tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753128961806632024-03-14T09:48:17.657+01:00marginal scribblingSee my other links. If you look at "About Me" you will see them listed.
"Art and Writing" is the link to my website which shows details of my art and will also deal with my novel “The Shaping of Water” and my children’s book, “The Drought Witch”.
"Surviving Monsters" features some digressions – to which Chat is invited – on the difficulties of being an artist, in the broadest sense.
Ruth Hartleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01875567732019988946noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-8241840349778530032014-09-23T14:44:00.001+02:002014-09-23T14:44:52.010+02:00FLEUR ADCOCK'S POEM 'INCIDENT'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>INCIDENT</strong></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span> </div>
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you were lying on the white sand,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a rock under your head, and smiling,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(circled by dead shells), I came to you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and you said, reaching to take my hand,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Lie down.’ So for a time we lay</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">warm on the sand, talking and smoking,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">easy; while the grovelling sea behind</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sucked at the rocks and measured the day.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lightly I fell asleep then, and fell</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">into a cavernous dream of falling.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was all the cave-myths, it was all</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the myths of tunnel or tower or well —</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alice’s rabbit-hole into the ground, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or the path of Orpheus: a spiral staircase</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to hell, furnished with danger and doubt.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stumbling, I suddenly woke; and found</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">water about me. My hair was wet,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and you were lying on the grey sand</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">waiting for the lapping tide to take me:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">watching, and lighting a cigarette.</span></span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>This is a wonderful poem but painful. When I read it I felt cold with a shock of acknowledgement. I had to hide from myself what it meant to me.</em></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-21599035758149379152014-04-03T19:40:00.000+02:002014-04-03T19:41:09.926+02:00BLACKENED<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">BLACKENED</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blackened,
I am skinned with tar-paper.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tough,
I am crazed like shattered glass.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Castaway,
I am rusted iron, cast out. </span></span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Outlaw,
I inherit the Badlands.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
bitter gourd is what I eat, </span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
blood of snakes is what I drink</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Empty,
I am soulless.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You
do not expect to find my heart </span></span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not
even with your foot</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not
even under your boot.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
am the half-child you will not let be.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
am Reproach.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
am the lover who knows you in part</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
know you wholly but only in part </span></span>
</div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
know you are the bad good man</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
know you are the good bad man</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
know you and saw your guts crawl with fear</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
know you and felt the weight of your bones cruelty</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
love what I know I cannot love what I do not know</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore
am I bruise-blackened with knowing and love</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
you don't see my heart.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You
see only my crazy skin.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">18,10.2012
Labatut</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>PLANT LIFE</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First
is time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then
a spatter of white</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lichen
like bird droppings</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dotted
on the hot black lava rocks.</span></div>
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<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In
more time</span></div>
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<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always
time</span></div>
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<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
lichen curls and colours</span></div>
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<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">coalesces,
spreads slow and greedy,</span></div>
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<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">silver,
yellow, green and gold.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /> </div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There
is time.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always
more time</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thick
stems, waxy leaves,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">moist-bodied
survival systems,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">will
shrink and hide and wait.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span> </div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again
there is time.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always
time. More time</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
dome of delicate Fibonacci sticks</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">netted
over a tenacious lace of roots</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">retains
a green oval leaf and a tiny yellow star.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In
time it will be a green half sphere covered with faint blossom.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There
is more time</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always
time and then more time.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
silky, insidious grasses lie down humbly</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ground-pressed
by wind, seeded heads nodding, nodding.</span></div>
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<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grass
is life for humans who have so little time.</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sun-blackened,
broken-backed by the meagre harvest,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">their
empty stomachs rage and ache. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon
they will be without time.</span></div>
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<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
“<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As
for man, his days are as grass: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As
a flower of the field, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so
he flourisheth.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For
a time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span> </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-12402267152828272412014-03-26T10:33:00.001+01:002014-03-27T15:05:44.686+01:00VOLCANO<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">VOLCANO</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Small
cones of flesh</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">beached
on the sand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
colours of clay</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sun-fried,
sun-dried,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">raw
umber, raw red, </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">burnt
ochre, burnt orange,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">brown
and carbonised black.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gut
chambers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">rumble,
bubble,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">protest,
threaten,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">vent
