when Munich called me ~ I went again and again ~ to its white-blue skies
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Month: January 2017
At the core
if we could only ~ grasp the essence of stillness ~ all will become clear
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Franschoek: South Africa, October 2016
timeless travellers ~ we are at home everywhere ~ and nowhere at all
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Humour
life is a mocker ~ laughing at our dire efforts ~ best to laugh along
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Riptide
usually controlled ~ sometimes my words turn feral ~ my poetry wild
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Unblock
the first clean brush stroke ~ on an empty white canvas ~ breaks the silent spell
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Under African skies
we looked at the moon ~ the southern cross in the sky ~ that’s how it began
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Summer nights
sound of a heartbeat ~ fragrance of a summer night ~ softly drifting by
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Strewn
pieces of me lie ~ like washed-out ocean pebbles ~ wherever we were
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To simply be
this is where we are ~ no pretense or boundaries ~ simply in silence
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No shoes
now your are the path ~ along which I walk again ~ brave and barefooted
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Sun-kissed
captured in the poems ~ love letters from Africa ~ in sun-kissed raindrops
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Future
I stand on this rock ~ my two feet firmly planted ~ in tomorrow’s light
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Lacking leaders
I’ll give my last words ~ my last tears and my last pain ~ to lift your sorrow
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Love’s season
spring, summer, autumn ~ love a much deeper season ~ the winter too soon
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Entranced
last night I became ~ lost in an enchanted dream ~ playing in the clouds
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Writing haiku
the seasons repeat ~ I find myself grounded in ~ these simple words
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An idea has died
a painful gushing ~ of cheap nationalist dross ~ America dies
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Safety
I can shed my tears ~ I can laugh against your chest ~ fall into your strength
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Meeting of minds
one mind loves to flow ~ the other just wants to fly ~ meeting in a thought cloud
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Waking up
when morning mists drift ~ in the shadows of your eyes ~ I can’t go away
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Morning coffee
red-sunrise coffee ~ wakes me up to thoughts of you ~ wherever you are
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Interruption
in the deep blue night ~ dreams can drift forever free ~ sunrise interrupts
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Windows
gazing at the streets ~ through the windows of my heart ~ joy and pain revealed
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Blue fire
a fiery night ~ reflected in your eyes ~ in blue Dali streets
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Captured
caught in a child’s art ~ deep thoughts through time and space ~ of life and death
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Day job
on the dull grey days ~ when I wear my other hat ~ I miss this poet
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Restored
when we sleep at night ~ we return to innocence ~ and a fearless love
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Everything
an idea bursts forth ~ it flowers, grows, bears fruit and ~ then there is nothing
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Tokara sunset over Cape Town: South Africa, November 2016
city lights like stars ~ come through the dark from afar ~ guiding wanderers
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Softer moments
the tone of a voice ~ a glance, a fleeting affect ~ sharing a soft space
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Your song
only good words used ~ when I wrote your melody ~ many moons ago
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Flights and fights
I take flight above ~ while you fight the fierce dragon ~ of deep emotion
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Age
in my whispering ~ the end of us is captured ~ the end of our youth
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Spirit of Madiba
watching over us ~ as our struggles continue ~ in this complex land
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Life’s wonder
against the closed doors ~ that I perceived life to be ~ I sit in wonder
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Resonance – for ‘B’ in Budapest
you echo my thoughts ~ in such a beautiful way ~ it surprises me
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Taken
so distant so near ~ you are the restless ocean ~ that captured my mind
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White noise
I don’t understand ~ what it is you want to say ~ but I will listen
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Paris artist: July 1999
the dirt on his feet ~ from walking on Paris streets ~ paints my portrait
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Stone
look past the chill winds ~ to the warmth that I exude ~ from my inner depths
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Cape Town flower vendor
red tulips today ~ blue renunkels tomorrow ~ the man just smiles
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Apart
alone in the crowd ~ missing your sense of humour ~ missing my own space
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Gathering dreamers
lost in my own thoughts
two dreamers better than one
feather on the ground
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Spectral
you colour my life
an unexpected rainbow
in all shades of grey
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Summit
over land or sea
paths find a way to converge
minds a way to meet
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Tables
table set for two
yet only one has arrived
but three is a crowd
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Having fun
when I catch your stones
observing them with my hands
my mind is at ease
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One day
on that single day
I found the blue that’s you
between green and grey
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Insight
the understanding
that everything is nothing
the key to it all
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Dreamimg
we stand in the sun
with our dreams strewn in the wind
hoping they’ll fly back
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Drifter
in a sea of grey
so easy to drift away
and so hard to stay
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Haiku out of Africa 