"Life dung Memory Lane."
Unknown to Misses Matilda, a handful of ravens (A beg y’u pardon; black buds) are ravaging her tomatis crop. They are drilling and sipping sweet nectar from the cherry-red plumy ones. {Lawd, what a lala when she fines out.} In her little farming plot, fenced by dried macca tree limbs, are also the luxuriant foliages […]
Proud to be Jamaican – A big up to all Jamaicans
If yuh neva proud fi bi Jamaican, a time yuh fi startWi profarmance inna di Olympics sure touch mi heartWhat a likkle piece a country, always doing greatBway di way wi a gwaan in Beijing, wi sure mek odders hateBig up Asafa, Usain, Michael, Nesta, Maurice,Veronica, Kerron, Sherone, Melanie, an di sister Shelly AnnRespect to […]
‘Urricane
Firss come di LightninDi Tundah a followIs Gahd grant deeze victreeNot one a dem ‘hollow Well firss come de lightninAn den fallah TundahWise Jamaican a waitWeh di Stahm? dem a wondah True di Cloud dem a gaddahDis ‘ere no time fi playDi People dem raddahCarry ‘ome di relay Wait, nah leff di teamBecah ‘ere come […]
Tundah
When we witness di BoltWhole a we wondahMore time a great flashMuss follow wi Tundah Tundah roll in like wrathWhen Jamaican a runVictree a di pathPon di crack a di gun Dem ‘ave different guideEach endure tribulationYet dem nevah top ‘trideFi di pride a dem nation To reach to BeijingJuss a part a dem goalFor […]
Jamaica Tek World By Starm Lightnin
See im Mummy a yahdWondah why im wuk ‘ard?Now is she feel im joyWell proud a im boy A she pickni did dareReturn di world’ stare Bredren cotch pon di wallDem a watch im grow tallDem a laugh aftah imWhy wayse time a gym? Different gun a im fateNo im nah ‘esitateFran dat pistol did […]
Black, Green, and Gold Dream
Yessideh mi pinch miselfMi swear it was a dream!Mi walk dung ah halfway tree and see traffic jamAnd nobaddy neva deh scream! One big, big screen tvDid plant inna di miggle ah di squareAnd ebbrybaddy didda gadda roun itAnd ah bere celebration talk mi didda hear. Inna di dream dem have one yuteDem seh him […]
Life Abroad… ‘Tory come to bump’
Sly Mongoose… you name reach abroad… (Sing wid mi nuh…cho, come again) sly mongoose y’u name gone abroad…one more time man, sly mongoose you name gone abroad… (Haw right now, stap, stap, stap, that is enough. Tenk y’u.) Jamaicans are the most creative and determine beings in the whole wide world ‘mi ha tell y’u’ […]
Destroying Jamaica Land I love
Jamaica Land I Love……It’s useless senseless regardless of highness Murders of brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, babies ….too close for comfort It’s no longer the Garrison its The Harrisons It’s no longer politicsits children antics. Its drugs guns white collar thugs…..destroying Jamaica Land I love. Cash plus come to minushigh tide money washers take poor people […]
Stay In Your Place
They keep telling me toStay in my placeI’ve heard it so muchThat I have begun toVoluntarily stay in that placeThey say is mine Give me an opportunityTo show who I knowI can beNo… they saidStay in your placeThe place we assigned you I have something to sayLet my voice be heardNo… they saidWho you… what […]
What to do? : Memoirs Of An Illegal Alien Part 38
Things seem to be looking up. Uncle Teddy has moved out to live with his wife. He needed to do this to make the “business marriage” look legitimate. His “wife’s” name was Debbie and was very demanding. She had children and wanted him to be a father to them. He was suffering because he could not […]