shit-sticky lava</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in
white bathroom craters.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smoked
discs on top</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cover
eyes and brain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that
marvel and see,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">want
to know more,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">understand
to care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Small
cones of flesh</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">asleep
on an volcano.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
stood up and shuddered,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stopped
life with a shrug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
has no feelings,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">no
sense of its power,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it
does not mind or watch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when we explode and burn. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-89666021149617312072014-03-24T13:09:00.001+01:002014-03-24T13:10:48.906+01:00LANZAROTE<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LANZAROTE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An
ocean of black water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">deep
and world-wide,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">its
edges tear into</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a
thin white frill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Black
lava-dust hills</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">rise
up and over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a
white scum of houses </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at
the water's edge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Birds
skimming waves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">spin
on a wing-tip</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from
white to black</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then
black to white</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stitching
the sea's hem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">White
sails curve</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">half
of a parenthesis</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hollowed
by black winds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
out of an empty sky.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So
much dark, deep eternity,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">such
a little edge of life,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
fragile mind clings,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">twists and
breaks.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-14012928047675541312014-02-21T16:09:00.000+01:002014-02-21T16:09:12.889+01:00MANDELA
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
folded the old man up .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
put him away in a box. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
held the lid down </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with
the weight of their prayers, </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
swept out his dreams with the dust.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
remains inside books on the shelf,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">interleaved
and in marginal notes.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
sticky-taped folders his photos are silent.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His
stories just paper </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that
blows down the street.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
old man has been put away in a box.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Is
it best to be forgotten than to be showcased and packaged </i></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>into
relics bought with blood and sold for gold?</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Is
it best to be gone from the bankrupt world?</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
racket on noisily, choking up the bright smiling space</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with
peeps and clicks as we grab and grub at the moving ghost.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
our plastic and silicone tricks and cons, </span></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">we
constrict and construct, devise our devices, </span></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
vie to own the dead hero's fled spirit </span></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to
know he blessed us lesser and more mortal souls.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>4</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For
twenty-seven years</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">they
folded my hero up.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
slotted him through bars of iron</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
cemented over the cell.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Danger,
danger, danger clanged the gates and bells.</span></span></span></div>
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<div align="CENTER" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>5</b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
had seen that before.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
white skull of the pulped dog, </span></span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">frothing
at the red on its halo of mad stones.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
crushed snake staring with flat tired eyes</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">at
its own curving skinless purple flesh under a brick.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
left us to our hissing silence</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to
peep through hooded eyes</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Don't
think, don't speak, don't see.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="CENTER" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>6</b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>From
the white death I was bequeathed I wanted a black angel to save me
but</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he
was not an angel, just a man, and mercy was buried with him on Robben
Island, under the grey limestone dust.</i></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="CENTER" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7</b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
was angry with him for turning to the dark side</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">which
was where they said he belonged,</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">which
they said, was stating the obvious.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
said he was mad, bad, and red.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
wanted us dead, they said.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
hadn't saved us from ourselves by riding in </span></span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">on
a storm-horse of purity and purpose.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
laundering hero to whiten us whites</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
bleach out our sins.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Somebody
better than us</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That's
what I needed.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="CENTER" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>8</b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="CENTER" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>9</b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
chose to be what they said.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Terror,
black, black terror.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
was angry with him for leaving me</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">alone
in a world without anything good. </span></span></span>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="CENTER" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>10</b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
we forgot.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="CENTER" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>11</b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
forgot him.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
forgot all about him.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
lived on only in his memory.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
were dead to hope</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
to our ideal of freedom.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="CENTER" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>12</b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
Mandela walked out and back with his hand raised.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
stood up. </span></span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
came out of the box.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mandela.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Human.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hero.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ours.
