Category: Poetry 8

Let Me Sleep Where Touch-Me-Nots Bloom

by ap | Jan 10, 2022 | Demoy Lindo, Poetry 8, PREE 8 | 0 |

DEMOY LINDO For me the bell tolls at 6 in the evening mother should collect me from class that ended at 5 for others in that extra hour my English teacher taught me more than I could speak I learned that being below sixteenNo...

From “A Suite of 7 for Belizean Artistry”

by ap | Jan 9, 2022 | Poetry 8, PREE 8, Ubaldimir Guerra | 0 |

UBALDIMIR GUERRA “Yes, ih gawn, gawn foreva in a promis land” Mr. Wilfred Peters The voice of the king of boom and chime, Mista Peetaz, booms from the parched throats of hisKriol ancestor geniuses, who sangjourney songs of...

Millie’s Song

by ap | Jan 9, 2022 | Poetry 8, PREE 8, Sonia Williams | 0 |

Sonia Williams 1. We came together you and I, came together we were taken by force together one by one by one by one we were chained, neck to neck in a line, we walkedwe walkedwe walkedon each other’s footprintswe walkedwe...

After Ananda

by ap | Jan 9, 2022 | CORINNE BINNINGS, Poetry 8, PREE 8 | 0 |

CORINNE BINNINGS The Ananda Alert system for reporting missing children was launched on May 19, 2009, in honour of Ananda Dean, an 11-year-old student of the Swallowfield All-Age School, who went missing on September 17, 2008. I...