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Best Poems From
ANTONIA ANTHONY
(19 April 1984)
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Ode to the Hubby
Sure.. I'll play house with you..
And when we done playin house,
maybe we go play mummies and daddies too..
Raise us up a kid or two..
In summertime play peek-a-boo
Lazy days under the Sycamore..
Do you think you go get sick and done.. Then be gone?
I'm saving all my Rose Red Kisses for you..
I'll plant them on you in ones and twos..
I promise to keep my figure right and tight..
If you promise that my figure be the only figure
that your ever gonna try and figure out..
And slowly but quickly as time turns its pages
And we fade through the ages..
My Rose Reds I'll still plant on you..
It aint always gonna be a beautiful rain..
But i'm willing to let my hair get wet for you..
I'll be your soilder and get tall
Use all the strands upon my head
wipe away the strains, pains causing drains on you..
All and more, under the watchful eye of the infinite
Most High..
Antonia Anthony
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A Walk Through
Under the Western Sun
Africa and Caribbean come together in a riot
The Talking Drum calls to each of us
Boom! Ba da ba Boom! Ba da ba Boom!
It is the rhythm of my soul
The dance of our Ancestors
Under the Western Sun
The Wind of Old blows into our mists
Calling upon us to remember the forgotten time of the Elders
The days before the tribeless ones
The days of the deep green forest
When its song possessed us always
When the rhythm of the long river possessed us
The days we were enchanted by the stare of the silver moon
Those Years of freedom
The months of Harmony
The Weeks of Grace
The Days of Peace
That Hour of Change
Now under the Western Sun
For the minute we are granted
We walk in our former selves
Take on our former shadows
Exchange our former favours
But just for the minute
Under
The Western Sun.
Antonia Anthony
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Difference Between You and I
The difference between you and I
Is that I know exactly what sort of
Monster I am.
I know my capabilities
And the limitations that I place upon them.
I know the villain in me and it breathes
With the hero within me.
Through the penetration of my failures
Came fourth my achievements
The difference between you and I
Is that I can tell you about a moment of real solitude
Alone with myself and at peace with the company
That I kept
I want to live life with deep intimacy
Find truths out of this phoney world
Life in all its glory cries out in its need to continue
Whether I is healthy or I is poor
I is willing or I is dead.
The difference between you and I
Is that I have sustained love after being in love
Although I sit and wait for love to find me,
I do not sit and wait in vain
I want to walk with love and dance in the excitement that it provides
And still dance even when the beat has changed
I accept that the beat must change, must transgress
Must evolve
I accept the risk that comes with no guarantee.
The difference between you and I
Is that I understand that as time progresses
I will learn to forgive the things that cannot be undone
I will learn to be at peace with
Yesterday, and embrace tomorrow as it becomes today
And slowly fade away into yesterday.
I have accepted the winds of transformation
That has swept through my life and no longer
Frown at the scars that have been left permanently behind.
That is the difference between You and I.
Antonia Anthony
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Heart of mine/part of me
What Selfish Creature you turned out to be
sometimes you desire what I, your bearer does not will
true love will not always agree to everythig but,
comfort you should find lurking in such
Knowing true love took you by the hand
and shared love unbound with you, truth
mated with your soul on a new high
then released......
Take Comfort in knowing True Love does not Release.
Antonia Anthony
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