Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
"My poems, my poetry are live mirrors reflecting back in great subtle beams and shafts of light and words and images that are womanly and black and brown and tan and full of the joy and pride in femaleness and in black woman hood that I am." -Maxine Tynes
baby girl, baby boy behind me on the bus
reach out
and touch the curly electric of my hair
your fingers dipped in the
brown skin magic of my neck
to see if it comes off
your mama
slapping hands away
hushup of your questions
and wondering out loud
why it doesn't come off.
I turn and smile for you
but you're already lost
in the silence and fear that motherlove wraps you in.
I should have sat beside you
snuggled my big warm self up close
held you while your mama juggled parcels.
then you would know it's o.k.
The Child
The Mother
The Narrator
Repetition of the letter "b"
Motherlove
Maxine Tynes is a well-known Nova Scotian poet who is a proud African-Canadian. She is also a devout activist for racism, feminism and body image. Her work addressed issues that angered her—racism, social inequality, war—but always did so with thoughtfulness, consideration and honesty.
is defined as a protective and possessive affection which a mother will typically display towards their child throughout their life
baby girl, baby boy behind me on the bus
reach out
and touch the curly electric of my hair
your fingers dipped in the
brown skin magic of my neck
to see if it comes off
your mama
slapping hands away
hushup of your questions
and wondering out loud
why it doesn't come off.
I turn and smile for you
but you're already lost
in the silence and fear that motherlove wraps you in.
I should have sat beside you
snuggled my big warm self up close
held you while your mama juggled parcels.
then you would know it's o.k.
"I turn and smile for you but you're already lost in the silence and fear that motherlove wraps you in."
Personification
Irony
Alliteration: the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group
Paradox
Frizzy, curly hair
Image of fingers being immersed
baby girl, baby boy behind me on the bus
reach out
and touch the curly electric of my hair
your fingers dipped in the
brown skin magic of my neck
to see if it comes off
your mama
slapping hands away
hushup of your questions
and wondering out loud
why it doesn't come off.
I turn and smile for you
but you're already lost
in the silence and fear that motherlove wraps you in.
I should have sat beside you
snuggled my big warm self up close
held you while your mama juggled parcels.
then you would know it's o.k.
description of narrator's skin colour, how it is different than others (use of the word "magic")
The love that embodies around the mother's children, the love that shelters them
Drawing close to someone, form of affection or comfort
Managing more then one things at a time