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Poetry from the heart
Poetry from the heart comes from a place of reflecting, sharing and re-centering. A spiritual place... View more
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Whose words first moved you?
Abibitumi! Abibifahodie! Anuanom, this space has been quiet, so let’s warm it back up. Poetry is one of the oldest technologies our ancestors carried — from the griot’s praise-songs to the freedom verses of Nana Maya Angelou. Tell us: what is the one poem, or single line, that first cracked something open in you? Drop it below and say why it stayed.
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Abibitumi! Abibifahodie! A small offering to restart the heartbeat of this group 🥁 — a one-line writing challenge. Finish this line in the replies, in any language you dream in: “I come from people who…” No rules, no polish required. Sometimes the truest poem is the first honest breath. I’ll go first in the comments. Yɛnkɔ so — let’s build.
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I come from people who buried seeds and songs in the same soil — who turned chains into drums, and grief into griot’s memory. I come from people who refused to forget the way home, even when the water tried to swallow the road. Abibitumi! Abibifahodie!
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Ghana remember me please.
Ghana remember me please.
I have returned back in time on a flight on my own dime.
On the same jet stream above, so below I go with many seat in a row.
Ghana remember me please.
I travel back to my ancestor’s home land with ease away from the deep freeze from oppression and disease.
Ghana remember me please.
Will you put my mind at ease as my…
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We have been separated far too long where our ancestors had been far-flung; we were so wronged and forced to sing by the rivers to Babylon.
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