</span></span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-64217879291212293682014-02-03T16:22:00.000+01:002014-02-03T16:22:58.635+01:00CHANGE OF SKIN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">My
friends won't know me.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">I
am about to shed a skin and go through changes.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">For
one thing, I shall be taller and newer</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">(which
in itself is amazing!)</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">and
for another, little bits of me</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">will
have shiny corners and gleam </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">unexpectedly,
refracting strange lights.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">Mostly,
at first, my awkward angles</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">will
show through more pronouncedly.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">Instead
of gnawing my knuckles, biting my nails,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">and
rubbing my eyes half-asleep,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">I
shall tear off whole strips of skin</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">which
will quickly shrivel and blow away, </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">brittle
as a bug's transparent wing.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">I
must admit that this time around</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">I
had hoped for wing-buds myself.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">Instead
I have a knob on one shoulder</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">and
on the sixth finger of my left hand</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">a
claw which I keep folded up in my palm.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">No
doubt I will find them useful</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">for
carrying burdens and climbing mountains </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">in
my next metamorphosis.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">However,
with every shrug of my shoulders,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">a
patch of the new me will be apparent.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">Soon
I will be iridescent - </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">a
veritable Josephine in a skin-coat of many colours.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">Though
the rainbows won't last for long</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">and
soon darken to the painful lace of tattoos,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">I
will have my moment of glory</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">when
I stand up straight in an explosion of possibilities</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">leaving
only a little mound of dust and scales at my heels.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-21013072428876079162014-01-23T21:35:00.001+01:002014-01-23T21:35:15.403+01:00Six unsociable haiku writen too early or too late.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>1</strong><br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Insomnia
finds </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
night indigestible.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
eats me instead.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<strong>2</strong></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In
a milk-white mist</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">skimmed
from the river, cows graze,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">turning
grass to cream.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span> </div>
<strong>3</strong><br />
<strong></strong><br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Married
women don't</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">write
much poetry after</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">midnight
or in bed.</span></div>
<br />
<strong>4</strong><br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In
an amnesia </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of
mist, lines of poplar </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">trees
float rootless.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span> </div>
<strong>5</strong><br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When
the cook has gone,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then
the most dangerous place</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">will
be the kitchen.</span></div>
<br />
<strong>6</strong><br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Put
your hand on my </span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">thigh
where its soft curve leads down</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to
the door to death.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-62203024029199122012014-01-11T21:36:00.000+01:002014-01-11T21:38:33.652+01:00THE EARTH HAS SUCH HUGE OLD BONES<br />
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>THE
EARTH HAS SUCH HUGE OLD BONES</b></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
earth has such huge old bones.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They
elbow out of the frayed fabric of wearied forests</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and
poke holes in the sky's eyes.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mountaineers
race to be kings of the castle</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">but
huge old bones doesn’t shrug, doesn’t care,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">doesn’t
feel the spike slip or hear the gasp for air.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If
I was devil-may-care and debonair</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
would leave my own bones high up there.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mere
man just dust on the skeleton of the world.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Time
erodes me. It wears away my hair,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">my
reason, flesh, skin and sight.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
won't be mulch and nuzzle into the valley’s soft groin. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I'll
stick my bones on a rock near heaven</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">where
space and earth wonder and collide.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Begun
in Anatolia, Turkey November 5th 2008</b></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-86818297470655530362014-01-10T14:50:00.001+01:002014-01-10T14:50:51.640+01:00HEY NONNY-NO!
