PWAOB (Police Wives Association of Barbados)

(An Acrostic Quintet in Iambic Pentameter rhyming abbcc)



























Police wives planted across Bimshire land
Without doubt, Grace, called us to come on out
At Weymouth grounds, plenty words lips did spout
On ways to complement the Police Force;
By charitable deeds, they would enforce.

Plank by plank wives built up foundation’s base;
Welded talents rose from kitchen table,
And keenly cabinet did assemble;
On March twenty-six, nineteen eighty-four
Birth PWA, first on this shore.

Pledging their friendship, unity and strength,
Wives of Bajan policemen formed this club;
And this association is their hub,
Of grand charitable activities;
Blending their zeal and sensitivities;

Proudly wives wear their pin of allegiance;
Where’re they go, they stand out in the crowd;
As “Image” pens their thoughts as words allowed,
Of causes that are for the common good;
Beautiful projects are well understood.

Projects seed our scholarships and welfare;
With head, heart and soul running together
All hands, work in any kind of weather.
Our work, goes beyond, twenty-five years;
Bonded by those goals… of its pioneers.

©Paterika Hengreaves
March 18, 2009, Barbados

Congratulations and Happy 25th Anniversary to the Police Wives Association
I wish you many more anniversaries
And endless blessings for the fruits of your charitable works.

Paterika gets one of the Patron's gift awards in this video