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KARENKRO
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Xennial Texas-born Afro–Louisiana Creole 🤘🏾⚜️navigating Self and Life.
tanka/senryu poet
a short Creole Folktale orthographically modernized from old Kouri-Vini into our modern orthography and translated into English.

"The Irishman and the Frogs" by Professor Alcée Fortier

all of the syntax and grammar etc is in keeping with the way Professor Fortier had it published.
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Yish komm ça! 🔥
(just like that!)
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Coming home to myself!
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
LEARNING ANOTHER LANGUAGE by Dr. Christophe Landry
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Bon Jou Lagras vouzòt!
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Kour-Vini (the Louisiana Creole language) dialogue from Dr. Alfred Mercier's "L'Habitation Saint-Ybars"
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
a Creole proverb in Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole Language)

#louisianacreoleproverb
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Internal Organs in Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole Language)
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
@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