La ballade des gens heureux sur "LE COIN DE CARL PARLANT ET ÉCRIT, DE TOUT ET DE RIEN," DANS UN VERBE D’ARC-EN-CIEL.
LES MOTS DU JOUR
«La parole du passé est toujours d’oracle; vous ne l’entendrez que si vous êtes les bâtisseurs de l’avenir et les connaisseurs du présent.» (Nietzsche)
Les hommes
ne veulent connaître que l'histoire des grands et des rois, qui ne sert à personne.
L'homme raisonnable
s'adapte au monde; l'homme déraisonnable s'obstine à essayer d'adapter le monde à lui-même. Tout progrès dépend donc de l'homme déraisonnable. (GB Shaw) Ha! Ha! Ha! Très à propos à"Haitianpolitics" et les soi disants "poto mitan."Qui dit mieux? Il faut de tout pour faire un monde, et je m’amuse follement. (Carl)
Bonjour Miami,
ses alentours et les "internôtres" qui écoutent à travers le monde. CHAQUE JOUR EST À LUI SEUL UNE VIE. Dieu, le travail et la liberté. Et bonjour, bonjour la vie, bonjour l’amour, pourquoi pas? Moi’j vais bien et’j m’habitue.
Le temps poursuit sa marche et avec lui avance le monde.
PHOTOS OF THE EVENTS REGARDING UNVEILING OF TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE’S STATUE
IN FREEDOM PLAZA, NORTH MIAMI, FLORIDA SATURDAY 21 MAY 2005
(photos, courtesy Léonie Hermantin)
Toussaint l'Ouverture
François Dominique Toussaint
1746–1803
Revolutionary leader, born a slave in Haiti (formerly St Domingue). In 1791, he joined the insurgents, and by 1797 was effective ruler of the former colony. He drove out British and Spanish expeditions, restored order, and aimed at independence.
Napoléon sent a new expedition to Saint Domingue, and proclaimed the re-establishment of slavery. Toussaint was eventually arrested, and died in a French prison. His nickname comes from his bravery in once making a breach in the ranks of the enemy.
En 1791, dans un contexte de rivalités entre nations étrangères et d’idées abolitionnistes répandues par la Révolution Française, blancs, mulâtres et esclaves, s’affrontent dans le sang. Saint-Domingue est en proie au chaos.
Pourtant, un esclave noir affranchi, Toussaint dit Louverture, saura fédérer autour de lui les différentes factions rebelles et nouer des alliances. Grâce à son génie militaire et son habileté politique, il réussira provisoirement à rendre la liberté aux esclaves tout en redonnant confiance aux blancs.
En 1795, la Convention élève Toussaint au grade de général. Ce personnage devenu puissant, vainqueur des Anglais et des Espagnoles finira par réunifier l’île. Mais ce pouvoir et l’homme déplaisent au premier Consul Bonaparte qui envoie le Général Leclerc pour reprendre l'île et faire arrêter Toussaint.
Après la mort de Toussaint, en Avril 1803, ses lieutenants poursuivront victorieusement la lutte jusqu'à l'indépendance en 1804, Saint-Domingue devient alors Haïti.
L’ami Limoné Joseph
LE CRI DU LAMBI
TROUVÉ SUR L’INTERNET D’UN ‘INTERNÔTRE."
Cher Napoléon,
Mes connaissances de l'histoire sont limitées, mais je m'interroge sur un point particulier, c'est-à-dire sur votre présence à Haïti et surtout sur le sort que vous avez réservé à Toussaint-Louverture qui est considéré comme un de leurs héros de nos jours.
Merci.
RÉPONSE DE NAPOLÉON
Toussaint-Louverture agissait en monarque sur un territoire français et je ne pouvais le tolérer. Vous me dites qu'il est considéré comme un héros par la population d'Haïti?
Ces derniers ont décidément la mémoire courte, car Toussaint s'est tout de même permis quelques massacres, notamment contre les métis et avait instauré «le travail agricole forcé», qui n'était qu'une nouvelle forme d'esclavage pour ses frères de couleur!
Ceci dit, j'aurais peut-être gagné à m'entendre avec lui, mais on ne refait pas l'Histoire.
Napoléon
Toussaint
Louverture
Social historian James G. Leyburn has said of Toussaint Louverture that "what he did is more easily told than what he was." Although some of Toussaint's correspondence and papers remain, they reveal little of his deepest motivations in the struggle for Haitian autonomy.
