Hebert Logerie Poems

Your name means Liberty
Freedom and Equality
Just like Mandela, Gandhi
And Martin Luther King
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In spite of last year’s ups and downs,
Life was beautiful and rewarding.
We played in the park and chased the clowns.
No one got hurt, and with the Good Lord’s blessing,
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Money does not bring true happiness,
This does not exist. Money releases and smoothes
The daily burdens and responsibilities;
It is a relief that diminishes the worries.
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Habemus Novum Papam
Yes, indeed we have a new Pope.
I wonder, however, if we have a new hope.
As a matter of facts, we have two popes:
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For now, this is it; this is high-five time.

This is a newly enjoyable venue,
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Brother Jackson died a few moons ago. It is a loss.
It is a finale; it is the final curtain.
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Our society is getting sicker,
More conservative, more liberal,
More outrageous, more difficult to handle,
And more ravaged by an elusive cancer.
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(Poème dédié à mon ami, le Poète Luciano Benjamin)

Aujourd'hui est ton anniversaire,
Et celui des combats de Vertières,
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(Dédié à Tous Les Papas, Birago I.Diop et à Gustave)

Mon papa était plus qu'un père,
Il était plus qu'un bon ami, plus qu'un frère.
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Girls must have the undeniable rights to speak,
And the God-given rights to choose and pick.
Girls must have the rights to be educated,
To be respected and to be protected.
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