Barbados Postage Stamps Speaking Volumes - Part III

(in Ballad Meter)

With texture of a marshmallow,
The rock sat in Barrow;
Proudly wrapped in Broken Trident;
The Union Jack silent.
A bold shift in Bajan postage;
The royal head abridge;
When Queen Elizabeth gave back,
With great poise, and great tact.

This rock, her ancestors sliced up;
Lapping royal tea-cup;
In sixteen twenty five.
Each slice on human rights deprive;
More than three hundred years preserved;
Before new Queen observed;
Her reign brings to Bajans new hope,
And a new skipping rope.



Each postage stamp bears Bajan craft;
Drives postal photograph;
With themes, and scenes of our land;
Sir Garry from Bayland;
Cricketer from Police Sports Club;
Queen Elizabeth dubbed;
Sir Garfield Sobers on the field;
Greatest all-rounder kneeled.

Bajan's living legend knighted;
Captaincy accepted;
Sir Frank Worrell was his mentor;
His batting caused uproar
That pleased, huge crowds around the ground
Joy round him did surround
Sir Garfield St Auburn Sobers.
Collie Smith, he ponders...

Traumatic time indeed for him;
Drinking tears kept him slim;
Hits six sixes in one over;
Pleasing crowds, moreover,
On six consecutive balls in cricket,
From powerful wicket;
Seeing on postage Sir Gary;
Hones, cricket mastery.

In my head now, October nine;
This thought floods brain of mine;
The anniversary, Tony!
With strong roots universally;
In eighteen sixty four,
This much I do recall and more;
The arrival of World Post Day
I's today; so they say.

Reflecting now on UPU
Headquarters for mail crew,
Of the Universal Postal,
A problem-solving hull;
A Union, we take for granted,
And benefits charted;
The UPU in many ways;
Hugs Bajan postal trays.

With pride and appreciation;
We in this small nation;
Celebrate World Post Day with hearts
In Bern's postal ramparts;
Of Swiss' Confidence they instill;
In our postal mill;
Impacting all living beings
For WNS postings.

© Paterika Hengreaves
October 9, 2011/Barbados

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