Oko,
I will get back to you these days. My semester finished yesterday, and I am 
on the rush to work on my first day after semester. Extend my warmest 
greetings to all overthere.
Regards
Elhajj.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "oko drammeh" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: A Poem (about nawet) The Rain Season


> Elhaji, Greetings from the bottom of my heart Ya Alhagi,
>
>  Kitabu Tere
>  I am very happy to attempt this challange to write a Nawet Poem to be 
> named "When Naweet Comes". It is in the making. It is not a creative Poem 
> but an imaginary Poem that we all have played a huge part.in.
>  You will see that I will have room for Issa Dinglie Wa sa Dangla.
>
>  P/S Can you remember when Njie Sasu PAKA my foot and I fell on my keens 
> bleeding at the Pakine at Dobson near your house. Reflex Bro.
>
>  Hold tight
>  Oko B
>
> Elhajj Mustapha Fye <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>  Wow Oko !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ISSA DINGLEE-WASA DANGLAR-
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "oko drammeh"
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:25 PM
> Subject: Re: A Poem (about nawet) The Rain Season
>
>
>> Rene,
>> This is roots brother. I can see myself in it.
>>
>> WEhen it rains in Banjul, I sit with my mom beside the Furno- Ring of
>> fire, I would listen to storyies of Oumad Njulie and Samba Seytani, while
>> we eat Ranha domadah (spinage and rice).The drama continues into nawet
>> camps and nawet rituals. This is high times.
>> I am inspired to write one. I am working on it. This is a lovely peom and
>> the compilation will soon be the book. Keep them coming.
>> Keep it up brotherman,
>> Oko B
>>
>> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> It has been raining here, and as I sit outside and look at the cloudy sky
>> and the wet green grass on the ground, it all but reminds me about 
>> "nawet"
>> in
>> the Gambia. Thus this poem.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From the verandah
>> of my grandmother's hut
>> I watch the watery eyes
>> of the sky above
>> pours down
>> on the old corrugated kitchen roof
>> and the cold sea-blue water
>> pelts its pit-a-pat droppings
>> into the empty buckets underneath.
>>
>> I watch
>> as the rain pours
>> and the leaves drip
>> their silvery wetness
>> on the fertile ground
>> my squinted eyes follow
>> the many rivulets of water
>> build up into a stream
>> and gushes out
>> into the wet sandy street.
>>
>> And when the rain stops
>> the tiny green worms
>> crawl voraciously
>> and litter the brown earth
>> ready to devour
>> the sprouting green grasses
>> their bloated green entrails
>> smashed under heavy scurrying feet.
>>
>> I follow
>> the narrow wet path
>> to the tree clustered rice fields
>> and my mother dexterously
>> planted single blades of rice
>> buried knee-deep under the rain water
>> on mounds of soil fertilized by cow dung.
>>
>> I listen
>> to the rice field birds sing
>> their melodious songs
>> compliment the joyful humming
>> of my mother with a radiant face
>> as the blades of rice
>> soars above the muddy water.
>>
>>
>> Rene
>>
>>
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