123 go!
One two three, go!
Three sides to a triangle,
Third time's a charm.
A trinity of mountains,
The explorer named us Trinidad.
Land of steelpan so we transformed,
A twentieth century gift,
To a world loving music,
As much as we do.
One two three, go!
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I use my plastic funnel to pour liquid from a jug into a bottle. No fuss no spills. A simple kitchen procedure can turn into a meditation of remberance.
I am smiling to myself. Why ? My granddaughter comes to mind. In her little protective days, when her dad and mum were her world.
"Gramma!" she says to me "my dad does not have strainers like that, i must tell him to get some"
Ah but they just keep growing up, with new challenges for both mum and dad
first by her mum
the teenager is scolded
also by her dad
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“Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain
Edna St Vincent Millay’s poem “Love is not all.”
Maybe Just Maybe
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain.
Ah! but so puissant is need of it
It must be something necessary
Neither food, rest, nor shelter
What is it then ?
Not sustenance, not time out, not abode
Then what is it?
Maybe some DNA particle,
Which, under the microscope spells human.
Instinctively we know it ,
I believe it is, and is crucial
“Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain.”
Ah! but so puissant is need of it,
It is scripturally defined.
Maybe, just maybe,
It is the driving force of humanity's existence.
Maybe all we need to understand is,
That love is, love matters.
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So This Is Sweet T&T
It's the month of November;
Shaking shak shak, playing mandolin and
guitar,
Frilly shirts swaying below
The smiles of young girls,
Singing in school parang, contests.
Christmas trees; tinseled, baubled,
Spring up in banks, restuarants,
And such like places, blinking lights.
So this is sweet T&T;
Where the candy canes appear,
In sweet shops and parlours,
Because St Nicholas feast is near.
Buy a pack!
Hear the crinkle of celophane
Opening them.
Every child loves a candy cane;
Maybe its the shape,
Or maybe the stripes,
They love them.
So this is sweet T&T;
Soca, parang, and Christmas tunes
Play on the radio one hundred day to Christmas
Its all about, black cake and sorrel,
Ginger beer and ponche de creme,
Feasting and feteing;
A boy born in a manger.
Long before we were born.
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Quadrille - Coax
Who coaxed the stars from my night sky
And left a blanket of charcoal cloud
Were not i
The one who sang aloud
Soca songs for party days
To liven mood swings oft
And psalms fit for church ways
Seemingly not enough.
My stars!
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Present Day Shopper
Who goes to market to buy a fat pig
When children's rhymes are all but near extinct
Today our grocery stores are chuck fill
Enough lables, fill the basket with fig
Tap tapping on key boards no need of ink
Who goes to market to buy a fat pig
When children's rhymes are all but near extinct
What ever you do hold onto your wig
Don't let it perish in the kitchen sink
Nor let it be damaged in just a blink
Who goes to market to buy a fat pig
When children's rhymes are all but near extinct
Today our grocery stores are chuck fill
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Need of Lighting
It's as if the stars feel,
There is no need of lighting,
They have below, their neons,
They have their red light spaces,
I used to look up in a sky,
Full of nighf stars, some twinkling
But now not so.
The sky turns coal black
I wait for a lucky dawn,
When i can see a twinkling,
When i can even count them.
Tsk tsk!
It's as if the stars feel,
There is no more,
Need of lighting.
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