Grief
...I remember the grief in Samuel
when Saul failed,
like the grief in Nile
when blood crept into it —
just like it creeps into the bones of
this earth.
The rage in grief is distant but distinct,...
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Categories:
fossilised, grief, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Romantic or Sexual Love
...Romantic or Sexual Love
Romantic or
sexual love produces
yellow clear fossilised resin utilised in
jewellery.
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Categories:
fossilised, humor,
Form: Free verse
beach bones
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not a bone to pick on beach walks
with my lover just pleasure and leisure
strolls in the sand of time and togetherness
joined at the hips of mind body and soul
sizzling fingertips and footste...
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Categories:
fossilised, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
BONE BEACH
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Striking beach sculpted by Nature
with massive drifting trees in cluster
that turned white bone-like gesture
being continuous washed by salty sea water
and exposed in stro...
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Categories:
fossilised, appreciation, beach,
Form: Free verse
Earth Interval
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Typecast pivot rips past apart
Scars inflicted by the furnace
Scatter derma with war stars
Astronomy faraway magnifies
Little shards of light filaments
Filter...
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Categories:
fossilised, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Rum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BC
...Sneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but ma...
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Categories:
fossilised, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form: Narrative
Perpetual Motion
...A live T-Rex, but should I stand and fight
It’s foul breath and it’s drool made me take flight
I just couldn’t bear
That if I stayed there
I’d be forevermore a coprolite
[C...
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Categories:
fossilised, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Big Foot
...Gigantic footprints there on the beach
So big that a dozen men could stand in each
Yet what made these footprints did not simply stand
But went every which way all over the sand
The emperor came...
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Categories:
fossilised, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Shuddering Flare
...And then the cold had its story to tell again and emerged overnight
The seasons had not changed but as always kept a sudden surprise
Days sunbathing and skinny dipping on the beach felt like a ...
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Categories:
fossilised, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Aq50
...They say that any dream is organised around a wish.
That a dream can often be the fulfilment of a wish.
Last night I dreamt. I dreamt that we were gone.
Palaeontologists declared, after
years ...
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Categories:
fossilised, allegory, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Water
...life without water
could not ever be sustained
thank the spring showers
water cascades... rain
distilled... early morning dew
winter confetti
no water... no frogs
deathly silence... then i...
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Categories:
fossilised, nature, seasons, water,
Form: Haiku
Anc and Joe Slovo
...ANC and Joe Slovo
ANC took on the white -run system and won, we hoped
for a new free country an apartheid- free land
The “Rainbow Nation sprung to life reconciliation, dancing
in the streets...
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Categories:
fossilised, absence,
Form: Blank verse
Anc and Joe Slovo
...ANC and Joe Slovo
ANC took on the white-run system and won, we hoped
for a new free country an apartheid-free land
The “Rainbow Nation sprung to life reconciliation, dancing
in the streets, ...
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Categories:
fossilised, absence,
Form: Blank verse
Waldorf Is Warbling Like Woh Wah Weh
...Waldorf warbling wa wo we wa
Glows from hidden archetypes are not architects nor are they archetypical in construction. In fact it is the translucent bud of a tropospheric triangle that timely count...
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Categories:
fossilised, absence, africa, america, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Sahara Dreams
...Time crystallised into every golden grain
Fine as the flakes off my skin
For a thousand years void of rain
Rising to Rah with the slope of the dunes
Crocodile tears fill the Nile
For they fl...
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Categories:
fossilised, dream, sun,
Form: Rhyme
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