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Long Jamaica Poems

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The Power of My Pen
I have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...

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Categories: jamaica, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS
CRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED
FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY

AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN I AM IN CRISIS AGAIN 

FBI: OKAY WE ARE HERE...

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Categories: jamaica, america, analogy, anxiety, mental illness, military, patriotic,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Breakfast Program and Me
It was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold  
civil rights riots plagued my little...

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Categories: jamaica, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCES
CRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP 

AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN...

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Categories: jamaica, america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness, hero,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Hollywood Court In Town Part 2
The people began to say that I am the richest woman in Linstead town, and that cause many people to flock around, me and started to beg me money. Not a dollar in my pocket...

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Categories: jamaica, abuse, anti bullying, community, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Narrative



One Year Four Months and Twenty-One Days
I have not penned a verse for many months because I have many things
That are undone, I have not penned a verse for months because the mornings have me on the run. Here I am...

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Categories: jamaica, abuse, anxiety, celebrity, character, community, courage, money,
Form: Narrative
Christmas Eve In Jamaica
I stand here in my innocence
Not knowing what is planned in heaven
The skies are grey the wind is still and
The heavy sound system is blasting on the hill
I could not tell what it was all...

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Categories: jamaica, beauty, business, celebration, christmas, community, courage, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Saturday Night Smoke
Saturday Night Smoke

It is Saturday night, and I have to put up a  terrible fight, 
It is Saturday night, and the people are walking around with much delight, the days are creeping up slowly...

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Categories: jamaica, anxiety, appreciation, art, business, community, growth, hope,
Form: Narrative
The Game Is Finally Over
I can feel my spirit crying 
And I can tell that someone is dying
I can feel my spirit crying 
When a special tear drop from my eyes
It is not a tear of worry,
Neither is it...

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Categories: jamaica, beauty, cheer up, deep, desire, endurance, friendship,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Crisis team with agent Brown
Hello I'm agent Brown I am not in  a good place

Hi agent Brown it's okay I'm here for you 

it's the dark place again I  can't breathe 

that's okay just breathe and talk...

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Categories: jamaica, anxiety, dark, health, hero, light, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chaz Or Chaste
Midterms are over and I killed ‘em (Yes, even physics) - yeah me! I spent the last two weeks like prisoners do, marking off days until - freedom. Now the pressure’s off and I can...

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Categories: jamaica, confusion, culture, friendship, humor, school, student, teen,
Form: Free verse
Tell Me What You Hear
I have been listening to the different sounds around
The town and they can tell you where you are bound
I have been listening to the sounds around the town
And they make me want to frown,
 good...

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Categories: jamaica, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration, community, confidence, devotion,
Form: Narrative
Gott, Oh Machtig, Trump Iz On the Warpath Again
Gott, oh mächtig, Trump iz on the warpath again!

Glad for birth write to express views
aware cunning linguists 
will apply figurative screws  
in an effort at blatant mud slinging ruse
exercised courtesy mail in ballots, 
or...

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Categories: jamaica, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jammin - Spreading Positive Vibrations - Bob Marley Tribute
Sun is shining as I sing my redemption song.
Hey lady, no woman no cry, lets spread one love.
Jammin', spreading positive vibrations so strong,
like three little birds easy skanking with a dove.

Hey lady, no woman no...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jamaica, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Pantoum
Jamaica
The sun rises high over the tropical trees
White patchy clouds survey the blue sky,
Time drifts slowly into the clouded breeze
With the colors red, green and gold passing by.

Jamaica play a key role bringing out the...

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Categories: jamaica, beach, community, history, holiday, imagination, mystery, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
Leaving
See them scattered everywhere in buses, trucks and horse buggies, thousands of them lined the street with only the clothes on their backs and a bottle of water to wet their dry throats when the...

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Categories: jamaica, america, best friend, blessing, caregiving, community, destiny,
Form: Narrative
Hollywood Court In Town Part 1
Blackmail, blackmail is a crime, designed to rob me of what is mine, blackmail, blackmail is a crime, designed to steal my hard earn dollar. I missed my stop and landed in Jamaica, it was...

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Categories: jamaica, betrayal, business, character, conflict, courage, humanity, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Mosley Hall
I got it as a gift from my grand uncle Dan who lived to a ripe old age of a hundred and one. He was the type of man that believes in developing the land;...

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Categories: jamaica, adventure, america, creation, destiny, education, endurance, environment,
Form: Narrative
The Color Red
Don’t let the color red get into your head, don’t let the color red force you to bury the dead, red is strong,   red is high, red is powerful, it is touching the...

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Categories: jamaica, appreciation, books, business, character, community, courage, education,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Georgia On My Mind
I've lived in Idaho before they turned our state sideways to resemble a gun
Seen lively conversation stop midsentence aftering catching a glimpse      Of the sun

Yeah and some may say we...

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Categories: jamaica, adventure, anxiety, beautiful, bereavement, change, confusion, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Summer Sun In Winter
What is winter in Jamaica like?
When you were shivering the entire night
What is winter in Jamaica like? 
When you have no heating all night
Couples bundle up underneath the covers
Trying to keep each other warm
But the...

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Categories: jamaica, absence, appreciation, beautiful, city, confidence, faith, happiness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Land Where My Mother Lived
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...

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Categories: jamaica, adventure, appreciation, beauty, blessing, faith, family, home,
Form: Free verse
This Poem Wants 2 B a Revolutionary
This poem wants to make a change . . .

To be a strong yet silent raised fist in Mexico, 1968.

To stand at a window w/a shotgun writing the words
“By any means necessary”

To sit in at...

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© Mari Banks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jamaica, analogy, discrimination, inspiration, political, race, social,
Form: Free verse
Henry Morgan the Privateer
Henry Morgan was an admiral of the Royal Navy
In his time, commissioned, but most found him crazy
Such that the Spanish called him a pirate rebellious
Whilst he considered himself with the truth not hazy

He took Campeche...

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Categories: jamaica, betrayal, character, conflict, courage, destiny, freedom, french,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Mad Rush
They swarm the street like mad ants
Scraping up all that the can find
They are panic buying while some people are crying
The people are anxious and they are moving in a rush
Something is swirling in the...

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Categories: jamaica, city, community, confusion, courage, desire, encouraging, environment,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things