Thinking Now & Remembering Then : 4 poems

 

Moved by her experiences in West Africa, Marie Dunn has written three poems of her experiences and a welcome poem for the African Grandmother, of which the first two stanzas can be seen below.

 

THE VISIT OF OUR AFRICAN GRANDMOTHERS

Welcome, dear African Grandmothers,

From Grandmothers here who care,

We join in wonder to meet you face to face

To hear the stories you will share.

 

We cannot know your deepest suffering

Your precious children lost,

We do not know the grief, the sorrow,

How you've borne the painful cost.