Best Wailers Poems

Whining wailers never know when, 
opportune moments ever begin. 
An angry man hath his eyes closed, 
not a bit of triumph ever he knows. 

I smile and nod my gratitude,
to vets in wheelchairs "in their fortitude" 
down syndrome children‘s, little aptitude, 
courage, in the plight...

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Do you have: "That Summer Feelin"
 - by Jonathan Richman (1984)
Finally: "School's Out for Summer"
- by Alice Cooper (1972)

Yes, : "Sun is Shining" 
- by Bob Marley and the Wailers (1971)
Because: "Everybody Loves the Sunshine"
- by Roy Ayers (1976)

You can ride on: "Heat Wave"
- by...

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2015: WE ARE SURVIVORS

Enemies thought 2015 won’t be our YEAR
They opined that our progress won’t be NEAR
They said among our peers, we would be REAR
 Maliciously they instilled in us a kind of FEAR
Even our goodwill and image, enemies did SMEAR
But our God was awesome...

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I-95

“Ya got the horse race
 Ya got the dog race
 Ya got the human race —
 But this is a ratrace”
    ~ Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Ratrace” from the album Rastaman Vibration (1976)

Across Boynton Beach ran a popular road known as...

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Did you ever Roberto Nesto … the reggae maestro
Decorating rocks in the ghetto … children’s falsetto
Rising for liberation from tenures of poverty
Logwood lit from the shredded ash of ganja smoke
Rising to rinse the heart of woe … the clarity
Of things about his ragged ghetto …...

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The bags under her eyes are very heavy,
You call them her luggage 
Why does she handle so much luggage ?
Because she keeps moving foward never forgetting her past 
Her cry cries out,
Sweet mother, salty tears.
Where do tears come from ?
She's the source
From a place of...

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I had so much fun to be with you!
You were wearing shirts in all color blue.
We threw crumpled paper like we’re six graders,
We ran and shouted like those elephant wailers.

Remembering 18th when we played those wooden chairs?
We grabbed white candies and buckled upstairs.
With your crazy...

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As mini-bus taxis fly by left
In the entrepreneur’s lane, yellow

Victims bereft
The grief of the loss 
Mere smelter’s dross
As a new world is crafted
From cracked pot-shards

The wailers at the service 
Ululate the grief
As passers-by watch and cry
In disbelief

The antics of the few
In control
Controlled by none
Above the...

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Celebration is our nature 
A distinction of pleasure 
Activities of leisure 
In a full count of measure. 

Everybody is celebrating 
With nobody distracting 
For everyone is understanding 
So no one is obstructing. 

Gathered in the neighbourhood 
with a true spirit of brotherhood 
In tune with...

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Joy and sorrow,two Skies,

Down pouring,

Tear rains,

Every drop of tear,

Bears a value like pearls,

The wailers on death,

Inviting synthetic tears,

Enjoy value,

In monetary terms!...

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Night air grew warm and stiflin’
And the lightnin’ flashed the sky—
As night herders sang those notes
Of the “Texas Lullaby.”

The notes came low and trembled—
Wailers did not yell or shoot—
Their voices rose on high now
To quiet cow and galoot.

The lightnin’ then grew brighter
Like an eerie prairie...

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There's not a whole lotta nothing
That can be dug out of the grave
Of this life's buried problems
Of all our past mistakes

You can chisel out the tombstone
Making room for all the dates 
Of the didn't go the way we planed
That in the dirt now lay to...

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Ye lovers of song, 
musically inclined,
Sing loud, Sing now,
All the birds of the earth are listening
while we sing all over the world.

Sing like
...the mockingbird
   where the weeping willows wave.
    ... the swallows
        as...

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The interview at Chatham House gave me a pill that's hard to swallow
Against what some apologetics think is straight and narrow
Cos BAT didn't want to follow other's footsteps in anything
He decided to walk all of us through a new thing

A new thing he has mapped...

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The single born,is like cowslip
Blooming freshly
In a winter-garden
Potent and virile aside
Waiting for watering can
To water it and avail coolly.

The single born,fled rivals away
Boon blithely in a bullion
Just as the only Navel in the quarter
Buffet his ticks stilted
Wailers remains silence
Instead of I from galore.

The single born,...

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