RoseyP's love for the spirit of Jamaica from afar

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Friday, March 25, 2011

Rosey from afar

I know every blade of grass: Where the Spanish Needle bows To Crab Grass and the creeping Vine grass runs into newly dug beds. I recognise every creak of a tree limb On each sheet of zinc and hear, in softened air, The patter of leaves and seeds that fall on the roofs. On breezy wilder days, I... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Difficult

Undertook a very difficult poem last night and edited it this morning.I am conscious of how publicly we live our lives and what a wide audience we write for. How difficult it is to produce meaningful work without misleading anyone. I was told once that the writer is the conscience of a nation. I... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Pronouncement against prooven values

Muliculturalism is out, Wakefully, our consciences called, "He Assimilation is in. Even predicted, how Decades of respect treated as sin. Real we would see Each closely recounted memory. David once slew a lion And now takes lion's share Wearers of flimsy disguise, you are Valiantly decreeing, Regal... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Excitement rises, awaiting print proof, I want to offer you more extracts of Hues of Blackness but time is against me. I have a male sequel to edit and an offer of free publication for that, subject to 100 presales. In Uk we are fighting the ESOL cuts, the demand now being that non-English speaking... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

multiculturalism

We who were privileged to have been young when hippies romped with flowers, when Beatles croaned live, when Anti-Apartheid was the students' challenge, when Mathama Ghandi was a living memory, thought long and wrestled hard to achieve an image of a better world. We matched poverty with community,... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 24, 2011

I found a site about the floods

Brazil's layer of skin torn and oozing; South Africa stagnant,calamity perusing Drowned farms like ancient census items; Australia with water rising up leafless stems Of steel that once showed where roads were; Places of obscure, exotic nonemclature, Suddenly famed for an over-abundance of rain, And... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Energize Earth! (@EnergizeEarth) a good link on Twitter

Aways good to find people with the same commitment as ourselves. Trying to range more widely on twitter and other blogs as well. Seeking to gather like minds who abhor violence and appreciate the model set by the Earth's crust that continually renews itself and replenishes us after every upheaval,... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Upliftment

Up above the mirk of flood waters Lift words of hope to distant places Meant to widen self-trapped images To embrace Earth's new lost spaces. Australia, Brazil and Haiti Suffering death and dislocation In costal towns and busy cities Time to query race and nation. Up from neo-colonisation Lift... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Re Poem: Woe

From time to time atrocities happen. They shock us, wound our communities, maim our culture. In binding the wounds we must build shields against further hurt. All that we see across the world is not good. All that we hear should not be repeated. All that is perpetrated should not be imitated. This... Sign in to see full entry.

Woe

Bind your bellies, women of Jamaica, Bind and mourn! The blood that leaks unfertile from the womb Woulda flee to the head an cause A blood storm stroke Fi yu drop dead an na breed na more. What yu a go do, moder, If de man yu bear kill men? What yu a go do, sista, If yu broda carry gun? How yu a go... Sign in to see full entry.

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