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open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Deliquescent Season Description: Leroy Clarke's poem "Deliquescent Season" was published, along with five other poems, in the 2007 book entitled "De Distance is Here: The El Tucuche Poems 1984-2007."
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	What more can I offer Description: This hand written poem was part of a Leroy Clarke exhibition held at the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago in 2009.
View the document		Come any-colour woman, sit Description: A short, free verse poem, written by Leroy Clarke in February 1968.
View the document		A net is tightening about me Description: Short poem written by Leroy Clarke in 1966.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Notes on Greenhouse Description: A collection of untitled poems.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	All Hail Description: Leroy Clarke dramatises a religious ceremony in Laventille. This poem was written on 17th November 1966.
View the document		Dusk Description: A short poem, written in 1967, by Leroy Clarke.
View the document		Time Description: This incomplete short poem, written by Leroy Clarke in 1966, reflects the Romanticism poetry style.
View the document		A child and her squirrel Description: This short poem for N.U.C. was written by Leroy Clarke in May 1968. The N.U.C or National Universities Commission was established in 1962 with the aim of delivering quality university education in Nigeria.
View the document		Ultimate Description: This Leroy Clarke poem follows the style of Cinquain poetry, in that the flow of the poem starts off with one word and progresses by describing the title through action and expression of feelings. However it has more than five lines. It was written in November 1968.
View the document		That love which knows no question Description: A six line lyric poem about the search for the elusive love. This poem was written by Leroy Clarke on 14 February 1969.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Family disgrace Description: A narrative poem written by Leroy Clarke in 1968. The poem tells the story about a young woman who tries to hide her pregnancy by tying her stomach but eventually the truth is revealed and the young woman brings disgrace to her family.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Lavantee Description: This poem about Laventille was written in 1967. Laventille is located to the east of the city of Port of Spain in Trinidad.
View the document		Moonlight N.Y. 4.a.m. Description: Written on 6th November 1968, this Leroy Clarke poem describes the night life in New York City, and how the poet is missing the fresh air back home.
View the document		Evening Idyll Description: This Leroy Clarke poem reflects some of the features of the romanticism style of poetry. It was written in March 1969.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Black Truth Description: Black Truth is taken from "Taste the endless fruit... ", a collection of love poems and drawings by Leroy Clarke. It was written in October 1969.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Spring Dawn Description: This poem was written by Leroy Clarke on 13th November 1969.
View the document		Note from a diary of a soul in revolution Description: A lyric poem written by Leroy Clarke on 25 May 1970. This type of poems expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	To a fisherman gone Description: A short narrative poem, written by Leroy Clarke in 1967.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Our last Novembers Description: This article was published in the Sunday Guardian Newspaper in January 1978.
View the document		Blood on my crown Description: An August 1969, short, free verse poem written by Leroy Clarke.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Blood is flowing from the salt Description: A short handwritten poem by Leroy Clarke.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Taste of Endless Fruit: A Selection of Love Poems and Drawings Description: A collection of poems from the book Taste of Endless Fruit: A Selection of Love Poems and Drawings.
View the document		Unmasked Description: A short poem on love, written by Leroy Clarke in September 1969.
View the document		From mound to hill Description: This 1969 love poem was written by Leroy Clarke on 14 February 1969.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	De Edge Description: This poem includes a quote from Cesar Vallejo and is a "tribute to that African woman in whom Eye Dream...Eye Dwell"
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	The distance is here Description: A 1990 copy of the El Tucuche Poems, for review purposes. This was completed and published in 2007 under the title "De Distance is Here: The El Tucuche Poems 1984 - 2007" with the inclusion of the Miss Deeka poem.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Femme Noire Description: A love poem in praise of the black woman (Femme Noire), written by Leroy Clarke on 25th February 1969.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Crippled beggar Description: This document contains a poem and a copyrighted 1973 drawing, both by Leroy Clarke. The poem was written on 9th Decembeer 1966.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	I walk the night Description: A short poem written by Leroy Clarke in 1967.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Song for a wasted woman Description: This poem is divided into three parts: Conviction, a Prayer and a Dream (she is pregnant). It was written by Leroy Clarke in April 1968.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Fabulous delights Description: Short handwritten poem.
View the document		So they mock you Description: This is a two stanza poem with a 1973 illustrative drawing. It was written by Leroy Clarke in May 1968.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	The storm Description: This is a free verse poem about the effects of a disaster and it's limitless boundaries for destruction. It was written by Leroy Clarke in November 1965.
View the document		Pride Description: A short poem written by Leroy Clarke in 1965.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Douens Description: Revision of the Douens series of poems from 1973-1975.
View the document		I have loved a dream Description: This Leroy Clarke poem was written in 1979. It can be found on the back cover of the book "Taste of Endless Fruit-A Selection of love poems and drawings" by Leroy Clarke.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	The distance is Here Description: This is part one of the Leroy Clarke poem "The Distance is Here."
View the document		The eye sees the surface only Description: A short poem from, Taste the endless fruit... a collection of love poems and drawings. Written by Leroy Clarke on 3rd February 1969.
View the document		My room Description: This short poem was written by Leroy Clarke in 1967.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Rebirth Description: This poem, written by Leroy Clarke in August 1968, is a semi-biographical poem which explains the transformation or breakthrough of the poet.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	My thoughts Description: This is a short lyric poem that expresses the opinions of Leroy Clarke. It was written in October 1966.
