Bloody Dawn

A sky smiles down at branches long parted Now touching. The elastic band snap of Time blurs weeks without those gardens twisted Together, 'til barely an hour has gone. That hour promised- in dreams- their reward for Waiting. No more- Their branches chase down trunks to roots and find The sweet and cool source- not...

The Louse and the Flea

Were that history had been more kind to plague- Carrying parasites; One wing-less, jumping, Sucking brute, who ever dreamt of flying, Finds a winged escape in bliss and clouds to fade. On a neighbouring wing- for reasons a-same- Another insect 'twixt feathers and wind Nests. Overwhelmed by freedom, she's crying. To him she seems the purest,...

Ballad of Paper and Pen

We were crafted in an age when one Of us had no use without the other. We mapped landscapes and kept history. Brother, I drew strength from you then. When we did run Lines through time. I wore feathers and you laughed Ink; a recipe for daytime reverie. Remember, for too soon you'll fight to...

Dullstroom

How many hours drifted by in crates of Days? Blown by chilled air, new flecks of beauty Found your eyes in a wind's kiss and sweetly Transferred to me your frost-flecked love. What memories were planted in the prints of Our feet? Something akin to serenity Plays at the frame with gentle energy, Like the...

2am Sonnet

When I think of how long our story will Last I think, too, of how falling in Love Is Oceanic. Of my first snorkel And how wetsuits don't keep out the cold, rough Waters. I know somewhere a whale skeleton Is drifting alone where bone greets bone And no creature has made itself a home...

The Bend

Clouds swallow the sky with adoration For the scene which in their shade lingers. Where a willow branch flirts with the river, And jazz tempts the sun down from the heavens. Where roads brush soft past the mountain's belly, And horses challenge their kin to a dance. Where there is no reason not to chance...

I Am An African

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlZLMDldeKI I am an African; An ivory- keys- melody sending Nkosi Sikeleli from my heart to the galaxy And the galaxy smiles when I play. It says, I love the sound of home in your chest, dear Africa. Under the stars I am stripped of pigment. I am whatever colours they shine onto me and...

What I Wish She Had Said Instead

  Baby girl, mama loves you. You are so beautiful. You are so beautiful that sometimes people won’t be able to resist the way that looking at you just makes them feel alive because you remind them of what God can do; You look like hope to the downtrodden, but, baby girl, sometimes people dream...

Sonnet 01

A wounded Pride will not rest ere Revenge, The cold, the savage, the bitter to taste, Has pressed its cracked lips to a smiling face And felt such soft skin- from the broken- cringe, As that of petals hoping to bloom again. Those broken lips rip holes through petal-space, like nightmares through a young dreamer's...

Shiver

My friend, look at me. I feel brave enough to say, out loud to you and to a world of strangers, that I found more than just peace in the seconds I used to pass in your presence. Friendship wasn't all I saw when I looked at you. what I saw when I looked at...