Provincial Poems

Room 2-A

...He watched her through the rusted window grilles;
While chalk dust danced in streams of morning sun;
His trembling hands left prints upon the desk wood;
The ceiling fans cut through the province h...

CECYL, SON OF OUR SOIL : CONSUMMATE REVOLUTIONARY

...{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 a full P...

A provincial in death, a nobody in life

...Life leads me in mourning on an anniversary day,
Among a bleak backdrop of ice and emptiness,
Pure indifference in my troubled heart,
I am sent from death in a new adventure.

Sent to separation...

WE ARE ONE-

...As I stand alone held in place
 I am embraced
 He's beside me
 deep inside me 
provident and prevention provincial 
essence inside me
 open mind my eye... We are One

So profoundly b...

A Mother’s Guide to the Perfect Performance of Parenting

...It wasn’t the life she wanted.
This life drained the light from her eyes,
Turning them to deep gray circles,
Her voice lost its tone,
She lost herself.
Mothering was not a part of the plan.
She...

International Soul Aloft

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This beautifully designed
Spring, star-studded night.
Alive within these brave souls
Of courage, truly, a breathless,
Singular, moving delight!

I am not here to be an advocate 
Onl...

EVERYTHING STINKS

...Everything stinks, nothing smells, as smell is the province of the nose and stink the invader of such provincial boundaries....

COLOURFUL LAMENT

...
 
I combed cool waters of your baby blue 
crystalline Jewel as you waded waterfall 
waves washing my stellar rainbow rays 
arching it melted into the warm womb 
of transducing tangoin...

A NOTE FROM MALCOLM

...A NOTE FROM MALCOLM

My advice is free, and time’s not billable
Try speaking French and I will soon know
Don’t claim a local or a provincial accent
It really does not sound as if heaven-sent
No...

One Foot In Hell

...War weary wayward wanderer walking westerly
Sadly slowly striding shadowy suburban streets
Barely behaving bravely but blindly bound
Coldly click-clacking cumbersome calloused cleats

Tormented ...

Gateway Town

...Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for ...

When Mother Sings

...Rabbits go dancing in soft moonlit meadows;
Field mice, less boldly just waltz in the shadows.
Moles and shrews surface, but can’t see a thing;
Young thrushes and sparrows take flight on their win...

Sundown

...Its sundown, the day’s been reduced to a crack of lavender and fiery pinks along the Massif des Maures mountains. This evening we’re sipping cocktails at “Les Toits,” the Hôtel de Paris’ rooftop rest...

Reticence To Reclusivity

...stunted
     emotions
in
  a troubled maverick

          liberated 
by landscapes
 impassioned
  in pink green & blue

 fixation freedom
in a mountain 
              view 
the provincia...

An Old Warrior

...An Old Warrior

This old man, sward in hand, takes a stand
against the Provincial, the Municipal man.

The power hungry, with all the appropriate tools,
who treats us, his constituents, his vot...

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