Month: October 2016

Intersections

our parallel lives
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are all interconnected
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in astounding ways

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Old hat

this old hat of mine
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knew better days – so did I
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but these are the best

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Gone

do not ask my love
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I have given it away
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to the deep blue sea

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Timelines

knotted ropes of time
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weave endlessly through our lives
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to reconnect ties

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Artist

you gather them all
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the scattered pieces that’s me
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lost throughout the world

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Seeing

yet the eyes expose
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what the voice tries to conceal
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between all the words

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Alberto Giacometti at the Luisiana: Denmark, September 2016

movement in stillness
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captured in a woman’s form
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such a profound touch

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Hermanus, South Africa: October 2016

I’m a floating gull
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drifting on the ocean’s breeze
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happy to just be

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Days gone by

yesterday I found
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your letters in a shoebox
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and they brought a smile

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Transient

a round pebble
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in the hollow of my palm
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nothing is timeless

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Still waters

it is here we come
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to find another being
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to swim with our thoughts

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Dreaming

a warm, still, dark night
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a nightjar at my window
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dreams are being born

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So simple

just had a feeling
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needed to write you a poem
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so this is for you

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Full moon

a road less travelled
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led to strange places and you
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my trail to the moon

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Then and now

when I found your soul
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it was black, bent and broken
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now your spirit soars

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Cairo: July 2000

too little time to
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explore your ancient treasures
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too many tradesmen

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Easy

moments that are shared
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bring such unexpected depth
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and a light softness

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Shattered silence

breaking the stillness
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my thoughts shatter into words
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some of which you catch

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Sitting

a frog just sitting
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I would like to mimic it
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need to make time

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Desert song

when the desert dances
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with all its hued silhouettes
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my heart wants to sing

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Spent

tired but content
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sun softly touching my face
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the day was well-spent

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New friend

and there you appeared
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in the middle of my path
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to reclusiveness

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Poise

we drift as a pair
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in waters of composure
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our differences masked

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Sleeping

mercurial thoughts
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floating through the mists of time
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in my slow slumber

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In my hands

a fist full of dreams
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is all I have to bring
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will that be enough?

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Mt Sinai: July 2000

Sinai sunrise
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breathtakingly beautiful
–
it was a tough climb

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Gordon’s Bay, South Africa: October 2016

on a windless day
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blue reflections float away
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while gulls drift and play

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Vocabulary

there’s a tender soul
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tucked beneath your rough surface
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revealed in your words

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Thinking in colour

swift thoughts are captured
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in the colours of my mind
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a rainbow parade

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Yesterday

found my emotions
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lost in a grey Pierneef cloud
–
that you will not see

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Strange harmony

half shadow half light
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the beauty of a shared world
–
a dichotomy

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Daisies

over the bleak flats
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Namaqualand sprouts colour
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that discerns no bounds

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Multihued thinking

colours of my mind
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cover the rainbow spectrum
–
blue and grey and bright

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Simple splendour

to perceive something
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so stunningly beautiful
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so effortlessly

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Lasting impression

starry starry night
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captured in your wild brushstrokes
–
still enchanting us

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John’s refrain (V out of V)

dare we imagine
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a world without religion?
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that will bring us peace

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Written in collaboration with Poets for Peace where the full poem is available, here it is released on five consecutive Wednesdays

23 in Stellenbosch

found her delving in
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the mind’s creativity
–
filled me with wonder

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Boulder Colorado: April 2005

it burns in my lungs
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ice-cold Rocky Mountain air
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my body protests

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African child

when I hear the pain
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that is captured in your voice
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I die a little

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The gap

our colourful land
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our land of piercing contrast
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cast in black and white

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Inadvertent

they’re the most treasured
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those moments unintended
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that last forever

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Sheltering words

thinking our own thoughts
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spinning our delicate webs
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words that hug our worlds

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Recollection

it’s just a moment
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it’s just a vague memory
–
it lasts a lifetime

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