By Stanley Collymore
I’ll keep absolutely quiet if
in return you promise
not to disturb me
with your
silence.
© Stanley V. Collymore
2 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Let me hold you once more and feel
the warm vibrations of a past
that’s still alive in me but
which is ebbing away
from you quite
perceptibly!
© Stanley V. Collymore
7 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
The classic loudmouth is someone that
gives a private undertaking not to
divulge something then goes
to great lengths to make
sure that it’s publicly
known; someone
very much like
you in fact!
© Stanley V. Collymore
25 July 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
You are the long-awaited summer,
which I’d always hoped for
in my life - blighted for
far too long by the
harsh winter
of despair!
© Stanley V. Collymore
1 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
The true reasons for our actions
are often unclear even in the
most thoughtful minds –
the repercussions of
them, however,
often last a
very long
time.
© Stanley V. Collymore
7 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Take me as you find me, for what you see
is exactly what I am; and should you
at any time have slightest
difficulty in trying to
understand me or what I’m about please
do ask me and don’t ever make the mistake
of second-guessing me and assuming
that you know what’s going on
inside my head; for therein
lie the fertile seeds of
untrustworthiness.
© Stanley V. Collymore
9 July 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Human life when looked at
objectively is in reality
nothing more than a
rather short cruise
on the Galactic
Ocean of
time!
© Stanley V. Collymore
31 July 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Emotions can’t operate separately
from the actions of those that
would determine what
those emotions
should be!
© Stanley V. Collymore
31 July 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
The major difference that exists
between animals and human
beings is, that animals
don’t ever pretend
to be what they
know they
aren’t.
© Stanley V. Collymore
30 July 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
I do not demand or even expect you to
change your mind, for your opinions
are much too entrenched for that –
what I do want however is for
you to adjust your attitude
to sensibly recognise
there’s a different
point of view
to your
own!
© Stanley V. Collymore
31 July 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Lift up yuh voices and shout loud and clear
“Crop Over Festival is once more here!”
Uh time fuh fun an’ relaxation too -
nuh inhibitions please, as dat
won’t do! Dere’s dancing
and swaying tuh de
pulsating beat of Caribbean rhydums
dat’ll get yuh moving an’ quickly
pun yuh feet. Dere’s food too
of all sorts: hot, spicy an’
flavoured - a culinary
treat dat will long
be remembered.
And when in de cool uh de evening sun yuh
need uh pick-me-up tuh help yuh carry on,
dere’s Mount Gay an’ Cockspur:
Barbados’world famous rums -
uh absolute guarantee Tuh
warm dose parts uh de
body which couldn’t be
reached by de rays uh de sun. So dat
when de fireworks display and de
great bacchanal are done, it’s
your choice entirely wedder
tuh carry on partying or
mek yuh way home.
© Stanley V. Collymore
14 July 2001
Footnote:
Crop Over is the official Barbadian Carnival. Bajan is the affectionate name that Barbadians give to themselves.
By Stanley Collymore
I’ve given you the present of life
My darling child; now do me
The honour of doing
Something truly
meaningful
with it!
© Stanley V. Collymore
17 July 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
We’ve never met but even so I feel that I know you
ever so well, because empathetically we’re on
the same plane; a situation reinforced by the
consummate respect that your sterling
character, multiple qualities and
abundant skills give rise to
and have themselves
solidified in me.
The world desperately needs more people and largely
inspirational leaders like you Sir that in terms of
intellectual acumen, leadership, commonsense,
human compassion, foresight, fortitude and
the morality to stand up undauntedly for
truth, not specious motives, and what
intuitively you know and crucially
believe to be right, ably can and
do rise above the fray to straddle
like a gargantuan Colossus the petty,
small-minded and Lilliputian political dwarfs
who with their bizarre notions of cultural
and racial superiority feel that they
have an inalienable right to
rule mankind.
This risibly to an Iranian like yourself, of all people
Sir, who knows, as do all other prescient-minded
individuals globally, that were Iran to unlikely
even do so, what it blithely chooses to forget
in terms of its millennia old civilization and
cultural heritage these quite brash, vacuous
and totally irremediable western upstarts:
not liberators just glorified murderers,
have yet to acquaint themselves
with let alone master. So as
your Presidency draws to
its close, rest assured Sir
of your legacy to
mankind; and
thank you!
© Stanley V. Collymore
10 June 2013.
Footnote:
From time to time, but regrettably not often enough, there appears on the international stage a truly global figure whose honesty, integrity and refreshingly constructive approach to world affairs makes one positively sit up and think; and all thankfully for the better.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is such a person! Now as his second and equally successful term of office as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran comes to its close, I personally want to pay tribute to his tenacity and overall legacy, as well as to say to him: “God bless you Sir; I wish you all the very best for the future, and express my sincerest thanks and utmost gratitude to you for all that you’ve done.
Dr. Stanley Collymore
Tuesday 11 June 2013.
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