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‘Itinerant Poet’ by Leonard Dabydeen

April 15, 2018
in Beauty, Poetry
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“The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ~ Louis L’Amour

You are not alone on this wind-rush march,
Itinerant ink scribing papyrus
Upon demands and deadlines flaming torch;
Or over ant-hills disturbed omnibus.

Sometimes the hour is long as day or night,
And eyes rebel to yawning, sleeping tide;
But you cannot haul sail in a ship’s flight
For the ink must flow where shadows abide.

When it is not by your will, but dharma
This oeuvre fest embellishes your mind
Deep in all your literary karma;
And unfurls all your constraints free from bind.

Where vista cravings for horizons tempt,
Our writing rhapsody must be well spent.

 

Leonard Dabydeen is author of Watching You, A Collection of Tetractys Poems , Xlibris Publication(2012); Searching for You, A Collection of Tetractys and Fibonacci Poems, Xlibris Publication (2015)

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  1. Sathyanarayana says:
    7 years ago

    Wow! Beautiful by dear friend. The couplet sums up the thought (as it should be in a sonnet) with a tingling wordplay

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    • Leonard Dabydeen says:
      7 years ago

      Thank you my Dear Friend, Sathya. Your sparkling comments always stir my cravings to ink the next poetic line.

      Reply
  2. Leonard Dabydeen says:
    7 years ago

    Thank you, Evan Mantyk for posting my poem, Itinerant Poet, during this Poetry Month of April.

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