tell her you saw me
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tell her you saw me ...
tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape during a gale, much too close to the rocks … tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges, its roar far too loud for me to hear...
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Categories:
durban, adventure, analogy, anxiety, break
Form: Epic
Sanny Day
...It is sunny day today
she looks at her beauty
as it is a beautiful day
to play with friends at the beach.
A good place for the poor and rich
as it always free to touch
waters and sands w...
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Categories:
durban, africa, beach, beauty, day,
Form: Rhyme
Breaking News- Rip Aka
...Police sources in Durban have confirmed Rapper Kiernan "AKA" Forbes was shot dead in a drive-by shooting spree on Florida Road, on Friday Night. Another person believed to be AKA's bodyguard, was al...
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Categories:
durban, betrayal, death, emotions,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Mum Asked Me Write Something Dedicated To Charl
...In these uncertain times seemingly
ever harder to predict and navigate
what on earth we are about to be hit
with or be faced to deal with next
It's nice to know there are something's
we can...
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Categories:
durban, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Remembering Gratitude and Sam Kauffman
...After I graduated as teacher: East London High
Because I boarded at an ashram in Durban
Check of my first salary, went to it as thanks
NOTE: The Swami - "not good in Christ terms" - but the most...
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Categories:
durban, africa, america, bible, character,
Form: ABC
Tell Her You Saw Me
...Tell her you saw me ...
Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud for me to hear...
...
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Categories:
durban, allegory, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Senryu Series
...name of a crane
saras - India - sarees
flying past each other
II
friend named Bubbles
or "victory" originally
he alone unchanged in Guateng
III
green pastures, youth, Durban
Bad old good...
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Categories:
durban, africa, angst, loneliness, nostalgia,
Form: Senryu
Senryu Series
...name of a crane
saras - India - sarees
flying past each other
II
friend named Bubbles
or "victory" originally
he alone unchanged in Guateng
III
green pastures, youth, Durban
Bad old good...
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Categories:
durban, africa, angst, loneliness, nostalgia,
Form: Senryu
Veterans Bro Pentecost and Coleman Our Families
...On Mission in South Africa, I am missed in Virginia
Only the CHRIST family I belong to, can match with stamina
The love of my sister Maureen, and her hubby Mr. Mothilal
As I was surprised by the J...
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Categories:
durban, absence, adventure, africa, age,
Form: Elegy
Hitch 3: Not Vegas
...Please don't say Vegas.
We're halfway between Durban and Bloem',
so don't say Vegas, okay ?
Thankfully you found a way, reluctantly,
to settle on the right answer
without saying it out loud.
Al...
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Categories:
durban, people,
Form: Free verse
I Know Why You Cry
...I know why you cry
You miss me every night
Come to durban your
Spiritual emptiness
Will find it's match in me...
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Categories:
durban, africa,
Form: Tanka
Passion For Painting
...Oil painting sold in a busy old street
A man with no hands,
using only his feet
Lively the colours, sunset in gold!
Unframed his paintings at Durban price sold
Speechless as people stop and ador...
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Categories:
durban, beach, emotions, inspirational,
Form: ABC
Winter In the African Sun
...Winter in the African sun
Feels like sizzling summer fun
Come down to Durban beach
And all your blues will be bleached
This is South Africa’s playground
We have a golden tan all year-round
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Categories:
durban, beach, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Sea Lion
...Sea-Lion
I saw a seal in Durban big and sleek and its smile
Was wondrous, I think it had green eyes, right,
But, I’m not a very god swimmer and is sceptical
Of water, mermaids and swimming pools...
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Categories:
durban, giggle,
Form: Blank verse
African Love Map
...Captured by the beauty of Lillian
I think of her on the coast of Durban.
With her is where I want to be.
So beautiful she could be a Wodaabe.
There's no way I could assign a worth,
Indeed the mo...
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Categories:
durban, africa, beauty, emotions, journey,
Form: Rhyme
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