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<br />
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey, nonny-no! Hey, hey, no-nonny!</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's no more wild my bonny!</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's capped its teeth, manicured its
claws. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gone, gone, gone is the red and raw</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'll find it in a beating heart</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that last most dangerous of places</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and my bonny that's under siege too!</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Old Herne the Hunter wears green fur
fabric</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fashionably bloodless from Red or
Dead</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">while wiley Reynard wears black
plastic</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and snarling has S.&.M in bed.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wilderness is saved from
wildness,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">its safe as houses – not like the
street.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh hey, nonny-nonny, oh hey, oh
hell!</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-52585754157967511292014-01-02T09:53:00.000+01:002014-01-02T09:53:56.953+01:00AKROPOLIS<br />
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<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>AKROPOLIS</b></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
stand,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">substantial,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on
the heavy ground </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">of
the thrusting hill.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
am weighted, </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">solid,
dense.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
breathe wind, </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
see distance,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
feel movement.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Around
me </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the
Akropolis is still.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It
has fallen silent. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Motionless
pediments,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">horizontal
columns</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">resist
the shivering grasses.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There
is no substance now </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to
the vanished builders.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They
are gone.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
must follow.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>October
17 2008</b></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-70655966483315288552014-01-02T00:30:00.000+01:002014-01-02T09:54:18.342+01:00MUPANE FOREST LUANGWA VALLEY 1995
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<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><b>MUPANE
FOREST LUANGWA VALLEY 1995</b></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">Inside
birdcage ribs, my heart</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">lies
empty, crushed.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">A
speckled blue eggshell is glued</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">by
a red speck to a hostage feather.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><i>Broken.
Broken.</i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">Dead
branches of an old tree</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">hide
slivers of a glass bauble.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">Each
silver splinter shatters me.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">I
pick up the shards that stab,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">the
hook that hangs nothing. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><i>Gone.
Gone.</i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">Pain,
suppurating, boils from my skin,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">blisters
of corrosive tears burn and itch. </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><i>Let
me go. Let me go</i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">A
dog mounting a bitch,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">grief
mates with my heart.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">Eight
legs stumbling like pall bearers.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">No
mongrel progeny from this coupling,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">but
a barren, bitter sterility.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><i>Alone.
Alone.</i></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">The
funereal heart rattles its urn,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">choked
with pebbles not ashes.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">A
flint-stone struck by the dull spade rings</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">a
knell for ears stopped with dust.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">My
tongue is thick with clay.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><i>Bury
me. Bury me</i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">Deep
where sightless eyes don't see,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">deaf
ears don't hear and I can't feel.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><i>Let
me be. Let me be.</i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">The
quiet, grey rain creeps among the dry leaves</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">padding
at the dust with soft paws</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">promising
- promising - to return</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">tomorrow
- tomorrow – perhaps, perhaps.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 0.42cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><i>Pamona,
Pamona. Slowly, slowly.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">A
caterpillar goes in demented circles at my feet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">searching
to leave her sackcloth skin of fire and hair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">and
become a slice of orange sunlight drifting for a day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">in
a glade of trees with butterflies for leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;"><i>Mupane.
Mupane. Mupane</i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>*Pamona
means slowly, gently or carefully in Chinyanja</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Mupane
is a common tree with butterfly shaped leaves.</b></span></div>
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Behind the car is the bank on which I lay concussed while the marula tree dropped its fruit on me.</div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;">CAR CRASH AFTER LEAVING JOBURG AFTER THE RIOTS IN 1987</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am killed I think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Breath dustily stilled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Broken stones against my gums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tongue glued to my lips with powdered earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On my head a crusted sightless bruise stares</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at the sky with a bloodied eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the shrieking explosion of the crash,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">under the gentle evening sky,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is so quiet and clear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and without meaning – after.