I was a teacher for over 15 years, loved books and began to write poetry at 12. A regular contributor to the Guyana Journal based in New York Wrote a poem to the Queen Elizabeth II , she replied but couldn't meet me at the Buckingham Palace. Wrote one when the Queen's Mom died, it received wide reviews on the net. Check Kavitanjali.com Working on my second book. "Drink from my Calabash" I think "Books are the Light-houses erected in the great Sea of Time."

Poet Laureate of Durham.
This poem 'Killer in our Midst" was recently chosen for the "Editor's Choice Award" by the International Library of Poetry for "Outstanding Achievement in Poetry" and would be included in a CD collection called "The Sound of Poetry"
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My first book of 50 poems "A Lonely Voice" would be published in January 2007 by Xlibris.