Poetry 3

the stem of my heart that will never be rooted up, the grass root stuck beneath my love

you are my companion, my soulmate, my friend, the girl of my life and my future wife

you are the words written in my poetry, the lyrics to my tune my everlasting fortune

we are like the birds who reside in their nest

and the breeze that moves through the night, you are the pleasure in me

the emerald of my heart that will never depart and the love that will never stay apart

The two of us together when combined make one

A love that signifies the best

A gold that we have both won

You will always remain a part of me, in my love, in my heart.

- Demeter Edwards
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Woman's heavy load

Woman a noh heavy load

Woman have heavy load

Dem can never seh dem bored

Work load, man load, 'woman a badmind dem' load

Pickney load, bills fi pay load house fi clean load, hair fi do load

Washing clothes load an food fi cook load

Dem seh woman a heavy load wen Satday mawning com

But a no soh, woman have heavy load Sunday to Satday

Woman have heavy load

Stress out fi mad dem load

But some woman strong an can manage di load

Hundred poun load pon dem head an 10 pound load pon dem yeye top

Load heavy

Han a batta bruise an back a bruck

Woman have heavy load

Soh if yuh bawn a woman

Be prepared to carry a heavy load

A jus soh it goh

Unless yuh call pon Massa Jesus an beg him fi carry it fi yuh

Woman have heavy load, heavy heavy load.

- Erika Heslop Martin
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My little secret

Come with me, my love

Let us play in the river of excitement and dance to the music of the sea

Please lift me up high, I want to reach for the sky, like I always do

Please, my little secret, let us fly away to heaven

Please, let me sing like you always do

My little secret, why don't you make me feel good?

I do enjoy our little moments of playing around

I enjoy even when we cry together, my little secret

I hate it when you're not around

It makes me feel like going crazy, my little secret

You don't know how much you mean to me, so I must confess I am in love with every big part of you and because it is so, I rather to keep you as my secret

Than to have everyone knowing about my gold

I would hate sharing, and this is why secrets are best kept

Don't worry, my little secret, for you're the best

This I know, please, don't you feel any less than special

You will someday see, you're more than just my little secret.

- Annushka Chong
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Words

They often come like a golden orange grove

Or gentle waves on a sunlit Negril beach

Sometimes as a destructive hurricane

Or as a compelling Wordsworth poem

They startle, befuddle and beguile

Yet they give us peace, laughter and hope

Yes, pain and sorrow too

But more importantly, memories that make us human.

- R. Oscar Lofters
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One day I will

One day I will understand the emptiness I feel

One day I will understand the inferiority inside

The loneliness, the pain, the heartaches

The sadness and the never-ending traumas

One day I will know why you treat me like this

One day I will know why I never feel enough for you

Why I feel like I have to compete, challenge and outdo them for your love and openness

One day I will understand the inner drama

One day I will understand the reason for my insecurities

One day I will.

- NSG
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I wait for the morning

I wait for the morning when wars will cease

When we'll all know a world of peace

At last a time when death will die

And there will be no tears to cry

When children play without the fear

That suddenly they'll disappear

I wait for the morning when sickness flees

And health springs forth like bearing trees

When we will hear no mourning song

When we will have to right no wrong

I wait for the morning when we will go

To God's holy mountain

His ways to know

When those who tried

His word to keep

Will their reward finally reap

When those whose days were filled with woe

Who for their pain had nought to show

Will see that He took note of them

I wait for the morning

What bliss will it be then!

- Sean C. Harrison
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Start of something new

Every day felt the same

Until that very special day you came

You held my hand

I knew then that it was the

Start of something grand

Your touch made me feel warm

And protected

Your eyes told me that it would be alright

Your lips spoke the sweetest words

I am caught up in your love

Tangled in your web

Need not be rescued

For being with you

Is a dream come true.

- Theresa Peter