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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/930943-Trinidad-and-Tobago-Limbo
by Rhyssa Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#930943 added March 18, 2018 at 8:45pm
Restrictions: None
Trinidad and Tobago: Limbo
we chant it, watching
the line of players laughing
and bending backwards—
how low can you go?
and the party starts,
each person rising
as from the dead,
entering life and festivity again,
carefree. alive.

limbo is where the dead live,
wandering between life
and death, heaven
and hell.
how low will you go?

silent, the dance graces
funerals, the bar
rising, the dancers more somber,
the colors more subdued,
the music eerie,
as life is celebrated
by contrast to the dead.

line count: 21

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