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LIFELINE OF TAMPA BAY SEVERE PANIC DISORDER ALERT

...I AM HERE MY HEART SWOLLEN AGAIN THEE SEVERE IDENTITY FRAUD MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND HIS JAMAICAN TALIBAN FEMALES DRUG CARTEL FROM 15TH ST STREET TAMPA BAY ARRIVED TO END MY LIFE HIS MISTRESS J TOWNSEND...

Meant For Something Better

..." Unforseen Evolution"

Meant for something better
Wait for me.... the world is changing!

I swear l will find you and when l am on top she will say l do it good this a journey of a lifetime in ...

I Am

...I am.  
by Richard V Fraser

Who am I?

I am the mix of African maroon, Scottish, Irish, German,English, Chinese and Indian

I am the flavour in the Jerk, the curry, the roast yam, the ackee a...

I Am

...I am.  
by Richard V Fraser

Who am I, I am Jamaican

I am the mix of African maroon, Scottish, Irish, German,English, Chinese and Indian

I am the flavour in the Jerk, the curry, the roast ya...

I Am

...I am.  
by Richard V Fraser

Who am I, I am Jamaican

I am the mix of African maroon, Scottish, Irish, German,English, Chinese and Indian

I am the flavour in the Jerk, the curry, the roast ya...

Mento Moments Recited

...MONUMENTO MOMENT

The image becomes a phrase

minimalist in flavour,these

syllables become a form.

A phrasis of verse out of

my mind’s eye to light

bonfires of imagination in

another’s.The enigm...

No More

...Fake a smile.
 Just for a little while.
 Hide all the pain.
 Hide in the rain.
 Storms surround.
 Can’t see around.
 Dark Fierce clouds.
 Thunder frightening and loud.
 Tornadoes, ruining everything ...

Celebrating 50:Xiv

...I hear mento music making night sweet
See women shuffling hips and light feet
Feel the rhumba box humming in my heart
Gombay grumbling breaks the bass apart
My soul surrenders to her salacious flute
...

Mento

...They say I must sing
Through sunset dripping blood
And despite the broken wing
Of the bird fluttering
Where the boy had left it innocently
Sling shot wounded to die
They say I must sing
Say I ...

The Invitation (To Jw)

...Come dance with me, I hear the band
Of birds and cricket playing
Quadrille, or mento, now take my hand
The earth on love is turning

Come lie with me, the grass is green
Too wet the golden sand...

Montego Bay Memories

...I hear the panting of the feet
Like calypso music, breathless and sweet
The rhumba playing in the heart
And diverse tongues caught by the web of art
Same as the mento of the sea
Same as the ment...

Caterbury (12 1/2 Upper King Street)

...Other children wanted to see 
Kingston with its bright lights and teeming markets
The contentious noise of cars, and loud rackets
Of tongues tattlering their glee
To watch the shrewd bargains at ...

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...

A Plea

...We can go back again to the beginning of our love
We return across languid gulf of languishing waves
And walk barefooted on the morning sand
We can in the cold of wind hold each others hand
And t...

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