Hi Everyone,
I’ve decided to post a poem I wrote a really long time ago when I had just fancied myself a poet. Kinda corny now but I love it and wanted to share it with you all. Read and enjoy and be kind.
Eyes that are dark and cloudy with desire
Nostrils flaring with anticipation
Lips, lush and full
Full of promises, promises of searing kisses
That burnt the top of my eyelashes
And quiet my beating pulses
Set my breasts on fire-makes me shudder
Shudder with excitement and wanting
Searing lips
Fingers that explore all the crevices of
Private places
Fingers that danced to their own rhythm
On my black skin
Fingers that knew no boundaries
Legs, strong and sturdy
Hips, rhythm-swinging hips
Legs and hips that are formed
With expert definition and style
Legs and hips that fits perfectly!
Magnificently! In mine
I want to dance and need to dance with
You now, most urgently
With your dark and cloudy eyes
Flaring nostrils, lush lips and burning kisses
Exploring fingers, dancing fingers, sturdy black
Legs, rhythm-swinging hips
I want to dance to the rhythm as old as father time
I want to dance hard and fast
I want to sweat; I want to dance until I tire with exhaustion
I want to slow waltz to gentle breezes and babbling brooks
I want to slow waltz to your easy breathing and the security of you love
(This is the exclusive property of ‘bookworm5316’ and should not be copied or ‘borrowed’ without my expressed permission)
Monday, May 26, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Jamaica, Jamaica!!
Just came back from ten days in my favourite tropical Isle and I thoroughly enjoyed each day from the moment I woke up until I went to bed. It was great!! It was fun, exhausting, it was hot weather wise, it was hot otherwise (wink) and it was wonderful seeing old friends and acquaintances and visiting old haunts as well as discovering new places.
As soon as we exited the airport we went to a little unassuming place called “Gloria’s” over in Port Royal. There was nothing unassuming about the food, it was amazingly delicious and fresh, as in the day’s catch. No frozen and defrosted and then cooked food, no, no!! Fresh, as in just caught from the ocean that very same day. I’m tasting it all over again mmm. First, we got fish ‘tea’ (for all you non- Jamaicans, it’s a light kind of broth, fish being the main ingredient ) and it was just yellow (from the pumpkin I assume) and looked very unappetizing. I looked at my sister, looked at the soup and we made a face, that is, until we tasted it!! My mouth experienced a burst of delicious and utterly satisfying flavours that was amazing. It was as if there were fireworks in my mouth from all the intense flavour of the soup. It was delicious!!!
I had spicy shrimp in a light delicious and savoury sauce with golden fried bammy and cole slaw. My sister and our friend had steamed fish, also with golden fried bammies and cole slaw. It was absolutely amazing! No joke!
Mandeville is home for me and it was wonderful just being there. The place is more vibrant, busy and more colourful than I remembered and yes, the drivers still let you across the street (give you a bligh) with and without the pedestrian crossing. I really get a kick out of thatJ.
I ate mangoes like I was a child again with the yellow juice running from my wrist to my elbowJ. My favourite mangoes are the East Indian variety and I had a lot. They were very juicy and sweet. I had a couple of ohtaheti apples as well. Hadn’t had those in awhile. Had some of my favourite foods, oxtails, curried goat, cow feet, and ackee with salted- fish as well as just cooked up salted fish and ground provisions. Some how it was sweeter eating all that stuff at ‘home’.
I spent a day with my very best girlfriend Faith. She took me to her mani/pedi girl and while I was getting ‘done’ we chatted and got caught up and laughed and basically bad talked men and laughed some more and then we went to lunch and then shopping. We had a blast!! It was an amazing day!
Last Saturday, we went to Port Antonio by way of leaving Mandeville and traveling through Clarendon, St. Catherine, Kingston, and St. Andrew, St. Mary and hitting Portland. We stopped by Boston for some of their famous jerk pork, sausages and roasted fish which we consumed with roasted breadfruit and roasted sweet potatoes and iced coconut water! Hmm… delicious and quite satisfying. Also took a dip in the ocean and saw a dread (Rasta man) surfing! That was an unusual sight for me. He was good at it too! We hit St. Thomas (and Bath fountain) on our way home. It was a long and satisfying day.
