The Log Brothas come to me I trying to save you all in despair no hope in sight you will not be spared. the evil man do catch up to you now is hellfire brimstones! But rest easy I am here, though great your mistakes do not despair I will preach to give you a new day. So he preached he did beseech each man to repent at length. But as he walked one could not help but see The Brotha Man was hinder that day by the log in his eyes but he could not see.
Tag: Jamaican poetry
John Crow Batty Sorrows
John Crow Batty Sorrows You see me JB don't test me... I am your authority. I rule you are my mule... I am the authority. you better not answer back, stay silent I will cut you to size. You think you're bad you are not my god today you will learn or burn! the wife gone mad children gone bad but I ain't mad I glad Now.... I am the authority.
**Disclaimer: This poem is not autobiographical!
East Indian Delight!
East Indian Delight! I am King! Or Queen... On this island I'm a big thing. I sit on top my throne can never be taken. brilliantly blinding blazing in orange-yellow glows I eclipse them all. East to the West I am the best I captivate your tastebuds sugary lava I will erupt delightfully, explosively... pleasures untold, hypnotising - I do not boast - only truth I speak. Once you taste me you will be weak in your knees!
Julie Mango
Julie Mango You have to wait until I give you a taste of my sweet secrets. One then another then you will see there is more to me than just this tree. My nectar will delight. I am lush a hypnotic sight! Coveted for my fiery ball - and deadly. Take one bite you won't be sorry. Come closer take a look smell, come closer you will be hooked!
You Will Not be Forsaken
You Will Not be Forsaken Don't badda worry for the people wicked soon need mercy but dem a go dead! Trust God, do good, no matter where you trod God will give you what you deserve. Don't worry about the one who do evil to succeed don't get angry the wicked soon depart God know and see all let them plot they soon get caught and cut down small, small. Don't worry bout famine don't worry bout strife God will protect you He will save your life! But you see that one there? Fire and damnation! Like dust he shall blown away. Be generous, not crafty like the wicked and the evil committed, but make God hold you up. The righteous shall never be forsaken despite opposition they will never be taken because the good always speak righteous from start to finish he is pious. So fret not thyself, evil shall fall in on itself but the man who do good shall never be shook.
Unmerited Favor
Unmerited Favor I thought... I had to give you my world - at least that's what I heard. I thought I had to please you just to get through or find an imaginary chink in your armour to get to the light. But I did not move. I could not move, because I did not what to lose the one and only chance I had so I set to run to grab onto your gown... But before I heard the gun I felt the breeze brush against my cheeks and a voice that made it impossible to breathe impossible to move: Be still and know...
The Hikikomori Way
The Hikikomori Way Is there nothing more to being alive? Than to work and work and work. Until all our life force is used up and then we return to the dust. Will we die from the shame? We are not better my friends than the birds in the sky at least they fly before the most die. there must be more to our lives - I must know this. But to find out - the welcoming shadowy doubts - I must resist.
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