#EnglishWriters
Dis poetry is like a riddim dat dr… De tongue fires a riddim dat shoot… Dis poetry is designed fe rantin Dance hall style, big mouth chanti… Dis poetry nar put yu to sleep
Mirror mirror on the wall Could you please return our ball Our football went through your cra… You have two now Give one back.
Smart big awards and prize money Is killing off black poetry It’s not censors or dictators that… The lure of meeting royalty And touching high society
I come from a musical place Where they shoot me for my song And my brother has been tortured By my brother in my land. I come from a beautiful place
I used to think nurses Were women, I used to think police Were men, I used to think poets
I waz walking down Wyefront stree… When me trousers ran away, I waz feeling incomplete But still me trousers would not st… When I found where they had gone
I am the type you are supposed to… Black and foreign Big and dreadlocks An uneducated grass eater. I talk in tongues
The coconuts have got the jobs. The race industry is a growth indu… We despairing, they careering. We want more peace they want more… The Uncle Toms are getting paid.
We Black men of England Too proud to cry for shame, Let’s cry a sea Cry publicly, Expose our very pain,
My ears are battered and burned an… i have just learned that i have be… listening to the wrong radio stati… My mind has been brutalised now th… I’ve been listening to the wrong r…
In Hawaii they Hula They Tango in Argentina They Reggae in Jamaica And they Rumba down in Cuba, In Trinidad and Tobago
We know who the killers are, We have watched them strut before… As proud as sick Mussolinis’, We have watched them strut before… Compassionless and arrogant,
Take some Picts, Celts and Silur… And let them settle, Then overrun them with Roman conq… Remove the Romans after approxima… Add lots of Norman French to some
When I see you I know life was ma… When I see you I don’t wanna die When I don’t see you, I sleep and… It’s the truth I am telling you,… Sometime I think I cant survive w…
I waz whitemailed By a white witch, Wid white magic An white lies, Branded by a white sheep
