what a nice delight ~ when I caught you in my sight ~ with your colours bright
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Month: May 2017
Bugged
love bug in my hand ~ between laundry and peaches ~ reminds me of you
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Brand new
a glossy pink day ~ breaks free from the ocean ~ softly drifts away
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Shades
shadows on the sun ~ thrown by the clouds in my mind ~ on fine prcelain
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Unabridged
when you read my poems ~ they are unedited me ~ with layered meaning
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My way
my wandering ways ~ are scattered in the four winds ~ yet you know them all
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In passing
sing me your own song ~ pick wild flowers on your way ~ then go home again
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Suburbia
and there it resides ~ in the suburbs of my heart ~ black sunlight and ice
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Plummeting
we found each other ~ in a perfect tumbling space ~ now endlessly lost
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Always blue
love is nothing but ~ an eternal blue yearning ~ tugging at our hearts
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Feeling green
last night in your sky ~ a horse-shoe moon and stars ~ a four-leafed clover
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Soundless space
planets are spinning ~ the sun our eternal core ~ everything so still
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Tease
in its mockery ~ the parrot’s voice echoes mine ~ inescapably
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Early harmony
red-berry daybreak ~ reflected in the mirror ~ of your morning song
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Safely caught
I fall from your lips ~ and I stumble through my words ~ but then you catch me
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In focus
it is dark outside ~ someone has stolen the moon ~ I see you clearly
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Colourful moments
they live forever ~ captured in paintings and dreams ~ cradled in my mind
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Wonderland
down the rabbit hole ~ we slip when we share a space ~ shaping our own world
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Seperate
I cannot discern ~ the dream from reality ~ in shared emotions
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It’s blind
love garbles our views ~ hides our inadequacies ~ a moment’s repose
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Luisiana, Denmark: September 2016
I stand on one world ~ looking into another ~ always out of reach
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Heat
fragrant red roses ~ in the middle of winter ~ bring warm memories
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Memories
thoughts like driftwood ~ softly rolling through my mind ~ tonight I am still
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Tension
child of the oceans ~ blowing hot and blowing cold ~ keep me in suspense
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Zuma legacy
after two decades ~ townships a reality ~ but it should not be
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Hello!
when you woke me up ~ it was to a brand new world ~ of mists and magic
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Progression
you make the music ~ I dance to its slow rhythm ~ forever closer
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Sharing mind space
through the dark ether ~ I trace the shape of our minds ~ drifting through space-time
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Homing
footprints of my heart ~ criss-crossing trails in the sand ~ always returning home
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From my window: Hermanus, South Africa, November 2016
I fly with your soul ~ and return you to the sea ~ always to come back
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Do they know?
the child is not dead ~ young Africans lift their fists ~ not sure against whom
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Not enough
to explore our hearts ~ we only have one lifetime ~ which is not enough
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Inhalation
I reveal my soul ~ in this moment that we share ~ then I hold my breath
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Conversation
when we find ourselves ~ tied in such a pleasing way ~ time no longer weighs
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Meeting
we meet each other ~ we meet on roads untraveled ~ we meet in our minds
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Remembered
in forgotten dreams ~ I still hear your silent voice ~ your hands fly like birds
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Stellar
today I curled up ~ in the safety of your mind ~ a beautiful space
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Homo naledi: Maropeng, South Africa, May 2017
another fossil ~ rewriting our history ~ we’re all African
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Haiku out of Africa
African voices
it’s a melody ~ that caresses my still heart ~ ’till she falls apart
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Tunnel vision
still looking for us ~ unravelled and blown apart ~ by the winds of fate
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Hands
I look at your hands ~ they are rough from years of work ~ they yearn for a touch
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Elements unite
stirring sea and sky ~ the rising sun in a touch ~ coming from afar
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Imperfections
we can’t hide the cracks ~ they are there for all to see ~ might as well love them
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Solitary path
to live our full lives ~ some of us will walk alone ~ in a moonlit sky
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Anchored
your hope is holding ~ me who want to drift away ~ steadfast in the wind
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Light-footed
we walk tippy-toed ~ across the tightrope of hearts ~ intersecting ours
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Legend
and so we can write ~ such a beautiful story ~ of a simple love
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Drifting by
float through my dreamscape ~ with your changing emotions ~ in rainbow colours
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Shimmering
I look at the moon ~ it’s wandering in your eyes ~ reflecting a smile
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Treasure
simplicity is ~ the hardest thing to achieve ~ easiest to lose
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Acclimatising
loving solitude ~ thrown when someone comes along ~ settling in my mind
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