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stars fall in disintegrating arcs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the soft fruit leaves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the darkening tree and </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">thuds to the aching ground and rolls down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and rolls down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and rolls down the bank</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to stop forever where I lie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The journey from Joburg was so long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We left them there to die,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> old and young,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> man and boy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> girl and woman,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in streets of anger,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in police cells,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in riots,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and in their homes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lives brief as the glimpsed trajectory of a shooting star,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less swift than unseen bullets,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like ripe fruit falling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is the season to leave the tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is the time to join the killer night,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to answer the earth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to stop forever,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is the season for a man to have a gun,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for a woman to raise a fist,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to pluck the fruit,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to feed the earth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to turn out the light,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to kill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so the stunned bodies drop,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and drop,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and drop,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">their dead eyes open,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">their live wounds open,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and dust, dust, dust,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in their closed hands and nostrils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so far removed from home and family</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">without memory on the strange field</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by the broken car</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the ploughed bank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Help will come for me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> but not for them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> not for them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so cold, so cold,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with grieving bruises</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and wounds that cry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At home the people die.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here it is so quiet and clear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and without meaning – after.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Copyright Ruth Hartley 1987 </b></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In 1987 we visited Joburg on a business trip. That was the time of riots and necklacing, and police brutality in the townships of the Rand. It was the year that there was a call to unban the ANC. On our drive home to Zambia our car crashed because someone connected to the SA security services had cut the brake line because I believe, of an Anti-Apartheid exhibition I had worked on in Lusaka. I was concussed and thought I was in the middle of a riot back in Joburg. I was in fact in the bush under a tree that dropped ripe fruit on me holding the hand of a Zimbabwean woman from the village who had come to help. It was dark. I blamed myself bitterly for the fact that my husband and son could have been killed because of my politics.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-34488744889177038162013-12-13T18:15:00.000+01:002013-12-13T18:15:08.682+01:00BEAUTY TREATMENT
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Embalm
my face said the failed suicide</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">smoothing
on anti-wrinkle crème</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
peering through stiff lids</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at
the red-eyed mirror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
can't be serious about death,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but
is life serious about me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is
it just decay that won't give up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
life's a gravel path to old age?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep
on weeping on the bathroom floor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at
night and creaming</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
creases out of one's neck</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">afterwards
with moisturiser.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
end will come the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon,
but never soon or soothing enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whisky
and Valium bring sleep to crinkled brains,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but
headaches and time-warps in the skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are
not simply smoothed away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Ruth Hartley 1976 </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>ROBBEN ISLAND</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Morning soothes the cold sea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with yellow fingers of light</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bandaged with mist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lost in the limbo of old storms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the gulls cry and float</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like ashes from a dying fire.</span></div>
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<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bare, still, blue, in the quiet sea,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the island rides serenely.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A flattened pearl in the beautiful
oyster-bay.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But its violence tears the sky</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to screaming ribbons which descend </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in thick horror on the land.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a mountain built over the
years</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of small frustrations, misery, hate,
</span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">injustice and starvation.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its roots are in the hearts of men</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and in their bellies</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and its darkness shuts their minds </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">before the night.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh cry out now, you violent stones</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for I have heard the sunken thunder,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">felt the earth tremble, seen the
light in the crater!</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon it will come – the bursting
mountain,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blood-coloured shouts will blot
out the sun,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">spill confusion to the horizon and
stain the earth.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Ruth
Hartley District Six Cape Town 1965</b></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Written
as I looked across Cape Town Bay at Robben Island and thought of
Nelson Mandela and the political prisoners incarcerated there. A
version of this poem was published in the ANC magazine “Sechaba”
in 1967 when I was in London.</b></i></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-92086031219121503102013-06-22T12:07:00.000+02:002013-06-22T12:07:14.927+02:00FALLING SKY<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who
thought this could happen?</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who
thought that the sky </span>
</div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">would
fall on our heads?</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's
not what they said.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We'll
be drowning they said.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We'll
be swimming they said</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In
sobbing seas with the flavour of tears.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In
oceans of wavelets lap-lapping our heads.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look
what's happened instead.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its
not what they said.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When
the ice caps gained freedom</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they
flew up to the skies,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they
dissolved into clouds,</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then
they rained on our heads.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's
not what they said.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-3024255160832659672013-03-21T13:19:00.001+01:002013-03-21T13:19:22.648+01:00MANFEAST
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>MANFEAST</b></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
husband cooked supper for me last night</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">distilling
the essence of the feast upon his skin.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span> </div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By
