Poetry (2)
Published:Sunday | October 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Nothing new
I'm not a little frog
I'm not in a fog
I'm not so sure
What to say anymore
I always have two
Or three words to say
Today, I play
For the rest of the day
No more cuss-cuss
No more fighting
I find this
To be very frightening
People run from here to there
People running scared
I'm OK, what about you?
Today, I find nothing new.
- Olivia Williams
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Spinning wheels
Word of wisdom
Fix the wheels
First
The wheels
Will get to everyone
And everything else
That you need
Along the way, you will also find unexpected treasure
Because it is your wheels
You can stop and smell the roses
The gas, insurance and fitness is better than a bus ride
It works
The wheels
Better than a gamble
They are wheels
More mobility, nobility than your mobile
The wheels
Four of them
So mathematically the probability is higher
Whatever they spin
You are going somewhere and
That's a win!
- Helen-Ann Wilkinson
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Memories
It's that time again
When memories of you cover my mind
Like dark grey clouds cover blue skies
Visions rain like bullets though my eyes
It's a journey to cities of sorrows and pain
Across oceans of teardrops like rain
To precious times of love and happiness
I remember like it was yesterday
We sat in the park and watched the children play
If only these memories could just go away
Like rain drops on a sunny day
Sketches and paintings
It's a work of art
Memories of you tattoo my thoughts
Stuck in my mind like a melody
Behind memory bars for a felony
Sentenced to life
Here with me for eternity
Memories of you live on.
- Dwayne Mattis
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The missing element
With each passing day being in a daze
The world turning leaves you in a maze
Bewildered patterns of thought
Perplexed by journey through the days
Looking for the cause of confusion
Seeking answers for the mind's conversation
Searching for the missing addition
Are these thoughts in the right combination?
Soul searching for the missing piece
The brain works and the eyes search
Analysing the possibility of each
Not knowing the form in which it is
The missing element to set things free
To make me less like you and more like me.
- Rymaz
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The breast
God bless the breast
Whenever I see a woman
It's the first thing that
Catches my interest
God blesses a woman twice as much
With a pair of healthy breasts
That is why he gave her two
On her chest
I always want more
Call me greedy
But I don't think
I deserve less
I envy the baby with a mommy
He has the privilege of owning two
Sumptuous, delightful
God bless the breast
They are highly favoured
They are the objects
Of a man's greatest desires
Give me the breast
And we shall resolve the rest
- Leon Pryce
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Tribute to Usain Bolt
Run, Usain, run! Move yuh foot!
You fast like dove, shot like gun
Please run and don't tumble down
We know yuh faster than any American, Trinidadian, Australian
Dominican or Chinese man
Real born Jamaican.
- Norma Pryce
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Injustice
My, my
What is this?
This is hard to digest
How can anyone assess one to fit their own criteria?
Is it about you or about me?
Is it about my ability or is it about how you feel about me?
Sad though it may seem in my quiet moment of relaxation
When I am holding a meditation
I arrive at this realisation
That this is life and not heaven
I don't have to be perfect to please anyone, therefore, people will forever do things to suit themselves
Whatever it is I've proven myself on many occasions and I can live with that
Whatever has been done to some, it may be fun
For me it's nothing short of prejudice
But I'm a woman of prayer and faith, it doesn't matter what it takes
I always succeed and it doesn't matter how hard the race.
- Dorrett Facey
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Quicksilver
Pulling me this way and that
Going back and forth
I have to face the fact our ship has sailed
Covetous tide ripped to pieces
In the wee of night, love slipped away
Tainted memories washed ashore
Solitaire in the ocean
Ferocious winds wage war
A tremulous fight for survival to save ourselves
Futile
Somewhere, somehow in the struggle we got lost
In the wee of night love slipped away
At the break of dawn suddenly
I wonder
Was love ever really here?
- Kimika Praw
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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 trauma
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 out-do 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.
- Nickeshia Salmon