Short Jamaica Poems

sunny
bay by day,
by night a show-
the luminal aqua
aglow


Luminous Lagoon -Jamaica...

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A
bolt out
of the blue-
lightning flas on
earth

Tribute to Usain Bolt's feats this week...

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Jamaica                             No she volunteered
    

Thought Deed                    Think Need


Silence of the lambs.           Bah!...

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J-ust
A-ccept
M-y
A-crostic
I-n
C-ool
A-wesomeness

A-s
N-ice
G-reeting
U-ses
L-ogical
O-bjective

Topic: Birthday of Jamaica Angulo (May 19) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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J-ust
A-bate
M-ysterious
A-ilment
I-solating
C-oronavirus
A-s

A-lcohol
N-eatly
G-ives
U-s
L-arge
O-pportunity

Topic: Birthday of Jamaica Angulo (May 19) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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J-oy
A-nd
M-irth
A-re
I-n
C-oolness
A-s

R-ays
O-f
D-awn
R-emains
I-n
G-low
U-sing
E-ffulgent
Z-enith

Topic: Birthday of Jamaica Rodriguez (December 18) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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His last days
in his dreams
in Jamaica mon
The capital Kingston
He prayed to the heavens
Gods only laughed
in the Caribbean waves
as this small minded 
prang called
the pond of frogs
glorious...

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A bald-headed man from Jamaica
Attempted to scale a sky-scraper
From his hospital bed
He was heard to have said
‘I was seeking a hair-raising caper!


Bite Size Poem No.42 Poetry Contest
Sponsor :Line Gautier...

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J-ust let your heart open, 
A-s you give and take the real love; 
N-ever close your mind and soul, 
E-ven your eyes to God above.





Topic: Birthday of Jamaica Jane M. Canoy (March 21) 
Form: Acrostic Quatrain...

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J-ust
A-ccept
M-y
A-crostic
I-n
C-omposition
A-s

R-apture
O-f
D-esign
R-eally
I-mplements
G-ladness
U-sing
E-uphoria
Z-one

Topic: Birthday of Jamaica Rodriguez (December 18) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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J-ust
A-im
M-ainly
A-t
I-mpressive
C-onnotation's
A-mazing

M-use
A-bout
E-xpression

A-iming
C-learly
A-t
Y-our
A-wesome
N-ame

Topic: Birthday of Jamaica Mae B. Acayan (June 05) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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J-oy
A-nd
M-irth
A-re
I-ntently
C-oming
A-gain

M-aking
A-nd
E-ndorsing

A-nother
C-elebration
A-llowing
Y-our
A-mazing
N-ewness

Topic: Birthday of Jamaica Mae B. Acayan (June 05) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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J-ust
A-bate
M-orbid
A-ttack
I-n
C-ontagious
A-nd

M-ysterious
A-ilment
E-rasing

A-trocious
C-oronavirus
A-nd
Y-ucky
A-ssault's
N-astiness

Topic: Birthday of Jamaica Mae B. Acayan (June 05) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Join me in paradise
jostled loose from my dreams.
Journey to barefoot sands.
Jewels of turquoise gleam,
jaunting free in warm waves. 
Jacaranda-kissed breeze  
jogs memories of love.  


Written 3/6/17 for J Pleiades Contest...

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Monique
Auntie, Loud, Daughter, Cool
Sister of Neketa
Lover of family, Sean, and writing
Who feels happy, loved, and stress
Who fears spiders, snakes, and failure
Who would like to see the Bahamas, London, and Jamaica
Resident of Orangeburg, South Carolina
Glover...

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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

Pleiades 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsor - Joseph May

* altered slightly after the contest...

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Just when dawn dust the dimpled skies
And aromas last fragrance kiss the light
My eye through an open window spies
Ancestral hills curved upward with delight
Infinite emotions sweeping me like a sea
Cradle the luscious form, suckle her breast
Ask not for more but to drink of morning glee...

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Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  Jamaica
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan
written:  December2014


Respeck Breddah

Whaad  Gwaan 
Mon

One Love!

Est dah bowy 
en Jamaica
Mon

ridden  dim
rid-dems

I - N - I
Ire 

Rasta!

much Respeck
One love - 

Yah Mon

Dis est
Patois...

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I snowed love
   In Moscow
I showed love
   In Warsaw

I kissed love
   In Paris
I romanced love
   In Rome

I showered love
   In London
I lived love
  In Sweden

I sited love 
   In Dubai
I tasted love
   In Mumbai

I burnt love
   In Jamaica 
I fell in love
   In Africa...

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Jasmine at my window

Joy of luscious perfume

Jhelum waves are crazy

Joyous airy whisper

Jovial time we share

Jamaica Rum in breeze

Jingle will bells all night
____________________________________________________
05/03/2017::Note: Jhelum is a famous river in Kashmir...

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12th June 1979 
JAMAICA 

I am the liquid in my tears
And the refreshment in my glass of water
I am the song I sing 
And the meaning of a poem
I am the place I stand
And I am a helping hand
I am tears of joy
I am joy in grief
I am a dewdrop upon a leaf
I – am – me

By
H. DELGADO NAPIER (Spolly)
spolly...

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small islands surround by the caribbean sea
from the greater and lesser antilles
Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Guyana just to name a few
the place where tourist comes to see the caribbean view
music, beaches, sports our culture they come to see
from that hard labour they want to be free.


Demeter  Edwards...

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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in,
tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like
tidying up the garden afterwards.  Jamaica Kincaid

                  ***

               shovel
near blue hydrangea bush -
               latter rain

               6/26/2020...

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When I was little
I wished sunshine
When I was little
Dappled in sunlight
When I was little
Surf was up,  I swam the ocean blue

When I was little
I wish snow angels
On the beaches of Jamaica
When I was little
Purple Mountain Majesty
Olive Branch mankind hasn't a clue

3/28/20
James Edward Lee Sr   2020...

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Sun, where are you?


The more the snow falls,
the more I hear Jamaica calling.



AP: 2nd place 2022

Submitted on December 13, 2022 for contest SECOND CHANCE FOR YOUR N-A sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - HONORABLE MENTION

and November 24, 2022 for contest 2022 POETRY MARATHON MILE 21 sponsored by MARK TONEY

Originally posted on November 21, 2022...

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