Kadooment Day Villanelle

Jamming on kadooment day, from dawn to dusk, playing mask 

Revellers from everywhere, including France

In brazen wear and tear, they bask

In the sun, sipping fermented juice from a bamboo flask

Tourists, jumping, whirling and twirling have come to prance

Jamming on kadooment day, from dawn to dusk, playing mask

Jamming on kadooment day, from dawn to dusk away from cane-trash

Chanting calypso songs, in native parlance

In brazen wear and tear, they bask

Sea of people on Spring Garden, round a cask
While vermin grind, sweet grass, with a weasel-mouth lance

Jamming on kadooment day, from dawn to dusk, playing mask

So Crop Over comes many months after Pasch

All through the day and night they sing and they dance

In brazen wear and tear, they bask

All year these wild cats, make camouflaging an easy task
In the cane fields to flex the Ministry of Finance

Jamming on kadooment day, from dawn to dusk, playing mask

In brazen wear and tear, they bask.

© Paterika Hengreaves

(July 2018 (Barbados)

Instructions on how to write a Villanelle Poem go to 
https://poetrydish.blogspot.com/2018/10/structure-of-villanelle-poetry.html