A Past Life
...I lived on Gray Street when I was a boy
and rode my bike up hither and yon.
Now my home is a concrete parking lot
and all its spirits and souls are gone
I sang at Greyfriars church as a...
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Categories:
tobago, how i feel, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Stormbound
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Gaze out to sea upon blown rig and sail
in our fright’s strand on stormwatch to the south,
heed the mighty whirlwind, its scything trail -
Galleon’s Passage to the Serpent’s Mouth.
See ...
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Categories:
tobago, home, nature, storm,
Form: Sonnet
Jacqueline Trestrail
...On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won best...
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Categories:
tobago, mother, tribute,
Form: Prose
Chapter 124-- Damian Delilah Mallory Polly: Carter's and Lucinda's Vacation
...Date: April 2049
Next day: warm spring silky
Afternoon Polly voyaged to the estate
For a visit accompanying was
her cousin Holly who
Dolly Molly and Damian would meet
For the first time. ...
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Categories:
tobago, 11th grade, allusion, color,
Form: Alliteration
Chapter 2 -- Damian Hakim: Ten Years Old Damian--Year 2011
...Carter Hakim's family grew by two.
10 year old Damian lay asleep Saturday
Early morning October 2011. His
6 years-old sister Manisha, 5 years-old
Franky-Joe and 3 years-old sister Salis
Bust...
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Categories:
tobago, birth, confidence, devotion, funny
Form: Prose
Chapter 91-- Damian Delilah Mallory: Changes
...Date: April 2041
It's been one week now. There
Was no sign of the Black China
Men. The other Hakim family
Members decided to take residence
Closer to the foundational family.
Which was Gr...
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Categories:
tobago, africa, black love, books,
Form: Alliteration
Flag of My Fathers
...Red is the red rum
and blooms of chaconia…
the Scarlet Ibis
Black is the black gold
and dark souls of the slave ships…
the pitch in the lake
White is the cricket
and old bones of lost ...
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Categories:
tobago, symbolism,
Form: Haiku
E M E R G E N C Y
...What an earthly disaster
The rivers are red
The water keeps on rising
Trinidad and Tobago under water
Politician and Ministers these are your sons and daughters
Mankind need aid and helicopter t...
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Categories:
tobago, dedication, fear, water, weather,
Form: Free verse
Crimes In Trinidad and Tobago
...Ah was standing there liming,
Thinking ah was having some fun
Laughing, drinking, and singing
On the Island of Sun
Along came a car with some thugs
And before you know it,
Ah was shot, and no...
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Categories:
tobago, corruption,
Form: Carpe Diem
A Womans Heart
...A woman's heart
my father always told me
"son don't go breaking no hearts
if you can't take a woman to the finish line
then don't go making any false starts
don't take a woman hearts for gra...
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Categories:
tobago, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Light Verse
Hello
...HELLO
Hello.. Adele, It,s me
Could you please stop calling me all the time
I don't know about England
But in USA that is a crime
Hello.. Adele
You're in California dreaming
About us from lo...
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Categories:
tobago, celebrity, funny, funny love,
Form: Light Verse
A Christmas Girlfriend
...Santa whats wrong with you
did u forget me
Why is there no girlfriend
Under my Christmas tree
You know I been a good boy
Didn't give any trouble this year
So tell me where's my gift Santa
Ar...
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Categories:
tobago, christmas, for her, girlfriend,
Form: Light Verse
My Ex Friend's Ex
...What a fool he is for hurting you
All this pain and heartache he put you through
All your love that he once had
He took everything good and turned it bad
How can he do this to you
It kills me...
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Categories:
tobago, betrayal, hurt, i love
Form: Light Verse
A Woman's Heart
...my father always told me
"son don't go breaking no hearts
if you cant take her to the finish line
then don't go making any false starts
don't take a woman hearts for granted
treat her with kin...
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Categories:
tobago, beautiful, dedication, emotions, i
Form: Light Verse
Sports
...You can only be a player or a coach or a Referee, you can’t be all 3 in life.
Sports has many rules, just play the Rules.
Do not Chew Tobago= Caner
Fall your Heart in life
It does matter what ...
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Categories:
tobago, tribute,
Form: ABC
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