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Well-worn - by Elma Mitchell

{ Poem }

I have worn everything you gave me –
/ The ring, of course, and that absurd string of beads
/ Reaching to…

The Brooch - by Mririda n’Ait Attik

{ Poem }

Grandmother, grandmother,
/ Since he left I think only of him
/ And I see him everywhere
/ He gave me a fine silver brooch
/ And when…

from Tell Them - by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

{ Poem }

I prepared the package
/ for my friends in the states
/ the dangling earrings woven
/ into half moons black pearls glinting
/ like an eye in…

from Poem to her Daughter - by Mwana Kupona binti Msham

{ Poem }

Daughter, take this amulet
/ tie it with cord and caring
/ I’ll make you a chain of coral and pearl
/ to glow on your…

‘I will make you brooches and toys for your delight’ - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
/ Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
/ I will make a…

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