{Brazil}
Portuguese
Is the anchor
Of the land
But many linguistic sounds
Roam free
In the mato
And enclaves
Cobras and aranhas
Poison-dart frogs
Colonies of culture
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{Canada}
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{Ethiopia}
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{India}
Multilingual multiverse
Languages and cultures
That have deep roots
Many with their own script
Unique to that language
So close together
Yet so distinct
Like a warm quilt
***
{Indonesia}
Moving from
Island to island
Each one
Is like a
Different world
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{Italy}
A lingering history
Different regions
Different identities
Different languages
Held together
By a standard version
And originally taught
As a second language
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{Myanmar}
Burmese is the common tongue
But remember that
The hills have eyes
And distinct languages also
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{Nigeria}
Hausa
Ìgbò
Yorùbá
Just the beginning
Of the linguistic diversity
A phonetic universe of
Prophetic sound poets
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{Philippines}
Quezon City to Zamboanga
So many languages
Hours away from each other
At times
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{Papua New Guinea}
A tapestry
Of tongues
Throughout the bush
Some related
Some isolated
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{Russia}
The land of forever
Going and going
Seems to never end
Where echoes
Have echoes
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{South Africa}
A place
That is healing
Diversity
On a quest
To unify
Polokwane to Cape Town
iKwaZulu-Natali to Noord-Kaap
A to Z
Afrikaans to isiZulu
***
{Switzerland}
The big four
French
German
Italian
Romansh
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Rotating Tongues
PoetryPoetry style writing and poetic micro stories about different languages and cultures Abstract Fragmented Stream of consciousness Cover painted by L Dunkley
