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[aid] => mick
[title] => our life cycle
[time] => 2010-01-29 16:08:39
[hometext] => i am berom by tribe from jos in plateau state, nigeria, traditionally my ancestors are farmers, mandiang is a festival observered to mark the start of a farming season and to invoke ancestoral spirits to bring forth rains.
[bodytext] => We toil and toil tilling With our sweat ***** the soil Yet merrily singing our song From the cock’s crow till the sun goes home The harvest is non-the-less Still in music and songs Trekking like to the end-of-the-world Load-laden till our necks go sour With stock in ban to feed the whole clan By moonlight we woo to win more hands Till mandiang comes back a-round Bringing us to the start of the round [comments] => 1 [counter] => 168 [topic] => 6 [informant] => fish [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 14 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => AngryPoetry )
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