She and He
...she sauntered around - up the greenest hill
he happily joined her, learning anew
she always stayed healthy, he often ill -
Proteas on Drakensberg Mountain, pink hue
he failed to see pink, tin...
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Categories:
drakensberg, age, beauty, best friend,
Form: Dizain
A Proudly Mapareng Citizen
...By Parizo Van Thulare
The land of my great grandfathers ,
The city of beautiful daughters ,
Raised with love and care by their hard working Mothers ,
Together they planted love ,
Lived so lo...
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Categories:
drakensberg, celebration, places, pride,
Form: Rhyme
The Princess and the Beautiful Road
...THE PRINCESS AND THE BEAUTIFUL ROAD
1. The Princess:
A generation ago in the month of October
A first fruit gifted the world a Princess
She was nurtured with the vital ingredients
She grew i...
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Categories:
drakensberg, africa, appreciation, dedication, love,
Form: Lyric
The Princess and the Beautiful Road
...THE PRINCESS AND THE BEAUTIFUL ROAD
1. The Princess:
A generation ago in the month of October
A first fruit gifted the world a Princess
She was nurtured with the vital ingredients
She grew i...
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Categories:
drakensberg, appreciation, dedication, love, romantic,
Form: Lyric
My Best Bouquets
...My Best Bouquets
Exotic crocuses and ferns, Appalachian Trail …
Baby’s breath that takes one’s breath away -
Orchids and epiphytes near inland waters of KwaZulu-Natal
A few fro...
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Categories:
drakensberg, adventure, africa, allusion, america,
Form: Verse
Hippocampus
...Hippocampus
What a memory trickling down my limbic system
Pure deep emotion released from a firing brain
Neurons transmitted untainted joy
A night dive at Stackpole Quay in Pembrokeshire
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Categories:
drakensberg, life,
Form: Free verse
Lover Monster
...Across the Sahara,
I come face to face with lover monster.
Upward across the Drakensberg,
I come face to face with lover monster.
Sailing along River Nile,
I come face to face with lover monster...
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Categories:
drakensberg, conflict, irony, wisdom,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Collapse of Great Mountains In Africa
...I had a dream last night
a disturbing dream it was
I saw in clear vision something
Mountains of Kilimanjaro
Kenya, Elgon, Ruwenzori
and Atlas, Adamawa, all mountains
in the African continent
c...
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Categories:
drakensberg, africa, satire,
Form: Free verse
Rainbow Nation
...Rainbow Nation
Blanca is white like beautiful snow in the Drakensberg Mountains
she snorted star powder past the perforated septum into her brain
Black as coal from the u...
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Categories:
drakensberg, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Maybe There Is a Way
...I wish there was a way
A better way to divulge emotions
As vividly as possible
Like a blue sky in broad daylight
So I can express how I feel
An leave no doubts in your heart
Because my int...
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Categories:
drakensberg, art, beautiful, courage, crazy,
Form: Ballad
Sketching
...SKETCHING
charcoals soft lines
in varied shades of grey
birds in flight their feathers spanned light
captured in detail through blue heavenly heights
an artist’s creation emerges
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Categories:
drakensberg, art, beauty, nature,
Form: Rictameter
Tales of King Shaka
...Gbum Shaka!
Sing to me,o Angel of
The legendary conqueror,
The great elephant that
Shook the foundations of
The earth.
Whirrrrrrrrrr......hear the
The voice of the wind
Whispering about...
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Categories:
drakensberg, adventure
Form: Epic