Long Knowingness Poems

{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given...

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  MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS 


She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches 
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner Jewel 
 soft it lay cradled  
rhapsodic rubicon...

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 enigmatically enlightened 
                   embodied essence of 
o__live imperceptible 
       ...

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    Sponsor : Tom Woody 
Contest : Black Hole Love
Submitted:   16/7/25

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“Love embodies in millions of forms and frequencies, not all known. Its intrinsic nature is detachment, with eventual dissolution into...

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 SEA WANTS ME

Waves are here for the winners
spirals floating in turquoise 
dance ululating undulating 
blue bright sight
a point with paddle board
to soar sanguine Seas
I know not whether I’m 
merman or beach sand speck
two meters...

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[ For Contest : Ghost of Frankenstein 
Sponsor : Tom Woody
submitted: 9/5/25 ]

Many starry nights I lay
in my wooden cabin next to your 
sanctuary waiting for whisperings
from your past, wisdom words

I wrote odes about a...

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     Heaven, synonymous with 
Heart in its becoming of
the New Human ~ 
perception, perceiver and perceived
when merging incubates an 
anechoic  reality________
all else incanting illusion
labyrinths of hopelessness
whether it includes jade palaces,...

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Believing my brain, can be used for learning from higher, 
                       as I...

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SAMADHI

I am the Void
                   and THE ALL
I am the pen
       ...

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GLIMPSE 

My heart a pouch of rich wine overlays yours
A drop of blood spilled over an arum lily
It waits with longing intense, retains no tears
As it remembers its cringes of final fear when it
Jumped into...

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Before my mid-life realization
My life was like
Sitting naked 
In an empty bathtub

With my knees 
To my chin
My arms wrapped tightly 
Around my thighs
A blank expression 
Upon my face

My skin 
Dry and shriveling 
From lack 
Of...

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PEACE LILY

         Three o’clock morning 
 a solitary hour of bliss
            I gaze at a dark...

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The Gift of Forgiveness

I don’t remember going to sleep that night 
But I remember waking up 
To the awful racket going on inside my head. 
Bad thoughts and feelings raged 
As I twisted and turned,...

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The Missing Season
27/07/2020 

Whiffs of summery air grow startlingly unfresh
Dying like a withering dream yet almost deathless
Ruffled by an impasse of a senescent, uncrossable viaduct 
that goes beyond my knowingness, beyond my conception
Of an unknown...

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Never wishing to even
consider wanting it:
possession of it devalued
her belief that which is
best represented her worth
to what she was doing and those
accomplishments she was ready
to achieve
the schism came from one wishing
to gain at the expense...

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Ever wondered in how many ways I might have killed you?
The beads of beautiful eyes and string of satin wrapped around slender legs
Thought they beguiled you for centuries?
Hah! It is the unexpected and disenchanted
That will...

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As you complete your daily chores,
                             ...

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What if I
Loved you first
With this I love
First your faults
They  fault me, daught me
What If I 
I celebrate  your sinfulness 
In knowingness 
I know your not sinless
For who is
I acknowledge I shall not...

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Absent Night
storm-of-sadness

On an absent night
The stars don’t seem to care
They flicker in my mind like godforsaken candles.

I await your return
Dreading the waves of despair
Trying to melt my distressing thoughts with the
Blackness
Of time
But it is an...

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UNSPOKEN CONFESSION


“Is there something you want to tell me?”
the words echoed violently in my ears.

I heard the grinding of the gears,
releasing the latches on the trap door
on which I was standing……

the machinations of interrogation -
and...

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In the hollow of my heart is a girl who's unafraid
Buried deep inside is a girl not gone away 
I can still hear her you see
A faint whisper of who I use to be 
Your...

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Ethereal gypsy queen, reader of the stars
Astrological genius, seeing much in yonder crystal ball
Gifted with clairvoyance, and the gift of prophecy,
Women of my dreams, keeper of the cosmos truth,
Someone who trusts just like me, 
Who...

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