Caribbean Sounds of Poetry

By Sanaa

Caribbean Sounds of Poetry by Sanaa appeals to a general audience. It focuses on the vast reservoir that the Caribbean shares with other countries. It includes local poems of the United States, Jamaica, and other South Caribbean countries. One poem which I especially like is “Ode to an Autumn’s Leaf.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781662416675

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Set me as a seal upon thine heart

As a seal upon thine arm

For love is strong as death

Jealousy as cruel as the grave

The coal thereof are coals of fire

Which hath a most vehement flame.

Nesta Marley’s Song

No Woman, No Cry

Just Free

October 3, 1981

On Saturday while remembering

the Californian life. My first landing

in California.

Gay spirits

Heart free

Running round

In California

With palm trees

Reaching to the skies

Like coconut trees

Where lizards climb

In Jamaica

Trees standing taller than high-risers

With Brown Mountains and fair

People

Filling the atmosphere

With Jamaica

And Africa

Right there in California.

And my hand reaches out

To touch

Your gold dust

And Spanish palms

With Indian buttered corn

Taking the gas

From my stomach

And filling me with the memories

Of Candlelit Catholic churches

Where brothers and sisters

Embrace after fellowship

Filling each other

With the holy kiss

Only in California

Have I seen this.

It makes me glad

To see your rooftops

Serenading your pleasant skies

And children playhouse

In your Goodyear Air taxis

Where poverty vanishes

And limbos on its own sleds

Arising if necessary

But maybe temporarily

For if there is tomorrow

The bread is shared with hope

That everyone digests

Filling each with the recipe of health

For if there is tomorrow

And there is health

There is California.

Sanaa

Here I Come

Year 1983

California!

Here I come

This time

Beating my drum

And bringing Jamaica

From Trinidad

Because Jamaica is your

Brother

And Trinidad your son