(for the late, great Aldwyn Roberts
who was never awarded the Trinity Cross)
Planted in blood,
perspiration and eye-flood
on totem poles
of fertile bamboo and futile steel.
Unfurling, gyrating, waving, undulating,
unifying, dividing, signifying,
with cultural symbolism
of colours and emblems,
nations, religions, traditions,
the sacred and profane.
Antenna to orgies
of sacrifice and pain;
I sing of Gods and gorges
and dance to history’s sad refrain –
(something slain for something gained,
make no mistake, I stake my claim).
Forged in passion, forged in flame,
from tamboo-bamboo to fertile steel,
receiving and transmitting,
transmitting and receiving;
win’ing, win’ing, win’ing,
waving, waving, waving,
win’ing and waving,
waving and win’ing,
win’ing, win’ing, win’ing,
waving, waving, waving,
win’ing, win’ing, win’ing
in the wind.
Copyright ©2000 by G. Newton V. Chance
- 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.
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