Arawak Poems - Poems about Arawak

...We have no international airports but it is worth the trip So put on your adventurer’s hat and figure out a way. Dominica is the only place in the world you will see A green sisserou or a red-neck......Read the rest...

...I saw my dreams in the mortar pounded And swift dripping from the brow of time I saw me white like cassava flour Ready to become anything on a hot grid Neither bitter nor sweet This lost of identity ......Read the rest...

...My island slept for years in the care Of Tainos, Caribs and Arawak Their canoes on the sea breast bare Dreaming of milk from manioc The swamps unscarred, trees secure Batos and songs rinsed in t......Read the rest...