Rihanna Takes Two Top Awards At America Music Awards

It is incredible how our local superstar is voted as the favourite female Pop/Rock singer as well as favourite Soul/R&B and still, like at the Grammy’s we don’t have a camera team at the event in paparazzi style. Where is our pride for our own, is this because she has written and made popular any songs of Barbados?

                                                         Rihanna's

                

                                                  A Robyn Flying High

 

I call myself the Bajan Poet but I can’t write Bajan dialect, Sure sometimes I can use improper grammar all for the sake of Rhyme but I will never master the parlance.  I wish so much to use my art form and I’m a Bajan. I wrote over 1200 poems and now 11 books, but have trouble being read locally. Unlike Rihanna, I want to be a star at home first. I want to be first acknowledged here and let the rest of the world catch up. I know they are other acrostic writers out there, some even in Barbados but I think I’m different for offering something fast and current and touching all diverse subjects. 

 

Rihanna Takes Two Top Awards At America Music Awards

Roxanne asked me what would I write

It’s hard to compile so many words each night

How would I be able to meet my obligation

And pen in verse my acrostics, not in Bajan 

No one has done anything like this before

Nor has the paper printed such literal score

And then I remembered how in its prime

The papers experimented all of the time

And loyal readers determined what they wanted to see

Kept writing their opinions in the readers commentary

Entertainment is very much the same

Superstars can never without fans, rise to their fame

They rely on opinions and feedback too

When fans speak in majority they know what to do

On Sunday night in Los Angeles at the Nokia Theatre

The fans were treated with Rehab from Rihanna

Original new single the Americans did hear

People of all colors and races approved in cheer

All loved her and like a twig in the sea

Waves of approval determine her destiny

And they awarded her twice for her enormous journey

Rock and Pop favorite female and also Soul and R&B

Drum rolls and applause exploded when she

Spoke to the crowd saying thank you ”fans who voted for me”

Americans voted her above their bigger celebrities

They voted our Bajan amongst the many personalities

And spoke with their vote to make their will known

Making Rihanna as important as one of their own

Entertainers will perform to please their adoring fans

Rihanna puts out music for the world but not for Bajans

It’s easy to understand because we don’t see

Celebrities much different to any one of we

And at this patriotic time what gets our vote

Musicians are set aside for the songs they wrote

Unanimously the people raise their voice

Show with a click on the Nations site their personal choice

I say B, be more patriotic and salute the sons of the soil

Cause from our Island in the sun, Bim where we toil

Ascent isn’t easy and saying Barbados I come from

Welcome the morning sun but will get astonishment from some

All, Let’s join hands, and say The Pledge cause My Country to me

Reflects more than Colours of Beautiful Barbados, this country

Delights me immensely and thrills my heart in a very special way

So I’ll say God bless Bim and may it have a Happy Birthday

 

 

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