Best Carib Poems

Its carnival season again in Trinidad
The whole country in a party mood
With steel pan, soca and calypso
Beautiful women and all kind of food

It has a big show in Skinners Park
Tonight in san Fernando
And we boys from 2nd street
We all getting ready to go

When we reach...

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My first Dollie was white
It sat on the lap of Papa's mahogany chair
I looked closer and saw blue eyes
A miniature mannequin, she was thin
Was it a sin I stood not smiling? But turned within
Filled with joy, the color of my skin was Cadbury brown
My Christmas...

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From all over they coming
See them parking every where
All kinds of food they bringing
Rum, sweet drinks and cold beer

See them on the beach walking
Under the Trinidad sun
And when you hear them talking
Its trini people having fun

See them in the sea bathing
Salt water in their hair
Some...

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Griga Christmas cheer
By Lawrence M. Nunez

Christmas in Griga was a special day
We celebrated in a special way
It was never about a gift or a toy
But rather happiness and joy
The toys were good for only a day
For the good ones mommy couldn’t pay
And all we needed...

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off west Africa
rising from the ocean’s warmth.  . . 
a white ghost awakes

thunder on the edge
of the spirit’s calm cold eye. . . 
wickedness surges

vomiting hard rains
the spirit whirls insanely. . . 
trees below tremble

unprotected souls
scream inside a blast of sand. . . 
clothes...

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One time a barefooted pickney dancing on the street
I beat puhn pan an' wanda how life could be sweet
For my yai quadrilled to distant cling-cling roost and feel
A longing to change their parliament in my zeal
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Santa whats wrong with you
did u forget me
Why is there no girlfriend
Under my Christmas tree

You know I been a good boy
Didn't give any trouble this year
So tell me where's my gift Santa
Are you still flying in the air

Last year I ask you for a girlfriend
To...

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He's burnt obsidian black
Tall and handsome as a matter of fact
This son on scooter, around Town.

If you could see him now
He's tireless Veteran with duodenal ulcer
That ballooned in the Middle East.

He hailed from land of Carib breeze
Forgotten sons drenched in pain
Suppressed
Some faced deportation at their...

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I have wooed,wined, and dined you
Till Broadway carries sweet scent of
Your perfume, light and airy
As Hudson River views.

I have seen you gracing love renewed
No more lonely hearts
In cool of summer's eve
Time will stand still like the Hudson at twilight.

Say you'll come away with me
To nostalgic...

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a woman ask whats wrong with me
that some thing is not the same
she said she still see the fire 
but what happen to the flame

her words take me by surprise
because i didn't notice this before
so i start looking at my self
but cant find the kaz...

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The flowers arrives just in time
The fresh roses and jasmines
It’s the last of the decorations
As the guest starts coming in

The tables sets for 100 guest
With a menu place at each seat
Which list all of the foods?
That they are going to eat

And At the dance floor...

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Before the inchoative formation of bygone days, before time's transposing and 
infantile sands,
Before the engulfing deluge covered our quixotic shores,
Whence the awakened were dreamers bestriding upon night's fuliginous sands, 
Too late did our vaticinators previse deluded by  knowledge's eldritch doors,

Of Lemuria and Mu, once...

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Belize was where her father chose to live.
She was his one offspring, and he, a businessman. 
His grocery store/saloon always bustling,
Attention getting womanizer, he pulled her early from school.
She was young, hardworking, and loved law and order - 
Belize was where she wedded and lived,...

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The flowers arrives just in time
The fresh roses and jasmines
It’s the last of the decorations
As the guest starts coming in

The tables sets for 100 guest
With a menu place at each seat
Which list all of the foods?
That they are going to eat

And At the dance floor...

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Water
 i whispered

droplets pellucid 
means so much
releasing fret 
embracing soul 

carib of earth 
preserve humankind
 without you 
we all died dry 

gurgling your song
drains body 
corroborated intention 

keep you 

 clear
 clean 
fresh 

not silenced shall all  tongues
want you to remain
dont  keep silent...

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