Born sometime between 1743 and 1746 in Saint-Domingue, Toussaint belonged to the small, fortunate class of slaves employed by humane masters as personal servants. While serving as a house servant and coachman, Toussaint received the tutelage that helped him become one of the few literate black revolutionary leaders.
Upon hearing of the slave uprising, Toussaint took pains to secure safe expatriation of his master's family. It was only then that he joined Biassou's forces, where his intelligence, skill in strategic and tactical planning (based partly on his reading of works by Julius Caesar and others), and innate leadership ability brought him quickly to prominence.
Le Cap fell to French forces, who were reinforced by thousands of blacks in April 1793. Black forces had joined the French against the royalists on the promise of freedom. Indeed, in August Commissioner Léger-Félicité Sonthonax abolished slavery in the colony.
Two black leaders who warily refused to commit their forces to France, however, were Jean-François and Biassou. Believing allegiance to a king would be more secure than allegiance to a republic, these leaders accepted commissions from Spain.
The Spanish deployed forces in coordination with these indigenous blacks to take the north of Saint-Domingue.
Toussaint, who had taken up the Spanish banner in February 1793, came to command his own forces independently of Biassou's army. By the year's end, Toussaint had cut a swath through the north, had swung south to Gonaïves, and effectively controlled north-central Saint- Domingue.
Some historians believe that Spain and Britain had reached an informal arrangement to divide the French colony between them-- Britain to take the south and Spain, the north.
British forces landed at Jérémie and Môle Saint-Nicolas (the Môle). They besieged Port-au-Prince (or Port Républicain, as it was known under the Republic) and took it in June 1794. The Spanish had launched a two-pronged offensive from the east.
French forces checked Spanish progress toward Port-au-Prince in the south, but the Spanish pushed rapidly through the north, most of which they occupied by 1794. Spain and Britain were poised to seize Saint- Domingue, but several factors foiled their grand design. One factor was illness.
The British in particular fell victim to tropical disease, which thinned their ranks far more quickly than combat against the French. Southern forces led by Rigaud and northern forces led by another mulatto commander, Villatte, also forestalled a complete victory by the foreign forces.
These uncertain conditions positioned Toussaint's centrally located forces as the key to victory or defeat. On May 6, 1794, Toussaint made a decision that sealed the fate of a nation.
After arranging for his family to flee from the city of Santo Domingo, Toussaint pledged his support to France. Confirmation of the National Assembly's decision on February 4, 1794, to abolish slavery appears to have been the strongest influence over Toussaint's actions.
Although the Spanish had promised emancipation, they showed no signs of keeping their word in the territories that they controlled, and the British had reinstated slavery in the areas they occupied. If emancipation wasToussaint's goal, he had no choice but to cast his lot with the French.
In several raids against his former allies, Toussaint took the Artibonite region and retired briefly to Mirebalais. As Rigaud's forces achieved more limited success in the south, the tide clearly swung in favor of the French Republicans.
Perhaps the key event at this point was the July 22, 1794, peace agreement between France and Spain. The agreement was not finalized until the signing of the Treaty of Basel the following year. The accord directed Spain to cede its holdings on Hispaniola to France.
The move effectively denied supplies, funding, and avenues of retreat to combatants under the Spanish aegis. The armies of Jean-François and Biassou disbanded, and many flocked to the standard of Toussaint, the remaining black commander of stature.
In March 1796, Toussaint rescued the French commander, General Etienne-Maynard Laveaux, from a mulatto-led effort to depose him as the primary colonial authority. To express his gratitude, Laveaux appointed Toussaint lieutenant governor of Saint-Domingue.
With this much power over the affairs of his homeland, Toussaint was in a position to gain more. Toussaint distrusted the intentions of all foreign parties--as well as those of the mulattoes--regarding the future of slavery; he believed that only black leadership could assure the continuation of an autonomous Saint-Domingue.
He set out to consolidate his political and military positions, and he undercut the positions of the French and the resentful "gens de couleur."
A new group of French commissioners appointed Toussaint commander in chief of all French forces on the island. From this position of strength, he resolved to move quickly and decisively to establish an autonomous state under black rule.
He expelled Sonthonax, the leading French commissioner, who had proclaimed the abolition of slavery, and concluded an agreement to end hostilities with Britain.
He sought to secure Rigaud's allegiance and thus to incorporate the majority of mulattoes into his national project, but his plan was thwarted by the French, who saw in Rigaud their last opportunity to retain dominion over the colony.
