RASTA ANDREW AND THE LADY WITH THE RED DREADLOCKS
REGGIE WHITE SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS AT UNIVERSITY MALL THE DAY YJAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY PLOTTED TO HAVE ME MURDERED OVER MY POETRY THE KILLERS LAY AWAITING FOR ANDREWS TAHOE TO PULL IN THEY PARKED IN FRONT OF MY DOOR IMAGINE KILLERS HIDING IN A WASHER A DRYER AND A REFRIGERATOR TONI JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY MOTHER
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Categories:
rasta, allah,
Form: Naat
Rasta Chant
How dare you spit upon his garb!
This peaceful bredda who by nature only loves,
When you should have been his Rasta queen
Your ghastly behaviour drew a scene
And I- woman just like you
Hang my head in shame
As you defile our name.
Selassie-I know seh di Rasta man took a deep breath
To
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Categories:
rasta, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Colonial Master
Colonial master:
A lot was doing faster
Many stubborn chains able to loosen
Like the vessels whom Christ had chosen.
Colonial master:
Hatefully fought by Rasta
But they were also safeguarding Jamaican rights,
Which sometimes would their sanctity lose
In the darkness of tragic nights
At the hands of The Conquered by booze.
This Great Master though was a great slave
To every African cultivable soil
And
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Categories:
rasta, betrayal, child abuse, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
We Need Good Governance
They were not killing the ganja field
They were polluting our land.
Chemically implementing every thing that grow to feed rastaman
The Prime Minister with his weak invention.
Is no longer able to feed us food without chemical.
Everywhere you go you see.
Rasta selling his weed.
Little does he know. They are loaded with
Genetically engineered seed
Dread locks fell off
Baby a
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Categories:
rasta, care, community, fear, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Rasta Can'T Smoke In Privacy
Everyday they watch him
Descending the stairs
But he doesn't feel uneasy
Despite the offensive stares
His eyes stay red
But that's the least of his cares
Rasta can't smoke in privacy
Because neighbors don't respect privacy
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Categories:
rasta, drug, identity, prejudice, urban,
Form: Free verse
In Love With a Rasta
I tilt my head back on this chair while listening to Ky-Mani Marley tag team with Protoje as they speak on Rasta Love.
I think about the story of my lyfe, the unknown me that many can not see.
The piece of me that is missing even at 23.
My lyfe is the spot light to everyone around
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Categories:
rasta, love, me, love, me,
Form: I do not know?
Rasta Master(For Bob Marley)
Rasta Master(For Bob Marley)
Like the lion of Judah ,
Lying on the coast of hope,
With the turban of gold crown,
From the mountain of glory,
His mantle of office adorn.
Clad in a regalia of reggae,
To do the regatta acloud again,
The buffalo soldier hosts the banquet.
All around the world,
Through the Poles,through the Equator,
Jah made whole,man no dismantle.
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Categories:
rasta, fantasy
Form: Epitaph
Rasta Ruben
On an cool Autumn night,
Eerie and full of dread.
...not fear...but locks.
Darkness is embraced by light,
Peace stirs in the midnight wind,
...not a calm...but a gesture of his hand.
Simple and sweet...a mystery hides
Behind the pleasant mood.
...not a state of mind...but the smile on his face.
With a skull peering over his shoulder,
Silent growls begin to grrr.
...not growls
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Categories:
rasta, funnyautumn,
Form: Free verse
Rasta Ring N Ride
Rasta ringnride
Hop up; get inside
Travel roun da town
Hear some funky sound
Me bus me pride an joy
Me music don't annoy
Me keep it in me head
Me sings it in me bed.
I travel all roun town
To ferry sick and lame
The people phone,
I pick them up
No other bus the same.
I drive me bus for Africa
When I'm in Sollihull
I drive
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Categories:
rasta, funny, life, people, me,
Form: Narrative