{"id":88594,"date":"2013-03-22T07:51:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T11:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=88594"},"modified":"2013-03-22T07:51:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T11:51:32","slug":"dpc-poetry-on-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/poetry\/dpc-poetry-on-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"DPC POETRY: On the bus!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: \u00a0<em>This is the first post in a series entitled &#8220;DPC Poetry&#8221; which is being brought to you by DNO and Domnichen Poetic Circle (DPC) which describes itself as \u201ca Literary Circle of Contemporary Poets, and Spoken Word Artists who hail from, and are descended from the Nature Isle of the Caribbean \u2013 Dominica.\u201d The feature will be published every Friday. This first poem was written by Carla T.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the bus!!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I take the bus&#8230;<br \/>\nThose buses which ply the Caribbean roads&#8230;<br \/>\nPeople parked tight in small moving spaces&#8230; going places&#8230;<br \/>\nTheir thoughts everywhere&#8230;<br \/>\nAs the music blares.<br \/>\nSometimes there&#8217;s talking<br \/>\nOr some kind of friendly jabbing&#8230;<br \/>\nOr some gossip mongering&#8230;<br \/>\nAt other times, one can become spellbound by someone&#8230;<br \/>\nOr something&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd so it was for me that day&#8230;<br \/>\nHe entered the bus<br \/>\nTall, dark, lanky young man&#8230;<br \/>\nWith plaited hair&#8230;<br \/>\nHead and body bent so that his frame could fit in the seat&#8230;<br \/>\nGently holding his precious bundle close to his chest&#8230;<br \/>\nI look at them&#8230;<br \/>\nHis face holds a serious countenance&#8230;.<br \/>\nHis long fingers caress his bundle<br \/>\nBut he does not really smile&#8230;<br \/>\nI look at the precious bundle&#8230;<br \/>\nSo pretty&#8230;<br \/>\nSo full of promise of a whole life ahead!<br \/>\nIs his demeanor a sign of anxiety&#8230;<br \/>\nWill he be able to look after her&#8230;<br \/>\nHis one month old daughter&#8230;<br \/>\nIs the relationship with her mother&#8230;.<br \/>\nThe lady who entered the bus ahead of them&#8230;<br \/>\nWill it last&#8230;or will they fight like dog and cat by the time she is two years old&#8230;<br \/>\nGetting a court order for his visitation and child support!!<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t help thinking&#8230;<br \/>\nIs he a young man in a gang&#8230;<br \/>\nIf so&#8230;<br \/>\nWill he survive&#8230;.not die&#8230;on the streets..become a statistic&#8230;<br \/>\nLike other young men&#8230;.and not see her turn five!!!<br \/>\nI wondered&#8230;<br \/>\nWas the weight of all these things on his mind&#8230;.<br \/>\nAs he played with her&#8230;<br \/>\nWas he feeling the pressure of the harsh economic times&#8230;<br \/>\nThe growing cost of utilities&#8230;<br \/>\nThe selling of people&#8217;s land&#8230;<br \/>\nThe current political climate&#8230;<br \/>\nWas he thinking about how it would affect her life!!!<br \/>\nI glanced at them&#8230;<br \/>\nA young man holding his baby girl,<br \/>\nLike precious cargo&#8230;<br \/>\nHe seemed consumed by her&#8230;.in awe of her&#8230;<br \/>\nHis prime need was to protect her&#8230;<br \/>\nA wonderful time for both&#8230;<br \/>\nFor at this age she is helpless&#8230;<br \/>\nShould I tell him&#8230;how mean she will get at thirteen&#8230;<br \/>\nThis pretty little thing who won&#8217;t remain that tiny for long&#8230;<br \/>\nI sense the weight of all that being a parent means&#8230;<br \/>\nAs I watch them&#8230;<br \/>\nI smile\u2026<br \/>\nAnd think&#8230;.<br \/>\nMaybe I am just too &#8216;fast&#8217;&#8230;<br \/>\nToo jaded by age, experience and circumstances..<br \/>\nThat I can see far beyond this moment&#8230;<br \/>\nOf a father and his innocent, beautiful baby daughter&#8230;<br \/>\nAs I sat on the bus!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note: \u00a0This is the first post in a series entitled &#8220;DPC Poetry&#8221; which is being brought to you by DNO and Domnichen Poetic Circle (DPC) which describes itself as \u201ca Literary Circle of Contemporary Poets, and Spoken Word Artists&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":88457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DPC POETRY: On the bus!! 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