Continuum - Part Two
...Climbing from the sands, velociraptors turn as one
Triceratops and stegosaurs arise to share the fun
And then they march en masse toward that briny maelstrom
And Adam Adams yells, “They’re heading...
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Categories:
fertilise, future, humanity, time,
Form: Narrative
Spring
...Some letters seem superfluous, you’ll cede:
but with no tulips, spring would not be spring.
We’re used to think in terms of things we need.
Desiring counts for more; it bids us sing.
I find my ...
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Categories:
fertilise, seasons,
Form: Sonnet
Muck Spreading
...This was the way it was
In my childhood days
With ancient and tried
Crop farming ways.
Up to the ankles in slurry,
Muck fork in hand,
Ready to spread manure
To fertilise the land.
No tractor ...
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Categories:
fertilise, farm, father, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Tripod
...His new wife proclaimed, ‘Oh my God’
I think I’ve just wed a tripod
I now understand
Your steps in the sand
You left a third trail where you trod
Those newlyweds lay hand in hand
Thei...
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Categories:
fertilise, lust, marriage,
Form: Limerick
Bees, Birds and Butterflies
...Heart is a neglected garden,
diseased by an epidemic of weeds.
Breathless, pining for your breaths -
breathe passion into me
so bees, birds and butterflies return.
Cultiva...
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Categories:
fertilise, analogy, nature, romance,
Form: Free verse
Dazzling Darkness
...Before we go to bed we vegetate
No need for teacher but a compost heap.
And as we vegetate, we drift to sleep
While in our dreams our little mind debates
But mostly we’re unknowing in th...
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Categories:
fertilise, allegory, allusion, anniversary, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
We Live Because We Are Breathed By Sacredness
...Before we go to bed we vegetate
No need for teacher but a compost heap.
And as we vegetate, we drift to sleep
While in our dreams our little mind debates
But mostly we’re unknowing in this dark...
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Categories:
fertilise, allegory, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Watching Spring
...As I sit and watch, I notice
that colour is creeping back.
Buds are ready to burst into life
promising a good crop of fruits.
Birds flitter around collecting
twigs and other nesting materials....
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Categories:
fertilise, bird, nature, spring,
Form: Verse
Artificial Iland
...The artificial islet
There is an island in the sea
ten feet deep it has a mountain to
of baby diapers which fertilise
the layers of sand blown by the wind.
Some birds lay eggs there
the hatc...
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Categories:
fertilise, deep, fantasy, irony,
Form: Blank verse
A Bed of Poems
...A word
A line
A title
A situation
A seed is planted
In the bed
That’s made for poetry
They grow under
The sunshine of my thoughts
Toward that consciousness
That is my mind
I water them...
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Categories:
fertilise, garden, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Reggae Ambassador To the Rescue
...Walk and talk affection
In conducive tones
That fertilise attention
To concerns affecting real folks and their comfort zones
Where each critical move you make
Adds to their happiness in toug...
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Categories:
fertilise, poems,
Form: Free verse
Fruit a Peel
...https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/fruit-a-peel-2
Blueberries, bananas, apples that fall
Berries and pears, we love them all
Fresh rainwater, summer heat
The part of plants that we can eat...
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Categories:
fertilise, children, education,
Form: Free verse
Natural Wonders
...https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/natural-wonders
The emergence thereof, a cycle begins
Of different forms – developing
Exceeding growth of varied rate
Conditions there to germinate
To...
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Categories:
fertilise, children, education,
Form: Free verse
Tomorrow, Where Are You
...Tomorrow where are you ?
I am a child of mzansi,
A child of a nation raised by a struggle of apartheid, as I emerge as a wound
Meant to glister, advertising the anguish of my fore fathers
Ra...
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Categories:
fertilise, africa,
Form: Free verse
That's Why I Love Challenges
...The mundane affairs from morn to night
Lack spirit and are taken for granted
Like a machine we are switched on and off
Whi...
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Categories:
fertilise, analogy, dedication, heart, imagery,
Form: Verse
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