Leonard Dabydeen Poems

I sail across oceans
wide, wide blue seas
climb highest mountains in my flight
travel over hills and dales
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The pleasure is endless

like a swirling aromatic
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She's gone!

What game is this anyway?
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Raindrops our tears
we cry from the bosom of our hearts
shaking like a tremor
a quake in quantum leap
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In the sly hands of the Devil
a blind man does not walk with a cane
he is led to the slaughter
like in a quake
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Behind every gilded armor
life is like steel resilient to the bone
a knapsack of love over the shoulder
not a burden, never was, never will be.
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Maybe if the cows

jump over the moon
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Read me when you’re free,
or make a date with me.
I’m yours to hold tenderly;
I’m always there for you to see;
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Here is our playground
bigger and better than any golf course
or football stadium
where pebbles of our minds are crested
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This hand that touches you
walking through your body
moving and meandering
in meaningful slow intensity
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