Leonard Dabydeen Poems

"A man's as old as he's feeling …"
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"If the body frees the mind in its quest
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"Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
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We
bring you
shapes of fire
colour of skin
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Just
being
so silent
is no mistake
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"The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."
~ Louis L'Amour
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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 lovely petals as they're thinned.
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I bring to bear no secret realm to share
But human atrocities I most fear;
Of war zones where death is enemy cry
As bombs rain from tomahawks in the sky.
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Like a night gripping darkness amidst light
turning halogens in sombre delight
a caged child whimpers with a moaning gripe
and certainty languishes without hype.
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How Mother Nature
dances
in such radiant delight
of her beauty
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When life becomes
a rubble of stones
every stone of hope
is turned upside down
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