Crop Over Festival

Our country’s biggest festival season is Crop Over. Recently some have asked for a pause to be place on Crop Over here in Barbados because it’s getting too out of hand. The revelers are behaving worse in the streets, dressing more scantily and the songs are more vulgar.

In order to put an end to this moral decay some believe we must put it to sleep. I think this would be worse for a society to have this monster revived at a time when generation have not seen it progression. I think we need a Jonah and this Bajan Nineveh City can be purged

 

 

Crop Over Festival

 

Cost killed culture now a strangeness emerge

Revelers scarcely dressed, with vulgar surge

Once before we celebrated crafts and the visual arts

Placed focus on artistic skills and not women’s parts

Our people showed the extent of their creativity

Vocational works that culminated in originality

Efficiency which defined perfection and unmatchable skill

Real art, real culture then real songs, not Jack and Jill

Funny how the emerged monster gave birth to a new Crop

Entertainers whose immorality have no foreseeable stop

Songs of blatant vulgarity and dances even worse

The new Crop of young standards which borders on the perverse

I’m told the less the fear of God the greater this lewdness

Vulgarity doesn’t need a hiatus or sabbatical to stop its progress

All we need to do is to install greater values in the young

Lead them by moral standards its from here our Pride has sprung

 


 

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