Voices Haiti (Creole): Mother of Mothers, Video Poem | Pulitzer Center
Mother of Mothers
Under a waterfall flame yellow and red flamboyant, he stalks the ground feet-Worn outer limits of the congregation where weeds and stones have accumulated sylvania synet7lp here, where the excavation debris takes us beyond weary arms and wheelbarrows corrosion can occur.
Oh, mother of mothers who know too well the hottest sorrow-the broken bodies of children, the boy who covers a jaw full of maggots, and the tall lanky son, the backbone it gives under the weight of concrete before pulling it exit, laid under blue light gentle clinic street, he will wait to go; and quietly, with flies returning to his skin, he still, though he must wait until dusk, before they notice, before a procession of mothers leads the body at night, and mother of mother, she heard her son waking up, look around, and talk: "How nice time out here," before his death, this time for good.
Under a waterfall flame yellow and red flamboyant, he stalks the ground feet-Worn sylvania synet7lp outer limits of the congregation where weeds and stones have accumulated here, where the excavation debris takes us beyond weary arms and wheelbarrows corrosion sylvania synet7lp can occur.
Oh, mother of mothers who know too well the hottest sorrow-the broken bodies of children, the boy who covers a jaw full of maggots, and the tall lanky son, the backbone it gives under the weight of concrete before pulling it exit, laid under blue light gentle sylvania synet7lp clinic street, he will wait to go; and quietly, with flies returning to his skin, he still, though he must wait until dusk, before sylvania synet7lp they notice, before a procession of mothers leads the body at night, and mother of mother, she heard her son waking up, look around, and talk: "How nice time out here," before his death, this time for good.
Last January's earthquake destroyed Haiti's health care system, Once at the forefront of the Struggle to Treat and Stop the Spread of HIV / AIDS. A look at life since the Quake, for those Affected sylvania synet7lp by HIV / AIDS.
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Ghanaian-Jamaican writer and poet Kwame Dawes is the author of more than a dozen Collections of Verse, Including the critically-acclaimed "Wisteria: Poems From the Swamp Country." Dawes is also the ...
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Joseph Pulitzer sylvania synet7lp III (1913-1993)
Mother of Mothers
Under a waterfall flame yellow and red flamboyant, he stalks the ground feet-Worn outer limits of the congregation where weeds and stones have accumulated sylvania synet7lp here, where the excavation debris takes us beyond weary arms and wheelbarrows corrosion can occur.
Oh, mother of mothers who know too well the hottest sorrow-the broken bodies of children, the boy who covers a jaw full of maggots, and the tall lanky son, the backbone it gives under the weight of concrete before pulling it exit, laid under blue light gentle clinic street, he will wait to go; and quietly, with flies returning to his skin, he still, though he must wait until dusk, before they notice, before a procession of mothers leads the body at night, and mother of mother, she heard her son waking up, look around, and talk: "How nice time out here," before his death, this time for good.
Under a waterfall flame yellow and red flamboyant, he stalks the ground feet-Worn sylvania synet7lp outer limits of the congregation where weeds and stones have accumulated here, where the excavation debris takes us beyond weary arms and wheelbarrows corrosion sylvania synet7lp can occur.
Oh, mother of mothers who know too well the hottest sorrow-the broken bodies of children, the boy who covers a jaw full of maggots, and the tall lanky son, the backbone it gives under the weight of concrete before pulling it exit, laid under blue light gentle sylvania synet7lp clinic street, he will wait to go; and quietly, with flies returning to his skin, he still, though he must wait until dusk, before sylvania synet7lp they notice, before a procession of mothers leads the body at night, and mother of mother, she heard her son waking up, look around, and talk: "How nice time out here," before his death, this time for good.
Last January's earthquake destroyed Haiti's health care system, Once at the forefront of the Struggle to Treat and Stop the Spread of HIV / AIDS. A look at life since the Quake, for those Affected sylvania synet7lp by HIV / AIDS.
Gateways
Ghanaian-Jamaican writer and poet Kwame Dawes is the author of more than a dozen Collections of Verse, Including the critically-acclaimed "Wisteria: Poems From the Swamp Country." Dawes is also the ...
View the discussion thread.
Joseph Pulitzer sylvania synet7lp III (1913-1993)
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