LEONARD DABYDEEN

LEONARD

DABYDEEN

Silence

(Formal Haiku)

Blowing in the wind

sweet lullaby of silence:

car honking its horn.

Something Will Happen

Often I would sit

or stand

in a transit bus

mystified at kaleidoscope of minds

churning unstoppable

cell phones

fingers whispering

as shapely images dance;

or

sometimes I position myself

on a cold, eerie sidewalk

juxtapose myself intently

in the heart of things

remaining

partly in, partly out

painting like Rembrandt, a Van Gogh;

or

sometimes I feel this immigrant blood

piping through tunnel of sorts

with guttural sounds

flowing, nurturing

affirmative action

in a mosaic of multiculturalism

diaspora roller-coaster

cradled in regulated legislation;

wherever I am

I am trapped like a mouse

cornered for a cat-kill

life line thinning

in fragmented spaghetti

thinking that something will happen

sooner or later

when the bell tolls.

Why Bother?

Why bother?

take a deep breath

exhale

and let it be …

if it’s not broken

try not to fix it;

why bother?

Life is full of urges

innovative sometimes

creative, productive

itching for you to look

beyond your box

but if you cannot bother

let it be…

‘cause if it’s not broken

why bother to fix it?

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), Setu Bilingual Journal (USA),  Pratilipi blog: https://english.pratilipi.com/ His 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).