Linette Rabsatt’s four poems


Show Me Your Dreams


show me your dreams

not because I want to scream

because dreams shouldn’t

send chills through our spines

and make the hairs on our arms

stand at length in thin lines

I want to see the innovation

that you conceal spring to life

your dreams should break out

what you hold inside

that you should make reality

because there is no limit

to your capacity

it’s just that you need

to show yourself these dreams

scream them on mountaintop

and invest your time and energy

don’t stop – so that when you

show me your dreams

it would be live

in the present reality

We Come in Packs


I boast that I am a lone wolf

but truthfully

we come in packs

poets with unique perspectives

gifted and eloquent

we raise hell

and share peace

our words are meant 

to awaken your soul

and fill the dark holes of self hate

we aim to boost your confidence

and put ideas of resilience

in your mind and heart

and that’s just with a few words

tickling your brain

to make you think again

on what we said

we come in packs

and it’s not to attack

but to uplift the world

Lantern

 

every culture has a lantern analogy

that brings the reader or hearer

to the conclusion that light

is more than a gift to vision

it is a revolutionary perspective

the moral guidance device

that tells us to do the right thing

so that our figurative light

not only shines through our actions

but makes a resounding impact

on anyone that makes contact with us

Echo


Every word ought to echo through the atmosphere

Calming nerves while lightening their fears

Harkening all hearers to awake and arise

Opening their hearts to love


Linette Rabsatt is a Virgin Islands poet. Read her work in her Kindle book, “Be Inspired: Poems by Linette Rabsatt” and on her blog, Words of Ribbon. Her poems and short stories have been published in various journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Double Speak Magazine, Pulse Poetry Magazine, Syncopation Literary Journal, Spillwords, and Micromance Magazine. She won the 2024 and 2025 (tied) Read Yuh Ting TOO Virtual Caribbean Poetry Contests and placed second in the 2025 Tell Yuh Story Contest.

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