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Elhajj Mustapha Fye <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:17:49 +0200
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 Wow  Oko  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   ISSA DINGLEE-WASA DANGLAR-


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "oko drammeh" <[log in to unmask]>
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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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