Best Jamaican Poems
Jamaican Paradise
Lazy afternoon repast can be found,
Resting under a sheltering palm.
While troubles melt amongst,
Calm serenity.
Engulfed this careless castaway,
Setting adrift.
Mingling surf unto spray, and mist.
Welcoming me to mine,
Jamaican paradise.
Soft breezes carry aloft, high above,
Calm tranquility.
Waves brush smooth crystal sands,
Spreading eternally.
Enjoy vacations latitude limitations,
Without boundaries.
The island rhyme entices capturing,
Inner spirit to flight.
Imaginations...
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Categories:
jamaican, adventure, art, beauty, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Anne Girvan's Decree
At the heart of Marescaux Road’s Maroon and Gold
Lived a timid girl with dreams yearning to unfold.
An inner-city teen with a spirit aglow
Yet hidden in shadows, her potential lay low.
Then entered a teacher with passion ablaze
A beacon of hope, guiding through life’s maze.
With eyes full of kindness and words like a song
She saw through the...
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Categories:
jamaican, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Ode
Jamaican Elegy For An Intellectual (Rex. R. Nettleford) Part 1
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
I climb down my Martha Brae to ancient salt...
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Categories:
jamaican, death, dedication, historyme, longing,
Form:
Elegy
An Afro-American-Jamaican Haiku Tribute To Mothers
(APROPOS OF THE MANY OF US: THE GREEN VILLAGE)
PROLOGUE:
Some don’t quite get it…
Life will reveal it to you:
Mothers are of God.
...
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Categories:
jamaican, 12th grade, black african
Form:
Haiku
I Love Everything Jamaican In You
I love everything Jamaican in
you,,,frm islands of adventure,
to the seductive appetite of my
desires,,, served frm your
plattered eyes stare, to the
fresh water breeze, to the
sandy beaches, of your playful
touch....
Coast~to~Coast,,, all around
the world, in rise of the horizon
sun, down to the untamed
moon, bonds this Ring~of~Fire,
NEVER TO...
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Categories:
jamaican, love
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Thoughts of a Jamaican Christmas
THOUGHTS OF A JAMAICAN CHRISTMAS
I remember Christmas of yesteryear
Of John Canoe dancing with fife and drum
Horsehead would approach, it was scary but fun
And Scrippy scrappy looked like a real bum
Of Christmas breeze and Poinsettias red
Mixed with white Euphorbias in the flower bed
A visit to Nathans for cloth to make dresses
And drop curls all round my...
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Categories:
jamaican, celebration, christmas, family, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Preface To a Jamaican Farewell
PREFACE TO A JAMAICA FAREWELL
When I’m gone
remember me in tamarind season
reflecting the bitter
sweet of life we shared
Raise eyes
to the ambers
and blues of Caribbean skies
Listen to the thunder
and hear my soul
soaring
In the searching winds of time
look for me in the ebb and flow
of the tides:
Frothing the shores
with salted memories....
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Categories:
jamaican, analogy, beach, beauty, emotions,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Jamaican Elegy For An Intellectual (Rex. R. Nettleford) Part Iii
He danced on the decks of tossing ships, danced only for dimes
He danced to the lash and sound of whips, hip moving like dream
And when he reasoned, his words sublime brought heavenly climes
Dance from plantation to Greathouse, dancing in gully and stream
And...
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Categories:
jamaican, death, dedication, historywords, water,
Form:
Elegy
This Is Not My Life
This is not my life
Where is the remote
I wanna rewind
What was on my mind?
This is no joke
Was I on some dope?
Smoking shag or sniffing coke
Is there any hope
I just can’t cope
Wasted time in school
Ignoring all the rules
Thought I had the tool
Now winding up a fool
This can’t be my life
Who to blame
When I took life as...
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Categories:
jamaican, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
'Pon The Mountain
Looking forward all winter for my vacation
A three-day excursion put on by We Are One Nation
We parked our RV’S near the foothill,
then hiked and climbed top of the cliff and met Will
When the sign appeared Reggae Pon the Mountain,
we were quickly escorted to the water fountain
Come and jam to the tunes of the Marleys...
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Categories:
jamaican, appreciation, vacation,
Form:
Rhyme
Jamaican Christmas
It’s that time of the year when the shimmering lights come alive.
It’s Christmas time...Joy… peace and happiness in our homeland Jamaica.
The smell of mom baking the fruit cake with all the right spices and the aroma of hot chocolate tea permeates the Christmas air.
Mixing the sorrel with WATA, red label...
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Categories:
jamaican, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Mama
Mama
Her patient love
Her caring voice
Her kind deeds
Her loving heart
A woman of integrity and pride
One who would do anything for her child
A wonderful person is she
Who gives of herself to all including me
Even though she can be strict
She can also be fun
When hard times come
She shines like the sun
And always over come
By: Karl Goulborne...
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Categories:
jamaican, absence, adventure, age, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
Jamaican Elegy For An Intellectual (Rex. R. Nettleford) Prelude
I have seen this river swell mighty
Like a woman with fetus near to come
I have seen it lift its burden heavy
Cottaless and laughing in its kingdom
But to today is a different rainy day
Nothing wash the brown of sorrows away
...
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Categories:
jamaican, death, dedication, historyriver, today,
Form:
Elegy
A Jamaican Trog *
Fireflies
and glow-worms
crickets and frogs-
tropical sights and sounds
to log
* a stroll
inspired by journal of Marianne North 1830-1890 Painter extraordinaire...
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Categories:
jamaican, on writing and words,
Form:
Cinqku
Pointing Forward To Jamaican Interlude By Karl Parboosingh
Let me show you the perimeter first Diamond with cool edges like water
Upon the shroudless sunshine of thirst That is the constellation he was after
Four well clad figures on the perimeter And a single soul back in the middle
Women all tha their provisions straddle Big broad bankras holding ends and center
Of the national pride of...
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Categories:
jamaican, political
Form:
Ekphrasis