Poem of the Week – Yuh Tannia Ripe

 

Ole lady yo tannia ripe
Who tell yo me tannia ripe?
Ah bin dung go pull some weed
An ah pull yo tannia seed

Poem of the Week – Irregular Verses to Truth

 

Where, lovely Goddess, dost thou dwell?
In what remote and silent shade?
Within what cave or lonely cell?
With what old hermit, or unpractis’d maid?

Poem of the Week – Untitled

 

I wish I were her Nubian slave
who guards her steps.
Then I would be able to see the colour
of all her limbs!

Poem of the Week – Rio Mazanares

Manzanares River,
let me cross,
O, my mother is sick
She sent for me.

Poem of the Week – Ulla Illa

 

Wlla illa!
Wlla illa!
Wlla illa! Mizi Mallat put his pearl necklaces
I go quietly to pay Mizgawa a little visit.
It is better for a man to preserve his soulful nobility and keep his memories safe.

Poem of the Week – Blueberry Hill

 

I found my thrill
On Blueberry Hill
On Blueberry Hill
When I found you

The moon stood still
On Blueberry Hill
And lingered until
My dream came true

Poem of the Week – Deor

 

Weland the resolute suffered grievous miseries,
Sorrow and longing his companions in cold winter’s exile.
Unworthy Nithard had decreed it.
That has passed, and may this, too.

Poem of the Week – Linstead Market

 

Mi carry mi ackee go a Linstead Market
Not a quattie worth sell
Mi Carry me ackee go a Linstead Market
Not a quattie worth sell

Lawd what night, not a bite
What a Saturday night
Lawd what a night not a bite
What a Saturday night

Poem of the Week – Guantanamera

 

Guantanamera, guajira guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera

Yo soy un hombre sincero, de donde crece la palma
Yo soy un hombre sincero, de donde crece la palma
Y antes de morir yo quiero cantar mis versos del alma
Guantanamera, guajira guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera

Poem of the Week – Here I Come

Love and hate can never be friends, oh no, oh no

Here I come, with love and not hatred
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow I
All the days of I life
Envy no one, no wish to be with no evil man
For there’ll come the day
When you’ll be whipped by the Father’s hand