like a migrant bird ~ my thoughts return to your touch ~ then I fly away
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Month: September 2017
Cambridge: UK, September 2017
our dreaming shadows ~ hum melodies in the wind ~ fly towards the sun
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Swallows
she has warmed his heart ~ for the briefest of moments ~ and he has touched hers
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Rift
you misread my words ~ whereas I trusted your tone ~ now we are both lost
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Autumn in Lund: Sweden, September 2017
on a dreary day ~ hiding from the pouring rain ~ amongst fallen leaves
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Providence
despite what we plan ~ our dark dreams and rosy schemes ~ life will run its course
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Experience
seemingly sad song ~ a love found and a love lost ~ but a lifetime gained
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Timeless
pebbles on the beach ~ pieces of the universe ~ fragments of always
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Path
happily forlorn ~ I’m on my road to nowhere ~ which leads everywhere
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Reside
in this world’s cities ~ where we dwell on silent paths ~ amongst the hustle
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Time out
I walk in the veld ~ a butterfly follows me ~ all is left behind
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Shelter
build me a glass house ~ so that my windows seep sun ~ and I breathe blue skies
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Ephemeral intrigue
a spider’s web ~ a dewdrop caught glistening ~ brief magnificence
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All is said
in simplicity ~ directness of expression ~ and intensity
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The blues
in a blue-tinged world ~ my being blue disappears ~ into soft blueness
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Museum of Modern Art: Stockholm September 2017
sharing memories ~ as we walk the galleries ~ that capture our souls
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Appreciation
in your hands it grew ~ beyond what I imagined ~ it could ever be
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Follow your dreams
fly against the tide ~ if that is where your dreams lead ~ swim amongst the clouds
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From a Stockholm roof terrace: Sweden, September 2017
far away from home ~ balmy autumn afternoon ~ sun and thunderclouds
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?
am I brave enough ~ to just let the moment be ~ no explanation?
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Writing life
a poet’s pencil ~ a soul that calls for music ~ let us fill the page
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Along the path
these words come walking ~ no forcing no holding back ~ finding their own way
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Matter of scale
on a bare tree branch ~ sits a sparrow in the cold ~ we are all so small
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Along the way
on our way to death ~ we should play and laugh and sing ~ make each moment count
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Resonating
playing our music ~ one sweet movement at a time ~ haunting melodies
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Academia
green growth of young minds ~ nurtured, summered and ripened ~ in autumn ochres
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The gift
he gave her a stone ~ the best gift she ever had ~ a piece of his heart
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Northern nights
drifting in the dark ~ sickle moon in autumn nights ~ when stars get to touch
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Blue moon
blue moon in autumn ~ just once in a lifetime ~ once is enough
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Breeze
in the autumn winds ~ I tumbled into your space ~ bringing southern spring
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Obstacles
in between our worlds ~ lies so much complexity ~ yet we find a way
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Landskrona, Sweden: September 2017
the softest ocean ~ surrounds a grey rainy day ~ envelopes shared thoughts
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Athens, Greece: June 2017
in the four winds blow ~ The cornerstones of my heart ~ ever circling
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Discovery
every now and then ~ a new facet of ourselves ~ a new awareness
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Articulate
there is so much noise ~ therefore we become ~ fluent in silence
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Charmed
the moon blows a kiss ~ towards the deep blue ocean ~ on this magic night
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Note to self
easy, just let go ~ become soft in the moment ~ and drift on the wind
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Enclosed
the words we don’t speak ~ are captured in depictions ~ silently attached
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Guardian
take care of this dream ~ our universe created ~ in a blue moment
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Whisper
I whisper your name ~ the wind carries it away ~ across the oceans
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Dictums
always grappling with ~ convenient conventions ~ caging us apart
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Floating on air
I am suspended ~ for I have a private moon ~ within which I waft
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Reflecting
these days of onyx ~ these days of ruminating ~ about what was lost
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Illusions
barefoot in the rain ~ Johannesburg’s streets scorching ~ we were never free
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Cinders
sometimes beauty comes ~ from the ashes of our hurt ~ to heal what’s broken
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Whale song
haunting melody ~ when we sing through the oceans ~ our eternal song
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Object of affection
the one I treasure ~ the one I stumble upon ~ on a bright blue day
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Unspoken
you kept listening ~ to all that I did not say ~ then you understood
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Discovered
when I found it there ~ one night on a desert dune ~ I roped in the moon
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Voyagers
global trevellers ~ our eyes rove the horizon ~ for our destiny
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My sound
I have learned to whisper ~ even when I want to shout ~ only then I’m heard
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Never-ending
stories do not end ~ we simply stop telling them ~ when they come too close
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Potter’s wheel
always returning ~ our abandoned memories ~ of shattered moments
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Stretch
yawn at my window ~ pluck me from deep slumber ~ a pink break of day
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Listening for silence
after the big bang ~ we still yearn to hear silence ~ original sound
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Unaffected
slipping from my pen ~ without pretence or control ~ a river of thoughts
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Life
story of our lives ~ tragedy and comedy ~ so we laugh and cry
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Memories
so many people ~ each one captured in a poem ~ each an emotion
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Tonight
in silver moonlight ~ looking over my shoulder ~ at the fading stars
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Finding me
I become so lost ~ in my isolated ways ~ but then you find me
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Messengers
my mind is in circles ~ around midnight messages ~ I don’t understand
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