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Mother and Child

Mother and Child


Author Country :
Genre Type :Poem
Location :East Africa
Year of Publication :0/
Publication :
Sub Theme :Children, Poetry, Suffering/Self-denial/Hardship, Traveling, Women/
Author Name :Father Emile Dumas, M.M./
Author City :
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A child sleeping

on her back

a child sucking

on dry breasts

a third stumbling

at her side

all her possessions

delicately firmly
balanced

on her head

a refugee woman

from
Rwanda

 

a child sleeping

in her lap

rocked by the gait

of the sure footed
ass

her loving man

walking ahead

a refugee woman

from
Galilee.

 

 


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