Once again, racial animosity drove events in Saint-Domingue, as Toussaint's predominantly black forces clashed with Rigaud's mulatto army. Foreign intrigue and manipulation prevailed on both sides of the conflict.
Toussaint, in correspondence with United States president John Adams, pledged that in exchange for support he would deny the French the use of Saint-Domingue as a base for operations in North America.
Adams, the leader of an independent, but still insecure, nation, found the arrangement desirable and dispatched arms and ships that greatly aided black forces in what is sometimes referred to as the War of the Castes. Rigaud, with his forces and ambitions crushed, fled the colony in late 1800.
After securing the port of Santo Domingo in May 1800, Toussaint held sway over the whole of Hispaniola. This position gave him an opportunity to concentrate on restoring domestic order and productivity.
Like Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri (Henry) Christophe, Toussaint saw that the survival of his homeland depended on an export-oriented economy.
He therefore reimposed the plantation system and utilized nonslaves, but he still essentially relied on forced labor to produce the sugar, coffee, and other commodities needed to support economic progress.
He directed this process through his military dictatorship, the form of government that he judged most efficacious under the circumstances.
A constitution, approved in 1801 by the then still-extant Colonial Assembly, granted Toussaint, as Governor-general-for-life, all effective power as well as the privilege of choosing his successor.
Toussaint's interval of freedom from foreign confrontation was unfortunately brief. Toussaint never severed the formal bond with France, but his de facto independence and autonomy rankled the leaders of the mother country and concerned the governments of slave-holding nations, such as Britain and the United States.
French first consul Napoléon Bonaparte resented the temerity of the former slaves who planned to govern a nation on their own. Moreover, Bonaparte regarded Saint-Domingue as essential to potential French exploitation of the Louisiana Territory.
Taking advantage of a temporary halt in the wars in Europe, Bonaparte dispatched to Saint-Domingue forces led by his brother-in-law, General Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc. These forces, numbering between 16,000 and 20,000--about the same size as Toussaint's army--landed at several points on the north coast in January 1802.
With the help of white colonists and mulatto forces commanded by Pétion and others, the French outmatched, outmaneuvered, and wore down the black army.
Two of Toussaint's chief lieutenants, Dessalines and Christophe, recognized their untenable situation, held separate parleys with the invaders, and agreed to transfer their allegiance.
Recognizing his weak position, Toussaint surrendered to Leclerc on May 5, 1802. The French assured Toussaint that he would be allowed to retire quietly, but a month later, they seized him and transported him to France, where he died of neglect in the frigid dungeon of Fort de Joux in the Jura Mountains on April 7, 1803.
The betrayal of Toussaint and Bonaparte's restoration of slavery in Martinique undermined the collaboration of leaders such as Dessalines, Christophe, and Pétion. Convinced that the same fate lay in store for Saint-Domingue, these commanders and others once again battled Leclerc and his disease-riddled army.
Leclerc himself died of yellow fever in November 1802, about two months after he had requested reinforcements to quash the renewed resistance. Leclerc's replacement, General Donatien Rochambeau, waged a bloody campaign against the insurgents, but events beyond the shores of Saint-Domingue doomed the campaign to failure.
By 1803 war had resumed between France and Britain, and Bonaparte once again concentrated his energies on the struggle in Europe. In April of that year, Bonaparte signed a treaty that allowed the purchase of Louisiana by the United States and ended French ambitions in the Western Hemisphere.
Rochambeau's reinforcements and supplies never arrived in sufficient numbers. The general fled to Jamaica in November 1803, where he surrendered to British authorities rather than face the retribution of the rebel leadership. The era of French colonial rule in Haiti had ended.
Portraits of Toussaint Louverture
There are numerous
portraits of Toussaint Louverture: all different from one another. We reproduced all the early ones.
Two portraits are worthy of special consideration: a) the Lithograph by Maurin published in 1838 which was based on a lost portrait of Louverture belonging to the French envoy Roume and b) the portrait published in 1880 as a frontispiece to the biography of Toussaint Louverture by Gragnon-Lacoste based on a portrait of Louverture which belonged to his son Isaac.