My cousin Donna was with us for a couple of days and I’ve never laughed so much or so hard in a long while. She is hilarious and fierce and we are eternally grateful to her for handling our monies so well in our day to day transactions (we were really confused about the different monetary denominations) and we greatly admired her bargaining skills!! She is really a funny character in all her 5ft diminutive glory. We love you girl and thank you much!! So glad we are related, wouldn’t want to be on the other side of your sharp witted and sarcastic barbs….She is a genuine roots girl and I love her dearly. Nuff love to you ‘Shorty’!!
Really enjoyed my visit home and hopefully we’ll be able to go again next year so we can give our late mom the fitting tribute she so deserved as well as taking care of business and balancing all that out with a little recreation. Can’t wait!
Just came back from ten days in my favourite tropical Isle and I thoroughly enjoyed each day from the moment I woke up until I went to bed. It was great!! It was fun, exhausting, it was hot weather wise, it was hot otherwise (wink) and it was wonderful seeing old friends and acquaintances and visiting old haunts as well as discovering new places.
As soon as we exited the airport we went to a little unassuming place called “Gloria’s” over in Port Royal. There was nothing unassuming about the food, it was amazingly delicious and fresh, as in the day’s catch. No frozen and defrosted and then cooked food, no, no!! Fresh, as in just caught from the ocean that very same day. I’m tasting it all over again mmm. First, we got fish ‘tea’ (for all you non- Jamaicans, it’s a light kind of broth, fish being the main ingredient ) and it was just yellow (from the pumpkin I assume) and looked very unappetizing. I looked at my sister, looked at the soup and we made a face, that is, until we tasted it!! My mouth experienced a burst of delicious and utterly satisfying flavours that was amazing. It was as if there were fireworks in my mouth from all the intense flavour of the soup. It was delicious!!!
I had spicy shrimp in a light delicious and savoury sauce with golden fried bammy and cole slaw. My sister and our friend had steamed fish, also with golden fried bammies and cole slaw. It was absolutely amazing! No joke!
Mandeville is home for me and it was wonderful just being there. The place is more vibrant, busy and more colourful than I remembered and yes, the drivers still let you across the street (give you a bligh) with and without the pedestrian crossing. I really get a kick out of thatJ.
I ate mangoes like I was a child again with the yellow juice running from my wrist to my elbowJ. My favourite mangoes are the East Indian variety and I had a lot. They were very juicy and sweet. I had a couple of ohtaheti apples as well. Hadn’t had those in awhile. Had some of my favourite foods, oxtails, curried goat, cow feet, and ackee with salted- fish as well as just cooked up salted fish and ground provisions. Some how it was sweeter eating all that stuff at ‘home’.
I spent a day with my very best girlfriend Faith. She took me to her mani/pedi girl and while I was getting ‘done’ we chatted and got caught up and laughed and basically bad talked men and laughed some more and then we went to lunch and then shopping. We had a blast!! It was an amazing day!
Last Saturday, we went to Port Antonio by way of leaving Mandeville and traveling through Clarendon, St. Catherine, Kingston, and St. Andrew, St. Mary and hitting Portland. We stopped by Boston for some of their famous jerk pork, sausages and roasted fish which we consumed with roasted breadfruit and roasted sweet potatoes and iced coconut water! Hmm… delicious and quite satisfying. Also took a dip in the ocean and saw a dread (Rasta man) surfing! That was an unusual sight for me. He was good at it too! We hit St. Thomas (and Bath fountain) on our way home. It was a long and satisfying day.
My cousin Donna was with us for a couple of days and I’ve never laughed so much or so hard in a long while. She is hilarious and fierce and we are eternally grateful to her for handling our monies so well in our day to day transactions (we were really confused about the different monetary denominations) and we greatly admired her bargaining skills!! She is really a funny character in all her 5ft diminutive glory. We love you girl and thank you much!! So glad we are related, wouldn’t want to be on the other side of your sharp witted and sarcastic barbs….She is a genuine roots girl and I love her dearly. Nuff love to you ‘Shorty’!!
Really enjoyed my visit home and hopefully we’ll be able to go again next year so we can give our late mom the fitting tribute she so deserved as well as taking care of business and balancing all that out with a little recreation. Can’t wait!
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