Kola articles from September 2004

Kola archives from September 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
September 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...

Neferitti.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... NEFERITTI: Who was she? Black as can be A Caucasian now wants to know To prove what? I ask: Why are you digging up Africa? The denial is still there The circle is closing at full speed You...

Me Orphan Child.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Me Orphan Child Hey: there inside Orphan Child You had lots more than others More than real parents could Give to their very own sometimes The best to eat, drink, and wear A Father that loved, and taught you ...

Who are the "Jesus Freaks?".(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Who are the "Jesus Freaks?" Oh! Those are the ones I see on the street Handing out tracts daily Doing God's work they try to tell me Having they own personal GOD Of the mind: lest the heart. Tell me Why...

Eyes: How They Come!(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... EYES: HOW THEY COME! Round eyes They say What, who, why Because: Perhaps, maybe So what then? It was endless Perplexity Moons of delirium Pools of loneliness Fronting a broken heart ...

A St. Matthias.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... A St. Matthias Robert Sandiford snaps my colourized photo At grey-stone St. Matthias Anglican Church, Just outside sea-bleached Bridgetown, Barbados. Whimsically, we stopped here because Austin Clarke was a boy...

Helpless.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Helpless Are you helpless before what you love? Do you kneel and howl, Cringe, slaver, drool? Do you whine and crawl? Do you cry dishonourably And discharge uncaringly? Do you slobber and sniffle? Do you...

A Bellagio (III).(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... A Bellagio (III) Now I must say goodbye olive trees, Goodbye rosemary, goodbye pasticceria Goodbye geleteria, goodbye white-black butterfly With the brown stripe, goodbye Villa Serbelloni- With crocked doors and...

Au Tombeau de Pound (III).(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Au Tombeau de Pound (III) The gardens of the honest great Never, never disintegrate. Though green cemeteries languish In decay, ingenious Anguish- Spiritual fount of art-vaults Past mouldered bone and marble...

CUDJOE.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... CUD JOE Cudjoe rises from his placid place, crosses the boundary of shifting land to stare down the mutinous mountainside, past a blooming frangipani, its soft flowers laden with milk. There in this new place,...

King Jah Jah.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... KING JAH JAH I am King Jah Jah, chained to black hope that drives these Caribbean islands to oneness. Let the oil of Venezuela burn my essence That I may produce tongues with volcanic rage For a unity desired by...

Winter Blues.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... WINTER BLUES Snow slips silently from the sky Beneath the portals of my eyes. Then my blood curdles like sour milk and refuses to course through my veins. This knot of coldness is where the bullet...

Freedom Tears.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Freedom Tears Africa laughs from my eyes Tinges my blood purple, Curls my hair at the roots, Denies me a future solitude By chaining me darkly to the past, She cries out to me of hope. Oh Africa, Mother...

Wheelbarrow of Flowers.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Wheelbarrow of Flowers Wonder if you will know me now? Surely I must have changed. Can't believe It's been that many years, Strange I hardly noticed Time going by. Now I can't quite decide Where to hide,...

Heart Break.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Heart Break Hasten on Vigilant moon Do not keep watch overhead. My heart will break If I confess The pain it feels Tonight.

Your Name Is Morning.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Your Name Is Morning I saw you that day When you weren't looking. Didn't you see me passing by? Noticed how fragile you were How you never once glanced at the sun. Your cheeks were paler Than expected, ...

Digging the Blues.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Digging the Blues I've been down in luck Singing the Blues, rolled the dies Survived to see the sunset, cool Wash the sky in gore and fire Checked in at the local bar Got me a woman Enchantress in Red ...

Academia.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Academia Chancellors Rectors Deans Chairs Professors Scholars And Emeriti define reconstruct Nations Cities The inconstant Self Ambition's sharks feed ...

A Blue World.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... A Blue World Woke up this morning Early, heard the radio call telling the children how hooded men, five slit ma brothr's throat Left for work this morning Got stuck in a traffic jam Saw a man ...

Down and out.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Down and out I am Black Male And thirty five No job Crapeau smoke meh pipe. Got no money No place to sleep Can't panhandle Cause ah Black pride Talk to Allah But he wants an act ...

Lili Belle Calypso Blues: The Fall of a Kaiso Jamette.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Lili Belle Calypso Blues: The Fall of a Kaiso Jamette He is wicked, an abuser Ah cussing ghetto dude check him in his Sunday rags He looks, smells, and talks fine Can charm the panties off any gal Innocent face,...

Strike the fatal blow with ma Poui.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Strike the fatal blow with ma Poui But ah outside whore! He promise no more outside love This have me fighting mad But every time he plant them lips Sweet, juicy. Here, there, everywhere Meh body does tremble so...

Blues and Definitions.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Blues and Definitions I Blues is the Community Carrying Rose Mary's baby. And Cant find an exorcist II The Blues is a forgiving thing Loving your man long After each hurting....

Sexuality Dynamics (intrigue).(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Sexuality Dynamics (Intrigue) She approaches on the public platform, Ms. Shecock, statuesque. He stands there, eyes transfixed on the potential prize. She stops, pirouettes, shoots him an inquiring,...

Nine Hundred And Eleven Wakes (all in the patriotic blood).(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Nine Hundred And Eleven Wakes (all in the patriotic blood) Limitless is the indulgence of self-indulgent star-spangled ex-men, retired, wallowing--again in another 'new' protracted exercise of recurring 'just...

I Saw Them On CNN.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... I Saw Them On CNN Military men, managing and directing war analyzing, posturing, issuing cryptic propitious ultimatums (or else). Men, exuding historical arrogance, expending trite patriotic historical...

Paradise Lost, Then Found.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Paradise Lost, Then Found "Poor the Dead" a woman said as another departed soul was laid to rest. But the dead are free, pitying the living of this earthly hell. "I pity the living" a...

My Hero.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... MY HERO duly uncompromising this dignified principled man of high morals, unabated, ideology unquestioned uncompromised. This man of men, this man among men, a man sans rancor, ...

Younger Generation, X'd.(Poetry)(Poem)
September 22, 2004... Younger Generation, X'd Their young blood flow freely without just cause, coagulating where it was spilled. prime, young blood prematurely transformed [by human definition] into liquid saline ...

Literary Connections: A Theatrical Review of George Boyd's Wade in the Water.(Theater Review)
September 22, 2004... Rachel Van Fossen Literary Connections: A Theatrical Review of George Boyd's Wade in the Water In the summer of 2001, playwright George Boyd had only recently relocated to Montreal from Halifax. At about the same time I was myself...

Press release.(News about Members)
September 22, 2004... Paloma Mohamed ISBN: 0-912469-42-0 2004. 216 pages. 6 illustrations. Paperback CARIBBEAN MYTHOLOGY AND MODERN LIFE: Book of Plays for Young People, in "Caribbean Mythology and Modern Life: 5 Plays for Young People," has just been published by...