Poems

A tribute to Miss Lou

A Fluffy woman

Beaming bright

Energetic and spiritedly

All the time

Born in St Mary

Cool and airy

The best by any test

In an island that is blessed

An author, folklorist playwright

Actor, broadcaster, story teller and comedian

Extraordinaire

A woman who came from country into town

And turned it upside down

A woman who against all odds

Placed Jamaica on the map

By taking Patois out of the closet

And putting it on top

At home and abroad

She was large and in charge

A woman dressed to the nines

Performing in pantomime after pantomime

Time after time

With talent and skills that boggled the mind

Oh! She was one of a kind

The ‘Lou and Ranny Show’

Had people glued to their radios

Day and night

And the inter-play with ‘Maas Ran’

Was an absolute delight

Each and every Saturday night

A witty woman tickling peoples brain

Leaving them in stitches all the time

‘Ring Ding’ was our favourite thing

Children would drop, dance and sing as she did her thing

In scene after scene on our tv screens

As a poet, she was better than the rest. Her words will stand the test of time

She was a story teller with unmatched skills giving us thrills

Over and over, again and again

An awe inspiring woman a pioneer, a matriarch loved and adored

By the young and the old

Impacting body, mind and soul

A cosmopolitan woman an iconic woman

A woman with the golden pen

Vibrant and engaging to the end

A heroine in our time and for all time

Walk good “Miss Lou”

WE LOVE YOU.

- Ferdinand Boyd

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Mission

I have come to steer your ship through the twenty-first century

Some have seen me but can’t believe me

Some know me but conceal me for my safety and survival

Some hear me but don’t understand me

For I hear the sound of a different drummer

And I move in accordance

Not on a collision course

But a course pre- determined by a force bigger than me

Those who urge that I conform to the norm

Mean well I can tell

But have not fully grasped the reality of my existence

For I am greater than me

And my mission is to help shape your vision

As I journey through your world in a swirl

I transcend time

From a place that may blow your mind

To bring to you a taste of your tomorrow

I gel very well

On board with your mission

But your boats cannot house me

And I come not to devastate

But to create an era for which you yearn

A mission for which you burn

I take different forms

While conforming to the norm

Of your social order

A comic here, an intellectual there

As I co-exist in your habitat

- Monica Dystant