Best Karoo Poems

As i looked up to the sky

The darkness ever so slightly dissipated

And was replaced by the majesty, grace,
wonder and beauty

Of a billion plus stars

Some so...

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October

There is disquiet in the air tonight
The noise is still is sullen
Summery with a hint of Sunday blue.

A cricket in the Karoo
A mom sitting on...

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They say
?There are a million ways?
To say I love you

In this day and age?
I could only find
?In my computer’s brain?
The words 
to say I love...

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Marie Charlotte in the back of the Beetle, sleeping 
Young lovers, engaged on the road with their destiny
Suddenly through the fog… a cliff… a scream…dreadfully...

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In dusty Karoo towns
Sunday afternoons are 
sentences of solitary confinement

Deserted streets
closed doors and windows
No sign of life

One wonders if the rapture
has taken place...

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You have everything
I am betrayed by you
Let it be. the great 
Karoo will listen to my
Heart's long complaint...

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Ronnies Sex Shop
http://ronniessexshop.co.za/
By Franklin Price
6/1/2017

While riding through the klein karoo in South Africa one day
We came upon a place of fun as we went along...

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In the old green country
The artist painted beauty
The river in a flow of orange
A blue-grey backdrop
The rolling Drakensburg mountain range

A mosaic of nine shades
With eleven...

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DAUGHTERS

Opposites presented by Goddess
In talons of Eagle
         On wings of Dove
Equally loved

A torrent from a fierce black...

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Late afternoon the Karoo-sun battles
with trees and leaves 
to be noticed

The shadows dance and play
on the ground
like children...

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CHARMING SOUTH AFRICAN WINTER 

Countries where fluffy, naughty frilly snow continually falls, 
Is a fairy-tale where children and adults, skate on sheets of ice.
In South...

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We sat languidly on our porch
While the sun blow torched the small Karoo town

A shimmering image appeared in the distance,
Treading the dusty brown path with...

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Crisp grasses reflect ghost-white;
Ethereal shafts of moonlight.
Tenebrous shifting shadows;
Declivity of dolerite rows.
A lonely spirit roams freely — 
A fresh headstone in the lee.

POET'S NOTE
When written...

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The sun baked down on our Karoo town
It is dryer than dry; not a cloud in the sky.
No one in the street.
Nothing moves in that...

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The northern star
Is my next girlfriend
Your gaze haunts me
From the little karoo
To the great karoo...

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