I Am Orange
...I am orange
like the sunset
on
our Bahamian sunset
always melting your heart
with my blissful sun
blazing
with rays
glowing
with
the radiant
but
passionate
intensity
I hold for you...
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Categories:
bahamian, color, nature, sun,
Form: Free verse
Library Adventure
...An Evening In Guanima
Bahamian Anthology
West Indian Poetry
Climbing Clouds
Longman Atlas
Welcome To The Bahamas
Island Boy
The Pearl
Moby Dick
Old Man and The Sea
Out Island Doctor
Devoti...
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Categories:
bahamian, books, literature,
Form: List
Who Am I
...I am
a believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ
a redeemed child of The King
an enthusiast of end time prophecies
a patriotic Bahamian
a lover of Rake and Scrape, Junkanoo, Goombay and Calypso
a...
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Categories:
bahamian, identity,
Form: List
Inner Frankenstein
...They call me the poetic master
a genius storyteller
writing poetry
channels the inner Frankenstein in me
with a simple press of a key
in each rhyme and stanza:
I can craft a lucid love story
...
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Categories:
bahamian, art, creation, imagination, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Conch Sound
...Conch Sound
the garden of North Andros
the place where my father's navel string lay
The settlement sits on the vicinity of the waterfront
with old Bahamian vessels piloted by One Eyed Jacob
drif...
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Categories:
bahamian, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Favorite Color
...An offspring born
from a marriage between
the shades of blue, green and white
you are the universal language
of the seven seas
and the most significant color
on our national flag
You represe...
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Categories:
bahamian, art, color, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Bahamian-That's Who I Am
...Born in a country that is a paradise,
Free to worship God as we please,
Free to express our mind by any means,
Determined to foster democracy for all.
Taught the value 'everyone counts',
No ma...
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Categories:
bahamian, appreciation, community, culture, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Sailboats At Regatta - By Hendrith Smith
...Sailboats at Regatta
bob and weave
play and sway
like feathers on the currents of the air
on a springtime morning.
Hand carved champions of the sea
engineered to outsail some other
brothers...
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Categories:
bahamian, 12th grade, beach, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Pachy,Pachy,Pachyderm
...PACHY ,PACHY PACHYDERM
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I own a little ranchette, ftve acres, more or less
With a two storey colonial, gorgeously dressed
With a wrap around balcony on the second floor
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Categories:
bahamian, absence, blue, for her,
Form: Rhyme
Miss Bahamian Culture
...Miss Bahamian Culture
a woman who pledges loyalty
to put Bahama land from the time
she was conceived out of the womb
Miss Bahamian Culture
a woman who sheds the blood
of gold, black and aqu...
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Categories:
bahamian, culture, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
The Bahama Islands, Our Tropical Paradise
...The Bahama Islands, our tropical paradise
the apple in eyes of the Caribbean
the place of my birth
like the planet Saturn camouflaged
in sun, sand and sea!
The Bahama Islands, our tropical par...
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Categories:
bahamian, imagery, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Beholder
...She walked along the warm and salty beaches of a Bahamian dream, while the radiance of the suns kiss danced on her honey baked skin quickly painting a caramel hue of beauty. She illustrated the kind ...
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Categories:
bahamian, destiny, together,
Form: Free verse
A Gifted Pig Named Polly
...Pigs that swim the Caribbean aren't just silly rumors,
Polly is just such a pig, from the island of Exumas ...
Oh, Polly loves the water so, her family loves it, too,
Always tepid, crystal c...
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Categories:
bahamian, animal, fantasy, flying, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Sea Grape For Michael
...This is not Miami, the real site
of the sea grape. This is a wannabe--
a biker town, a speedway town. Not
the fabled city of Dream Whip clouds
expressed into a flawless sky. Not
the cool Te...
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Categories:
bahamian, for him,
Form: Blank verse
Sidney Poitier---To Sir, With Love
...
Against the odds, among the brave, his class was not defined by race
Talent can never be confined by color, race, nor faith, or time
He climbed his way with dignity within a world of bigo...
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Categories:
bahamian, celebrity, dedication,
Form: Narrative
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