On Christmas Day
..."Travel light" Santa said to me as I grappled for all my most
treasured belongings. I stuffed them all in a duffle bag, then with the silliest
of grin on my face I said, " Ready"
The ride up...
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Categories:
logwood, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Dogs Are Embracing
...soot is impure carbon
incomplete combustion
of bones in sambalpoor
sandal or logwood
soil for the thirsting earth
serpiginous wounds of torture
earth worms crawl smiling
black sorrows covered ...
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Categories:
logwood, allegory,
Form: I do not know?
Belizean Blend
...BELIZEAN BLEND
In the beginning it was the Yucatec, the Mopan and Kekchi as well
Who came from the steppes of Asia where nomads dwell
They fished and farmed milpas, in paradise; away from hell...
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Categories:
logwood, community, poetry, political, society,
Form: Epic
June the Month
...June, the month of sweet lilac comes, and is going
Soft like rivers over gurgling stones
There is a sorrow in me forever, but never showing
The sag of the sun within proud bones
They will gather in y...
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Categories:
logwood, anniversary, death, mother, sweet,
Form: Verse
Black River
...The hills their belly bleeding brim the flood
Of the Black River with red bauxite mud
And from the crowded bickering bridge I
Faced a silt churning denundated sea
And familiar rouged face of evening ...
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Categories:
logwood, places, river,
Form: Sonnet
The Scroll (In Memory of M. N. Manley)
...I remember the morning when the flags flew
High over us, how we tumult in sweet chorus
"The people's flag is deepest red," and grew
Warm around you, like emancipation August
When we track Sam Sha...
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Categories:
logwood, history, nostalgiasweet, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
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 parliame...
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Categories:
logwood, death, dedication, historyme, longing,
Form: Elegy
Does
...Does Dudley still shimmy down a coconut trunk
And Lawford still drives the cart their drunk
Does Melveta still hide under the orange boughs
For Melbourne's coming and his fumbling vows
Does Cliff...
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Categories:
logwood, adventure, childhood, girlfriend-boyfriendchildhood, childhood,
Form: Verse
Tribute To Bob Marley
...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
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Categories:
logwood, artmusic, music,
Form: Verse
Courting Courtship
...She said was surprised because she did not see
A ram making love to a honey bee
But I feel the jump and sting in me
Pleasure and pain two deliciousness, one memory.
The way it was when first we...
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Categories:
logwood, artlonging,
Form: Quatrain
Something About Culture
...Something about culture
Something deeper than root
Thicker than blood
More brutal than ancestry
Wriggling from the mud
Something inviolate
Absolutely unemancipating
Something the nomenclatured...
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Categories:
logwood, places
Form: Free verse