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pink jersey : traditional pirouette

[Poet’s Note : this is a wry autobiographical memory written in traditional pirouette verse viz. 2 quintains, line 5 & 6 repeat, which is the toe turnaround. I wanted to write a narrative of a weird syncopated vignette, when I was knitting a pink mohair jersey at the time of my imprisonment. I reduced the narrative to a pirouette. When in prison, one of my interrogators was knitting the EXACT jersey in the exact colour & exact wool ! ie. in the final analysis, (in retrospect) everything in human life can be reduced to a pirouette, a turn-around dance ! ]


knitting a pink jersey
mohair with cables fine
to process flying thoughts
political activist 
south africa turmoiled

south africa turmoiled
security police
came with casspirs and cuffs
interrogation chamber
police knit jersey pink

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Im not your enemy

So many memories
of when I wasn't the enemy
when you craved just to be next to me
Flashbacks to how your love used to be
Like our future together 
was so easy for you to see
You wanted every part of me
n every night I was the one starring in your dreams
Being close made us both feel so complete
way back when it hurt so bad 
when I had to leave
I close my eyes and can still
feel my heart & souls relief 
these memories now can 
sometimes be hard to conceive 
even more so when I know
how differently Im perceived 
you no longer see what our 
Souls together can achieve 
The doubt thats filled your heart 
has left scars in parts that were
once filled with belief 
Im not your enemy 
but im almost out of energy
I cant compete
with your lost visions of me
thought your love was mine to keep
now I just sit here in complete agony
feeling so damn incomplete
Damn, the irony...

I'm not a Lady Chatterley's lover

I'm not a Lady Chatterley's lover.
I'm not her gamekeeper, I just dream of her.
I've been ensnared by her outward charm,
and though I know it will cause great harm,
I intend to read her, cover to cover.

Matildas Concert in Hinde

Movement Shod
Heeling halt
Abbreviated democracy
Flank in route

Gaurd maneuver out

Folded company

Beret for address

Redress complete

Back in Britain

Marina Ann Hantzis

Princess Matilda

Vulnerable Matilda Prodigy

Florence of the ash reddened twine Nightengale

Graphic design
I come from a brass adorned general
We don't resemble excess points
I am exit of branch in brass adjacent brad
Minute brigadier
Halt
Ag is creation
In duration of appointment
Grass is yawn
Foreign testimony
Irresolute burden

Friendly visions 1

The refusal of hindrance
Nulled void in presence of buddha

Blvd.

Bill of ardent
Assembly of literature budget
Education boundary activities
25th hour calls on sight

S P R I N G poetrix

      Spring! What a captivating flower!
           Its wonderful bright color
      Seduces everywhere with power!

Reliable Bible

Is your Bible reliable
Can it get up and walk
Can it take you places
Where love is meant to talk
Can you see it moving
In and out your life
It's promises often proving
When proof is out of sight
Can you hear it speaking
Not to ears but to the heart
Are the words yet living
In the reasoning of smart
Are you getting what it's giving
At Gods given time
Can you climb the mountian
It's asking you climb

we who loved america

We who loved America 

I enjoyed  America and remember touring 
a Sunday outside Houston (Texas), met in a café
a group of openly armed, elderly men 
They were courteous people one could meet 
I understood guns have cultural meaning
In America, we in Europe don't understand 
I remember a saying, "A country where the populace 
is armed, people are polite."
I stayed on the ship longer than needed, but had
To go home and get educated, I studied management 
and later ran a restaurant 
I was never at ease in my country, not that I suffer
Retromania, trying to escape my past, but
I was back on a ship again, this time as chief steward
plying the waters of America and the Caribbean.

Ended in misery

The heat creeps into the empty fabric
only getting colder
inside the tightly closed gray jacket
no warmth of jokes and laughter
nor embraces that are increasingly glowing
please, close your eyes for a moment
let me kiss between your reddened eyelids
bitterness of isolation

And if it's tomorrow
take the time for a final greeting
when I'm still stuck at the end of the road
so that the pressure on our shoulders will lighten

If it's still 20 counts
let's turn away before the bitterness ends and silences
before regret and suffocation grip us even more
before forgiveness and love are expressed again

PARAPHRASING MAX WEBER

           




Capitalism. It is what it is; 
Accurate and efficient ... 
Pity that humans 
egoistically little understand it ... 

Connivance can be pusilamine, 
But it's not a sign of weakness ... 
It is an option for the strongest! 

In politics, it is not used 
Just good for the good ... 
Not even evil for evil ... 
Everything can be reversed, 
It depends on the support you have ...! 

In politics you live for her, 
or if you live it ... 
Usually the two 
practices are confused ... 

Sometimes everything we need, 
It's a right word, at the right time 
To then realize the act ...!

untitled : 1410

        


           My Heart, home of the Undying is open and healed
         Lifetime after lifetime arduous I journeyed, peeled

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7-9-2025

Brilliant it blossoms, 
Struggle and cry out for help. 
Shattered, 
But alive. 

Willingness forgotten, 
Try to huddle as would a whelp. 
I'm not flattered, 
But I survived. 

Killing season, 
More losses, 
Mother may not recognise my yelp. 
Not everyone has heard, 
Feels like everyone scattered, 
I conceded to the night cries.

Honorable mention in My Song 2

Thinking of You   Lyrics By  Speaks Volumes

The shadow whisper

It’s whispers.
Can you hear them?
I don’t want to,
but they force me to.

Sitting in an empty room,
with no one—
just a cigarette in my hand.

Every time it touches my lips,
it kills me
and makes me want to avoid it—

I know that cigarette is not good for me,
but I like doing something
I know is going to kill me.

But he likes that I do that—
killing myself, he whispered to me,
saying, “Can we switch places?”

I said, “How can I get into the wall?
You are a shadow.”

But how…
I was talking to a shadow
in a room
completely empty and dark.

The whispers say to me:
“Look at me.
Look at the darkness,
and feel both sides of it
that you don’t think exist.”

I thought something was wrong.
I kept hearing him
until he said:
“Come closer…
to someone else in the room,
because my name isn’t dead.”

When I turned on the light,
I saw nothing
but my shadow dancing in front of me,
my body frozen, watching.

And when I looked back,
something was coming out of the wall
with a cigarette,
saying to me:
“I like doing something
I know is going to kill me."

I had blood on my face

I had blood on my face. Dirty. Gracious. And… disgusting. Blood dripping on my face. Didn’t know it. It just smelled bad.

When I looked at my face in the mirror, I thought… that the mirror had the blood.

I kept cleaning it. Cleaning it. Rubbing it. With my arms. With my palms. With my fingertips.

At the fatigue, I could get in my fingertips until that blood dripped from my face onto the mirror.

And now I understand that I had a problem. Who caused problems on both me and the mirror.

Now I can clean the blood on my face. But what about the mirror?

i'm going to start wearing a ruff

my son is having weekly online lessons. with 
a tutor. that is an assertive declarative fact.
and so is the asiatic toad. 
ploughing represents life.

clumsy, stumbling stuff
i now own five different lanyards around my neck
and can get into many places with confidence. 
cullinan diamond.

the tutor is a university student. he asks, 'my dad  
wants to know what music university students
are listening to nowadays.'
she replies, 'soft rock and pop.'

what happened to the Plastic Ono Band?

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