Poetry

Funeral of St Lucian writer Gandolph St Clair, March 2018.
"one of us has died"

 

In memoriam: Gandolph St. Clair, 1951-2018

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WINNING WORDS: Magnifying Glass

 

Barbados
Barbados

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The ArtsEtc NIFCA winning Words Anthology 2015-2016
WINNING WORDS: To the Audubon Society

 

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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

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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?”

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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

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Seeing is Believing

 

You might doubt their existence

our brown hares are rarely seen.

Yet I’ve heard their bewitching

half-human early morning scream.

 

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Desktop Muse

 

after Janneth Mornan-Green

 

what school was selling

she refused to learn

by rote

 

during history classes

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A Drought Ended

 

He would throw her 

                   across the room. 

Some men make sport of such things.

 

I was warned to see and blind.

 

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Winning Words: SPEAKING TOMAS

Anthology preview

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