I could write a thousand words about Zen
But then three or four words
Would be... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 15 Views added 3 years ago
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No doubt.
The piece of gum
Naughtily stuck under a school desk
Instead of thrown in the dustbin
They say smoking’s a disgusting habit
But gum is messy
Gets everywhere if you
Aren’t careful
Nicotine gum?
The bane of smokers
They say it tastes... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 3 Views added 3 years ago
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One would think of Aswan
Or the Three Gorges Dam
But here we are discussing
A dam a few metres wide
And a couple more metres long
And barely up to your waist
If you stood at the deepest part
The African rains
Were plentiful
This... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 3 Views added 3 years ago
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Gameboy versus home-made
Amplifiers
Computer games
Before the desktop
Took over the world
(laptops came later)
King Kong and Worms
Idly passing the time
Of Day
Of Night
Games,... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 2 Views added 3 years ago
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Pots, pans and plates
Pots, pans
And the larder
A ghost house
Trembling
The larder
Stocked with oats and rice
Pots
And when it is time to cook
And then the gas stove is lit for
A feast
Pots, pans and plates
– Rows of jars line
The... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 3 Views added 3 years ago
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Tumbling down a hole in the earth:
Alice and her wonderland
(but that was just a mistake
of writing)
I was talking about the bushes in my garden
And the open skies
Of the lowlands;
What of... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 3 Views added 3 years ago
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Africa:
It is a lost place
One thinks of sunny
Blue skies
And then thunderstorms
Of running through
Vast, vast, vast
Open... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 4 Views added 3 years ago
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It was two thousand and ten
A minute ago
And now the year
of the deadly virus
ten years hence
Like a dream –
A decade passes
Like waves crashing on
The shore
And I hibernate in
The visions of yesteryear
Picking out my psychic... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 6 Views added 3 years ago
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Something then nothing –
A parrot on my left shoulder
But it is not... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 5 Views added 3 years ago
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I wait in time
Like an ornamental vase
Sitting on the dusty... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 7 Views added 3 years ago
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“Tales of Skeleton Pass and Skeleton Gorge, Of St. Colgate, Dragon’s Tooth and The Drakensberg”
The fated blister on the feet.
Tales of broken ankles and muscle... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 2 Views added 3 years ago
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“Table Mountain, Failing to Kill Myself and Naming Suicide Point”
Suicide Point: Up Platteklip Gorge and take a left – feel like jumping?
A hop skip and a jump from Kimberley Road (a place to call... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 3 Views added 3 years ago
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“Poacher’s Cave, Dead Cow Camp and The Weary Vegetarian – A Game of Foodchess”
Espungabera? Nyamapanda?
Wherever you try to cross the Mozambique border
You’re faced with one difficulty:
There’s nothing... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 3 Views added 3 years ago
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“Drinking Southern Comfort at the Hoare Hut, Waaihoek – “You See Tea”, South Africa and I see
Bvumba Coffee, Zimbabwe, An Institution of Higher Learning and The Parttime Alcoholic – Cryptic... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 14 Views added 3 years ago
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“I went to Devil’s Leap Gorge in actuality, but only dreamt of visiting Gossamer... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 4 Views added 3 years ago
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When I think of writing poetry
I think of Sylvia Plath
And W.B. Yeats
Of Ted Hughes
And Frida Kahlo
And Picasso…
When we were…
and then again…
and so forth…
Hummingbirds
Llamas, and more llamas
And ever more... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 3 Views added 3 years ago
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Harmony justifies…
The onward march of time
The warblers and dragonflies
The ants and twinspots
We are not just forgetful
We write poetry about
The forgotten…
Harmony... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 4 Views added 3 years ago
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Note well
For this is my time to be who I am
And the danger of looking backward
Is at an end
Don’t harp on about
Alligators, and poisonous lizards
For we are free to be,
Just... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 3 Views added 3 years ago
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In between the twilight
And the breaking of dawn
I hide in the shadows of
night
Robin Goodfellow
Does all his work at
night
Robin, also known as Puck -
is my alter-ego -
A figure of the shadows
And... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 2 Views added 3 years ago
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Africa! Africa!
The heart never leaves you – Africa! Africa!
Africa – the heartbeat
Africa – the song of doves
Africa – the roar of... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 2 Views added 3 years ago
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...And a lady in a red dress?
A glass of red.
We play conversational poker and come out with
The ace of spades and high-heels to match!
But I’ve never been to Vegas
And I’m not a gambling man -
A glass of... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 11 Views added 3 years ago
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I don’t know what we are trying to say Native America…
White man and the Indian?
Fight for your right,
Fight for your white.
Apache -
Underlined in black "indian" ink... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 2 Views added 3 years ago
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Geraldene
The weed is fine, relaxes the brain and softens the body
And I keep the fire burning for a now deceased lover
This was long ago, and now
In the present,
I live with my mother who doesn’t understand my cannabis habit -
Forgive... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 6 Views added 3 years ago
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A hodgepodge of concepts,
Bluntly spoken it is a nightmare.
Were we ever gifted with our own voice,
Our own speech, our words and... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 5 Views added 3 years ago
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Were a poem a woman
And it’s words her... – by Chief Speak-a-little-French | 33 Views added 3 years ago
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