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2018 - Clivia Writes
In Kaiso Head, Soca Saves

Voice - Smile - Dais We

Voice....voice. Voice ...what you really doing ?? What you trying to do to people? I love this small man... This song speaks to the Kaiso head in me... Minor Key, Call and Response, African rhythms, Actual Lyrics.....celebrating the good and bad Dais We. I'm a Stan already...but Small Man...you win with this one.. Keep doing it.. Kaiso Kaiso. I done. I done. I...

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Dec 03, 2018 by
In Beautiful, Divine

Because we're beautiful.....

I play hard, but I'm an emotional person. Things affect me immediately and intensely, It's just that life has taught that the weak get slaughtered by the strong. So you learn to curb your..... vulnerabilities... I watch this video over and over .... It makes my back straighten  and my chin raise. Why? we are Beautiful, we are Varied, we are Otherworldly, we...

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Oct 25, 2018 by
In Kaiso Head, Shadow

Shadow is Dead....and I am mourning

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The video after the jump is 1985. I am 10 years old I remember when I saw him I thought.. He cant be of this world ...He must be Magic. ..Trinidadian Magic. I see Shadow, in a skeleton costume .. and cape in front of a crowd., singing his characteristic minor keys over a fully arranged (and executed) brilliant production (Roy Cape is...

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Oct 23, 2018 by
In BiPolarBumperStickerWars, Cliviawrites

BiPolar Bumper Sticker Wars - Rambling

So... I feel the urge to write again, Self analysis helps me... Or maybe i'st just so many things in this life to be anxious about... That this coping mechanism is necessary again. I'm torn between sheltering everything to protect it... and Experiencing life as much as possible because it can be so short.. 2017 and even the little shred of 2018 keeps...

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