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Poems for All
Blue-eyed Guyana Boy
Girls waiting
I come from
Letter from Kong to Anna
Llamas, Cwmpengraig
Sonnet for a Portuguese Woman
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Poems for Children
Anansi meets Miss Muffet
Food, Glorious Caribbean Food
My Caribbean
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Audio poems
Jumbie Calypso
Rude Girl

Llamas, Cwmpengraig

Oh you - coming to greet us over the farm-gate
Your camel-like heads elegant against this Welsh hill-top
Whose sheep graze like commoners beneath your gaze

Your heads turn as one,
Ears - inverted commas, sickles, sweet horns of plenty
Eyes languid behind fringed yashmak of lashes

Peru seems a long way off,
As does Guyana; but for a moment there we shared
An echo between us, of continents.

A little bit of blog about me:

I was born in Guyana and have been living in the UK since 1971.

I run poetry workshops for all age groups and was a founding member of The Write Women and organiser of the Inscribing the Island Literature Festival in Thanet.
 
contact me:
info@maggieharris.co.uk