PHOTOS AT FREEDOM PLAZA, NORTH MIAMI, FLORIDA
LE 18 MAI À L’ARCAHAIE
Par Claude Moïse
Les mythes font partie de l’histoire. Le spectacle de Dessalines arrachant le blanc du tricolore français et donnant à joindre le bleu et le rouge à Catherine Flon, quel symbole! Un peu de tout, le Noir et le Mulâtre, l’homme et la femme! Que des études historiques rigoureusement menées n’accréditent pas cette version de l’histoire reprise de Madiou, le premier de nos historiens, rien n’y fait.
Claude et Marcel Auguste, confirmés par Odette Roy Fombrun, ont établi que ce qui s’est passé à l’Arcahaie entre le 16 et le 18 mai 1803 se rapporte essentiellement à la nécessité de l’unification des forces indépendantistes combattantes sous la direction de Dessalines.
Au fil du temps on a retenu l’impact historique de l’événement qui a conduit à l’indépendance, et tout naturellement l’invention du bicolore est vécue comme le ciment symbolique de l’unité nationale. Le rôle de Pétion, leader mulâtre, principal artisan du ralliement des indépendants et des ennemis d’hier, est fortement souligné.
Avec le temps aussi, on a perdu de vue le sens pratique de l’accord de l’Arcahaie pour ne garder que le symbole, pièce maîtresse de l’identité nationale, dont on a fait un usage politique au gré des forces en luttes et des positionnements idéologiques.
Ainsi en 1803 le drapeau de l’armée indigène a été simultanément bleu et rouge et noir et rouge pour devenir noir et rouge dans la Constitution impériale de 1805, puis bleu rouge sous la présidence de Pétion. Duvalier adoptera le bicolore dessalinien qui redeviendra bleu et rouge après le 7 février 1986.
La tentation est forte, dans la conjoncture actuelle, d’invoquer la signification de ce passé de sacrifice et de gloire. Hier, il s’agissait de fonder un pays et une nation pour affranchir ses habitants de l’esclavage et de la colonisation.
Aujourd’hui, il est question de refonder la nation et l’État, condition essentielle pour sauver le pays. La comparaison devrait s’arrêter là. Hier, il fallait réaliser l’unité des forces combattantes pour vaincre un ennemi nettement identifiable, en dehors de nous.
Aujourd’hui, il faut chercher en nous les causes historiques de l’effondrement national et déblayer le terrain pour reconstruire avec de bons matériaux. Il n’a pas été facile à nos aïeux d’y parvenir en dépit de la clarté de la cause. Les blessures étaient profondes et les méfiances tenaces.
Il a fallu à Pétion beaucoup d’intelligence et de détermination et à Dessalines beaucoup de courage et de savoir-faire pour vaincre les réticences des ennemis d’hier et faire accepter par les combattants indépendants un commandement unifié.
Ici la comparaison est possible, c’est-à-dire on peut offrir à la méditation des leaders d’aujourd’hui une leçon du passé sur la manière de construire un leadership pour réaliser une tâche historique.
Notre passé regorge de promesses inaccomplies, de rendez-vous manqués. Nous pouvons les faire advenir et les re-convoquer dans le présent pour leur accomplissement dans le futur.
CETTE QUESTION DE DOUBLE NATIONALITÉ
(Védrine)
Cette question de double nationalité n'a rien àvoir avec ce qui se passe en Haiti aujourd'hui. Plus de 4,000 nos frères /soeurs ont eté répatriés en moins de deux semaines. Qu'est-ce qu'on peut faire pour les aider? Qu'est-ce que Latortue va faire pour les aider?
Sont-ils tous des frotteurs de trouble en République Dominicaine? Je ne le pense pas et vous (tous) ne le pensez pas non plus. Quelle est la position des candidats à la présidence face à cette vague de répression qui se développe en RD contre les Haitiens?
Voilà un GRAND SUJET à discuter au lieu de perdre notre précieux temps dans cette affaire de 'double nationalité'. D'abord on est mieux acceuilli en Haiti avec un passeport étranger si on est d’origine haitienne.
En général, l’Haitien valorise tout ce qui est de l’étranger. Sous la dictature des Duvalier, un citoyon haitien retournant au pays natal devait avoir UN VISA DE RETOUR dans son passport NOIR et ROUGE (et ça coûtait de l’argent).
Voyager aujourd’hui avec un passaport haitien n’est pas une fierté, mais plutôt une honte et comme chercheur/écrivain je parle toujours d'après mes experiences – relatant une histoire vivante de deux compatriotes étudiants qui étaient avec moi à l’immigration de l’aéoport CHARLES DE GAULLE à Paris (1989) or ils avaient un visas d’entrer en Espagne comme étudiants et nous (les passagers) étaient JUSTE en transit à Paris, où nous devions nous rendre à Madrid.
