Detriment

when Munich called me ~ I went again and again ~ to its white-blue skies


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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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