Here are some pictures from the events, this past weekend of fun and performance where the poet did a live performance of his poem; Sweet waters of Silver Spring.
In attendance was the extended family including wife Leonie and son Charles.
Here is the poem for your listening pleasure.
Sweet waters of Silver Springs: Here is the performance in brief. on instagram
Sweet waters of Silver Spring
Sweet waters of Silver Spring
Oh what soft soothing pleasure you bring,
To my eyes, my ears, my thirsty lips,
My tongue so long to taste your flowing delight.
While skin touches your smooth cascade,
Beneath the soft shadows of night.
Your slender arms hugs the neck of Athlone way over on the left,
Whilst George Town's high hills, caresses your breast.
Yet your cool clear water bubbles and constantly, your water flows
Where do you come from they asked, and where do you hasten to go?
No one has ever answered
Nobody seems to know
Young ladies fair washes their hair
Bending beneath your crystal flow
Shadowed curtain around them drawn
Be it at nightfall, or at early dawn
Chattering women washing their load
On rocks smooth surface by the side of the road
Valiant young men awaits their turn
Sits on the culvert's edge as they discover and as they learn
Just one short leg away from hip to toe
You burst up from the ground and hurries to go
By lush green trees while bending low
They salutes and bows, in reverence show
Sumptuous, refreshing, sugary sweet
Waters of my unassuming Silver Spring
You winds your way over rocks and river Moss all live long day
Until you pour out of your glad waters
Into the anxious jaws of Rio Sambre.
By. E Lloyd Kelly (The-poet), Feb. 2016
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