Après des fouilles et entretiens, ils étaient sur la haute surveillance de la police française pendant plus de 4 heures.
E.W.Vedrine
POSITIVE QUOTE OF THE DAY -----------------------------
I praise loudly; I blame softly.
Catherine the Second (1729-1796) Russian Empress
MY SCHEDULE FOR THE END OF THE WEEK
Wednesday 25 May 2005
I had four fascinating interviews with four women inmates
, 3 serving life sentences for homicide with no chance of parole, and the 4th one serving a 30 year sentence with also no chance of parole, at the Homestead Correctional Institution Maximum Facility For Women in Florida. This institution holds approximately 2,600 inmates.
This was a heart-wrenching experience
, and I intend to make an in-depth written report on these interviews in a special "Carl’s Corner,"to come out soon.
The entire interviews were filmed by ISLAND TV and CAPSULE MEDIA. My thanks to cameramen Josué Prévalus, Calvin Williams, Michel Petithomme and Anne Chavanes of YOUTH ALTERNATIVE CHOICES which made this possible.
Thursday 26 May 2005
Thursday May 26 at 6:30pm at Parrott Jungle. Invitation from the Consul General of Haiti in Florida.
Friday 27 MAY 2006
Exhibition of Creole International Fest and Members of the Art Industry in South Florida at the Embassy Suites hotel north of Miami, organized by A.C.T.I.O.N Foundation. On invitation only.
SATURDAY 28 MAY 2006
ON INVITATION ONLY by the Alliance Francaise of Miami
SATURDAY MAY 28, 2005
TEN IN THE EVENING
EUROPEAN SOUNDS
ORCHESTRATED BY DJ ROBERTO COSTA.
COMPLIMENTARY CHAMPAGNE AND MARTINIS RECEPTION.
TEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT
DRESS CODE: MIAMI NIGHT CHIC.
JIMMYZ’
At The Forge
432 Forty-First Street, Miami Beach
**********
THE GROUNDBREAKING OF ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE NEW BUILDING
DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT YANN WEYMOUTH (HOK)
WILL TAKE PLACE ON JUNE 3 AT 6:00 P.M.
IN PRESENCE OF HIS EXCELLENCY JEAN-DAVID LEVITTE, AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE
618 SW 8TH STREET, MIAMI (JUST OFF BRICKELL AVENUE)
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED
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Sunday 29 May 2005
Interview in the studio of "Carl’s Corner" by Carl, for ISLAND TV, of famous Haitian musician Dadou Pasquet and well-known disc jokey Nikki Mix, principal actors in the movie "CAFÉ-AU-LAIT" due to come out in theaters this coming july 1st, 2005.
RECEIVED ON "CARL’S CORNER."
Carl,
Quoting you : "As for gas, tell it to "W" or the Saudis."
It was "W," not the Saudis, who started this unjust war on Iraq, hence the so called "market insecurity" that drove prices up.
Anonymous.
FROM PROSPER MAKENDAL SYLVAIN JR.
On Friday May 20, 2005, from 7pm-12 midnight, Miami's Design District was buzzing with something new and provocative. Art Fusion Gallery, located on 1 NE 40th St., was the location of a CD release party which brought diverse cultures out to witness and experience LIVE Haitian-American spoken word poetry accompanied by a live jazz band and surrounded by international art in an upscale ambiance replete with wine and cheese reception.
Friday's event was well attended with a total of 196 people gathering to witness The maroons displaay their local talent of fusing jazz with poetry in English, French and Kreyol.
The owner of Art Fusion Gallery, who so graciously provided his local, was quite elated to see such diversity and professionalism within the Haitian community and the networking which this event afforded was congratulated by many.
The gallery owner is now hoping that The Maroons plan future events of the same or a more grandiose caliber, hopefully surrounded by art provided by "Espace Brandt."
The night began with the wine, cheese, fruit, accra, boulettes reception and live jazz by the group "Diversity" followed by an introduction by the host and Maroon, "Makendal".
Throughout the evening the audience was exposed to international art. Every section of the art gallery had a poet waiting to paint the ears and eyes of the audience with spoken word poetry in English, French and Kreyol.
