Thursday, August 1, 2019

LEONARD DABYDEEN



LEONARD
DABYDEEN

VILLANELLE FOR
CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE

From panic to pandemonium
Where Richter Scale measured impact
People screamed in delirium.

Californians cried in a hum
Packing, running with lives intact
From panic to pandemonium.

Earthquake roared like a rattled drum
Shattering buildings, all ransacked
People screamed in delirium.

Hurriedly people packed, fearsome
Of next tremor earthquake  attract
From panic to pandemonium.

Some paused, hoping the end did come
When earthquake rattles made more tract
People screamed in delirium.

Californians  live this hum-drum
Of an earthquake, yet on contact
From panic to pandemonium
People screamed in delirium.






SONNET ON MEXICAN BORDER CRISIS

Where children looking for food everyday
Hunger speaks louder to malnourishment
Their hope beyond expectation, they pray
Listening to their dire predicament.

Where Border guards reveal much hopelessness
Either in pretense, without much caring
About children in cages defenseless
This unbearable cry is perturbing.

Where children hallucinate a dream world
Without shape of what the future may bring
Their inhuman conditions are unfurled
Even for a blind eye to see their suffering.

Ask, Oh man, what has God wrought unto you
To suffer our children in this purview?






CAGED CHILDREN
(a fib poem)

Can
you
hear them
crying loud
voices echoing
caged children are starving for food.
Confined in abominable
space beyond freedom
to breathe air
their breath
lost
hope.






HAIKU ON HUMMING BIRDS

Glowing dawn sunshine
heralds humming birds to chirp
with refreshing breeze.

LEONARD DABYDEEN


LEONARD DABYDEEN, Guyanese-Canadian  poet and member of The Society of Classical Poets (USA), Life Member of MetVerse Muse (India); member of Muse India Journal; member of Muse-Pie Press (Shot Glass Journal and Fib Review), contributor to Gandhi Way Newsletter (UK), contributor to Pratilipi blog: https://english.pratilipi.com/ My blog: https://ldabydeen.wordpress.com/ Free-lance writer and book reviewer; author of Watching You, A Collection of Tetractys Poems (2012), and Searching For You, A Collection of Tetractys and Fibonacci Poems (2015).


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