View the document		Gossip Description: This is a short lyric poem consisting of seven lines. It was written by Leroy Clarke on 5th March 1969.
View the document		Bongo Dance Description: A four stanza quatrain (a stanza or poem consisting of four lines), written by Leroy Clarke in 1968.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	El Tucuche 1988 Description: This critical analysis of Leroy Clarke's poem "El Tucuche" was written by Winston Riley in 1988. The publication includes an excerpt from "El Tucuche."
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Secret insect of a bird Description: A 1989 review of a three part poem by Leroy Clarke.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Scene in a Resurrection City Description: This descriptive lyric poem was written by Leroy Clarke on 28th February 1969.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Bush Woman: A woman with an empty face Description: This poem is taken from the book "De Distance is Here: El Tucuche Poems 1984-2007" by Leroy Clarke. It is the first of six poems in the book.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	The trees ridging the hills are dark enough Description: This lyric couplet poem in two line stanzas was written by Leroy Clarke.
View the document		As if I were a stream Description: This Leroy Clarke poem is coupled with a 1973 illustration of a human silhouette reflected in a stream.The poem was written on 15th October 1968.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	At the End of the Small Hours Description: This pamphlet contains a poem in honour of Earl Warner. It was also published in the Trinidad Guardian Newspaper in December 1998.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Plagues in the green Description: This four part poem by Leroy Clarke is dedicated to Ralph Campbell. It was written on 28th November 1970.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Leroy you have built a circle Description: Handwritten poem by LeRoy Clarke
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Unknown Description: Collection of untitled poems
View the document		Poor girl Description: A short poem about a poor beautiful girl, written by Leroy Clarke in May 1968.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Alpha and Omega Description: This five stanza poem is written in a style similar to free verse poetry.
View the document		Retreat Description: Written by Leroy Clarke on 14th July, 1970, this poem deals with "the ageless psalm of a morocoy - of the turtle family, a tortoise!"
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	The Whore Description: This narrative poem describes the "object of cheap love" that indiscriminately provided dreams for a lonely man. It was written by Leroy Clarke in 1966.
View the document		Who is Ettylene? Description: LeRoy Clarke's insight into the woman who was the muse for his book of poetry entitled: Eyeing de Word-Love Poems for Ettylene.
View the document		I touch you Description: A short poem from "Taste the endless fruit...", a collection of love poems and drawings by Leroy Clarke. It was written in 1968.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Goat Bite Description: In this Leroy Clarke poem, a mother scolds her son for his delinquency and lack of ambition, and wonders if she is bewitched. The poem was written in August 1968, and is dedicated to Louise and Cecilia.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	When at last Description: A free verse poem by Leroy Clarke, 1968-1969.
View the document		The Seer Description: Dedicated to Derek Walcott, this poem was written by Leroy Clarke on 17th May 1970.
View the document		And these mutes Description: This short lyrical poem, written by Leroy Clarke, consists of three stanzas. It was written on 25th November 1968.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Woman, woman. Description: A six stanza lyric poem dedicated to an unnamed woman, written by Leroy Clarke in 1968.
View the document		Your love has butterfly wings Description: A short poem from, Taste the endless fruit... a collection of love poems and drawings by Leroy Clarke, written on 23rd October 1968.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	This is our deliquescent season Description: A draft of the third part of the poem "Deliquescent Season", this poem was published in 2007 as part of the El Tucuche Poems in the book "De Distance is Here" by Leroy Clarke.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Happy collage Description: This poem is written in the romaticism genre. In it Leroy Clarke describes the various aspects of nature and the way it all blends together. The poem was written in 1965.
View the document		Taste of endless fruit Description: A review of Leroy Clarke's collection of love poems and drawings, with extracts from the "Douens" collection of poems.
View the document		Trumpet solo, mine Description: This poem is a three stanza lyric poem by Leroy Clarke.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	At the bend Description: A lyric couplet poem in the two line stanza format by Leroy Clarke.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Unfaithful Description: "Unfaithful" is a narrative poem by Leroy Clarke. It tells the story of adultery as interpreted by the poet. This poem was written in October 1966.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Span Description: A four part poem by Leroy Clarke, written in August 1968.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	The distance is here Description: This is the first reviewing copy of the book "De Distance is Here: The El Tucuche Poems 1984-2007" by Leroy Clarke. It includes hand written suggestions and changes.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	I am me Description: This album consists of poems and sketches written by Leroy Clarke between 1965 and 1969. They are dedicated to Vera (his first wife).
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	That woman Description: This hand written poem was part of a Leroy Clarke exhibition held at the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago in 2009.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	The Sky Description: This poem, along with other materials, was on display at the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago, as part of the Leroy Clarke exhibition in 2009.
View the document		Requiem Description: This is a short narrative poem written by Leroy Clarke in December 1969.
View the document		Paintings Description: A 1974 Elouise Loftin poem.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	I walk a blade of grass Description: A free verse poem made up of four stanzas. It was written by Leroy Clarke on 10 October 1968.th
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	A wound that never closes Description: A collection of untitled poems.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Collection of poems Description: A collection of poems and cards
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	For Blackness Description: A 1967 poem by Leroy Clarke.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Tonight my black woman Description: Contains the two poems "Black Truth" and "Lament, a black collage". "Black Truth" was written in October 1969, and "Lament, a Black Collage" was written on 30 November 1970.
open this document and view contents:	View the PDF document	Here I am Description: A short handwritten poem

Leroy Clarke