Kola articles from March 2004

Kola archives from March 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... KOLA is entering its sixteenth year of publication. The magazine's longevity is due mainly to university subscribers and corporate sponsors. The benevolence of McCopier Limited, Xerox Limited and Brault and Bouthillier Limited has helped the...

Cele bration.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Cele bration Precious sells fish In Linstead market Calling out the prices A long line of traffic We follow to Marcia's store Filled with Buttons, Candy and Sewing accessories On a...

Brittle in solitude.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Brittle in solitude Sometimes I sit alone Just wanting to die But, it seems all has Changed now, and, in Fact, I'm still brittle. In solitude, I sit Wondering what I Did wrong and wonder How...

Prism.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Prism In the corner of my mind I see a prism, Prison In it is nothing But a place To sit and mull Through my thoughts Mull through my thoughts I think I would like to write on the walls.

My back is a battlefield.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... My Back is Battlefield They have made the world into a battlefield where each soul fights another to satisfy a foreign desire Mon dos est un champs de bataille My back is a battlefield and my womb is soft...

Black Anathema.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... BLACK ANATHEMA How can we command respect outside the Motherland across the Diaspora outside our homes and pocket-sized communities... if we're de void of respect for brothers and sisters...

Tribute.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... TRIBUTE Black and positively radical, politically and socially controversial Conscious music Rapping (to) the establishment TRUTH touching exposed social nerves speaking to the affected...

Ebony Woman.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... EBONY WOMAN I see her sultry dark as the Motherland, this effulgent luscious vixen with effusive personality, (brass sometimes) radiant smile bright as the Northern lights illuminating her...

Control Chemical.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... CONTROL CHEMICAL selling mama daughta and baby sista, stalkin' human and material prey night and day, it's always time to elevate... then down, melancholy and soon transmutants: like...

IngoreRant.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... IgnoreRant I saw some Colored people just the other day, running the color spectrum Black >in between<White Colorful flamboyant blazing ebullient attractive, intelligent, those Colored...

Insoluble.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Insoluble Middle East charges and counter-charges. talking heads hurting redundant rights and wrongs, proffering justification for recurring retaliation and retribution. proacting reacting >forto< ...

Something to Ponder.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Something to Ponder (contradictory international paragons) Dear oppressive nations and proxies of tacit oppressive democracies assuming paragon status proffering values for global emulation. ...

Summarizing.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Summarizing mid-May-musing, luscious daytime scenes of incipient green. Darkness bringing sweet, lukewarm breeze, sixty-six degrees at twenty-two forty-five, tomorrow seventy-five. Winter's northern...

Laconicus.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... LACONICUS ... anonymity is a wonderful abstract it allows RACISTS to espouse the improbities of their racial superiority mindset

Stereotype.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... STEREO TYPE So White woman and Black man are walking in opposite directions. Eyes focus, connect, and then deflect... she senses (Black) danger looming. Anticipating attack White woman secures her...

Bomb Runs.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2004... Bomb Runs Latin America !!!!! Grenada Panama Libya ... Libya ... Iraq ... Serbia Kosovo Sudan Somalia ...

The silenced cock.(Bimshire and the memories of Fowl Cock)
March 22, 2004... Pilate was no fowl cock thief. Neither was I. We were average young men growing up in Parish Land where the marish and the parish lived and died. King Pilate knew more about animals than an/other young man of his age. He especially loved horse...

The devotee.(Short Story)
March 22, 2004... Another Sunday morning, 5 a.m. And here I am, still trying to recall the details of a dream from which I awakened with a start. But all in vain! And so, I turn and see the words written on the topmost sheet of paper neatly stacked upon my desk....

Life of Brian.(beggars lifestory)
March 22, 2004... Brian is a panhandler. Fie works around Metro (subway) stations in downtown and west end Montreal. And from what I can see, when this brother decides to retire, if he doesn't expire on a city street, in a park or dingy room somewhere before, he...

East coasting or make it beautiful a radio bio poem.
March 22, 2004... A Geraldine Elizabeth Clarke (1939-2000) Art... is an inescapable burden of Beauty... Niesen. Cast Poet Confessional Black-brown Muse Spiritual Brown-black Host Authoritative Radio shade Musician Philosophical Jazz tints ...

Testing Boundaries: Exploring New Frontiers in the Culture of Gospel Music.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Over the last twenty years gospel music in the Caribbean has taken on a whole new outlook. Some might wonder if gospel artistes are applying simple marketing strategies to bring about this change. One of the key factors which influences the...