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	<title>Dominichen - The Uniquely Dominican View &#187; Love Died</title>
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		<title>Love Died (2008) by Kalinago*</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Corriette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fell in love with words when I read a poem in Convent High School by Louise Bennett, titled, &#8220;Colonization in Reverse&#8221;. It amazed me to see Caribbean dialect on paper! As bakay blanc as I am I felt like &#8230; <a href="http://dominichen.com/love-died-2008-by-kalinago/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #663300">I fell in love with words when I read a poem in Convent High School by Louise Bennett, titled, &#8220;Colonization in Reverse&#8221;. It amazed me to see Caribbean dialect on paper! As bakay blanc as I am I felt like the proudest member of black Africa growing up and it was such a treat to my soul to read something that was not whitewashed!&#8230;</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #663300">Here&#8217;s a likkle poetic dialect of my own&#8230;</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large"> </span><span style="font-size: large"> <a href="http://firstlovebook.spaces.live.com/"><img style="width: 470px;height: 228px" src="http://www.uniquelydominican.com/data/users/Dominican-Writers/image_d20080510090517_ia4d9901/__sp_u6hc5_ep__Love_Art3.jpg" alt="" /></a></span> </span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #663333"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Love Died © 2008</span></span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: #663333"><span style="background-color: #ff6666"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;font-size: medium"><span style="background-color: #ffffff">Wat ah grief an ah wailing!</p>
<p>Bells ah-ringin signallin she deat.</p>
<p>Wat ah youngun she wah, barly could fin ah coffin fer fit hah likkle body.</p>
<p>But is die she die fer true.</p>
<p>Wat ah pretty fing she wah wrappin hah han roun im neck, trohwing hah head back juss so wile she laff.</p>
<p>Im like dat plenty, youssou ncourage hah dee more.</p>
<p>I wondah wedah im gohn admit dat ee miss hah.</p>
<p>Grief des do some plenty mahjie in peoples brains, ou know.</p>
<p>Deh seh she still roun in dee Spirit juss like she doh die.</p>
<p>Hah eyes fulla tears fe im, not mining im kill hah.</p>
<p>She waitin fer dem to reunite gin n hehven.</p>
<p>Hollin hah arms out an jussa waitin fer im to tek hah back.</p>
<p>Deh say ee dohn cut im nose fer spite im face when ee drive dee knife in hah.</p>
<p>I seh she shoulda marco im fer mek sure im keep imself fer hah, stead ah worries bout im showerin hah wid im feelings.</p>
<p>Cuz now she gohn ee don fin im anoder.</p>
<p>Some oder pretty fing fer hol im head an laff at im joke, mek im feel better in im mihn.</p>
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<p><span style="background-color: #ffffff">But Love, she cahn die from im hart.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #ffffff"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial;font-size: x-small"> </span></span></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial;font-size: x-small"><span style="color: #663366">This poem is written and copyrighted by Kalinago from the Dominican Diaspora. *Kalinago is the pseudonym for this author, who reserves all copyrights of authorship for literature and other materials posted here on this site under this pseudonym. No part can be copied, reproduced or distributed without the author&#8217;s expressed permission.</span> </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large"><span style="font-size: large"><span style="color: #663366;font-size: small">*** I am writing a book about first love. I would love to hear from anyone who would like to share their thoughts and poetry/short stories on all matters of love! I will be selecting some of your comments/poetry/short stories to include in my book! Visit my blog space for the book:</p>
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<p></span><a href="http://firstlovebook.spaces.live.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial;color: #663366;font-size: x-small">http://firstlovebook.spaces.live.com</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small"></p>
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<p><span style="color: #663366">or email me for a personal invite to the site:</p>
<p></span></span><a href="mailto:firstlovebook@hotmail.com"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial;color: #663366;font-size: x-small">firstlovebook@hotmail.com</span></a> </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial"><span style="color: #663366;font-size: small">You can also find Kalinago on the Dominican Diaspora</span></span> </span></span></p>
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