Poetry For All Seasons
Poems, Forms and Styles
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Jamming on kadooment day, from dawn to dusk, playing mask Revellers from everywhere, including France In brazen wear and tear, they bask. In the sun, sipping fermented juice from a bamboo flask Tourists, jumping, whirling and twirling have come to prance Jamming on kadooment day, from dawn to dusk, playing mask. Sea of people on Spring Garden, round a cask Chanting calypso songs, in native parlance In brazen wear and tear, they bask. So crop-over comes many months after Pasch While vermin grind, sweet grass, with a weasel-mouth lance Jamming on kadooment day, from dawn to dusk, playing mask. All year these wild rats, make camouflaging an easy task In the cane fields to flex the Ministry of Finance In brazen wear and tear, they bask. Scampering across roads into fields to axe The grass, while advancing bands of socaholics dance Jamming on kadooment day, from dawn to dusk, playing mask In brazen wear and tear, they bask.
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“Poetry for all Seasons" accomplishes four goals, all in one neat package. It serves as:
1. A textbook for teaching traditional and modern poetic genres
2.A resource book for all teachers
3.A poetic guide for emerging poets
4.Pleasure reading for ALL members of the family.
Poetry is one of the ways teachers have at their disposal for integrating concepts across Language Arts, Social Studies, Business Studies, Natural Sciences, Natural History, Mathematics, Home Economics, Health and Family Life, Movement and Dance. In this book, teachers are sure to find themes easily extracted from poems as listed below:
Aging
Animals
Birds
Celebrations
Communications
Death
Entertainment
Exploration
Food
Friendships
Horticulture
Health
Heroism
Hurricanes
Insects
Leadership
Leisure
Legends
Marketing
Myths
About the Author
Patricia D Hendy is a seasoned educator living in Maycocks Bay Terrace, Barbados, West Indies. Patricia D Hendy is an Educator with many years of experience with the Barbados Ministry of Education and as an Examiner with the Caribbean Examinations Council and rose to the post of Chief Examiner for Business Education. Her classroom teaching has been influenced by the by the philosophy of constructivism. She is a proponent of curriculum integration and believes that themes are the fusion blocks for it, and that it requires the use of topic webs and thematic lesson plans. Poetry is her forte and she sees poetry as a force for integrating the curriculum and that is why her collection of poems are designed to provide support materials for constructivists educators in secondary and tertiary levels of the education system. She writes both metered and unmetered forms of poetry. She has created a new poetic form called the Hendianne Sonnet made up of three quatrains and an ending couplet with all the verses written in Iambic Pentameter. The first quatrain introduces the theme or problem. The next two quatrains provide the resolution. A “twist” comes at the beginning of the last quatrain. This “twist” signals a change in the tone, mood or stance of the poem. The end-rhymes in each verse follow a determined rhyme scheme. She is the seventh of eleven children born to Ivan A. S. Greaves and his wife, Louise at their home in Maycocks, St. Lucy, Barbados on September 15, 1943. Patricia has a daughter and a son. She married September 1966 Edgar Alonza Hendy, Deputy Commandant of the Regional Police Training Centre, Barbados a position he reliquished to become Superintendent of HM Prisons, Glendairy, Barbados. He died on June 6, 1995 at the age of sixty-two. She has a daughter and a son from this marriage. Patricia has not remarried. Her community outreach activities stemmed from her involvement with the Lions Club North of Barbados as one of its secretaries and where she worked closely with the Education Committee of that Club. She is a founder member of the Police Wives Association (PWA) of Barbados. She held for a long time, the post of Secretary before becoming one of PWA’s Presidents. During the late eighties and early nineties she wrote articles regularly for “Image” a magazine published by the Police Wives Association of Barbados. She published her first book of poems in 2005 during her one year stay in New Zealand. Patricia graduated from Shaw College of Business, Toronto, Canada in 1969. She graduated from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1980 having majored in Education. She acquired her skills in information technology from Tresham College, Northamptonshire, UK in1991. Her full-time employment gave her the opportunity to work in the private and public sectors in Barbados. It is worthwhile to recall that her career climb was on these steps: A Primary School Teacher at All Saints Girls’ School, St. Peter from 1961-1963; A secondary School Teacher at St. Leonard’s Girls School, St. Michael 1963-1966; Head of Business Education Department, St. Lucy Secondary School 1972-1980; Head of Business Education Department, Garrison Secondary School 1980-1989; Purchasing Manager, International Scientific Ltd, Christ Church 1971-1972; Chief Examiner for Caribbean Examinations Council, St. Michael 1980-2001; Education Officer in the Division of Schools Supervision and Management in the Ministry of Education, St. Michael 1993-1997; Tutor at Erdiston Teachers’ Training College, St. Michael 1989-1993, 1997-2004. Her work experiences no doubt, allowed her to be involved in collaborative endeavors as well as that of helping to develop students to their fullest potential. She believes in the constructivist approaches to classroom teaching. Her injecting the philosophy of constructivism in the classroom influenced the way she interacted with her students that reaped great dividends for students in many ways. As a proponent of curriculum