Women in Carnival TT🇹🇹
Are we courting fire and brimstone?
Or, how deep are we into Hades?
Toe deep, ankle deep, knee?
It worried me for a while,
My masquerading sisters,
Playing mas so bare.
I pondered and contemplated.
You know, there was a time,
When women did not play mas,
Even though there were female roles
Men played them,
As i ponder, present day, women in mas,
Could it be, we are poems of protest?
Our energies are varied:
You know how recess time at school,
For some kids was play till you sweat,
While some more reserved will,
Go back to class intact,
Shirt in pants blouse in skirt.
So the way some women plas mas today,
Is our mind set recess time?
Then what of the spirit,
Because some folks cannot,
Look at these (ob)scenes,
Remember The Garden of Eden?
Remember how innocent we were,
Before that bite of the apple?
Then what happened?
God fashioned clothes
From fig leaves for us.
Are we poems of protest?
Is it recess time?
Will we get enough clothes sewn?
Do we need clothes in our sunfest?
Guidelines:
- Begin with a question but don’t answer it. Let it breathe.
2. Continue with more questions that deepen, pivot, or expand on the theme.
3. Pair each question with imagery and metaphor. Let the image do some of the work of meaning.
4. Use at least two other poetic devices:
*personification
*alliteration or assonance
*contrast or paradox
*repetition for musicality
5.End on a question and resist the urge to resolve.
Let curiosity guide your lines. Let questions feel as powerful as answers.
