Bloggers’ Salute: Ashe.Selah

Her name evokes deeply spiritual images. Entering her space is like coming home. To oneself. The profundity of her words invites you to stop and reflect. Meet Ashe.Selah…
Who said starting over was easy? Certainly not Ashe.Selah! She’s a wife, mama, poet, aspiring author, survivor, Woman beginning again…without rewind. Her blog reflects all [...]

Soup for the soul

Today, I remember another rain-shrouded afternoon,
when fat drops fell like Humpty Dumpty
from the zinc roof,
splattering and splintering
into a myriad, glassy pieces
against the unyielding concrete.
My bare feet would itch to feel its cool wetness,
even as my stomach protested, like the distant thunder,
its wait for the hearty chicken-foot soup,
its comforting scent wafting temptingly [...]

Writers’ Block: Remembering Gwyneth Barber Wood

I first became enamoured with the late Gwyneth Barber Wood’s poetry, when I stumbled across them in The Jamaica Observer, Arts Section, where they used to appear regularly. An encounter with even one piece is enough to understand why she has been described as “a quiet but distinctive new voice in Jamaican and Caribbean [...]

For ‘N’

Love after Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all [...]

For a little black girl

How come I’m never
the girl in the ring, Mummy?
Them call me monkey.
© Jamaican Dawta 2008