Poetic Verses
The Festival
Around this time of the year my excitement gets heighten
Know that is the period when my national festival is approaching
Those around will too notice the change when it certainly appears
And in the island the people are just caught up in its atmosphere
The build up too can be for some a bring some cash on the occasion
As the artistes through tents get the necessary exposure and preparation
And their compositions are sung and get played on the radio stations
This will allow too potential buyers to get that degree of familiarization
Also too in the picture are those prospective costume band leaders
Who will display sketched of costumes to all those potential revelers
And as an added incentive to make the outfits even more attractive
Will also get some model to wear them and this will create that emphasis
Another event that is now added and lots of attention will command
Is the inclusion of that segment named “Pan on the sand”
Where the people will get a treat as the sea water tickled their feet
Thrilled by the music emanating from those pan and so rhythmically sweet
But what a rhythm that can make lose control by it musical aura
It that which is emitted and dispensed by that beat called soca
And what makes it so magical spell binding on such a picturesque hill
Is that long after it is over the music lives affects the system still
But on that night the air if filled with tension when it is the calypso competition
As the competitors lay out prop, lyrics and dispense them with such diction
Some go for a pulsating rhythm, others commercial whilst some use such lyrical construction
Using such things as figurative expressions, subtle innuendos to stimulate the imagination
Then that day will come as the street parade is considered the final rites
And on the streets there is a display of colors what a wonderful sight
For as far as the eye could see there is such a variety of great pleasantry
As those costume reveler dance but do so in such harmony keeping the symmetry
But look at the queen lithe, elegant with a figure so perfect
And gyrating to the music each movement so artistic and fantastic
Whilst the others in the band moved more frenzied such gyration
But not for one moment want to keep for judging that topical formation
Oh! What a feeling that has all those needless stress quickly disappearing
As the familiarity of that cultural security to the system keeps returning
And amid all the gaiety, the color, splendor come that aroma so familiar
That one that can titillate that palate like no other one will ever
Know that is the period when my national festival is approaching
Those around will too notice the change when it certainly appears
And in the island the people are just caught up in its atmosphere
The build up too can be for some a bring some cash on the occasion
As the artistes through tents get the necessary exposure and preparation
And their compositions are sung and get played on the radio stations
This will allow too potential buyers to get that degree of familiarization
Also too in the picture are those prospective costume band leaders
Who will display sketched of costumes to all those potential revelers
And as an added incentive to make the outfits even more attractive
Will also get some model to wear them and this will create that emphasis
Another event that is now added and lots of attention will command
Is the inclusion of that segment named “Pan on the sand”
Where the people will get a treat as the sea water tickled their feet
Thrilled by the music emanating from those pan and so rhythmically sweet
But what a rhythm that can make lose control by it musical aura
It that which is emitted and dispensed by that beat called soca
And what makes it so magical spell binding on such a picturesque hill
Is that long after it is over the music lives affects the system still
But on that night the air if filled with tension when it is the calypso competition
As the competitors lay out prop, lyrics and dispense them with such diction
Some go for a pulsating rhythm, others commercial whilst some use such lyrical construction
Using such things as figurative expressions, subtle innuendos to stimulate the imagination
Then that day will come as the street parade is considered the final rites
And on the streets there is a display of colors what a wonderful sight
For as far as the eye could see there is such a variety of great pleasantry
As those costume reveler dance but do so in such harmony keeping the symmetry
But look at the queen lithe, elegant with a figure so perfect
And gyrating to the music each movement so artistic and fantastic
Whilst the others in the band moved more frenzied such gyration
But not for one moment want to keep for judging that topical formation
Oh! What a feeling that has all those needless stress quickly disappearing
As the familiarity of that cultural security to the system keeps returning
And amid all the gaiety, the color, splendor come that aroma so familiar
That one that can titillate that palate like no other one will ever