The audience, although on their feet most of the time, did not complain as the event was energetic, vibrant, uplifting, artistic, theatrical and well-planned.
The poets consisted of Robbens Chery, Merlene Labissierre, Roland (Eros) Cherasard, Jesler (Deep In Thought) Mezidor, Wolf Bertrand, Prosper (Makendal) Sylvain, Jr., and the guest of honor and fellow Maroon, Berwick (Underscore) Augustin.
The spoken word poetry performed consisted of various themes of pride, culture, art, sensuality and erotica, political awareness, HIV awareness and human frailty along with an uplifting theme of Haitian pride no matter one's background.
On several occasions the members of the audience were brought to tears during the different performances on Haiti and on lost love. The evening ended with a performance by the Haitian-American Poetry group known as The Maroons and their performance of their piece entitled "The Truth", which received ovations of the utmost degree due to the manner in which it was prolifically performed.
In attendance were various media (American and Hispanic). Only one or two media personnel from the Haitian community presented themsleves and that was more as a guest than anything else.
Also in attendance were supporting cast members from the upcoming movie "Miami Vice" who remained slightly incognito. Other guests included Milca Volny-Carl Fombrun-Maurice Brandt as cast members from George Jiha's film "Café Au Lait, Bien Sucré", Nelda Augustin (producer of the movie "Dechennen"), Dr. Gérard Férère and his wife Nancy, author of the trilingual art book, Veve: The Ritual Art of Haitian Voodoo, Viter Juste the people's Mayor of Little Haiti, the owners of Sheba Ethiopan Restaurant, Jimmy Moise and Emile Viard of Espace Brandt Art Gallery, Richard and Nadine Ameris, Ms. International Haiti Nayeli Fanfan.
(In addition) several students from Broward Community College and FAU who have taken a liking to The Maroons and the knowledge/performance previously displayed at their school, Serge Rodrigue of The Haitian Heritage Museum, and various professionals and entrepreneurs who took the opportunity to connect with each other and exchange thoughts, concepts and views as well as business cards.
This event took networking to a whole new level.
Phone calls and emails from guests have already been received inquiring as to when the next Maroon event will be as guests have voiced their opinion that they enjoyed Friday, May 20th's CD release and spoken word event as well as the location, the upscale ambiance and attendees and the delectable food and beverages.
The $20.00 admission fee included a copy of the CD which was released by Underscore, featuring The Maroons, and already it has caused quite a stir and buzz with its jazz, troubadour and blues undertones wrapped in a mesh of spoken word poetry.
The spotlight that evening was on art, culture, poetry and jazz.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 was also a night to remember, as The Maroons performed at Broward County Performing Arts Center along with various artists from the Caribbean such as Jacky Ambroise of Haiti, The Jookano Revue of The Bahamas.
It was an electrifying and eccentric show and The Maroons (the only Haitian-American spoken word poetry group in the world) performed and received the only standing ovation for their mixture of prophetic poetry rendered in English, French and Kreyol in celebration of Haitian Flag Day and Haitian History.
The Maroons also performed that same afternoon at Thomas Jefferson Middle School and left the teachers, staff, administrators and students in awe...standing ovations, tears and Haitian flags waving as The Maroons and Mecaa, aka Grimo, gave back to the community by speaking to the kids about The Haitian flag and its history.
"Makendal" and Berwick "Underscore" Augustin, both accomplished post-graduate professionals, donned their jeans, caps and flags and took center stage at Jefferson Middle School to connect with students, raise awareness, bestow positive affirmations and continue their motivational speaking tour to uplift students and keep them on the track of education through will, determination and pride.
The Maroons also performed on Sunday, May 22, 2005 at Barnes and Nobles Book store and left the B&N program manager so edified and elated, that now there are talks of a monthly Maroon/Haitian culture oriented poetry event at Barnes and Nobles and possible tour of various Barnes and Nobles.
THE MAROONS THANK ALL OF THEIR SUPPORTERS
AND A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO ATTENDED!
Solo un instante de mi vida
Si pudiera verte un minuto, un segundo, un instante llenaría mis ojos de tu ilusoria imágen, luego los cerraría para nunca más mirarte.
Apagaría una a una las estrellas cada una, escondería la luna en alguna parte.
Si pudiera tocarte cerraría mis manos como aferrando aquel leve talle. Dormiría el sol en el horizonte dorado de antes para que iluminen tus ojos, con su luz que invade cada átomo de este universo nacido de amarte.
