Pacific Arts Poem!!

One of the major highlights in Solomon Islands last year is the fact that we hosted the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts last year. It was a once in a life time opportunity, I wouldn't miss it for the world.
It is rather amazing and astounding to see many different colors of people from different background and ethnicity coming together to showcase their culture and talent also displaying the fact that we had something in common. The fact that we have to adapt to the changes this modern world concieves in our pure nature. The fact that we have to improvise the story to share with each other and with foreigners whilst keeping our identitiy and traditions in tact.
The fact that three different races is nothing without their diverse humble begining.

There are so many facts to be stated but above all;
The fact that we come together to celebrate and share our Culture and traditions in the form of ART!
IS THE FACT THAT WE ARE PACIFICANS

Festival of Pacific Arts!!

Dazzling display of local gemstones in the middle of the sea of colours
Priceless to pay and still some undiscovered
Yellow, fair, white, brown, black the skin reflects the limits of our land
Curly, frizzy, soft, straight, our features will make you understand
Who we are
What we do
Where we are from
How we call this place home

Tiny islets spread across the world's largest ocean
We have no four seasons
No winter to wreck the sunshine
No autumn to bare our trees down to its naked vine
But a few rain now and then
A cyclone perhaps
But apart from that there are no mishap

Clad in barks
Our history has its mark
Printed on our skin
Scarring our culture close to our hearts

Dances have its story
Expressions has its glory
Amidst the spectacle you see one or two sharing memory

Its hard to believe that different by feature
We are one in nature
Divided by shorelines
The ocean combines

Linguists links our language
Archaelogists connects the traditions
Historians write our home page
While we preserve what the commotion

Change is inevitable
The tide still have to rise
Civilisation can be flexible
Twisting the truth with the lies

Divided by mother tongue in our community
Bounded by churches in our society
Seperated by water and flags potraying our country
But take us out into the world
You will find more than you bargain for

The beat of the drums and the sound of the panpipes
The bursting laughters and endless smile
The humour in between countless mile
The humble begining worth more than dime

Take us out into the big world
Where everything is bright
It will never burn out our light
It shines even brighter when we are alone
Listen to our words and our tone

Here we gather each year
This is where you can come around
Find us all in one spot and it will be clear
Pacifica we stand our ground

 

 

Peom by: Georgianna M.L