MUSEUM
Being fitted for a new look, I once saw her;
iron scaffolding leaned against her,
façade: brushes daubing a brightness to her,
and all the while, she was quietly peeping
through the bustle admiring the flowering
trees in Memorial Park.
Royal. please address her. The Royal Victoria Institute
(National Museum and Art Gallery)
Port of Spain, Trinidad, that's her.
COTTON FLORALS
The moon was bright, yet dark the night.
Through the mud dried track, he hurried back.
To the kids and Miss Mildred, ah yes our man Fred.
Bouts of drinking and carousing;
That was his pleasure, how fickle his leisure.
She laughed shrill and high, head thrown back for fie.
Her perfume intoxicating, scent of wild crepe jasmine.
A smile, flashing a thousand stars alive.
He approached her heart racing, she advanced slowly teasing.
Hibiscus in her wide skirt rippled, oh fly in the web tonight crippled!
After midnight scores to settle, so she roams sharp as nettle.
Gorgeous in aura, wicked in nature;
La Diablesse night roaming tigress.
Oops, across a fallen branch he trips.
Under clear moonlight construe, of cloven hoof to view
Sweat stain body across, he signed himself a cross.
NOTE
1. Reposting COTTON FLORALS; inspired by a painting of Trinidadian Alfred Codallo [1913 - 1971] One can view his works at the National Museum,
2. Miss Mildred and Fred are just fictional names, not real people, used in this poem.
3.Glossary
La diablesse, pronounced - jab less[ in T&T folk lore a she devil]
yuh get away - you got away
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Good Monday folks. Eleven days away from Independence day [31st August] i thought, why not present our National Museum today in mosaic and poem. The National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago, in Port of Spain, Trinidad is located at the top of Frederick Street, opposite the Memorial Park, and just south of the Queen's Park Savannah. The museum was established in 1892, as the Royal Victoria Institute. The building is an example of Victorian era colonial style of the British West Indies.
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