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Dmitri, your poetry and photos bring alive Guyana and its people. Thank you for the memories and the lessons taught and learned.
My favorite poems are “So the Story Goes,” “Oh Precious Woman,” and “Lean on Me.”
I take with me, these wise words from “So the Story Goes”:
“But no matter where you travel or what you do / Those answers that you seek, lies within you.”
Write on, brother 🙂
Dimitri, , Thanks for the beautiful poems of Guyana. As usual
You have the ability to bring out the best in your poems, and to portrayed the beauty of nature of our beautiful country
Guyana,,,
MY GUYANA
(Part I)
The land of many waters is my forever Guyana
Sandwiched between Brazil and Venezuela
Also called the land of six peoples
Although some behave like weevils
Including the Blacks and Indians
And our neglected Amerindians
We live on the flat coastlands
From Point Playa to Springlands
Mesmerized by racial politics
Still using the race card tricks
It appears as if we’re bloody cursed
With some of us stuck in reverse
Just to stay sober and keep alive
Whilst some are in forward drive
Some myopic and so stubborn
Some hope for newborn morn
My Guyana is Raleigh, Sir Walter
The fearless Elizabethan explorer
He sailed up the Orinoco
Hoping to find El Dorado
Around campfires his saga is told
How he came looking for our gold
Dr.Walter Rodney is in My Guyana
The stalwart historian, and teacher
He cleansed their eyes of many from boo-boo
And on Bent Street he met his tragic Waterloo
My Guyana is Cheddi Jagan
Who showed the world he can
After 28 years in the opposition
To the infamous Machiavellian
He found peace and sanity
And brought back democracy
Eventually we got independence
After bitter struggle so immense
But I’m thankful to that Kabaka
When I couldn’t take the pressure
I left Guyana and came to the USA
And then later settled in Canada
(To be continued)
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