Lloyd Akin Palmer
Country: Jamaica
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“avenging spirit of the ancestors”
A humble son of the garden parish of St. Ann, Lloyd Palmer born of hardworking rural folks. A mother who is a social worker and an industrious father who tills the soil profusely. Akin grew up in southern Trelawny attending the William knibb memorial high where he was involved in school and community cultural activities.
Such an experience has helped to groom and mold Akin into pursuing the arts as his chosen profession as a poet and a musician. Akin sees poetry as a holistic therapy to spiritually likewise socially uplift humanity. The poet/musician’s role is to express the thouhts, emotion, plight and concerns of the masses. Majority of whom are grassroots people facing inequality and needs a voice to utter for justice, truths and rights.
In 2005 he was the 2nd Runner Up in the 7th Annual Writers' Award, while in 2007 he was 1st Runner Up in the 9th Annual Writers' Award.
He debuted with his album Tuff Tuff Triangle Urban Journey in 2005 as well as performed in Jus' Poets, a series of poetry shows which was organized with other poets such as Elaine Thomas-Gifford, Bill Blast and I-Sense in 1994.
Currently working to publish his debut book of poetry SANKOFA. Also preparing for the release of his bands' "The Uprising Roots Band" debut album SKYFIYA.
It’s like mi in limbo
Observing the scenario,
To see
Black Cleopatra
Turn her self
Inna poppy show,
Trying to look like
Pinocchio.
She bleach her melanin
Outta har skin
Just to become a browning
Check it!!!
So that’s why a lot of girls
Are using bleaching cream,
Copying the
White images of the billboard
Magazines, likewise
TV screen
An the way to get white beauty
Is to
Bleach dem skin
Like its dirty laundry.
Some cannot afford
De bleaching cream
So dem use
A tube of toothpaste
Like the colour black
Is a cavity inna dem face
Now she look like a race
From outta space
All because is
Browning kulcha
Dem ah embrace
But recently I hear some people
A chat wi
Dem sey di worst ting pon earth
Is a black man wid money
So dem design a plan
Fi rob we wid cosmetic surgery
Cause dem seh we come from
Monkey,
So nuff blacks a deny dem ancestry
So dem a use bleaching cream
To boost dem self-esteem
But I would give the Blackman
An advice
Stop from tell wi woman seh
She black like pot
‘Cause I had to admit the fact an’
Speak the truth
It’s outta some a blackest pot
I eat some of the sweetest food
You ought to know the
Blacker the berry
Is de sweeter the cherry,
So black woman don’t change
Your complexion
Cause yours is special tan
Bur, recently I observe
An intrusion pon de
Browning community
Remember Ambi, Nadinola
And Coco Butter
Which was used by
The feminine gender
Ah hear it is in short supply
Jus’ because of some bredda
Check it!!!
