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     Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 5921 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
The Sankofet is a poetry form created by the literary group Sisters Nineties Below are the rules and following them is my try at it SANKOFET A S~NLG collectively generated creation, the format for the Sankofet is a) 3 verses or stanzas of 7 lines each, b) one verse representing the past, another the present, the third the future, c) the last word at the end of the last line of each stanza is the first word of the next stanza and the last word of the poem is also the first word in the poem. d) the fourth line of all three verses is the same sort of a refrain that can accommodate call-and- response motif. The Sankofet is a verse form that correlates the meaning of the Adinkra symbol of the mythical Sankofa bird, which represents the theme of “go back and get it”--i.e., go back to the past and retrieve one's history in order to build a future. The last word of each stanza beginning the next stanza is symbolic of the Afrikan concept of the cycle of life. Our Shero Shero stole away home Found Mound City floundering Spiritual Starvation Afrikan People hungry Zoned Needin Bread for Mind & Soul SolutionBold Transplanted seed of Sisters Nineties --Once Grown, Eat Shero told Told now that story sounds remote As the whispering of ghostly griotsstill She be Mother Teacher Ally Friend to folk Needin Bread for Mind & Soul The Orishas Tool she treasures her Sankofian View like a Blessed Jewel Yet shares itGlory! Dont ask, Who? Who truly tells tomorrow? Will the road Mama Debra travels hereafter Lead to those Needin Bread for Mind & Soul? Fate is a book locked behind The Door That Has No KeyBut I say Shell always be our Shero Chris Hayden Copyright 2007 Chris Hayden |
