Poems from Leonard Dabydeen
(Indentureship-1838-1917)
You mock me
at your dinner table
higher up the food chain
call me bad names
with your filthy mouth
ride your...
Where have the roses gone from my garden?
Look how those left freeze in cold winter wind;
Nothing I can do nor ask for pardon
To save the...
Footprints on the sands of time
glow with birthmark
each glittering step
unshaken and challenging
not by yielding to temptation
but thirst...
Leave
me
alone
let me be
I am what I am
here is my only comfort zone.
A man’s as old as he’s feeling … ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If the body frees the mind in its quest
For youthful dreams to be forever...