Dancer
Mama knows best she’s been around the block long before Life doesn’t come with a warning label or a bar code yet But we all know for sure that it kills, at a hundred percent success ratio So why hurry, why worry, tomorrow will be here soon enough Dance on the street at Carnival day […]
A young black beauty shaking it for the good and the wicked This is the move in the heat of the ‘mas’ calling the ‘jab’ in you But what does matter for two days and three nights in a whole year So, for this special occasion with your pink glasses on, And your admiral’s uniform, […]
Struggling with her untamed costume, a dancer gets ready to perform Unwittingly, she just created a new flag, a new nation and a thirst for independence We all look for a desert island under the sun, populated with the creatures of our dreams Playing to no end like dolphins in the waves of a turquoise […]
A dancer with gossamer wings like a butterfly And the bobbies look on half-amused Is it an inverted love message of sweet surrender Or the threat that love represents to the law and order Lifting her hands halfway up In the wake of the Mark Duggan murder The message is “don’t shoot”… Hugh Ardoin The […]