Leonard Dabydeen Poems

My navel-string is attached to the Caribbean
I, too, have my roots
with coastland raindrops anointing my soul
only English-speaking country
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People watching everywhere

have eyes with stories
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(1)

snowflake unmindful
of any schedule, makes you
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There is this young boy
who is well-liked by his parents;
like honey on pita bread,
as the mother would say sometimes.
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if I were a cartoonist
and you were my cartoon
what in this twisted world
you’d rather be?
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Stuck
in
traffic
going home
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Tell me nuh
ah who ah tief
de gole:
one han'
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Where
does a person
find it
when one needs it
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(i)
Set
my feet
on beach sand
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