FINALLY..ongle real yaadie learn dis a primary school

[evanovitch]

The Sea

Splashing ,dashing ,restless sea,
Never still you seem to be :
Sometimes angry, sometimes sad,
Sometimes you laugh as though you're glad.
Little children love you well,
Love all the wondrous tales you tell;
Love to watch you come and go,
In the tides that ebb and flow.
Though so strong and great you are,
Stretching deep, and wide, and far,
Tiny vessels safe and keep,
Rocking them gently, as to sleep,
Wildly and rough though you may be,
When you are angry, mighty sea,
When the storm has gone, we find
You are still our playmate kind.


Cecily E. Pike


dis was widely taught in Primary Schools so if u never learn it , welllllllll
lllllllll, I seh u no real yaadie, n di I is unanimous

[CeaBee]

* Jcan passport confirmed (despite hatred of goat and curry)*

[Peasie]

Present teacha!!

Thanks for this reminder, Vannie

[Wahalla]

The Sea

Splashing ,dashing ,restless sea,
Never still you seem to be :
Sometimes angry, sometimes sad,
Sometimes you laugh as though you're glad.
Little children love you well,
Love all the wondrous tales you tell;
Love to watch you come and go,
In the tides that ebb and flow.
Though so strong and great you are,
Stretching deep, and wide, and far,
Tiny vessels safe and keep,
Rocking them gently, as to sleep,
Wildly and rough though you may be,
When you are angry, mighty sea,
When the storm has gone, we find
You are still our playmate kind.


Cecily E. Pike


dis was widely taught in Primary Schools so if u never learn it , welllllllll
lllllllll, I seh u no real yaadie, n di I is unanimous

U know when Garnet Silk sang it.....it suddenly made me recall it, it was a favourite for children to learn...

There was also another two poem.... Lone Dog and Pedlar Man... And of course Song of the Banana man...

There was also the Wordsworth Daffodil......Claude's Mccay Spanish Needle...
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But back to restless sea...I think it may have been for us older folk.. In was in Reader D... Prep schools never used that one

I forgot to mention when ever I am on a vessel rarer these days I always recite it to myself...after I heard Garnet Silk , I changed the cadance..

[evanovitch]

* Jcan passport confirmed (despite hatred of goat and curry)*

[evanovitch]

[QUOTE=Wahalla;777026]U know when Garnet Silk sang it.....


thank u Wahalla….i came upon the poem elsewhere n had not thought of it for decades….n just after reading it, i started with the chanting of the lyrics to a tune n for the life of me could not put mi finger on who had done the bloody thing….fi real…n seeing dat i knew n worked with Garnett , ur pointing this out is really mekking me tek mi senior moments more serious…. plus i have to admit i did not put the poem to the song back wen Garnett made it….double

[blugiant]

The Sea

Splashing ,dashing ,restless sea,
Never still you seem to be :
Sometimes angry, sometimes sad,
Sometimes you laugh as though you're glad.
Little children love you well,
Love all the wondrous tales you tell;
Love to watch you come and go,
In the tides that ebb and flow.
Though so strong and great you are,
Stretching deep, and wide, and far,
Tiny vessels safe and keep,
Rocking them gently, as to sleep,
Wildly and rough though you may be,
When you are angry, mighty sea,
When the storm has gone, we find
You are still our playmate kind.


Cecily E. Pike


dis was widely taught in Primary Schools so if u never learn it , welllllllll
lllllllll, I seh u no real yaadie, n di I is unanimous

doan memba iff mii learned itt inn primaree cah mii got skipped

garnett silk mii memba itt fram natt school

[Wahalla]

doan memba iff mii learned itt inn primaree cah mii got skipped

garnett silk mii memba itt fram natt school

or u was miseducated outside Jamaica!

mpre seriously i thing they changed the reading books in Jamaica... But i also beleive that my father knew it when i learnt it which makes uit back in the 20s!

[mountaingal]

my elementary school education neva cover dat one. lovely dainty spanish neegle, yes, and who has seen the win, but not that sea one

ah well, dem call mi farrina a jamaca enyway.

[Wahalla]

my elementary school education neva cover dat one. lovely dainty spanish neegle, yes, and who has seen the win, but not that sea one

ah well, dem call mi farrina a jamaca enyway.

Strangers or people who know u?

I think people I correspond with think I am Jamaican...I follow news and politics... Strangers tend to avoid repulsively ugly people..so that is not an issue...

Few years back I was ah bush near Goshen qid ah English...she was trying to impress...and told the old lady her grandmother I wasn't born ah yardere.....then my hair was long and straight...I was just out of a long hospital stay....so pale....

