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Date Posted	PoemTitle	# Views	Form
12/07/2025	Ain't got no Shoes,still dancing	137	Sedoka
12/07/2025	Weeping on the Wheel	148	Dramatic Monologue
12/07/2025	Coffin Nails and Concrete	172	Dramatic Monologue
12/07/2025	Tar Pit Serenade	167	Dramatic Monologue
12/07/2025	Dirge of the Dole Queue	163	Dramatic Monologue
12/07/2025	Soul on Layaway	159	Dramatic Monologue
12/07/2025	Blackwater Veins	150	Dramatic Monologue
12/07/2025	The Ghost of Church Street Hums	220	Dramatic Monologue
12/07/2025	Gravel in My Gutter	187	Dramatic Monologue
12/07/2025	Dragged in Mud again	130	Dramatic Monologue
12/05/2025	Death Shall Not Stop Me Drinking Hard and Partying	300	Terza Rima
11/27/2025	For you, I Change	160	Prose
11/27/2025	Veld of Silver and Ice	185	Shape
11/27/2025	The Guiding Harvest	171	Shape
11/27/2025	Custody of Hope	132	Shape
11/27/2025	The Lighthouse	95	Shape
11/27/2025	To the Doubters and the Skeptics	210	Shape
11/27/2025	The Unbroken Square	174	Shape
11/27/2025	The Undefeated Heart	157	Shape
11/27/2025	Midnight Star of the Wanderer	166	Shape
11/13/2025	The Honest Cop's Burden	133	Villanelle
11/13/2025	Me and Diana de Melker	147	Sedoka
11/13/2025	For Lovers Only	156	Lanterne
11/13/2025	A Heat Untold	128	Triolet
11/13/2025	The Ancestor's Rhyme Royal	143	Rhyme Royal
11/13/2025	Tomorrow's Child	138	Free verse
11/12/2025	Epitaph for the dance master	196	Epitaph
11/12/2025	Whispers From The Stone	159	Epitaph
11/12/2025	The Scales of Shame	137	Epigram
11/12/2025	A Blesser,a Bird,and the Broke	161	Limerick
11/12/2025	Clerihew Chronicles	126	Clerihew
11/12/2025	Blood is Thicker than Wi-Fi	244	Nonet
11/12/2025	Girlfriend Trouble and Other Aches of the Heart	237	Etheree
11/12/2025	The Horrible Dip Dip	145	Free verse
11/11/2025	The Rose of Reitz	196	Prose
11/11/2025	The Lily of East London	170	Prose
11/11/2025	The Orchid of Orania	210	Prose
11/10/2025	The Protea of Potchefstroom	210	Prose
11/10/2025	The Dahlia of Durban	183	Prose
11/10/2025	The Rose of Rathanda	212	Prose
11/10/2025	The Violet of Vereeniging	151	Prose
11/10/2025	The Orchid of Oudtshoorn	326	Prose
11/10/2025	The Lily of Lydenburg	150	Prose
11/09/2025	Kwansaba and Siblings	140	Kwansaba
11/09/2025	Towns with the Names that Slap the Hardest	190	Haibun
11/09/2025	Proverbs Under Bloekom Tree	119	Triolet
11/09/2025	Wisdom Comes in Short Forms	167	Cinquain
11/09/2025	Seven Sedokas Of The People	184	Sedoka
11/08/2025	The Towns With Alluring Names	127	Haibun
11/07/2025	Mountains Eternal	164	Ghazal
11/06/2025	The Unanswered Call	140	Rubai
11/06/2025	Confession of Past Anxieties	209	Rubaiyat
11/06/2025	The Present Moment	115	Rubaiyat
11/06/2025	Reflections on Life	148	Rubaiyat
11/06/2025	The Rubaiyat of Seventy-Five Muscles	176	Rubaiyat
11/05/2025	Ode to the Sycamore Tree Cut Down by the Yobos	292	Ode
11/05/2025	The Lions	212	Ode
11/05/2025	The mother's Prayer	211	Villanelle
11/05/2025	When I was Cast in Mire	219	Villanelle
11/05/2025	Ashes of Desire	200	Villanelle
11/05/2025	Churches are Empty,Taverns are Full	202	Villanelle
11/04/2025	Lord,Bear With me	197	Villanelle
11/04/2025	The Smartphone prophet	214	Epigram
11/04/2025	The Poet's Rent	188	Epigram
11/04/2025	The Barber of Blunders	163	Epigram
11/04/2025	The Philosopher at the Tavern	230	Epigram
11/04/2025	Silently,While Soft Rain Drums on Zinc and Sorrowed Streets	243	Free verse
11/03/2025	The Four Blossoms of the Land	295	Haibun
11/03/2025	Anthem for the Golden Hour	225	Villanelle
11/03/2025	My Adult Son is Gaslighting Me	186	Sonnet
11/03/2025	For Girls Pregnified by Their Fathers	230	Sonnet
11/03/2025	The Soul of The Land	210	Haibun
11/02/2025	The Fallen Woman of Lesbos	253	Sapphic stanza
11/02/2025	Poet laureate Sappho	136	Sapphic stanza
11/02/2025	Sappho Preaches Fire!	199	Sapphic stanza
11/02/2025	Song of The Riverside Oracle	203	Sonnet
11/02/2025	Why is my father always angry	246	Sonnet
11/02/2025	Lament Of The Patriotic Whistle Blower	198	Sonnet
11/02/2025	Mobutu Sese Seko	176	Sonnet
11/01/2025	Between Stations	197	Sapphic stanza
11/01/2025	The Aborted Trip	224	Sapphic stanza
11/01/2025	My First Fire Victoria 1982	190	Sapphic stanza
11/01/2025	Sappho on the Futility of Modern Love	219	Sapphic stanza
10/31/2025	Westbury	168	Terza Rima
10/31/2025	Blues for a dying Free State town	200	Terza Rima
10/31/2025	Monday morning in the Illegal squatter Camp	188	Terza Rima
10/31/2025	A Wedding in Hoboland	165	Terza Rima
10/27/2025	Men will Never Change	213	Free verse
10/27/2025	The Swifties can Do no Wrong	163	Ode
10/27/2025	Talking to My Heart as My Soul Rests	171	Terza Rima
10/27/2025	Searching for Answers Among the Graves	126	Quatrain
10/27/2025	Do not Let Death be A Hiding Place for Thieves	192	Villanelle
10/27/2025	Wokeism Gives Sister Bertina Peptic Ulcers	167	Free verse
10/23/2025	Render Unto Caesar	202	Free verse
10/23/2025	Rage Against the Deep State	169	Ballad
10/23/2025	Requiem for Babita Deokaran	103	Free verse
10/23/2025	Freedom Smells Like Rain After Dust	202	Free verse
10/23/2025	Whispers Through Ruins	188	Ghazal
10/23/2025	Threads Of Dawn	240	Ghazal
10/23/2025	Mirror Of The Soul	143	Ghazal