salt and smoke from frying pan and fire</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he
whet my appetite for subtly textured fleshy flavours</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
the aromatic pleasures suggested by the headiness</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of
brainy wines uncorked and drunk in bed.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
tasted with my mouth upon his neck</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a
feast fulfilled and others promised.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Skin
turmeric smooth and hairless</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with
chilli lips to burn my cheek.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Skin
cinnamon brown and powder dry</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dusted
with a sugar tempting to my taste.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Skin
like velvet, juicy, dark as prunes and raisins</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to
press and burst against my tongue.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
rough and crusty maleness</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">textured
like good bread to chew</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
for dessert, transparent, white, and delicate,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yet
strong and slightly sour</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so
I must lick and swallow while the juices run</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in
anticipation of pleasures still to come.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
pale-skin English husband has made for me</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a
gourmet meal of many different men.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What
a feast I now desire.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Copyright Ruth
Hartley </b></span></span>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-86231736277536899962013-03-14T16:50:00.000+01:002013-03-14T16:50:09.298+01:00CAULIFLOWER BRAIN
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>CAULIFLOWER
BRAIN</b></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
brain is like a cauliflower,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">round,
white and full of bumps.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
sprouts all kinds of growths</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that
cause you much offence.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's
aphids in its branchlets,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there's
mildew it its stems.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its
yellow round its flowerets,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">its
smell is rank and strong.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe
I should sieve it</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
serve it up as soup?</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bland
and white and milky</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to
be seasoned as you need.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe
I should chuck it</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on
the compost heap</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to
rot with slugs and beetles </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
feed your garden green.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
trouble is its my brain.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
only one I've got.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
like its plantlike strength,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it
is myself – it's me!</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
body's for your pleasure.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
dress myself to please.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm
mostly at your service</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but
I'll never be a rose.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
brain is not a melon</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
neither is it nuts.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
is my foodful thought</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
what I am it grows.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So
like it or lump it</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
am neither food or trash.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
cannot change the season</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
cannot change my head.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So
here I am my lover,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
woman with a brain.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If
I am not your taste dear,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you'll
have to shop again.</span></div>
<br /><br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Copyright Ruth
Hartley </b></span></span>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-82552095447235599312013-03-12T12:39:00.002+01:002013-03-12T12:39:54.067+01:00BEAUTY TREATMENT
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>BEAUTY
TREATMENT</b></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Embalm
my face said the failed suicide</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">smoothing
on anti-wrinkle crème</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
peering through stiff lids</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at
the red-eyed mirror.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
can't be serious about death,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but
is life seriously for me?</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or
is it just decay that won't give up</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
life's the gravel path to old age?</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep
on weeping on the bathroom floor</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at
night, and smoothing </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
creases out of one's neck </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">afterwards
with moisturiser.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
end will come the same.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sane,
soon, but never soon or soothing enough.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whisky
and Valium bring sleep to crinkled brains,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but
headaches and time warps in the skin</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are
not simply smoothed away.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Copyright Ruth
Hartley 1974? </b></span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-56229486543724299102013-03-02T15:43:00.000+01:002013-03-12T12:40:54.926+01:00CROCODILE CHILD<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>CROCODILE
CHILD</b></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
child, my darling,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
saw your snout</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">grow
sharp and hungry</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when,
head averted, you looked away from me.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
know you long to stop </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">feeding
between my breasts</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
hunt for other hearts.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
weep and blood runs with my tears.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You
begged me to smooth your newly tender flesh</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when
you cast aside your skin,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but
you nipped my wrists until they bled</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when
gentle wasn't kind enough.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
child, my darling, my crocodile.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Copyright Ruth
Hartley 1990? Lusaka </b></span></span>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-56302906186611985302013-03-02T15:34:00.000+01:002013-03-02T15:34:43.939+01:00PHOTO CHILDREN
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>PHOTO
CHILDREN</b></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
don't change.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only
the photos of my children</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">grow
younger all the time.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
children are ageless too.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only
their recorded images</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">alter
every year.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
photo children become thin or fat.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They
wear braces or smiles,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">spectacles
or scowls.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their
hair is straight or curled,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">long
