Saturday, January 31, 2015

die seisoene
skil
die dae
kalm
een vir
een
van die rame
van
vensters


 sy regopstaan
in stukke
opgekap


uit gritserigheid
word die
vertederende
vreedsaamheid
van slaap 
gegiet


photos and poems - Lara Kirsten

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Haiku

old edition, hardcover,
its smell, and such thoughtfulness:
the tasselled bookmark

*  *  *

the moth fluttering
for life: following, two wasps
precision flying

*  *  *

in fynbosveld
down, where the stem meets sand
– the stillness of god

 -  Brian Walter

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

            Home Ground

We grow old:
the madcap swirl
of bikes, bars, sore loves

cramping
into bounds
we once only could imagine,

governors
that someday
would settle our home ground.

 - Norman Morrissey


            More Human

As Leonardo said,
Death comes to us all
– but the thought of it

can make us
more
human.

 - Norman Morrissey