Poem of the Week

Learning to love

I was human

A perfect masterpiece

But this world has turned me into a man

Fearless and strong, worthless if I'm weak

The tears never run

They just never come in hand with being society's ideal man

But once I learn how to love

These arms that did so many wrongs

Will praise you until you become my biggest fan

There's so much hidden

So much of the unknown inside

I would love to take my first step

But I'm drowning in pride

I'm so ignorant to this love thing

I've tried so many times

But reminiscing on my childhood

I realise love was never alive

Love had died

When home became their battlefield

I thought their violent actions meant love indeed

No shield, no safety, tomorrow wasn't even guaranteed

So the wounds are still present, waiting to heal.

- Neeks Clarke
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Echo

Echo, echo

echo something in me again

Echo

echo my lips against your lips

with a kiss

of love

echo my hand

in your hand

with a brush of tomorrow

Echo, echo

echo something new in me again

Echo

echo my dreams

echo

my echo

in you.

- Tricia Wint

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Tattoo

Failure to see

What one's life perceives

Of me and you

Entangled in love

Set by the design of a tattoo

Of me and you

Confused enough to say I do

Beckons to the world

Thoughts of me and you

Engraved in a tattoo

Am I stupid, am I a fool

To carry this image of me and you?

Set by a tattoo

What if you left me today

And tomorrow someone else took your place

Would I wear this tattoo which embodied a pattern of me and you?

- Tamara Heathe

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Cricket

Now look here, Christopher

You letting down de Christopher side

If you was living up to the Christopher fame

We would ah win World Cup

Eh boy, Ah mean

Dey wouldn't even wa play wid we

Dey would just give up the trophy

You know is dem kinda arms house we like

Say what?

De way tings going on

You might want switch roles?

Yes, ah tink ah might ah can play good cricket

All now me not out

Yea, I been real fine.

- Helen-Ann Wilkinson

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I believe

The 'I believe' initiative

An idea conceived

A vision received

By the governor general

Is a clarion call

For all Jamaicans

To believe in Jamaica and Jamaicans

It's for us

To believe that Jamaica

Is destined to be better

And greater

That she was created for prosperity

And not austerity

That Jamaica has the ability

And propensity

To rise above adversity

Immorality and negativity

And bask in positivity

I believe, I believe

Do you believe?

- Ugochukwu Durueke

My God is bigger

My God is bigger than the mountains

Bigger than the sea

My God is bigger than the wonders of this world you see

My God is bigger than the mountains

Bigger than the crime

Bigger than the highest mountain you could ever climb

My God is bigger than the UN and the universe

Who he blesses is blessed and who he curses is cursed

It would take a lifetime to know him

There is nothing you could possibly show him

Everything that you have you owe him

And my God is bigger than the mountains and the galaxy

He raised the dead and walked upon the sea

My God is higher than the light bill and the water rate

Everything you see, he created

My God is sweeter than cotton candy or ice cream

Bigger than anything you could dream

He can take you higher than marijuana

can make you into anything he wants

He can take you higher than crack

Think of the universe, he's even bigger than that

I don't worry about small minds and things

Because I'm from a generation of queens and kings

There's no need to be worrying

The door is just open, hurry in

My God is bigger than the mountains

Bigger than the sea

Bigger than the wonders of this world you see

Bigger than the mountains

Bigger than the crime

Bigger than the highest mountain you could ever climb

- Seon Lewis