BARTICA YOUNG POET
Alden Marslowe

Alden Marslowe

Alden Marslowe of lot 13 Sixth, Avenue Bartica who is 29 years old attended the St.John's- Baptise Primary School between the years 1975 and 1981.He then went on to the Bartica Secondary School between the years 1981 and 1987. He is one of Bartica's first poet and seems to be a very promising one. His first poem was written in the year 1996 "A salve's lament" and was published in a private owned newspapers "Stabroek News"on 23rd May,1996.This has motivated him to do more writing in that he had written over twenty odd poems.His future ambition is to published his first booklet,to be entitled "RED EARTH-BLUE SKY."

BARTICA RED EARTH

She nests at the point where tides converge
Right before her very eyes;
Hugged by the Essequibo and Mazaruni's surge
There, she punctuates paradise.

She's fortified to guard Earth's fine curves
Against the busy tides
Yet a gate to fields of dreams, she serves,
Where mineral fortunes hide.

Birds and wasps;butterflies and bees
Decorate her tropic green.
While cows and sheep and the likes of these
Throughout her fields, are seen.

Her checkered blocks host residence
Woven 'mongst hills and woods;
Are homes to her family of friends
From multi-racial hoods.

To colourful sons, and daughters likewise,
Most whom she has given birth,
She's cherished beyond the highest prize,
And a heaven right here on earth.

Her fruits so sweet, and culture rich
Testify her priceless worth
From sandy beach, o're hill and ditch,
She's Bartica- Red Earth.

BY ALDEN MARSLOWE

The temperature is rising:

The temperature is rising the world is changing
Are we going to change our polluted ways?
Or Mother Earth will dictate radical change.
Green house effect, increase pollution.

Mankind cannot find the solution
Scientist say 6-degree rise
The Artic is gone.
6-degree rise our cities are under water.

Yes it’s time to ponder.
You America, you China, you India
Tell me what will you do
Our children's life's depend on you

We have been warned
NEWS (NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH)
Tornadoes, Floods and Droughts.
This is what your greed for development is about.

You don’t have to shout
We are people on a mission
Fighting Extreme Weather Conditions.
Some say all is well, Mother Earth is getting hot like hell,

Because you have disdained all my counsel
And would have none of my Rebuke
I also will laugh at your calamity.
I will mock when your terror comes like a Storm,
And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come Upon you.. (Proverbs 25 -27)

Written BY :
Carlos Powell
11 West Indian Housing Scheme
Guyana.
cprowell@yahoo.com
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