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Obeah
Obeah Poems - Poems about Obeah
Oh To Be In Trinidad
... Oh, to be in Trinidad when the hot scented currents flow, from East Dry River to Nariva samaan and silk cotton tree grow. Where whisperin’ palms reach across island reef and coconut......
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Keith D Trestrail
Categories:
obeah,
nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
A Novel Bus Ride
...A Novel Bus Ride First week of schools' lockdown Got to the terminal in town Surveying the scene around me Detecting a sense of solemnity Got unto the bus quietly The lady in the seat glanced......
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Clare Adams
Categories:
obeah,
change, confusion, feelings, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Crazy On a Thursday
...Everyday is a new day Except Thursday the symptom always replay Madness, mental instability, psychological disorder. Call it what you may It’s the same thing every Thursday Her frienenemies ta......
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Tanya Chambers
Categories:
obeah,
adventure, bullying, crazy, discrimination,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
To Sin No More
...(Out of Eden IV) I’m cross as I cross The Cross And wonder as I wander My Spirit has rejected the spirit in me For fear that it’s fare is fair. The cause of my ‘coarse’, of course Is......
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Robert Amure
Categories:
obeah,
conflict, deep, peace, spiritual,
Form:
Alliteration
The Obeah Woman
...The Obeah Woman Heavy musty air reeks with the Obeah Woman’s pungent perfume, sweat, burnt incense, bitter roots, and swirling black smoke, dim light from a wani......
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Pandita Sietesantos
Categories:
obeah,
magic, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
The Almighty Now
...Be a frontrunner,1 to 5 theses numbers are fine, 666 sounds like the back of the line, Reach for everlasting life,God on your mind, Push away evil and envy,don't let them hold you behind, Pray,no nee......
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Richard Palmer
Categories:
obeah,
inspirational, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
In Thanksgiving - For Ethno Workers
...Thank you, for excavating from dead tongue Under midden of lies The archive of our own history The outlines of identity So we under obscurity white sheet Could find resurrection of self In another vo......
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David Smalling
Categories:
obeah,
history, visionary, old, me,
Form:
Free verse