or short or dyed.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In
their present flesh however, </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They
are constant.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
heart holds them so</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as
my eyes hold them, loved.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Copyright Ruth
Hartley 1985? Lusaka </b></span></span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-2328192088247907992013-02-28T17:28:00.000+01:002013-02-28T17:29:19.467+01:00NIGHT ON THE ZAMBESI<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>NIGHT
ON THE ZAMBESI</b></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
mosquitoes have tattooed</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my
defending knuckles</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with
LOVE and HATE</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
etched the ululating air </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">around
my head with thin wails of grief.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
cannot sleep.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
round obsessive moon has ironed</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my
brain as bland and flat</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as
her mad, jealous face</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
gentle dreaming will not stick to it.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
am the sweating night's prisoner</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
the sun's rejected child.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sleep
and my lover have left me</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
there is no hope of this night ending.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Copyright Ruth
Hartley 1993 Written on a hot night in a tent by the Zambesi River.</b></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Published in 'The
West in her Eye. Poems by Women.' 1995 </b></span></span>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-87263436060412154002013-02-26T16:00:00.002+01:002013-02-26T16:00:15.152+01:00SHREWS AND SAINTS
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>SHREWS
AND SAINTS</b></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There
are two sorts of wives,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shrews
or saints,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but
only one sort of husband,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he
who must be obeyed,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not
teased or slighted.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saints
of course submit.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shrews
though, must fake it.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
wonder what other role</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
could have chosen</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">since
equality is impossible</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
isolation difficult.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
am no saint </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
I would rather not be a shrew,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but
in the end, saint or shrew,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we
part our legs and let men in.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
is in receiving that we give birth</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
in giving birth we submit </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to
our children's future</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">arbitrated
by our men.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
seems that we are made to receive.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alas!
The curse of women</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for
as the New Testament says -</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'It
is better to give than to receive.'</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
would like to be a giver -</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">though
not of blows.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
could be an arbitrator too perhaps?</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
cannot find a just marriage however,</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to
predicate as a possible solution</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to
the problem of marital disharmony.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps
that is why God</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">advised
men to pull rank?</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pity
that it leaves woman as antithesis.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Copyright Ruth
Hartley 1980? Independence Avenue, Lusaka </b></span></span>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-62070896650727197392013-02-23T11:19:00.000+01:002013-02-23T11:19:16.265+01:00SNAIL'S TRAIL
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>SNAIL'S
TRAIL</b></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reversing
the snail's trail</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
gardener's dull feet rub out</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
shiny, slimy dew</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
make a path for work</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to
enter the early garden.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next
reluctant dogs and later</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hasty
children criss cross criss the lawn</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so
many ways and lead us for the day </span>
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">into
knotted webs of domesticity.</span></div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /><br />
</div>
<br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Copyright Ruth
Hartley 1980? Independence Avenue, Lusaka </b></span></span>
</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387875312896180663.post-426258450249711542013-02-16T12:42:00.001+01:002013-02-17T10:53:40.681+01:00UNINHABITED FACE<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>UNINHABITED
FACE for FMH February 1990</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Uninhabited
face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Uninhabited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
look at your dead face, the face of the dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Curious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
is not unlived in like a newborn infant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not
untouched like a child</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> – but abandoned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gone
away – passed on - departed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
old euphemisms applied do not explain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">do
not enlighten the curious absence </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of
the person – now dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
familiar, loved - </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
sometimes hated face, known so well,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is
not vacant like a room or </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like
a house empty for renting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Known
too well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so
that looking was redundant -unnecessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That
face is now changed - but with what subtlety.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Uninhabited
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
therefore curiously useless</span></div>
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– <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not
even as an empty paper bag </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is
purposeless - and not you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not
the one,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not
the lost one gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now
also uninhabiting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part
of nothing, nowhere,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">unjoined
by death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No
flutter in the air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No
sigh left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like
a torn page from which the writing has faded</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there
is no meaning to this worn and empty housing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for
the soul we could not catch,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">could
not prevent departing - </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it
is simply – </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">uninhabited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Copyright Ruth
Hartley 1990 Harare</b></span></span></div>
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