The grandmother kiss at teeth an said u nun se im ah Jamaican....the girl who was born in Jamaica but spoke pure English.. Stated to argue....but the grandmother said..is how im talk an walk ah bush....

I have as ah guy at work said today patwa an Doric combination accent....

We were looking at post graduate courses in economics...as he is from Middlesbrough I said he would need to prove his English language skills....

[evanovitch]

Strangers or people who know u?

I think people I correspond with think I am Jamaican...I follow news and politics... Strangers tend to avoid repulsively ugly people..so that is not an issue...

Few years back I was ah bush near Goshen qid ah English...she was trying to impress...and told the old lady her grandmother I wasn't born ah yardere.....then my hair was long and straight...I was just out of a long hospital stay....so pale....

The grandmother kiss at teeth an said u nun se im ah Jamaican....the girl who was born in Jamaica but spoke pure English.. Stated to argue....but the grandmother said..is how im talk an walk ah bush....

I have as ah guy at work said today patwa an Doric combination accent....

We were looking at post graduate courses in economics...as he is from Middlesbrough I said he would need to prove his English language skills....

Wahalla, my girlfriend , one day asked me to round up mi mout the next time i called her at the office..said she could not convince anyone there that i had lived outside Jamaica for over 30yrs….dwl dwl…wen i was a child i use to do everything to not stand out n apart from my schoolmates n children around the community…would go barefoot…learned to use a cutliss like a champ…..the adults would keep up the division , always using Miss before mi name…hated it…really hated it…but i could not escape the watching me to report on any wrongdoing , sometimes i would think with a tone of glee as if to seh ,even fi dem pickney no perfect…n i was trying hard not to be taken as different…my eldest sister who went to boarding school n from their to med school , would on the few times she was at home, roam the place n always barefoot…the rumours were hard n fast that she was mad n really away all the time at Bellevue…until one of the local gossip saw her in white coat in Casualty at UCee…country people r something else….love u yes, but if any divide, them ditta between wishing u well n waiting fi u fall….

[Wahalla]

Back to primary school poetry ... i wonder what poems they are teaching in school in Jamaica these days?

and poetry was not taught with passion it was taught as a memory rote... imagine MG or you teaching children "Spanish Needle"....to a group of young children?

But to me it was just taught as a lesson uin rout learning...and it was the attractiveness of the cadance not im

Think of Claude Macay... who he was, When he was born, what he did ... and the last line of that poem... do you of the exile dream ? Out of that poem we could have been taught so much ..

i never understood when he called the Spanish needle dainty.. now i do.. it was a food supplement for pigs and rabbits... But as a kid having to see it as a weed among my red peas or getting the little little brown stems seed on my clothes it was a nusiance.. but compare the spanish needle flower with a rose or any other flower in north and it is fragile ethereal...

Did those that teach us actually reaslise what a march they lost ?

my experience of Jamaican teachers is such that we learnt in spite of the teacher not because of them.... they had such brilliant source material and they never inspired., at least few of mine did... well may 2!.. I know there may be the children of Jamaican teachers on here but i suspect if u look at their teaching methods critically they may fall short of inspirational......and Blu will no doubt will say the teachers are right and compare them to New York...

[mountaingal]

Strangers or people who know u?.

both. the two times i went back to jamaica to work my co-workers just basically wrote me off. my family tolerate my attempts at patwa. my kids are annoyed with me, and prefer the company of their dad when they want to feel the yardie vibe.

long story short, my mother married a canadian and i grew up in a household that spoke little patwa. so - lost it. but can follow along and write a reasonable facsimile of it.

what i regret most is the ability of patwa speakers to pop a proverb into regular conversation. more an idiomatic than a semantic thing, but to me a beautiful part of the language.

[Wahalla]

I have a descerable Jamaican accent no matter how i speak....

i have spoken to one of the best practioners of patwa writing on here and was taken aback how yanki she sounded on answering the call.... Me from the first Hello Wahalla here the accent is still there...

so in Jamaica because of the accent and cadance....i sound more Patwa even when i using less patwa words.. that is my analysis!

I like my Jamaican accent . the french, norwegians, scottish, and itlian ladies i work with think i am sexi despite the face....

[blugiant]

or u was miseducated outside Jamaica!

mpre seriously i thing they changed the reading books in Jamaica... But i also beleive that my father knew it when i learnt it which makes uit back in the 20s!

mii was too cantankaruss to be miseducated cah mii challenged everee ting

mii was wan aff dem yuths awlway askinn y