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Ars Poetica: Canticles

for Esther Phillips, Poet Laureate of Barbados “Yet why not say what happened? Pray for the grace of accuracy Vermeer gave to the sun’s…

John Robert Lee·April 18, 2020
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Behind The Wall 

Reluctantly clicked that confirm button, You penetrated my inbox with instant desire. Ignoring you was no small task, You assaulted my wall…

Alice L. Medard·July 29, 2019

Another Thou Shalt Not 

Thou shalt not covet they neighbour’s ox— You! Even though the ox look good, I mean, real good— It healthy, it healthy, it healthy! When…

Margaret D. Gill·May 27, 2019

SEND: Prayer

Dear God: This is me. I know you remember. I am the one with the bipolar grey. I will get straight to the point (we is say straight to the…

Margaret D. Gill·March 24, 2019
John Robert Lee, St Lucian poet, by St Lucian artist Ted Sandiford, 2019.

Petroglyphs and pictographs: after Ron Savory (1933-2019)—In Memoriam

“…artefacts air-brushed from memory, teasing holograms in glass globules, daring translation: What can I make for you of those old bones,…

John Robert Lee·February 28, 2019
Butterfly on Pride of Barbados flower.  Photo Copyright 2018 by DialAFlight Blog.

NOMMONNOMM

for Esther on her Poet Laureate 2018 Wherever it grows there is a rose/breathing the sky has nvr been more blue These things are truest in…

Kamau Brathwaite·October 9, 2018
Funeral of St Lucian writer Gandolph St Clair, March 2018.

“one of us has died”

In memoriam: Gandolph St. Clair, 1951-2018

John Robert Lee·March 28, 2018
The ArtsEtc NIFCA winning Words Anthology 2015/2016

WINNING WORDS: Magnifying Glass

Barbados Barbados Spherical axis tilting Blue-green smears One second Pinpoint → United States of America • Barbados o (Yellow and blue…

Ashlee Griffith·September 4, 2017
The ArtsEtc NIFCA winning Words Anthology 2015-2016

WINNING WORDS: To the Audubon Society

Put shit in your eye, right so I’d like to stuff ’em; sate my gypsy gullet. But bird’s brains are featherweight, better plied as dusters to…

Trina Headley·September 4, 2017
Meadow Dream by St Lucian painter Shallon Fadlien.

Rainbow in Balata

Meadow Dream. Copyright © 2016 by Shallon Fadlien. (for SF) A story for you— in late afternoon drizzle coming home through familiar Balata…

John Robert Lee·September 24, 2016
Seven Worlds  © 2015 by Gary Butte, St Lucian visual artist

For Kamau Brathwaite at 86

Seven Worlds. Copyright © 2015 by Gary Butte. “Where are the open spaces now clear sky, the stars, horizons’ distances?” KB, "The…

John Robert Lee·May 11, 2016
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New Year Poem

Sea at Gros Islet. Photo Copyright © 2015 by John Robert Lee. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like…

John Robert Lee·January 3, 2016