Building Poems
Tonight I feel the need
to build poems,
shape myself into words
to move mountains, words fit
Awards: India, Shankar’s International Childrens’ Poetry competition 1968; Barbados, Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award 1998, 2nd prize 2006; Hong Kong and China, International Visiting Writer 2007 among others. Published as a performance poet since 1972. Anthologised in ‘Aftermath: the Best of Third World Poets’ among others. Books: ‘Lyric You.’ 2000, ‘Machinations of a Feminist’.