(1980 - Present) I am a South African writer. Words are my passion and my profession.
My relationship with poetry began when I fell in love with a lively Limerick at the age of five. After I heard how words can whisper age-old secrets and warn of times yet unborn, I accepted their invitation to play.
Amid versatile vowels and constant consonants, I dance to the rhythm and the rhymes between the lines between the lines. Through the process of poetry, I have learned to know and understand myself better by better understanding that I will never know myself.
And I am happy to be serving a life sentence.
My relationship with poetry began when I fell in love with a lively Limerick at the age of five. After I heard how words can whisper age-old secrets and warn of times yet unborn, I accepted their invitation to play.
Amid versatile vowels and constant consonants, I dance to the rhythm and the rhymes between the lines between the lines. Through the process of poetry, I have learned to know and understand myself better by better understanding that I will never know myself.
And I am happy to be serving a life sentence.
Latest activity
Stars/scars by Ilva
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I am waiting for the stars to lead me
Away from this late night double-feature
But I just can't get these scars to leave me
Our time was too short
Apr 28
Storms (a Haiku) by Ilva
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Storms will come and go
Sometimes they will heal the earth
Sometimes they'll destroy
Mar 14
Ilva
joined the group Short poems. Mar 14
joined the group Musicians Mar 14
joined the group The Mutual Admirer's Society Mar 14
joined the group Four and Twenty and Japense poetic forms Mar 14
joined the group Haiku and 俳句 and 都々逸 Mar 14
joined the group The Irish Poets: An Oxymoron Mar 14
Ilva wrote a reaction to I Spent a Year in Her Eyes. by Devon
A poem duet... original - I like.
Mar 13
I wrote a poem for you by Ilva
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I wrote a poem for you
The day before I met you
When I didn’t yet know a soul can be shipwrecked
Or that the sun can have secrets
Mar 13
A lucid doodle by Ilva
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With a tracing of my dreams
I’ll draw for you
In the shapes of streams
And the sounds of seas
A lucid doodle
Feb 19
I am not depressed by Ilva
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I am not depressed
I’m just deflated
Out of style and over-dressed
At second-best, I’m overrated
Nov 3, 2011
