'Pon The Mountain
...Looking forward all winter for my vacation
A three-day excursion put on by We Are One Nation
We parked our RV’S near the foothill,
then hiked and climbed top of the cliff and met Will
When t...
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Categories:
rastafari, appreciation, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
The Purpose There
...The purpose there
Now I know
My time there was meant for me to grow
To trust
To love
To forgive
To trust HIM
And to truly live
The devil was attacking me through others
Using our weaknes...
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Categories:
rastafari, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Reggae Style
...Rooted in Jamaica
Rhythmic off-beat playing
Rastafari message
Rope-like ringlets swaying
Rivers of the exile
Reminiscing sadness
Rock along to Marley's
Reggae rousing gladness
13.10.20
P...
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Categories:
rastafari, appreciation, music,
Form: Verse
Jamaica
...Little Island of Jamaica, birth place of Reggae
Always jolly, on a sunny day
Rastafari is the place where it all started
1948 on the Empire Wind rush most departed
Ackee & salt fish is the nation...
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Categories:
rastafari, travel,
Form: I do not know?
What Do You Remember
...I bet you remember
The birth and death
Of Jesus Christ
But tell me
Do you remember how
They crucified Rastafari
I bet you remember
The holidays and holy days
Of the pagan fiesta
But tell me
Do you r...
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Categories:
rastafari, black african american, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dreadlocks
...Somehow I feel connected to each lock
They remind me of a time before me when black was not just hip hop
They remind me of a movement towards freedom
When we were gaining the momentumm to no longer b...
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Categories:
rastafari, black-african amerme, me,
Form: Verse
Rastaman
...Walter Rodney
One evening leaving the bamboo hall
Stood me
Impaled with questions
Die me
To the dead colonial dreams
Wiped my tears of history
And showed me
Rastafari wading through the flood...
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Categories:
rastafari, religionsound, children, sound,
Form: Free verse
Bongo Man
...There was a bongoman, and he dreaming
Where the rock hovered above the blue sea
Looked through the white mist of a dew drenched morning
And clenched tight his memory of history
Black as midnight:...
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Categories:
rastafari, allegory, history, religion, heart,
Form: Verse
The Magnificent Talent of Rastafari
...Rastafari certainly was a young man of magnificent talent indeed...
He praised God, as Abraham did, in his chant and dance with true glee,
Bob Marlyn and Peter Posh helped him become a raggae star;...
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Categories:
rastafari, confusion, death, dedication, faith,
Form: Quatrain
Dragonfly
...i look through the wings of the Dragonfly
clear through to the other side but i can't hide
from the third eye chakra
the agility i possess
i must confess
will change your views form fatalism
to...
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Categories:
rastafari, visionary, , hinduism,
Form: Blank verse