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Mary Sharp (2/18/2009 5:26:00 AM)
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This is my favourite poem by Tessimond:
The Same Hour Will Not Strike
'Nothing happens twice
And the same rain will not fall
And the same wind will not pass'
Said the Lover sadly, sadly
Looking at the girl
Looking in the glass.
'Nothing happens twice
And the same rain will not fall
And the same stream will not fun'
Said the Lost One gladly, gladly
Groping past the Horror
Past the Shadow, to the Sun.
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Jaye Tee (7/15/2008 6:20:00 AM)
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I have read an interesting poem called Jamaican Bus Ride by A.S.J. Tessimond, but I did not see it on the list of poems above.
Jamaican Bus Ride
The live fowl squatting on the grapefruit and the bananas
in the basket of the copper-coloured lady
is gloomy but resigned.
The four very large baskets on the floor
are in everybody's way,
as the conductor points out
loudly, often, but in vain.
Two quadroon dandies are disputing
who is standing on whose feet.
When we stop,
a boy vanishes through the door marked ENTRANCE;
but those entering through the door marked EXIT
are greatly hindered by the fact that when we started
there were twenty standing,
and another ten have somehow inserted themselves
into invisible crannies
between dark sweating body and body.
With the odour of petrol
both excessive and alarming
we hurtle hell-for-leather
between crimson bougainvillea blossom
and scarlet poinsettia
and miraculously do not run over
three goats, seven hens and a donkey
as we pray
that the driver has not fortified himself
at Daisy's Drinking Saloon
with more than four rums:
or by the gods of Jamaica
this day is our last!
By A.S.J. Tessimond, ENGLAND
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