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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
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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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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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{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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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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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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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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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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EIGHT BEAUTIFUL LINES
Filled with peachy pleasure in parsley pastures
I eye eagle elegantly elevate in elongated flight
warriors wonder wisely about rising Sun
whispering wondrous worldly wishes across
abiding angelic appled air spun
elves and fairies pirouette in royal ribbons blue
with mystics maypoling as kittens mew
a mistletoe mist of fat figs feasting true !
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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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