Short Patois Poems

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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THE power of my lost mind   binds my tongue

 between paper and pen   obliquely bleeding  

i leave it there.   

   esophageal  --> the blue (my) heart 

beneath sun setting pinks drowning squamously

and the gulls within their famous white regalia

   0--oh!~  the magical patois across the 

battered waves o'er the seas!

:: 05-17-2018 ::...

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chat patois certainly not a pita stuffed to a naan to scoop
fingers to speak the food to shit on a cliff and rub an ass

not a mesa here we have toilet to use a brain of a stone age
smile I was never constipated the sushi and cheese

let's craze the kale and the cleanse with maple syrup and why not
a flush of cards to send you to hell as the sun will rise...

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Dear fatherland

the cradle of races
you lie among the many
with great sight of differences
in this mulatto of western languages

Oh great triangle!
you rise and fall
like ocean tides
in landscape and beauty
in patois and culture

Tell me you're not corrupt 
deny racial discrimination
country of peace
river of prawns, Africa in miniature

Cameroon....

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The woods have been gathering here
for long generations,
they have their own arboreal language,
a nocturnal patois
ground out by layers of ligneous skins.
The language is arcane,
it arrives from deep ancestral roots
incantations that turn slowly
into the kernels of long seeded words.

Deep into the night I listen,
then listen yet more
to the garrulous gossiping
of a creaky wooden bed
chatting to a talky timbered floor....

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Un poème pour mon pays

Chère patrie

Le berceau de races
Vous êtes parmi les nombreuse
Avec une grande diversité de vue 
Dans ce mulâtre des langues occidentales

Oh grand triangle!
Tu te lèves et te couches
Comme les marées océaniques
Dans ce beau paysage
En patois et en cultures

Dis-moi que tu n'es pas corrompu
Refuse la discrimination raciale
Pays de paix
Rivière de crevettes, Afrique en miniature

Oh Cameroun mon beau pays !...

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Written: December 09, 2023
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solitary slope whispers below
by the vernacular aphonic
with a fierce wind and unbiased rock

bucolic vibe is ponderous
It's chameleon patois
In schizoid iridescence and fluffy sky

I decipher everything
while trudging uphill as blind
Into the mouth of irrational tempest
no reason to stay here

as haze covers the sky
crows excel at tracing the white trail....

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