Stormy Lady Poetry

Barbados Dreaming on a Winter's Day for Stormy Lady

On a winter’s day
In cold, dismal snowy DC
My thoughts often turn.
To Barbados.

And the three wonderful years
I spent serving my country.
In Barbados, and the Eastern Caribbean.

Recalling blissful days
Hanging out at the Hilton Hotel
With the love of my wife by my side.

Sunday brunch then hitting the beach.
Drinking rum sours while watching people
Frolicking in the Blue Sea.

Visiting my other islands
once a month
Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts,
St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Meeting political leaders
Liming with the locals.


Listening to the steel drum band
Play as the sunsets
Over my secret Caribbean paradise.

Comment: My best tour in the Foreign Service was when I served as Deputy Pol/Econ Chief in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean (Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines) from 2007 to 2010. Liming is local jargon for having a drink.