as silences play ~ around the pebbles of time ~ I hear the earth’s voice
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Month: February 2017
No entry
u-turn of my mind ~ again and again I turn ~ in one direction
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Day gone by
our day of sharing ~ warm like the stones in my hand ~ softly drifts away
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Not leaving
when I said goodbye ~ you picked up your blue suitcase ~ but then could not leave
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Being lost
sometimes getting lost ~ brings a new experience ~ enriching our lives
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New journey
a route that’s unmapped ~ across waves we navigate ~ sailing in the wind
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Bittersweet
on some blue-sky days ~ I miss you bitter-sweetly ~ coveting our clouds
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Too many words
fifty words for sand ~ one hundred words for white snow ~ how many for you?
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Ending
as we drift apart ~ I fly away from sadness ~ into the sunset
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Misunderstandings
such an oddity ~ even with the same language ~ we don’t understand
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Balancing act
walking the tightrope ~ of oblique innuendo ~ and finely weighed words
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Toulouse, France: July 2016
as I walk your streets ~ in summer sunshine sublime ~ all else falls away
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In circles
tell me anything ~ rather than the promises ~ hidden in your eyes
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Dorp
rain on the zinc roof ~ dry red dust between my toes ~ child of Africa
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Blues
when I turn away ~ I no longer want to see ~ the sadness in you
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Alive
being vulnerable ~ making interesting choices ~ brings us to life
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From my window: Molemane Eye, February 2017
a Highveld morning ~ and in each lingering drop ~ the storm is captured
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Erased
our words become dust ~ in which we finger-paint thoughts ~ to be wiped away
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Realism
an experience ~ with time becomes fantasy ~ imagination
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Bashful
a shade shy of love ~ this affection that we share ~ in our private world
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Trust
I leave my fragments ~ without regret or restraint ~ safely in your hands
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Flying
over the sand dune ~ across the deep blue ocean ~ my spirit flies free
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Lingering
I searched your eyes ~ for a comma or full stop ~ but it never came
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Shape of today
throughout the decades ~ as sweet loves came and went ~ all were shapes of you
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Verbal waltz
capturing our thoughts ~ words dancing across the page ~ before they take flight
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Swakopmund, Namibia: January 2017
alive in stillness ~ the endless sound of the dunes ~ gently tucks us in
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Egos
I’m lost in the crowd ~ of such senseless posturing ~ your presence brings sense
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Awareness
I cannot recall ~ how many dreams I have dreamt ~ living life awake
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Indulgent
when I remember ~ still days filled with sun and wind ~ I find a soft smile
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Inner music
it’s forever lost ~ all the most beautiful notes ~ music of our souls
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Aware
I open my eyes ~ to the silence of your touch ~ just breathing it in
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Mindful simplicity
tucked deeply away ~ in the beauty of our minds ~ such simplicity
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Gift
I bring a pebble ~ like an Antarctic penguin’s ~ eternal fondness
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Artist
painting in colours ~ with the warm tones of your voice ~ beguiling my mind
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Smultronställe
here’s my secret space ~ where I drift on a sea breeze ~ with wild strawberries
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Hush
not wasting our words ~ on the silences we share ~ doting on stillness
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From my window, Windhoek, Namibia: January 2017
in soft morning clouds ~ it’s so easy to forget ~ the land’s thirstiness
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Now
living for today ~ cherishing our yesterdays ~ dreaming tomorrows
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Wind
the wind pleats the sea ~ gives rhythm to the oceans ~ shapes where we anchor
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Walking on air
on this little path ~ your heart lightly touching mine ~ our minds might take flight
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Readers
when you read me ~ when you become my story ~ we gently unfurl
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Crowded solitude
voices in a choir ~ give sound to my solitude ~ amidst the crowd
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Gravity
I got lost in you ~ never to be found again ~ from those swirling depths
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Tone
I can’t stop hearing ~ the stillness in your voice ~ a heart’s melody
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Calling America: the world misses you Mr President
always eloquent ~ always with a touch of warmth ~ and humility
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Release
like a caged seagull ~ when I cannot share my thoughts ~ then you set me free
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I
this is who I am ~ I am that what I create ~ as simple as that
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European spring
beneath the white snow ~ in the death of winter ~ stirs a tiny seed
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Intact
do not hide your flaws ~ they are precious reflections ~ of an unspoilt soul
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Haiku out of Africa 