Ties

 

Kenneth Grant

Bold solid colours that binds,

Black or white patterns 

Like the colours of the rainbow, 

Satisfy the desires of

The Human spirit.

She bought a bow tie

This time,

Convinced this knot

 Will be perennial as the grass.

The other three liaisons

Never lasted a wink;

One was a player,

The other crooked as the tree,

And mister cool and deadly

Shot a pistol like an arrow.

She wanted a sure ticket

The jackpot of a relationship,

Following grandma’s advice

Give him a tie,

He will stay for life.

 

Composed by Kenneth Grant

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The Poet.

Kenneth Grant was born in 1962, in the Maxfield Avenue area of Lower Saint Andrew Jamaica. In 1964 his family moved to Trench Town, then the cultural capital of Jamaica. He started writing poetry in 1989 when his first entry in the National Creative writing competition won him a silver award. He followed up that with several other awards in subsequent years before publishing his first collections in 2006, ‘Fragile Global Hope’. Kenneth continued to write poetry until 2018 when he ventured into the area of short stories. 

He won a merit and a bronze award for his two short stories that year and another merit in 2019. He won a Gold award for the first time in 2019 for his poem ‘Conserve water, it is precious’. As a Caribbean writer Kenneth draws on his everyday experience which is vividly displayed in the pictures he paints in the reader’s mind. He has several other books on Amazon including The Heart pumps blood, Test the Fire, Another Spin, and The Dream to play on the National Turf. 

In his latest book he now puts together a collection of his short stories for you to enjoy. They represents diverse experiences thus the title, A Heart, A Scream and Lightning, Kenneth is a Chartered Accountant. 

You can contact him at kennethgrantjm@yahoo.com