Proud Jamaican
Born and raised in Kingston, JamaicaMy homeland, land of my rootsGot dat yaady style about miAnd dat patois accent to boot Mi used to love to sit unda di mango treeWaiting fi a mango fi dropOr getting a short hook stickTo pick some sour sop Shaking dung di plum treeOr making some tambrin ballAnd mi […]
Refuge
Gales of turmoil churning,Drive fickle winds of chance,Bearing cruel fates upon the bow wave,Scatter cards of happenstance. A world that neither loves nor hates us,Ever presses towards it’s goal,Nature’s ceaseless rhythms pressuresOur fragile craft upon yon shoal. But ’tis a sporting game they’ve laid us,Like with predator and prey,Hidden harbors and holes to bolt toAmong […]
Deep Inside
deep inside we are aloneeven in a crowdat a party wild and loudnot only at home a part of us we can not sharea part of us we can not tearout in the openscared it`ll be broken still, we hope for unityto change the me into a weonly we can love, and we can fussgive […]
No-name Brand
Look at me with both eyesand tell me what you see. do you see me for who i am? kinky hair, thick lips.narrow hips, and a permanenttan?skinny legs, spaced teeth, anda smile so wide it seducesanyone? do you see two brilliant eyes,set as deep as the sea, overflowingwith intelligence – not to be fooledby any […]
Jamaica is Nice
Jamaica is niceJamaica is sweetI love it, because it’s uniqueAnd if I had the picturesTo show you,Some of Jamaica’s mixturesThen you would knowJamaica is niceJamaica is sweetJamaica has the REGGAE BEAT!!
The Young Girl’s Plight
The young girl walks pass the manschool books tightly held in her hand.Head down, shoulders hunchedhunger pains gnawing in her stomachfrom missing lunch. The man fell into stepslipping hand around her shoulderhand slipped down to her breastpulling her closer to stop the shudder. Please sir, stop. I am too weakto fightPlease sir, any other daybut […]
Friday Morning
A break away from partitioned paradiseon a half day tour into the hills.From an air-conditioned mini-van,reality just beyond the window seal.Signature on the traveler’s checkbuys us fifty-two minutes of island history.A complimentary cocktail upon arrival,with rum and a fruit juice mystery.Spence, the navigator, since 1968offering his boyhood culture to the open ear.Trying to help us […]
You’re Leaving
You have no choiceYou’re scaredconfusedYet….There’s excitementanticipation You Arrive…..It’s coldOverwhelmingIt’s new…you exploreyou experienceyou acclimate 10 Years later you return…the airthe starsthe smell..things you took for grantedthe peopletheir honestytheir beautytheir language………..is you Reluctantly you leaveBUT with the realization that youwill one day return For good.
The Young Girl’s Plight
The young girl walks pass the manschool books tightly held in her hand.Head down, shoulders hunchedhunger pains gnawing in her stomachfrom missing lunch. The man fell into stepslipping hand around her shoulderhand slipped down to her breastpulling her closer to stop the shudder. Please sir, stop. I am too weakto fightPlease sir, any other daybut […]
Patois bodderashun
wah mek dem haffi chobble wi likkle twang?mek dem nuh tek dem propa inglish an galang?nuh everybady mek fi chat inglish lakka di queennuh everybady mek fi play golf pon put-put green wah mek di whola wi haffi roun up wi moutlakka seh wi deh nyaam whola trout?lawd! mi cyaan tek dem deh sorta bodderashun!jus […]