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Hi and welcome.
In 2006 I started writing
my own poems, and recited poems in patois at several events including birthday parties, my style of performance tend to capture
the audience.
I regard myself as a poet
who will entertain you with outrageously funny and rich Caribbean poems, and enlighten
you with history, captivating and educating you with stories and songs in patois and English heritage.
For me, Caribbean poetry is about passion, pride and privilege. Passion to write and recite well, pride in my Caribbean roots and a way
of life that endures despite great odds, and a privilege to be out on the road meeting wonderful people all over the UK.
If Caribbean poetry is something you might enjoy at
your function, then call me up! No campfire too small, no concert hall is too big, and no road too remote. My list of performances
includes Black History Conventions, over 50s birthday parties, community luncheons, awards banquets, schools, church socials,
festivals, charity events, government conventions, leadership seminars and weddings.
BOOK ME NOW
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Some popular proverbs which serves as advice or warning are" Donkey say di worl
nuh level." " Pig did ask him mumma why him snout so long, Hog say yuh a grow, yuh we find out." "If fish come from water
bottom and say alligator hab belly ache yuh mus believe him."
Proverbs take us into the inner world of the ancestors, where they record in a sentence years of experience,
evaluations and warnings. Their ancestors, not having mastered the art of writing, passed on their experience and wisdom in
their proverbs, the wise sayings of the dark. Their eyes are Yorubo, Ibo, Ewe, Efik, Fon; but they had made the Middle Passage,
worked as plantation slaves and absorbed the lesions of their new condition. The proverbs of the homeland are polite, elegantly
embroidered, tactful, poetic, as in the riddle.."We call the dead, they answer, We call the living, they do not answer. The
dry leaves on the earth are dead, crackle when trodden on, whereas green leaves, the living, make no sound when we step on
them."
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