My Connection
written by: Linette Rabsatt
I’m almost five decades old
yet I want to run through the bushes
and find not hide
as a child I saw it as a place to
be out of sight
but as an adult I see the bushes
as a place to find treasure
those seldom seen fruits
artifacts that may connect
me to my roots
I want to run through the bushes
our native woodlands
because it takes me to a place
where my memory
connects me to the earth
Linette Rabsatt is a Virgin Islands poet with roots in the BVI and USVI who began writing in 1996. You can find her work in her Kindle book, "Be Inspired: Poems by Linette Rabsatt," in Pulse Poetry Magazine, and on her blog, Words of Ribbon. Her poems and short stories have been published in various journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Visual Verse, Syncopation Literary Journal, Spillwords, and Micromance Magazine. She won the 2024 Read Yuh Ting TOO Virtual Caribbean Poetry Contest and placed second in the 2025 Tell Yuh Story Contest.
Latest posts by Linette Rabsatt (see all)
- My Connection - May 19, 2026
- Laughter in Sorrow - January 18, 2026
- High - August 22, 2025
