Lenrie Peters Poetry

Lenrie Peters was a Gambian writer and doctor who also worked as an educationist. He was born in 1931 in Bathurst and attended Trinity College, where he read Natural Science. He later started writing plays, poems, novels, and more. His only novel, The Second Round, was published in 1965. He’s also known for his collection, Poems, published a year earlier.

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Homecoming

‘Homecoming’ by Lenrie Peters is a poem about someone returning home after a long time away. This person is moved by the immense changes that their home has undergone during this period.

Lenrie Peters often wrote about the feelings people experience when returning to places that have changed over time. His poem 'Homecoming' captures the emotional depth of coming back to a familiar yet altered environment, exploring how shifts in identity and culture can create tension between past traditions and present realities.

The present reigned supreme

Like the shallow floods over the gutters

Over the raw paths where we had been,

The house with the shutters.

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