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GOLD AND BLOOD

GOLD AND BLOOD 

Mantis eyes magnetised her sister’s heart
felt its imprisoned glint of gold
willed it to enlarge into a 
                                     lotus leaf upon a sea


It floats on a lake of blood before
dawn turning hot burning blue
heat of her own blood 
                                    gold of her own heat


‘Let her not drown in
bloodied gold of red 
running thick and deep’
                             So she murmured, so they did
 

To a shore of soft sand
Heart sailed escorted by
obsidian lidded dragons
                              gloomy gold unshackling


Guts, throat, tongue 
puddle, pond, lake of
blood transmuted to turquoise 
                               gold and blood morphing 


Cupids created decoupage dishes
with bloodied dollars gold
called for another stint 
                               to alchemise pentacles cold


(PLSE BE WELCOME TO CHECK OUT MY READING OF THIS POEM ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL @GhairoDanielsPresence  ThkU}

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2018


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No Wait In Vain : Poets Meet

For decades I waited 
and you did not come 
to listen to my rude insertion 
finger a sound at the back of 
my throat and the vibration 
of my name

For decades I wanted to 
meet a small mountain as
I read her plain words in 
innocence
bells in her Heart rang deep
with children running sweet

For decades I longed to touch
a struggling moth as he ached 
for new wings
smooth ebony cheeks
passionate with letters 
of adoration

For decades I watched for
a painter to mirror my songs
uncover a talkative witch
who still trampled from 
place to place
broken shoes echoing 
my silent breath

For decades I wanted a 
smooth ride where conversation 
was free of tasks and
words on both seats of 
equal length with apricots 
for the scoffing
chocolates wrapped in red

So I upped my thumb to 
the veteran one who read 
from his leathered collection 
notepads, pencils strewn about
space in the warehouse oozed 
slivered glee
No wait in vain ! 

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Copyright © Ghairo Daniels | Year Posted 2022

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TWINFLAMES

TWINFLAMES 

Obsidian oscillated into lava
     slid across syntactic streams
        tumbled thick greenwood thickets 
           impenetrability an intricate illusion wicked
              shattering splintered sassy sinkers

Lord Ashtar himself lifted gnarled garbage 
    two big broken black bags to Source 
      split seconds of screaming searing sores
        then baby posture soaked singular satin  
              Prophet Daniel’s prison-free prediction

Coloured lava languid loosened
     yin-yang of yesteryear’s yarrows
        as Watchfulness wedded yearnings
        no black bumblebees boomeranged bombs 
              rainbow hands belled belly beckoning 

Solar flares ignited twin hearts atoning
  corona emissions spilling splashing space
      sodalite sprinkled sundrenched shores 
       kaleidoscope pupils pleasing pulsing fate
           Hearts purely placed on golden plate 

Four eyes fathomed Guy Fawkes fickle 
    feuding onto a fervid foolproof floor
       Stonehenge now sturdily steadily stood 
           sedating simple silent sleep suavely 
               Axis acceded alchemical ascensions  

Missions matched mottoed moulded mountains 
    timelines merged in mossy musical movement 
        Justice jumping jibbing Jungian jurisdiction 
          Presence posied a present perfection
            Dreams delivered dictums to Duet
                                      
             Delicious domed desserts diffusing !
     

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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 Provincial Military Official Funeral. Though the reading was filmed & recorded as part of the proceedings, I recently kept dreaming about Cecyl. I realised that he wanted me to post the poem here. So now I am doing just that, with my love for him, & trust it will be found by some of the soldiers he commanded, who are still living. Cecyl was sentenced for 12yrs imprisonment on Robben Island for his political cum military activity. He later joined the Institute of Justice & Reconciliation, continuing to strengthen Democracy in South Africa, before his passing }

CECYL : SON OF OUR SOIL : CONSUMMATE REVOLUTIONARY 

U stood there
Magnetic 
our sacred Cause ingrained 
in your palms 
expecting nothing but
what a moment would bring
white smile ready
aware of every tiny move in
a congested hostel room
stripping every youthful
illusion with a glance of
undying delicate 
Love

