You stood behind me the day I received
A spirit you swore to guide and protect,
Love as you so marvellously did. I remember,
The Christmas presents, the Easter eggs,
Your smiles, your jokes, the liqueur you made,
Your azure … CONTINUE READING »
As long as we
White caucasoid, yellow or dusky mongoloid
Orange australoid, black negroid, and perhaps
Khoisanoids, non-bantu lighter South Africans
The closest thing to original Homo sapiens.
European, Asian, Oceanian, African, the first
Three descendants of the latter, and perhaps
Native American, progeny … CONTINUE READING »
Madness
Seated on grass the lake before me
Waiting for night to fall and stars to follow
Anticipation, a red pillow and a mat.
People around me not too close
Amidst caves made of tree canopies
Search for twigs and logs, … CONTINUE READING »
Chasing Stars
August held my hand in silence
Shushed the noise for me to heed
The wind caressing crisp dry leaves
Clinging on thirsty trees exhausted
By the blossoms they engendered
Throughout the past five moons.
Pervaded by summer frissons I followed… CONTINUE READING »
None of us can breathe
Grey skies weep as rumours run along the streets
What once were murmurs hung on Angel Oak tree
Became hollers in cotton fields carried by winds
Praising the Lord skinning mules shucking corn
Blue notes they howled for water, food … CONTINUE READING »
Marvelling Motion
Never fails to marvel, endless motion
Of all that exists, my heartbeat tiny dots
In the night sky, they say are so much bigger
Should one approach, balls of fire
Emitting light to engender life, particles
Of fantasy fusing to … CONTINUE READING »
Not Our Taste
I burnt courgettes last night
Made a grimace to the tang
My thought instantly challenged
By a startling anthropological idea
What if my taste was not mine?
Perhaps I dislike the miasma
Of carbonised foods for my genes suggest
They … CONTINUE READING »
Adieu Mister Water
Conceiving your absence in this world
Is impossible, your death notified
Through Google alerts a surreal version
Of past telegrams written in black. Stop.
Our encounter a decade ago a dreamy memory
I always looked back with a smile, of … CONTINUE READING »
Cheers
As countries celebrate the end of the second
Global war their foe surrendering on the seventh
Of May, seventy-five years ago, the town crier
Announces a novel enemy, to humanity
Arising from conspiracies, submicroscopic,
That is quite invisible, to our … CONTINUE READING »
At the edge of life
Deprived of cellular structure man defined
Viruses as organisms at the edge of life,
Yet on life they feed and through natural selection
They evolve to unleash death, a pandemic, terror.
Reports are incongruent, measures bizarre,
Numbers don’t tally and … CONTINUE READING »