The Unheeded Cries
...Our stupid silence
Sends screams and screams
And unheeded sounds called cries
Who will ever listen to our silence?
The bombs they send build balls of bad behavior
Which build mischief, barring...
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Categories:
disquisitions, africa, anger, political, power,
Form: ABC
Villanelle: the Poietics of Being
...Villanelle : The Poietics* of Being
This World and All that we see and cannot
Came into being without warning
With its Past and Future replete with plot
There’s no such thing as the Present in ...
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Categories:
disquisitions, philosophy,
Form: Villanelle
Gerard Sekoto, In Memorium: 1913 - 1993, Part Three
... [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close re...
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Categories:
disquisitions, friendship, world,
Form: Elegy
Gerard Sekoto, In Memorium: 1913 - 1993 Parts One and Two
... [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close re...
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Categories:
disquisitions, anger, friendship, may, words,
Form: Elegy
He Who Creates Re-Creates Himself
...for René Passeron*
You may not grow old too soon
if
Things you have known will come back to you again
No revision nor recall need put them back in place
Time was wh...
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Categories:
disquisitions, art, time,
Form: Didactic