Speaking to our awakening Souls
twinkling merry eyes sharp
moulded from the molten centre
of our shackled land
A confident rod steadfast
in the knowledge of sure
Victory

Cecyl, you clenched your fists
with childlike savvy
age-old African glory
your anger altogether 
pure, clear, controlled 
black crown unkempt 
absolute in a knowingness 
that Truth was the flip side of
Justice 

Your unassuming simplicity 
was beguiling, even enchanting 
your gait quick
when quick was the order 
of the day
your amble sure when
surety demanded it
your rush determined 
as determination 
filled your every fibre
your “I must” became 
“We will !”

Working to free a people
was no game of broken dice
revolutionary ardour was not
a glamorous chessboard 
strategy and tactics 
lived together on hands 
that washed dishes or
delivered poetry books with
Glee

Your no-nonsense attitude 
instilled a commanding respect
in soldier, student and clergyman 
Alike

Firm fingers cradled 
deathly grenades
not in hatred
nor in bitterness
neither with a shred of malice
just a tool, a necessary tool
to unlock ancient 
grids of empty hearts
unlock a nation’s wealth
to share
to fill naked bellies
create rainbows in a 
land destined to be free
to untie ropes of
three hundred crying
Years

Cecyl, Son of our Soil
You accepted the fate of 
a waiting Island like 
others before you 
Robben Island knew your
hopes, goals and desires 
An Island surrounded by 
cool blue waters of our 
Southern Cross seas
washing the organs
of your revolutionary body
as you lay in a 
gloomy prison cell
clarifying objectives
making plans
expanding the inner
dimensions of a mind
on an evolutionary 
Quest

Your throaty laughter
stilled our fears
your calculated indignation and
quiet mirth hid the pain of
separation from family 
your resilience and acceptance 
of dull routine sharpening 
your pin prick intellectual 
Power
all these kept us 
companeras on our 
Toes ! 

Then the Island and its waters 
birthed you into more finely 
tuned Labours of Love
Again you claimed the baton
nothing more, nothing less
there was work to be done
songs to be sung
victories to be
Won

Your stories became fodder 
of inspiration 
your visits memories of
burnished gold
as you traveled across
small dorpies, on trains
busses, in taxis, searching 
Observing 

Held conference with rocks 
and rivers intently watching for 
a message 
an elvish phantom, a lucid dream
a Spirit on a mission 
capturing threads of
silver sayings from earthy
Oumas who offered you 
koesisters and rooibos in tin
mugs which you savoured with 
Glee

You listened with a bleeding Heart
calculating the depths of our pain
heights of our hopes
singing soft praises to our own
inner powers of Godliness 
never missing a single note of
beauty as life unfolded 
unfurled, undulating 
Ever-changing 

Consummate Revolutionary !
ancestors gazed in silent wonder 
sat in unspeakable bliss for
visions you gifted us with
just by being
Present

And as your Star lights another 
corner of our African sky
let it shine down with Madiba’s
with Mahlangu’s, with Johnny Issel’s
Ray Alexander’s, Virginia Engel’s
Chris Hani’s and Neil Aggett
with Annie Salinger, Helen Josephs’s 
Let its lustrous beams 
connect Samora & Cabral
link Guevara and Fidel
weave with our Patron Saint
Revolutionary par Excellence 
Jose SanMartin

Let it twirl and dance with 
every revolutionary tasked 
with aiding the Spirit of Freedom 
a Spirit soaring free from 
hunger on our beloved Africa
as on our writhing Globe
now releasing damaging 
Demons

In your Graduation from Earth 
as you enter your resting rose 
garden released from flesh
send your sparkle of 
quiet Contemplation
send your steely nerves 
your incisive knowingness
send Scales of Justice 
to our ravished townships 
our dark pandokkies 
our ardent campus youth
as a coveted blanket 
across our colourful 
Land 

Let your silver sword of Truth
illuminate those who tread
our corridors of power in
ignorance, confusion and
Greed

Let your heavenly light pierce 
our Khoisan wanderings
our Zulu dancing
our soft Sotho songs
Let it imbue our very
essence with the
Wisdom that
Light follows Dark
Truth never dies
that Justice always walks
along our byways when
Faith becomes our major 
tool and each day a new 
page of focussed loving
Kindness 

To serve, to serve, to serve
A people of the South

Cecyl, Son of our Soil
WE SALUTE YOU !

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Copyright © Ghairo Daniels | Year Posted 2024

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WHERE NO ILLUSIONS DWELL

WHERE NO ILLUSIONS DWELL

My Heart pours out remnants 
                              of nothingness as I create in 
                  form from Universes unknown 
Union becomes Duality 
            a dash between birth and death
                   then disappears back 
                          to Source from whence it 
                                   sprung
       for to remain in form
             is to be captive to 
                 space and time 

So does Purity only live
              where no illusions dwell
                     in super seconds of no 
                         boundaries yet no escape 
                   frequencies of freedom fashioned                          
timidly we taste 
                            It remains a shadow we 
                                     all chase in our thousand 
                    million moments to bring 
                       Heaven down to Earth
                               before we are called 
back again, back again
                                   bowing 
                                        buoyantly !


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Song2007

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STEEL AND SILK

STEEL AND SILK

My love like steel and silk
      cuts through you 
            splutters your blood
                watermelon juice down a throat

Wipes it with yellow silken ribbon
             For you to suck afresh
                  That you may find your
                                 Godly seed within

My love like dragonflies and bees
       Silently landing on stamen or pistils 
                Alchemising nectar into patterned 
                                dust upon transparent wings

Earth rewards my love with morning glory 
       steel severs sunflower stems 
                  silkworms crawl into a wet rose centre
                              pollen stolen in the dew

My steely silken love refreshed 
                     from your flowered stickiness


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DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
                    a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped a joyride 
                                to juicy jukebox jabbering 
in jackal jackboots 
                         from nearby jungle 
                     
Dr Jekyll clasped a jackknife eating 
                                  jambalaya to justify a 
                             juggled juxtapositional 
jurisdiction jamming 
       as jugular vein jingled jewels 
joyfully jauntily jaywalking 
                 to a jay named Jim Jolly ! 

Onward he jumped to a 
                                   Jungian junction 
              Jupiter jocund watching his 
 journeying joints
              journalese seemed a jibe jig
but neither Jewess, Jesuit 
                            or jeweller jiggled this job

So he jerked his jess 
                          like a jape for Japan
Jejuning onto January for the 
                           next jangle of jasmine 
 
No jellyfish was Dr Jekyll in Jordanian jerkin 
           though sometimes Mr Hyde
                   with jeroboam swirling alongside !


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Poetry&Song2024

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NATURE OF HEART

NATURE OF HEART 

Dual curved carved
crystalline
earth pointed plasmic 
        Oneness 
quantum wave
particled 
allows Heart to heave
 
Heal with white light 
eagles 
on Tibetan height nights  
continuously crafted 
                      through storm eyes
looping solace 
                      sighs
whorling whispering 

Rain tears feed 
its sizzling stamens 
pistillate androgyny 
crying  
           crumbling 
simultaneously graniting 
                    granting access 
                          piously 

Soft supple sublime 
                    in rhythmic dance 
twirls across seaspun song
sealed
bends baritone bones
           gliding through skulls 
of ancestral 
                  sacrament 

Heart curiously examines
           coral swimming coloured 
through sockets 
                  smiling 

Silent sacred still
holds no longings or 
                 exalted expectations 
observes 
its own arising gyrations
        destructions
cannot label 
nor muse 
or impress empress
governors or lover 
                      fathoms no fools

Only presents 
primal  
          lingering longings
for its own beatings
          irrepressible expressions
lavic lush luminosic 
           explosions of expirations 

split open 
exposing slivered voluptuous 
               vulnerability 
breathing 


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&Song2024

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COLOURFUL LAMENT

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 tangoing Earth

Her Violet Flame devoured us both
as nectared dewdrops to fuel the fire
our soma swirling into ecstatic orange 
oxytocined crane flowers whispering 
wisdoms to a hundred yellow 
butterflies fluttering and flirting 

They circled a sunken Atlantean apex
atop where you ruled anew with 
Baconian brown locks surrounded by 
sirens serving savoury silver sardines 
oolite oyster shells sang solos as dolphins 
dived into divas oceanic mouthed 

In Ancient Egypt you followed my runcinate 
rulings or indigo sorrow siglums, sighing
becoming slimmed seeker who served 
Thoth well whilst wreathing my wounded
worthiness and fallow fallopian tubes 
at pyramidal plumed midnight hour

In our graped Grecian lifetime you draped 
alabaster urns lighting my marble mantelpiece 
I watched breath enter your nebulae nostrils
as you crafted provincial proverbs 
then instructed slaves to whiten your garb
with lemons from our sculpted garden

On lavender Celtic hills we exchanged kilts
not knowing whose waist was whose
barefoot our figs and flutes flaunted 
sleek sharp sapphire studded swords 
dancing the necessary wild wars 
rune stones becoming menhir mosaics

Who remembered and who forgot 
where in ether our nestling niche napped
as games of betrayal, fear or doubt 
doubled into involuting circles and spirals
each tried to neck THE VOID as naked
excuse for not excavating heaving Heart

How much escaping, escapades, 
evolutionary clocks cloak our cusps 
or cues or custard synchronicities 
how many summer summit starlings 
must seek to sing of sorrow or of 
wolves, withering willows, watermelons 
on this Planet of coloured curriculums
holding dear our distinctive designs 
where lacy lament is but 
another artful aperture into Space 

I seek not to know !


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Song2023




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SPHINX STONE

SPHINX STONE 

I am Sphinx Stone
Sun stationed statue
silent sculptured synoptic 
not marble or granite 
nor black tourmaline or
crystal sapphire quartz
vortex for Void actualising 
sacred amber ambles

Timelines cutting cross
my magnetic magenta 
miracle to dissipate in
dry desert winds
my gaze unmoved 
as quizzing quantum 
queens swirl around
a Blue Planet ascending

Sphinx Stone gathering 
goddess’ goodness  
whilst slippery Sophi-el
sprinkle sparkle Nile
evaporations down
Sumerian phantom
phœnix photons

Here I stare broken-
nosed across vast 
expansions exiting
or entering dual 
portal claws hot rooted 
into Violet Flames of
Mother Earth belying 
my etheric origins

Did my Leo descend from
helium Heavens or rise 
high headdress laboriously 
painstakingly perfect
from Her tumultuous gut
with dripping goblets of 
gold, goblins gyrating ?

Ask you may North 
African secrets slither 
no soiled sounds to
simmer in sandy
storms or scarlet 
sunsets spreading spells
Silence is my singular 
speech to scintillating 
skulls of pharaohs
peasant or politician alike

I am Sphinx Stone
my silhouette signposted
in simple or significant 
silver sigils as serpents 
ascend savoury spines 
for Sirius’ starlit sighs 

Bypass not my knowing
aloof yet vacant 
stare which agelessly
gathers stories of aeons
imprinting dreams of God 
into unmanifest luminosity 
becoming your words on
my lithe lion bones or
this ephemeral page 

Sphinx Stone I see 
sabian riddled 
profiles making prolific 
progress patterns as 
patina leak slow 
stealthy tears down 
tawny throats filled with 
lumps of steely grit

Come now release 
agitated ages of bygone 
bitters to prickle or 
paddle dimensions
where appled anemones
sing my stare into 
song to swallow swiftly 
sweetly slivers of soft 
symphonic sanctities

I remain Sphinx 
Stone stable squared 
unsullied forever 
more  

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