these thoughts are flowing ~ no pushing no holding back ~ finding their own way
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Month: August 2017
Tread softly
move across the land ~ touching lightly where you go ~ quiet wanderer
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It is here
the place in my mind ~ where I find a wild stillness ~ filled with your beauty
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Symbolic
giving it to me ~ to hold and to protect it ~ as token of trust
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Ancient places
never-ending sands ~ of a blue day and bird’s egg ~ that blow in the wind
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Sad
I did not realise ~ the true meaning of your words ~ so I let you go
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Like glass
for just a moment ~ the sky a blood-red marble ~ captured in suspense
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Delicate dance
with the ebb an flow ~ our emotions have to cope ~ in this odd duet
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Quarried
my emotional ~ archaeology of dirt ~ excavated you
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Astray
you were lost in me ~ for a brief moment in time ~ never to be found
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Arrival
when souls can be touched ~ through our poetry alone ~ we have arrived home
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Withdrawal
Triggering my mind ~ with deep riddles and layers ~ then you slip away
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Interconnecting
worlds intersecting ~ between meeting and parting ~ hallos and goodbyes
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My rock
so glad I found you ~ you’re as companionable ~ as my solitude
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Happy tears
I sit in the dark ~ listening to the raindrops ~ it’s a happy sound
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Young old souls
it is in their eyes ~ the depth of intelligence ~ of so many lives
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Take wing
there can’t be freedom ~ when fear imprisons your soul ~ so best dare to fly
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Abode
when I’m far away ~ home is how you sing my name ~ on a rainy day
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Come closer
take a closer look ~ colours, textures, emotions ~ often unnoticed
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What’s left of Rooipoort
here you went to school ~ here you made a love promise ~ a lifetime ago
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What’s left
maybe you went home ~ maybe you went somewhere else ~ but some of you stayed
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Song sung blue
then you sang to me ~ that old rocking melody ~ about hard times past
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Values
difficult because ~ I an truthful not neutral ~ I price I will pay
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For our children
if I could catch stars ~ I would give them all to you ~ for your tomorrow
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This new world
and then it was gone ~ everything we thought we knew ~ about who we were
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Different worlds
you are accepting ~ whereas I believe in dreams ~ our realities
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About this blog
when I change my name ~ the rules no longer apply ~ imagination
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Vocalist
voice like an angel ~ a man discovers himself ~ in his loneliness
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Finding teddy
when we reconnect ~ we make silences speak ~ in beautiful words
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Lost and found
I am wandering ~ forever looking for me ~ something you have found
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Nightshade
see in black and white ~ the beauty of shapes and sounds ~ moving in the night
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In deep water
I drown in your eyes ~ because I’ve yet to learn to swim ~ in their deep waters
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Resting space
when I found my place ~ in this big chaotic world ~ it was in your mind
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Little one
that was the day ~ I didn’t want to stop you ~ wanted you to fly
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Power of a haiku
written as a sketch ~ the mind’s eye is limitless ~ in its rendering
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We are the rocks
what is a woman? ~ we are soft and kind and strong ~ we are who we are
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Comprehension
could not understand ~ then I found the formula ~ of just listening
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Imminence
the nearness of you ~ plays on the shapes in my mind ~ in pastels and blues
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Skin
when you asked bluntly ~ what is it like to be white? ~ I was lost for words
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Our creation
ardour and airplanes ~ this world we’ve created ~ amongst the white clouds
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Penning
as I pen my thoughts ~ the world carries on and on ~ with me slowing down
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Intangible
when I allow you ~ in the patterns of my mind ~ you may see the wind
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Haiku wonder
the wonder remains ~ that it is mindboggling simple ~ and it’s nothing more
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Understood
an awareness shared ~ in that decisive moment ~ that’s without escape
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Like air
once I’ve let you in ~ I struggle to breathe you out ~ your essence remains
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Vibrant
you speak in colours ~ I hear you in a rainbow ~ our imagined world
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Set free
we are exposed in ~ phosphorous glow of the blues ~ emotions revealed
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Repose
after years walking ~ the traveller takes a seat ~ and looks at the moon
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Defenseless
in the tidal tug ~ I can only gravitate ~ towards your slow pull
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In stone
this is where we dream ~ in our galaxy of blues ~ our deep universe
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