LEONARD DABYDEEN

LEONARD DABYDEEN

Recovery

Watching the child lying in bed

Diagnosed cancer in the head

Brings tear-drops welling in the eyes

Of parents deeply traumatized

While doctors, nurses knead forehead.

The child looks at her mother, said:

“Why are you crying, I’m not dead.”

And she plays with her doll’s bow-ties,

Smiling with joy.

Doctors to parents: not to dread

Minor operation instead

Will soon make her wish us goodbyes

And you will be full of surprise

She’ll be running like a bullhead

Smiling with joy.

Pandemic Cry

This world has now become dystopian

So much in fright of coronavirus

Human health is contained isolation

Tested positive, become platypus.

Where cities are closed, streets isolated

A lurking fear of death is looming large

And the virus takes down the infected

Who are aged, regardless of any charge?

So zoonotic in its halo culture

This coronavirus informs mystery

For the human world’s survival nature

Lurking with a shadow wrench tapestry.

Human effort to strive for survival

Is renewed with nuances wherewithal.

Long Is The Walk

(Fib Poem – inverted)

Long

is

the walk

where journey

bares no end in sight

only machete swishing death

and bombs rocking the city of Aleppo night and day.

Hunger has no wish for fulfilment but endless tears

and thirst is longing for freedom

walking this journey

one slow step

away

with

hope.

LEONARD DABYDEEN

LEONARD DABYDEEN, Indo-Guyanese-Canadian, Retired member of the Law Society of Ontario (Paralegal); Commissioner of Oaths and Affidavits in Ontario, Freelance writer, book reviewer, poet, member of the Society of Classical Poets (USA/2019), member of Muse India e-journal, Muse-Pie Press (Shot Glass Journal and Fib Review), contributor to Gandhi Way Newsletter (UK), Confluence Magazine (UK), Triveni Journal (India), Pratilipi, Literary Yard, Our Poetry Archive, Galaktika Poetike ATUNIS, Setu Bilingual Literary Journal; blog: http://ldabydeen.wordpress.com (Poems Jogging in the Mind). Published author – Watching You, A Collection of Tetractys Poems (2012); Searching for You, A Collection of Tetractys and Fibonacci Poems (2015).