Results 1 to 4 of 4

Thread: I Am Guyana

  1. #1
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Posts
    88

    I Am Guyana

    I am Guyana.
    Land of rolling brown waters and low, wide plains
    of pregnant, perspiring forests
    and, perhaps, El Dorado too
    ..but that's for me to know,
    not you.

    I am Guyana.
    Of table mountain, and strange blue lakes
    thatched benab huts or Georgetown's white timber homes
    of fine fretwork, Demerara windows and sheltered galleries
    where you may host
    and enjoy the breeze.

    I am Guyana,
    six people came to me, singing songs of their former lands -
    but I changed their tune
    and soon
    they overturned towns, torched fields, raised hands
    to claim me.
    At which I laughed, a laugh of oil,
    fine and dark - beneath my soil
    deep down in beds beneath my sea...
    they want to share the joke with me,
    Guyana.

    Come and see - but if you stay,
    know I have been millions of years this way,
    I do not bow to man's idea
    of what should be and who rules here.
    Can't you tell that I'm untamed?
    Little known and much unchanged.
    You come and go,
    but I remain...
    Guyana.

    Copyright Yafeu-Khamisi Rodway-Brown

  2. #2
    On the road, but not! Danik 2016's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2016
    Location
    Beyond nowhere
    Posts
    11,108
    Blog Entries
    2
    I liked that, Yafeu!
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

  3. #3
    MANICHAEAN MANICHAEAN's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2009
    Location
    Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, The Middle East, UK, The Philippines & Papua New Guinea.
    Posts
    2,858
    Blog Entries
    1
    Me too. Impressive

  4. #4
    Registered User Delta40's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Fremantle Western Australia
    Posts
    9,902
    Blog Entries
    62
    Beautiful and proud. Thankyou.
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •