WeJamaicans.com » Poetry Lounge http://www.wejamaicans.com Online Community for Jamaicans at Home and Abroad! Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:56:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Inner Plantation http://www.wejamaicans.com/2007/05/05/inner-plantation/ http://www.wejamaicans.com/2007/05/05/inner-plantation/#comments Sat, 05 May 2007 16:26:14 +0000 admin.WJ http://wejamaicans.com/site/2007/05/05/inner-plantation/ The ancestors still toil within me Their rough dark hands hold the cutlasses labouring in the fields of my mind clearing away the weed and bush of negative thinking, before burning them and then digging holes where they will plant fresh thought suckers like cane tops that they will manure as the thoughts grow through minutes as long as the twelve to fifteen months that it takes for the hard sweet grass to mature.

They set the field afire, burning the nests of the poison snakes of my self doubt, while searing off

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We crucified the truth, you and I. We sucked poison from the fruit And we both died. And for a while, death tasted sweeter than life. But such are the lies we use to get by.

The moon shines emptily from our eyes, And lacks the emotion of the sun As we cling to the night For the day is still too young Still too innocent to shed its light Upon the altar of our mistakes.

And so morning breaks, To find us clinging to the leaves We

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Shi used to seh

Children should be seen

And never heard;

And pickeney fi min’ dem business.

And wi used to shut wi mout

And listen.

Mama did love wi!

Shi taught us wisdom and patience

Shi used to seh

Come tan up inna di kitchen

And watch what mi doin

One day it aggo come een handy.

And wi used to push up wi mout

And watch and learn.

Mama did love wi!

Shi taught us how to be independent.

Shi used to seh

Wi fi listen to wi teacha,

And if wi get

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In recognition of the historical event that took place on February 25, 2006 when Mrs. Portia Simpson Miller was elected leader of the People’s National Party

Come one, come all! Unnu neva hear di news, Jamaica tun revolutionary An ooman tap sing di blues!

Yes massa, yes missis We mek history inna 2006, We beat even di Americans Fi put a ooman inna office

What a prehkeh! What a serious hattaclapse! Jamaicans live fi see di day When di Backra rules collapse

What a day, what

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Mi come ah dis ya country, Weh life jus ruff an? hard. Sometimes mi jus waan pack mi bag An? goh back ah mi yaad.

Mi miss mi granny cornmeal pone, And mi good Sunday dinner feast. Mi tiyad fi nyam left ova food Lawd, dis ya foreign is a beast!

Mi long fi eat a Easta bun And piece ah di yellow cheese. Mi long fi jus siddung outta door And enjoy some nice cool breeze.

Mi cyaah tell when laas mi fly a kite! Or walk inna di midday

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