There once was a pirate from Antilles
That chased all the young beautiful fillies
To all a deception vow
Carving of them on ships bow
Lies brought doom, now lies in field of lilies
4/10/2019
Pirates Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin
Syllables checked with how many syllables 10, 10, 7, 7, 10
Categories:
antilles, eulogy, muse,
Form: Limerick
I am the prettiest tarantula in the Caribbean Sea
My web is the most intricate of my kind, a cone in a tree.
When I get larger my tummy turns red, and my legs turn purple-green.
Anole lizards are my absolutely favorite cuisine.
Written 8-29-2018 Personification Poem Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
Categories:
antilles, animal,
Form: Personification
Off Terra Firma sixteen weeks now.
My legs take roots; my eyes become infinite.
Past the Tropic of Cancer, the Lesser Antilles.
Talk of brown skinned girls, Purple Clouds of Magellan.
The Southern Cross peeking above the horizon at 18N°.
Those first few nights I stared at the wrong stars in my
confident knowing. A seabird landed
on the gunwale and mocked me, “Sunk now are your
North Star and Great Bear.”
“Sunk now are your North Star and Great Bear.”
I unlock an ancient mystery.
You take shape like a paragon in the sky.
Four beaming stars agleam forming the points of a cross.
Climbing higher and brighter. To be steered upon due south.
By Terra Del Fuego, you are directly above. Your language is universal.
Taking up our stern till we sink into the El Salvadorian night.
Categories:
antilles, sea,
Form: Free verse
In Western hemisphere located
“The Pearl of the Antilles”
Thus, for all formerly called
Was due however, its natural beauty
For the Hispaniola Island
It is only a small western portion
With 2680 meters of altitude
Pic la selle stands up
And both the Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea
As that sentry, guarding the infinity
Of shipwrecked pieces of black suit history
Patriot and martyr, was his illustrious son
The slave Toussaint L'Ouverture
Reading and writing, also known
For later, the revolution to join
And with all others under the same allegiance
Of freedom, making the great foundation
Categories:
antilles, slavery, , western,
Form: Free verse
small islands surround by the caribbean sea
from the greater and lesser antilles
Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Guyana just to name a few
the place where tourist comes to see the caribbean view
music, beaches, sports our culture they come to see
from that hard labour they want to be free.
Demeter Edwards
Categories:
antilles, sea,
Form: Light Verse
THE RIVER SEA
Even from islands of the Antilles -
Taking Pinzon’s route to El Dorado
In the very foothills of the Andes
And its golden yellow meadow.
Death-dealing its piranha and crocodile;
Life-giving, the earth’s river-daughter -
With its fast bore fierce and tidal -
Floods half a continent with water,
Floods half the planet with oxygen.
Large ocean ships sail up it free.
Probes fresh lobes far into salt ocean.
To Brazilians it is - The River Sea.
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NOTE
Vicente Yanez Pinzon was the first European
to visit the Amazon in 1500
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Entered in Barbara Gorelick's Contest "A River Runs Through It"
Categories:
antilles, adventureriver, planet,
Form: Quatrain
AMAZON
Death-dealing its piranha and crocodile
And its fast bore fierce and tidal.
Life-giving, the earth’s river-daughter
Floods half a continent with water,
Floods half the planet with oxygen,
Probes fresh lobes far into salt ocean.
To Brazilians it is The River Sea -
Large ocean ships sailed up it free,
Even from islands of the Antilles
To the very foothills of the Andes,
Taking Pinzon’s route to El Dorado
And its golden yellow meadow.
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NOTE
Vicente Yanez Pinzon was the first European to visit the Amazon in 1500
Categories:
antilles, places
Form: Imagism