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KARENKRO
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Xennial Texas-born Afro–Louisiana Creole 🤘🏾⚜️navigating Self and Life.
tanka/senryu poet
@pippaesque.bsky.social here is a one line renga between Marlene and another poet.
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
in the Hollywood Noir Film, "Burning Sugar Cane"
circa 1945, Director: Oscar Micheaux
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
phrase today: konnin ça pou fé

/to not know what to do/

sentence: 'Mo pa konnin ça pou fé, avèk tou kont-çilayé!'

/I don't know what to do with all these bills!'
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
LAVI çé ap fé méyoer pou mwin! Insiswatil. 🙏🏽
<LIFE is getting better for me! Amen>
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
THIS! This is most needed for all spiritually inclined folks that were reared up in the Church.
Such a rich truth and affirmation penned by Bruh Tyson Isaiah Evanson!

Besides...wasn't the 'I was born in sin, shaped in iniquity' DAVID HA'MELEKH'S statement about himself!? (No shade Your Majesty!)
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
THIS!
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
DITTO!!! 😂 I shall be adding this word to MY lexicon!

also, it is true!
November 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
tonnær! çé pa ça isit kèk shiyé!?
(damn! aint this some shit!?)

- Pastor Will Horn
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Black/Brown people are a reminder of unrepentant sins against Black Humanity, rooted in Whiteness. Blackness has a long memory of these wrongs—past, present, and future—and knows Whiteness's psychology better than its own.
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Never have truer words been spoken!
Thank you for the work you constantly do
Pastor Stephen J. Thurston!
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Martiniquais proverb written in Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole).
found in Lafcadio HEARN'S
“Gombo Zhèbes.”
Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs,
Selected from six Creole dialects
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
For those wondering about this method i've been playing around with in my #senryu. take a read below:
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Bon Jou dê Mòr!
(Happy All Soul's Day!)
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Yo Bon Fèt Léritaj Indjin Mwa!
(Yo Happy Native American Heritage Month!)
November 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Bon Fèt LaTousin toukèkunn!

Ojoddi nouzòt sélébré lavi-layé pou Sin-layé ki ganyin vini avan nouzòt. ça fé, ap bèni-yé. òrévwar. 🤎

(Happy All Saints' Day everyone!

Today we celebrate the lives of the Saints who have come before us. So, blessings. Bye!)
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Bon Fèt LaTousin toukèkunn!

Ojoddi nouzòt sélébré lavi-layé pou Sin-layé ki ganyin vini avan nouzòt. ça fé, ap bèni-yé. òrévwar. 🤎

(Happy All Saints' Day everyone!

Today we celebrate the lives of the Saints who have come before us. So, blessings. Bye!)
November 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
writing a #tanka in one line minus the spaces between words but only spaces at the end of each of the five phrases by M. Kei.
November 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
🧡Bon Lavéy LaTousin vouzòt!!🧛🏽⚡👻
(Happy Halloween y'all!)
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
As for me and my household, we will NOT forget HOLIDAY!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
October 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Bonmatin/Bon Dimansh toumounn!
(Good Morning/Happy Sunday everyone!)
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Bon Mwa Léritaj Kréyòl Intènasyonal 2025!!!!
(Happy International Creole Heritage Month 2025)

Nô Listwa. Nô Langaj. Nô Mounn.
(Our stories. Our Language. Our People.)
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Isit çé in Kont Kréyol par Prof. Alcée Fortier. Ça intitulé
"Kompær Lapin é Madamm Karenkrò."

(here is a Creole folktale by Prof. Alcee Fortier. It's entitled
"Brother Rabbit and Mrs Carencro"

Bon Mwa Léritaj Kréyòl Intènasyonal 2025!!!!
(Happy International Creole Heritage Month 2025)
October 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Bon Mwa Léritaj Kréyòl Intènasyonal 2025!!!!
(Happy International Creole Heritage Month 2025)

Nô Listwa. Nô Langaj. Nô Mounn.
(Our stories. Our Language. Our People.)
October 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM