Humanity Rose

To great extent, people mean so much more In the jails we lock up males and females Nevertheless, people we must adore With human kindness let no one curtails People like roses are found far and near Among Asia and lands across the sea Petals are those families there to care And cherish those colours and names we see The mind becomes the interpretive dance As eyes behold the wonderful valley In Arkles Bay where treed do dance and prance Around those homes, children do play gladly As delicate as rose-petals unwind But tough as thorns which grow to guard the stem Yet beautiful mid shine and rain behind The rainbow, of love from us we give them Fragile is life, and round the globe lies strife Nature is stressed; oceans in deep motion Tsunami waves to cut with butcher'knife With vengeful ats, God's work of creation. As folks did eat beneath the Christmas tree Never a thought that plates would crash on floor Instincts made animals, birds to flee The leap-year tide did wash dead shoals ashore The day Tsunami washed away the ground By Bavy Jones a fraught with blood rage On Boxing Day beneath a sky so grey Mow growing poppies write their story's page What great sadness lingers in minds not clear The loss surpassed Ivan in Grenada This catastrophic blow still Ache's fear That sent after-shocks beyond Navada. The heavy rouirns plays on most CDs To cue the minds to graves with drab decor As fingers scratched for life amind debris They longed one more for blissful days of yore To keep this hope alive with will to strive Humanity rose with great devotion As people avross the globe took the dive They sent dough to souls with deep emotion Their cries of praise reached on high Jehovah For hearts of gold that eased the souls' laments To lands of the Asian Diaspora Life-water flows out of those gory tents.

Love

Lasting in the very mind it could Oneness when hearts are good Valuable as any diamond should Endearing it is and so very pure. Lend an ear as we speak on the topic my friend Observably it may not be hard to comprehend Variable they may say but this you should know Each new day is love on display. Let us accept through faith that God is love Only His love is dogmatically so very sound Valuable it is for it drives ad fuels the thirssty soul Everlastingly it flow over the ountains of life. Longingly we search for such goodness for we know Out there His arms hugs us all and so Vastly interactive it gives us the wids to reach the mountaintop Endless love He gives all and generations yet to come.

Poetry Fundamentals

As far as I know, many elements are woven into a poem for vary effects. Particular structures may be used to expand the literal meaning of the words, or to evoke emotional or sensual responses. Sometimes, such devices as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. In poetry, you’ll find use being made of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic element of poetic diction. These by and large, tend to leave a poem open to multiple interpretations. In poetry, this is very good for it stretches creativity to higher heights, as it were. Now, just look at the way metaphors and similes when they exist in a poem, they create a resonance between otherwise disparate images. Such layering of meanings tends to form connections not perceived previously. We must also recognize that similar forms of resonance may exist between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm. These devices are useful plug-ins in the hands of poets. They all have tremendous impact on the poem’s content, voice, image and imagery.

What is Content?

Poetry is a literary genre and the person who writes poetry is the poet. Content is what the poet conveys (facts, ideas, and impressions) in the poem. The arrangement of content is dictated by the particular form or genre used. In order to present this content to the audience or readers the poet must provide a voice.

Provide a voice! What do you mean?

The poet assigns someone who will speak the words written in the poem. The person who elucidates the content of the poem is called the “voice”. Voice can also mean the “aura”. Aristotle referred to aura that is created from the element in the artistic production that induces a perception by the audience or reader of the moral qualities of the speaker or character as the “ethos. In narrative poetry, the persona is the “I” or the implied speaker as in the case of lyrical poems. Sometimes the poet would identify a created character as the speaker. However, in the absence of such a specific attribution, the term persona is applied.

What good does this do?

This allows for no automatic assumption that the creative work done is the expressed experiences or views of the poet. The good thing about the identification of a character or characters by poets is that it prevents any potential ambiguity. It also enables poets to give expression to things they would prefer not to have attributed to themselves.

How does the poet draw in the audience or readers?

The poet uses words arranged artistically to paint “mind-pictures” to the captured audience or readers by using a variety of poetic techniques and devices. Those mental constructs that people come up with after processing the various components of a poem is called the image. These mental constructs are created from the analysis and synthesis of the various components on the poet’s canvas. The poet’s canvas provides a panoramic view of the words, syntax, figurative language, figures of speech (for example, simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, symbol, synecdoche and metonym), trope, style (for example, diction, rhetorical devices, sounds and rhythmic patterns), texture, tone, aesthetics and layout carefully woven into the poem. This canvas or panoramic view that poets create is what we call the imagery and from it, mental images are formulated in the mind of the audience or readers. They in turn (the audience or readers) decide for themselves whether the poem was an enjoyable read by awakening their emotions in the desired direction.

© Paterika Hengreaves

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Open Door Poetry

Patricia Doreen Hendy

The Emeritus Tutor of Erdiston Teachers' Training College, Barbados

Patricia Doreen Hendy is a graduate of McGill University. She writes poetry in all forms and issues under her penname, Paterika Hengreaves on her blogs: poetrynest.blogspot.com and poetrydish.blogspot.com. She has travelled extensively in the Caribbean, North America, England and New Zealand. On her arrival in the island known as the "Long White Cloud" in April of 2004 she became a member of the "Hibiscus Coast Writers" founded in 1993 and whose Patron is Brian Morris (NZIBS). This group of writers met once each week at 1.00 p.m.at Red Beach Methodist Church Hall, Whangaparaoa with Dee Evans who was the group's President at the time.

She has two children (Francoise and Charles). She married in 1966 Edgar Hendy he died on June 6, 1995. She has six sisters and two brothers. Two of her sisters have died (Nurse Angela Barnes) died 2006 in Ohio, USA and (Nurse Sheila Brome, a ward Sister at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados) died in 2014).

She believes that one's environment is more influential than heredity in determining one's development. Her teaching career spanned 1961 to 2004. She taught students in the primary, secondary and tertiary education of the Barbados Ministry of Education. Fourteen years (1979-2000) she worked with the Caribbean Examination Council in the structuring of examination materials for Business Education in Secondary Schools and as a marker and Chief Examiner. She became a Business Education Tutor at Erdiston Teachers' Training College in 1989. In 1993 she became an Education Officer in the Division of Management and Supervision at the Barbados Ministry of Education Youth Affairs and Culture. She returned to Erdiston in 1997 and retired from Erdiston College in 2004. Her hobbies are crochet, gardening, travelling and writing poetry.

Teaching in 21st century classroom is about learning across the curriculum. Students must see those connections that integrate the various subjects being taught in schools and those purposes these subjects serve beyond those formal school years. Teachers have embrace the philosophy of constructivism in designing their teaching environment so what they need the most, are appropriate resource materials that help students to make vital connections, develop the ability to transfer concepts across subject lines and use process skills (discussing, writing, classifying, listening, drawing, dramatizing, recognizing, composing) during their learning activities.

These important truths about learning and the role resource materials play in knowledge acquisition place poetry in an expanded light that goes beyond providing pleasurable reading for lovers of this art form as seen and as is manifested in the book "Open Door Poetry."

This book offers a frame-work of ideas and interprets poems that are written in traditional and non-traditional formats, genres and comments are provided on each poem bring focus on roles performed by personas. This book provides dynamic resource materials for teachers whose students are in the range of 12-16 years in secondary school or the high school. "Open Door Poetry" places poems beyond the border of reading, writing and performance by providing a conduit for arousing learners' senses in the learning process and facilitates interdisciplinary teaching approaches in student centered classrooms.

The poems as featured in "Open Door Poetry" are designed to provide resource materials for teachers who use thematic webs,thematic lesson plans and interdisciplinary teaching approaches in student centered classrooms. Themes such as implicit and explicit are in the 288 poems are there to be extracted under the guidance of their teachers in student centered classrooms.  Poetry is no longer the "Cinderella" on the school's curriculum; it is a filter and a connector per se.

Daniel & King Darius praising God ✞ mezmur ለእግዚአብሔር የሚሳነው የለም

Postal History of Barbados in poetry

7 Year Old Sings | Because He Lives/ The Blood | Brooklyn Tabernacle

Silver Garden Spider between Croton Hedge

The Ultimate Vaccine | Mark Finley (SDA Sermon)

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Apartment Acquisition

Send me your e-mail too. Your positive response is what I need from you so that I can go and complete the deal. In the while, I will talk to Monique and Neil. the owners have refurbished the apartment by the sea, on Orewa  Beach where tourists roam so free. You will like it there and find much glee. Hibiscus Coast Highway is the temporary address for thee. It is not a villa and I do apologize dearly but this apartment by the sea is just as grand and the panoramic view of the Rodney land. Thirty days of surf and sand you get entirely. So reserve your flight well in advance. Be here by January first, which makes sense. A description of self and flight information would be intense, so you can be recognized at a glance. It will be nice to have you here from afar where we can truly speak, laugh, write, play and celebrate February fourteenth, your special day. We will blow the candles out and wish upon a star.

Spotlight on the Acrostic - Part I

The challenge that comes with aspiring to be a versatile poet in the poetic milieu has inspired me to write poems across the broad spectrum of poetic genres. These poems I share with you gladly.

So come with me on a guided tour through “Poetry For All Seasons”. Let’s explore the variations which influenced the selection of content, form, style, diction, poetic diction, the speaker or voice of the poems, texture and tone. We’ll first sail on the Acrostic lake and explore its many tributaries such as the Abecedarian, Diastic, Double Acrostic, Lipogram, Mesostich, Reversed Abecedarian, Subliminal Letter Poem, Subliminal Sentence, Subliminal Telestich, Telestich, Transgram, Triple Acrostic, Univocalic and the Word Square.

I love the challenge posed when creating poems in the Acrostic form. If you vary the locations of those letters air-marked for the encrypted message, you can create various forms of the Acrostic. The poems, Alisajs, News, Lighthouse, Olives, Venus goddess of love, and Love are written in the form of the Acrostic.

As a poetic genre, the Acrostic is as old as the hills. It is said that ancient religious cults used it to identify themselves to each other in secret. Research has shown that in the middle 19th Century the Acrostic became a popular tool not only for ushering praise on royalty and conquerors but to educate children in history and geography. It is purported that Queen Victoria was very fond of the Double Acrostic which by that time had evolved from a verse form to a type of puzzle. It is true to say that we have grown into seeing such puzzles in both the dead leaf and electronic media, which essentially are extensions of the Acrostic form.

The Acrostic poem is written according to a set form. The parameters of this form are seen in this light:

The first letter of the first word on each verse or line when taken sequentially must spell out the title, or theme of the poem.

The content should tell something about the encrypted message.

It should convey praise on people, cities, objects, events, and so on.

The poems “Prayer” and “Treasures” are written as Double Acrostics. However, in the “Prayer” poem the rule is stretched further to allow for the formation of a Double Reversed Acrostic.

The Double Acrostic means that the first letter of the first line is the same as the last letter of the first line. The poem, “Treasures” has nine lines and the rule is applied as follows:

Line 1 Tt
Line 2 Rr
Line 3 Ee
Line 4 Aa
Line 5 Ss
Line 6 Uu
Line 7 Rr
Line 8 Ee
Line 9 Ss

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The rule is reversed for the Double Reversed Acrostic where the first letter of the first line becomes the last letter of the last line. The poem, “Prayer” it has six lines and the rule is extended as follows:

Line 1 Pr
Line 2 Re
Line 3 Ay
Line 4 Ya
Line 5 Er
Line 6 Rp

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The poem, “Mowing” is written in the form of a Mesostich. There are six lines in this poem. Lines 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 have nine syllables each. Line 5 has ten syllables.

The middle of each line is shown by these syllables:

Line 1 “morn”
Line 2 “on”
Line 3 "waved"
Line 4 “in”
Line 5 “never’
Line 6 “grass”

The first letters of the middle of the line syllables spell out the word, “Mowing” that is the title of the poem. Thus the poet has created a Mesostich poem.

What is a Mesostich poem?

When the first letters of the middle word on each line form the word or message relating the subject a Mesostich poem is created.

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What do you notice about the poem, “Covert Fusion”?

That’s right. It combines both the Acrostic with a Mesostich. The Acrostic arm of the poem spells out the word, “wire” and the word, “taps” spells out the Mesostich part of the poem.

© Paterika Hengreaves

Distant Hearts

Did I tell you just how special you are
The light that you emit lights  up my star

Beaming the glow of love we are sharing
Your fingers on my heart strings repairing

Bill Gates has built for us this brand new home
For free-spirited souls like ours can roam

Though the oceans are keeping us apart
Your nights do give my days a real kick-start

You way down-under, and I way up yonder
Such poles apart cannot this love falter

Your e-mails give me many a chuckle
And live is sweet in this cyber bubble

So, as we both face the Christmas Season
The Star of David shines for this reason.

(2002)

Dragonflies are Back

We know when the sun takes its hiatus
Buckets of tear drops we see pouring down
Hedgerows get pregnant with beds of cuss-cuss
Firewood amassed for homes not in town
The gurgling sounds of gully streams pulsate
For all sorts of insects to conjugate.

Country life is a blissful way of life
It fills serenity's cup to the brim
From crack of dawn and beyond sunset blithe
Eden comes in full view with an awesome gym
Nature's store-house of gifts for us, from Him
Despite stiff competition we endure
Nature holds the key to unlock fate's door.

No blazing cane-fields to cause frustration
But this scene over the pond to the west
Caught my attention and adoration
Aquatic insects hover at their best
These dragonflies are back at Sunset Crest
Freely mixing mystic powers with grace
And kites with anchors can't keep up their pace

With devil's eyes disguised, they pray and prey
On wings of light, long before the ice age
From prehistoric mist, they've come to stay
Dreadful names, yet I find no cause for rage
Whether in damsel wear or dragon suit
Insect hides, they tan them in hot pursuit

Adorably loved by folks everywhere
They flaunt their  beauty, life histories and
Amazing act while mating in the air
Searching for clean water throughout the land
On  which to lay eggs in the vast expand
Hating mosquitoes unhealthy lifestyles
These cute dragonflies feast on them like flies

Dragonfly fauna we respect greatly
In the West Indies and across the sea
And Japs adore your martial arts daily
This Murcia shot of you, Gregg sent me
Such a stunning perch you posed for all to see
Your bodily colors,light up the show.

(May 2009) 

English Language

What is English Language

Language allows Homo-sapiens the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication. The scientific study of language is called linguistics which is the study of  language and its structure including the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics.

Language evolves and diversity over time, and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by comparing modern languages to determine which traits their ancestral language must have had in order for the later developmental stages to occur.

English is an Indo-European language, and belongs to the West Germanic group of Germanic languages and Frisian form the Anglo-Frisian subgroup within the West Germanic language family. The perspective of this 21st century poet from Barbados is that the English language contains a wide rage of words from which to choose for almost every thought.

English is very versatile. The language you are reading here is written English, if you are reading it aloud what is written here, you are speaking English.

English the Universal Language

The development of the English took place in Great Britain normally called England and has become the official language of almost 60 sovereign states, the most commonly spoken language in the United Kingdom, the United States of america, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, and a widely spoken language in the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia. It is widely learned as a second language. Truly, English as a global language arises mainly due to the political and economic power of its native speakers. However, the globalization of the English language falls on the doorsteps of America's economic and cultural supremacy in the areas of music, film and television, business and finance, computing, information technology, the internet and so on.

This happenstance has without doubt, consolidated the position of the English language and continues to maintain it in the unfolded years of the third Millennium.

Importantly to mention, English has acquired the status of a global lingua franca. Thanks to America's dominance and influence globally, makes English crucially important for developing international markets, especially in the areas of tourism, advertising, and mastery of English which provides access to scientific, technological and academic resources which would otherwise be denied in developing countries.

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Poetry Chef

Allegorically, poetry is the poet's backpack through mountains, valleys, streams, plains  and moor in a cognitive environment. These poetry chefs search for the right ingredients to clean and season the poetry they cook for their guests. Ever mindful that the poetry on the platter must have the right taste and texture for folks still growing baby teeth, those with all their natural adult teeth, those who must wear dentures and those who like gravy, hot-peppers, salads and potted puri. Ever mindful of this, the poetry chef selects the best spices and condiments to add flavor to the poetry dishes. In advance, the chef sets the weight and measurement, then blend them well into the stuffing that goes into the poetry. When completed, the poetry goes on the serving plate with the presentation pleasing to the eyes and ears in a manner that complements the poetry being served.