Gladys Casely-Hayford, read by Newgatenovelist (LibriVox)
“Creation” is a six-line love poem: God makes a rose and a heart, then weaves the two together into the one she loves. Published in The Messenger in May 1926. Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950) was a poet whose mother was a Krio educator from Freetown. She taught at the Girls' Vocational School in Freetown and wrote some of her poems in Krio. This reading is by a LibriVox volunteer.
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From: LibriVox: Selected Poems by Gladys Casely-Hayford, via the Internet Archive ↗ · Public domain
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