Erasure Poetry (26/30)
The prompt for day twenty-six over at NaPoWriMo was to perform an erasure poem. An erasure poem is created by blotting, highlighting or taking out words of an existing piece of poetry then using those borrowed words to form a new poem. I chose a piece by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie entitled Raindrop Women...
Raindrop Women
are like balms
brown skin draped in gold
sunshine on brass
hair tuned
against inevitable crashes
with
chaos.
Teardrop Women
refusing to tip toe
between oppression and
aching wails
are
lightening bolts
speaking in tongues.
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