Poetic Commentary
Don’t Blush Baby
As Chris Gayle was awestruck by the Browning …
Oops! He lost his grounding …
Sweet nothings he did reveal …
An episode not surreal …
His head became unsteady …
Momentarily he lost touch with reality …
He was in a transfixed state …
Likely beating rapidly was his heart rate …
Likely soliloquizing off his bench
Chris was as pliable as a wrench
Let me flirt with this dame …
Hopefully she wants to play my game …
I have struck many a six …
But this baby has hit me for a six
She was stunning and calm …
My tongue she did disarm!
We could have a drink sometime
Meet some place and lime …
Don’t Blush baby …
You will be treated like a lady …
I will protect you from ball hits Will demonstrate reggae to sway your hips …
Even teach you to do the twist …
You will enjoy some rare bliss …
If Chris was trying to hit on Otis … a man
I would condemn his every action ….
He was hitting on a woman …
Warming my heart as a true Jamaican ….
Alas! He may have been caught in the slips …
Certainly not in a cesspool full of it …
The stench alone would not be bliss …
Forcing us to file condemnation writ
Oh Chris! The reporter was not about for a mate …
Nor looking someone to date …
She was trying to get an exclusive story …
To share in the “Big Bash” glory
Your sweet talk alone could make her blush ….
As adrenalin could give her a blood rush …
Even make her stutter …
Causing her heart to flutter …
We know when they go black
Invariably they don’t go back
They just relish our endearment
And are awestruck by our endowment …
Ah, ah, ah ….
By Hopeton O’Connor-Dennie who is a poet, satirist, also the Senior International Correspondent &
Photojournalist for Vision Newspaper Canada.
Foot Note
As part of Black History Month we try to highlight our successes, our uniqueness … that which lends making us as a people of coulor being so colourful and talented.
This poem is about Cricket Superstar Chris Gayle trying to pick up a white Australian reporter on live television. He was condemned for his “poor taste” ….
Alwin Marshall-Squire is the Editor-in-Chief of S-Q Publications Inc., overseeing editorial strategy for GTA Weekly, GTA Today, and Vision Newspaper. He leads the publications’ mission to deliver bold, original journalism focused on the people and communities of the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, and the global Caribbean diaspora.
Also writes for GTA Weekly and GTA Today.
