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  Nov 2024 Khoisan
Maria Etre
Someone told me
"love looks at decent
ones "

I nodded, sighed, and smirked
but love
made me
like
this

Unleashed my curls
broke my walls
shattered
my people-pleasing
sharpened my poetry
silenced my loud voice
widened my eyes
encouraged my heart
undressed my façade
made me dance naked
in the face of judgement,
sing the songs of truth
and fall in love with
all things wrong
right, left, ugly, beautiful
and gave strength
to the choice that
always stood in the back
but now takes center stage

"Love left me right",
"Love leaving, made me write"
I replied
*Right, write!
  Nov 2024 Khoisan
Thirty Nine
So much can happen in 14 minutes
He can grab the rope from his closet
And search up how to tie a noose
Then he’ll go to the kitchen
And drag his mothers chair
To his room
And all he’ll write
Is “I’m sorry”
He’ll be gone before you know it
Khoisan Nov 2024
We **** the enemy
a governed philosophy
an unseen soldier
  Nov 2024 Khoisan
Zywa
I'm invisible

when I read a poem, I'm --


eavesdropping on it.
Maria Barnas on Mia You, in the review of You's poetry collection "Festival" (2024), in the NRC of November 8th, 2024

Collection "Within the walls"
  Nov 2024 Khoisan
Sarthak Gupta
Another day, another mask,
A weary soul, a fragile task.
It's been so long, I've lost the feel,
Of what is fake and what is real.
Tired
  Nov 2024 Khoisan
Dr Xijuan Angel Liao
——To Antoi Gaudi
“One that goes from Earth to eternity, to the highest.”


He was the genius architect in the first place

Using matter, pure and fine
He makes the life that he intends

But in arts pattern, and in science design
At the second place, he was a craftsman
where rigorous rectangles border
a dreaming perspective, where a stream
awakened, he created his life ideal


Then third, he was the naturalist,
Using all he has inspired, he stated
“The big book, always open and we
must strive to read” is that of nature
Least not last, fourthly, he was a guru
“the straight line belongs to men
the curved one to God ” Likewise
Movement meets stillness, a line meets a shout

He was always there in the history of Basilica
Architecture and Geometry
Art of fantasy and algebra wonders
Commentary:  From 2008, 2012, 2017, I made 3 times visit to Sagrada Família, Barcelona, where the architecture designed by Antoni Gaudi. The more time I visit, the more I immensely inspired by Gudi ’s world heritage contribution. Five generations now, we have watched the meticulous construction progress and with almost 140 years after the laying of the cornerstone, the work continues on the Basilica.
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