Sunday, June 20, 2010

...and what shall we do about Haiti

...and what shall we do about Haiti?
Haiti?
what do you mean?
I mean the souls that still hover
in the expulsion of methane
from the spirits shoveled into rubble
Haiti?
what do you mean?
I mean the tattered humans
with missing limbs
in a land where pre-quake
they didn't even have handicap
accessibility
Haiti?
what do you mean?
a country without a capitol
a capitol without schools
schools without teachers
teachers without books
Haiti?
what do you mean?
Don't you mean
Tiger Woods?
Don't you mean Chile?
Don't you mean the oil spill?
Don't you mean the last Shrek movie?
Don't you mean Gary Coleman's funeral guest list?
Don't you mean the woman who left her millions to her cats?
I ask you...WHAT DO YOU THINK I MEAN?

Monday, June 14, 2010

THE FOREVER ENCORE


THE FOREVER ENCORE
(ode to HAITI REBUILT:
The celebration it will take to rebuild our Haiti is likened to the celebration of the many hands used to produce the wonderful sounds of an orchestral overture)
The Haitian man played multi-colored notes
beaconing colored people
with instrument totes
conducting a tempo
of hues dancing
the prismatic rainbow
sounds were romancing
yellow notes played
sun-kissed fandangos
brown notes flamingoed
a big band tango
white notes strummed
delicious dulcimer rounds
black notes drummed
lightening lion sounds
green notes recycled
earth saving stanzas anew
Red Cloud played totem poles
a denim sky blue
Royal purple sang
a majestic presidential tune
the peacock colored orchestra
played way past high noon
making raw music
plucking in the full moon
the multi-colored Haitian man
played multi-colored notes
as the children plaited his hair
in intricate shapes of baroque
and the angels arpeggios relayed
that "tomorrow, " they wrote,
"today must be replayed
when the multi-colored Haitian man
again plays his multi-colored notes."
THE FOREVER ENCORE
(an ode to Haiti rebuilt)
by Yolantha Harrison-Pace

Thursday, June 10, 2010

LET HER DRINK

I went down to the creek
There's a pig in the
Drinking water
Let him stay
There's a goat in the
Drinking water
Let him stay
There's a mule in the
Drinking water
Let him stay
Ther's a baby in the
Drinking water
Let her drink.
Nobody knows the Haiti I've seen...