farthest whirlwind…</p>
<p>Stark Beauty, Dazzling Beauty</p>
<p>Teeth<br>
Shimmering in the sunlight,<br>
Bamboozling the buffaloes<br>
At the foot of Les Mammelles</p>
<p>Sidereal stars<br>
Reflecting our villages in the mirror<br>
of your swaying hair</p>
<p>Scandinavian<br>
Rainbows faint at the first sight<br>
Of your pliant skin</p>
<p>In the night<br>
Of your presence,<br>
Darkness transforms into lights, Gathering clouds transfigure to lightning.<br>
Fairy-tale Woman</p>
<p>Ancient<br>
Griot of the Kingdoms Of the Sine<br>
and Saloum</p>
<p>Giver<br>
of ripe voice<br>
To generations</p>
<p>Diome,<br>
Mahecor Joof,<br>
Isatou Nije-Saidy,<br>
<a class="zem_slink" title="Léopold Sédar Senghor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9opold_S%C3%A9dar_Senghor" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Leopold Sedar Senghor</a>…</p>
<p>All sucked<br>
From the penury of your<br>
pitch-black breasts –</p>
<p>Pitch-black<br>
breasts underneath<br>
The oxter of the sea-air<br>
of Dyilor.</p>
<p>Under the parasol<br>
of your wooded arms<br>
They became talking drums</p>
<p>And the<br>
Lamplight of your eyes<br>
Watched over them.</p>
<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Mysterious Woman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Woman" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Mysterious Woman</a></p>
<p>Your lashes<br>
That stitch the fragmented<br>
Heart of a cloud</p>
<p>Are the<br>
Ancestral Totems of Serer’s<br>
families.</p>
<p>In the<br>
Circumference of your ank-let,<br>
Opposite <a class="zem_slink" title="Fandène" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=14.45,-16.9166666667&;spn=0.1,0.1&;q=14.45,-16.9166666667%20(Fand%C3%A8ne)&;t=h" target="_blank" rel="geolocation">Fandène</a></p>
<p>There<br>
Earthquakes struggle<br>
To hug the zephyr promenading<br>
On your fleshy leg.</p>
<p>On<br>
The couch<br>
Of your screaming silence</p>
<p>There strange skies sit<br>
And perch their gaze at<br>
The treasures of Mali, Guinea, Gambia…</p>
<p>O Black Mother of countless Heroes</p>
<p>When<br>
Tomorrow arrives<br>
I shall build my huts<br>
By the bank of your breath;</p>
<p>But this moonlight,<br>
Let me recline on the mat<br>
of your smile</p>
<p>And<br>
Listen to your<br>
home-spun tales… Mother!</p>
<p>*For Diao Ba’s mother, a <a class="zem_slink" title="Senegal" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=14.6666666667,-17.4166666667&;spn=10.0,10.0&;q=14.6666666667,-17.4166666667%20(Senegal)&;t=h" target="_blank" rel="geolocation">Senegalese</a> born American Poet. A Friend</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Written by: Madu Chisom Kingdavid</em><br>
<em>Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</em><em></em></p>
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