please don’t try too hard ~ I love your imperfections ~ more than anything
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Month: June 2017
Sprinkled
night-time fireflies ~ scatter in all directions ~ leading me astray
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City dweller
when evening dawns ~ I yearn for the open veld ~ wind against my skin
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Scatterling
in all the places ~ that we were once together ~ the fragments of me
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The leap
heart upon my sleeve ~ I dive into the ocean ~ of deep emotion
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Shared words
our common language ~ cannot be a spoken one ~ yet we understand
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Silent stones
in your quietude ~ I discover the music ~ of our private world
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Pace
I want to slow down ~ I want to have some more time ~ to count my words
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Bubble
curling into you ~ I find my own unique space ~ in the universe
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Releasing dragonflies
finding dragonflies ~ chasing our dreams together ~ then letting them go
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Impaired
I learn your language ~ by listening to your voice ~ I don’t understand
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Slightly lost
for once and for words ~ I am just a little lost ~ in my emotions
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Lullaby
you sing me to sleep ~ with the colours on your voice ~ dancing in your eyes
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We have time
when steel roses bloom ~ it’s not to late for a dance ~ we are still alive
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Non-virtual
when I touch your heart ~ when you can see the real me ~ then we are alive
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It’s all
the dunes, clouds and stones ~ and then you, and you, and, you ~ and nothing more
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Contradiction
my pencil sketches ~ capture laughter in your eyes ~ but tears in your smile
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Drifter
the half-moon drifting ~ in passing melancholy ~ of our deep blue hearts
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Sharing poetry
you let me tumble ~ into the depths of your mind ~ where such passion hides
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Chorus
now that I can see ~ the music of your body ~ there’s a soft refrain
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Sugar & spice
the little girl said ~ I like you more than ice cream ~ and that said it all
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Tranquility
in our quietude ~ we let the world rush by us ~ making moments last
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In the moment
dancing tomorrows ~ in our dreams of yesterday ~ all we need today
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Inner music II
our whispering hearts ~ hum a very special song ~ only we can hear
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Teaching in South Africa
all in a day’s work ~ hunger, rape, aids and pregnancy ~ my heart is breaking
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Only then
when I’m adrift ~ when my heart beats to your mind ~ then I feel at home
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Coming or going?
in contradiction ~ you stand before me again ~ not ready to leave
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Time waits for no one
the clock ticks away ~ the minutes forever lost ~ welcome to earth
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Hearing eyes
the sound of your eyes ~ resonates in the ocean ~ colouring your touch
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Adeu
when like a lost word ~ blossom petals float away ~ it’s time for goodbyes
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Inaccessible
behind a bruised word ~ behind a heart that is locked ~ I found you hiding
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No-shoes haiku
barefoot through my mind ~ no charade or holding back ~ words I share with you
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Sleepwalking
I wander in awe ~ on the trail of a deep night ~ that brought you to me
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Lingering
dragonfly hovers ~ waiting for its mate to join ~ in their complex dance
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Exposed
naked like water ~ its ephemeral beauty ~ washes over me
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Your song
soft tone in my ears ~ an explosion in my mind ~ never stop singing
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Full circle
you will drift from me ~ like a lost seed in the wind ~ finding your way back
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Nights & days
dancing on my tongue ~ the peachy pink of salmon ~ deep black-olive nights
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Your space
nowhere in the world ~ nowhere in the folds of time ~ is a space like you
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Voices
the daisies whisper ~ why are we still listening ~ to the wind and the sun?
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Wordless
only one ‘always’ ~ the language of our bodies ~ grammar with no words
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Glass ceilings
against the ceiling ~ endless prayer of the mantis ~ which brings no respite
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Nonsense
drifting through this world ~ thinking it will all make sense ~ nothing really does
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Painter
I lose myself in ~ the blue landscape of your voice ~ painting me like snow
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Dawn
born in full colour ~ brought out of the darkest night ~ a new day begins
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Zuma’s ANC creates desolate poverty
new ANC’s greed ~ does what Apartheid couldn’t do ~ it destroys our dreams
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Drover
herder of the clouds ~ gather my bits and pieces ~ with calm in your eyes
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Hearing you
your voice soothes my soul ~ silences my inner storms ~ calming restless waves
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The vulgar greed of our leader/s: South Africa June 2017
ANC stalwarts ~ how could you let this happen? ~ our land is broken
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Wafting
listening to you ~ I drift away on sunlight ~ and butterfly wings
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Games
we play in the wind ~ you hide me like a treasure ~ a gift from the sea
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Haiku out of Africa 