Black Poetry : Jamaica Mountains [for heartbeat]

[Hunter]

[For Heartbeat who wondered where Jamaica flows on a Saturday Afternoon]

Imagine
All this time
And I did not know
That there were
Mountains In Jamaica

Thought the island
Was as simple as
Blue waters
Rushed against sand

Altitudes
Slave-mentality attitudes
I did not even understand

Where was the free education?
The low-income housing and
the universal health care?

And if I climb
Jamaica mountains

Will I find the answers
Way up there?

Why can't the shoemaker
just make enough shoes
so the children don't
have to wear their feet
bare?

air
seems so much
thinner
up there

and governments
have failed
to escalate heights

summits speak volumes
Of human plight

I strain my ears
To hear

"Come Back To Jamaica"
"Come Back To Jamaica"

never knew
There were mountains

out there


*Carribean Sees*

Hunter
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[$$RICH$$]

ahhhhhhh!!

ja~mai~ca de place 2 be............thankz
for letting me enjoy the mind motion of jamaica.

 

[Heartbeat]

Insight matched only by the beauty of your words. Thank you Mame.

 

[Amun-Ra]

True Dat

dey got moutains and hillsides enough to climb--brought me there--well done--Amun-Ra


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[alyce]

your flow

has a way of bringing the serene and the conscious together in a beautiful blend....

edify as you enchant, Poetess!

thank you

a