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The Weaver Bird The weaver bird built in our house And laid its eggs on our only tree We did not want to send it away We watched the building of the nest And supervised the egg-laying. And the weaver returned in the guise of the owner Preaching salvation to us that own the house They say it came from the west Where the storms at the sea has felled the gulls And the fishers dried their nets by the lantern light Its sermon is the divination of ourselves And over new horizons limit at its nest But we cannot join the prayers and the answers of the communicants. We look for new homes every day, For new altars we strive to rebuild The old shrines defiled from the weaver’s excrement. -- Kofi Awoonor
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:45:13 +0000

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