Short Stories

Title	Categories
The Acquaintance	ghost, horror, macabre, mystery, scary,
The Musculature Of Sorrow	funny, horror, love, macabre, moral,
The Empty Room	fantasy, funny, horror, macabre,
The Clerk,The Guitar, The Devil	fantasy, funny, inspirational, love,
The Fear of Flying	horror, macabre, moral, scary, thriller,
The Disappearing Man	fantasy, horror, macabre, scary,
The Unhelpful grandmother	ghost, horror, macabre, mystery, scary,
The Great Fall	funny, horror, macabre, scary, thriller,
The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up	funny, horror, macabre,
The Billionaire's Son of Petsana	fantasy, funny, moral,
A Chair and Two Men	fantasy, funny, moral, mystery, romantic,
The Inheritance of Silence	crime, horror, moral, scary, young adult,
The Leopard, the Spaza Shop, and the Nature of Truth	crime, funny, love, moral, young adult,
The Striker's Goal	for teens, inspirational, moral, thriller, young adult,
The Pothole Of Non'-Existence	funny, horror, moral, war, young adult,
The Whispering Wires	inspirational, love, moral, war, young adult,
The Tycoon's Heavy Clip	for kids, funny, horror, mystery, scary,
The Pothole and the Forgers	fantasy, funny, ghost, macabre, moral,
The Empty Scales	horror, moral, mystery, scary, young adult,
The Borrower's Blue Ink	fantasy, funny, love, macabre, moral,

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