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Best Barbados Poems

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Premium Member Eve Will Remain With Adam -Chris D A
A DINNER INVESTMENT (for Eve)

My husband Chris Adams loves to wine and dine my needs
In the most expensive places, one can eat.

Arriving in LIMO style
A...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbados, addiction, anniversary, art, betrayal,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Her Jewelry Box
When I asked my wife to marry me, ‘neath a golden moon, 
I said I could not give her the moon and the stars, but,...

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Categories: barbados, for her,
Form: Free verse
The Pipeline
absolutely nothing stops the pipeline.

 

it penetrates all ways of life

all borders, all villages & towns---

the pipeline kills everything in its path if it dare...

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Categories: barbados, life,
Form: Free verse
Freedom
FREEDOM



This mass of land, created from the amalgamation of two  
Stood alone as the most eastern Caribbean island in view 
Embedded with coral and...

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© Liz Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbados, freedom, memory, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Reflections By Commodore John Barry
“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which...

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Categories: barbados, adventure, autumn, dedication, history,
Form: Epic



Apparition
We were a poor Yacht Club, lacking prestige, but with knowledgeable sailors who believed in one another and more importantly, our club.  We also...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbados, boat,
Form: Free verse
Grapefruit
My girl friend wake up this morning
I bring her breakfast in bed to eat
But she said she is going to be right back
She has to...

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Categories: barbados, fruit, love, , cute,
Form: Light Verse
Seasons of Haiku
From chaos to cosmos
From cosmos to Barbados
From Barbados to Cricket


Fifty odd years
CAT EEG Resurrection
An original me?


If you know
The fundamental difference
Between 1 and 2

First comes the...

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Categories: barbados, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Henry Morgan Pirate of the Caribbean
Henry Morgan
 Pirate of the Caribbean  


Henry Morgan is my name
Pirating is my fame
My story has been told
There’s only one I claim

1635 was the...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbados, history,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Voyage To Remember
The day that we left port, to new horizons we would sail
Knowing the dangers ahead, seafarers in the end we would prevail

Our journey from the...

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Categories: barbados, fantasyday, life,
Form: Couplet
Winning the Lottery
Winning the Lottery

Yes, I dream of winning the Lottery,
Hitting the jackpot on a Saturday night.
Oh, it’s so wonderful to imagine,
So, I cross my fingers and...

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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbados, dream, funny, happy, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Will You Ever See Me
My Name is Paul & I am a Young Black Male

My Grandmother's Father was from Great Britain, his Family came to the New World to...

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Categories: barbados, black african american, business,
Form: Free verse
Wannabe Gangsta
?

There was a young man in the car, . the wannabe Gangsta by far
Born, West Indies, Barbados, now stop, with his Marley type style, dread...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbados, character,
Form: Rhyme
Coral and Lime Stones
Coral and lime stones
You can take the country out of me
However, not the trace of acid lime out of my blood
Growing up on the island...

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Categories: barbados, beautiful, celebration, celebrity, change,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Yoruba
Brobdingnagian people of wealth
Possessing sinewy warriors of health
Brawny nature makes empires shiver
City wall stronger more than ever. 

The people of great black magic
Though they are...

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Categories: barbados, people, world, people, people,
Form: Epic

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