cocaine
police
rats
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
STINKING SHIP #2
(for Winston 'Gypsy' Peters, the most 'spiritual' voice in calypso)
captain
the ship is stinking
throw cargo overboard
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captain
the ship is stinking
throw cargo overboard
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SCALPEL #2
surgeon wielding scalpel
patient live to tell
relief
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patient live to tell
relief
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Friday, February 19, 2010
CAIMAN
caiman in the river
eyes that shine and glitter
the hunter hunted
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eyes that shine and glitter
the hunter hunted
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NO BIRD #2
woke up one morning
no bird whistling
the world in mourning
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no bird whistling
the world in mourning
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FRIGATE (AN EPIGRAM)
the frigate is a pirate
and unlike the Head of State
is nothing but a bully bird
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and unlike the Head of State
is nothing but a bully bird
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REEF WALK
beaucoup environmental
walking on the coral
once there was a reef
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walking on the coral
once there was a reef
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SCHOOL PAN
why should each school own a pan
after all it was made in Japan
and it can't even play a bhajan
Copyright ©2009 by G. Newton V. Chance
after all it was made in Japan
and it can't even play a bhajan
Copyright ©2009 by G. Newton V. Chance
Thursday, February 18, 2010
WOOD SLAVE
a wood slave walking
on the ceiling
world is upside down
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on the ceiling
world is upside down
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
SNAKES
(And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15)
my father told me
when you dream snake
watch out for enemy
and traitors
hidden lurking
among leaf litter
and dead tree head
under rock and rotting log
you don't want to look for them
'cause you might see them
coil-up sleeping
or glimpse them slithering
with their always open lidless eyes
swiftly away in fear and surprise
from your fear to safely
hide under the premise
that belligerent
will not pursue
or execute
preemptive strike
to their demise
or see them exposed sunning
to warm cold blood and body
or witness serpent shedding
scaled skin if you lucky
and you do not want to see them
but if you do not see them
you could step on tail or head
and get stung in self defence
so make sure you have a gun
or sharp cutlass in hand
and eyes open
in the jungle
but if they dare enter your house
to look for rodent rat or mouse
then you have the right
to beat to death
but I am still confused
Father never told us
some snakes are non venomous
and how to seal reveal or deal
with the poisonous
and the precious
camouflaged and concealed
openly in caduceus
Copyright ©2010 by G. Newton V. Chance
my father told me
when you dream snake
watch out for enemy
and traitors
hidden lurking
among leaf litter
and dead tree head
under rock and rotting log
you don't want to look for them
'cause you might see them
coil-up sleeping
or glimpse them slithering
with their always open lidless eyes
swiftly away in fear and surprise
from your fear to safely
hide under the premise
that belligerent
will not pursue
or execute
preemptive strike
to their demise
or see them exposed sunning
to warm cold blood and body
or witness serpent shedding
scaled skin if you lucky
and you do not want to see them
but if you do not see them
you could step on tail or head
and get stung in self defence
so make sure you have a gun
or sharp cutlass in hand
and eyes open
in the jungle
but if they dare enter your house
to look for rodent rat or mouse
then you have the right
to beat to death
but I am still confused
Father never told us
some snakes are non venomous
and how to seal reveal or deal
with the poisonous
and the precious
camouflaged and concealed
openly in caduceus
Copyright ©2010 by G. Newton V. Chance
Friday, February 12, 2010
HOW COME CARICOM
(zombie - a will-less and speechless human in the West Indies...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary)
how come
Caricom
take so long
to come
when Haiti
on the ground
and under the ground
and how come
Caricom
was waiting
on Caricom
to know if to come
and when to come
with their crumb
and their gum
and how come
when Caricom
finally come
they couldn't land
'cause Uncle Sam
done come
with food and gun
to take control
above the ground
and on the ground
and underground
tell me how come
when the help come
it take so long
to reach some
on the ground
and under the ground
and how come
Comte Dracula
now come
and beseech
the rest of the leeches
to release their chokehold
on the neck of the victim
on the ground
and under the ground
how come
Caricom
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Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary)
how come
Caricom
take so long
to come
when Haiti
on the ground
and under the ground
and how come
Caricom
was waiting
on Caricom
to know if to come
and when to come
with their crumb
and their gum
and how come
when Caricom
finally come
they couldn't land
'cause Uncle Sam
done come
with food and gun
to take control
above the ground
and on the ground
and underground
tell me how come
when the help come
it take so long
to reach some
on the ground
and under the ground
and how come
Comte Dracula
now come
and beseech
the rest of the leeches
to release their chokehold
on the neck of the victim
on the ground
and under the ground
how come
Caricom
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Monday, February 8, 2010
SHAKA LAKA
(for Winston 'Shadow' Bailey who used to plant peas for Shaka Laka)
cocorico cocorico
cocorico cocorico
morning a chachalaca
of synchronized ebullient
song flung and bounced from clan to clan
echoes across canopy
talking drums cross hill and gully
here in this piece of paradise
piercing this peaceful paradise
where serpents are macajuels
no mapepires or corals here
‘cept the brains among the reef rocks
but beware there are scorpions here
parrots too who believe
speaking other people’s language
the way to suck seed and achieve
make up your mind about this bird
am I pest or nation’s pride
cocorico cocorico
cocorico cocorico
will never tire of this tune
from morning noon to afternoon
proudly I stand proclaim and crow
defiant as mighty Shadow
saying go cook curry ochro
I declare never will I disappear
wont let you do me like you did the deer
hear this I am Shaka Laka
and this is Shaka Laka land
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- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
