Get Down Ye Angels - John Agard

Get down ye angels from the heights.
Try a few of earth’s numinous delights:
the orgiastic rustling of the grass.
The wind’s brazen feather tickling your arse.

Return Me To The Fire - Mahadai Das

If I should ever die

Return me to the fire

Learner - Mahadai Das

I am the great learner.

I devour the apple but before that,

I halve, then quarter

and eighth it.

 

Go Spread Wings - John Agard

If I be the rain

you the earth

let love be the seed

A goobie is not a calabash - Ted Eric Matthews

Is not de calabash ah want, is de goobie!
Yo’ don’t know de difference? Well I tell yo’!

Proem - Martin Carter

Not, in the saying of you, are you
said. Baffled and like a root
stopped by a stone you turn back questioning

The New Land - Cyril M. Kanhai

In the darkness tonight
I suddenly became aware
Of the land

Ol' Higue - Wordsworth McAndrew

Ol' woman wid de wrinkled skin,
Leh de ol' higue¹ wuk begin.
Put on you fiery disguise,
Ol' woman wid de weary eyes
Shed you swizzly skin.

This Is The Dark Time, My Love - Martin Carter

This is the dark time, my love,
All round the land brown beetles crawl about
The shining sun is hidden in the sky

Sun is laughing - Grace Nichols

Sun is laughing
This morning she got up
On the happy side of the bed,