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 Sep 16 Khoisan
DKDK
garbage is everywhere,
village, city, mind or heart,
sweet dreams of bright moon
 Sep 16 Khoisan
Jimmy silker
In the hell
Of the cave
After the road
Runs out
You can't retreat
Or go forward
Then you'll see
Just what you're all about
Where cups
Hold only blood
And knives
Cut only humans
To see what drains
Out of you
And what
You've been
Consuming.


YOUR HAPPINESS SURVIVED...

Did you ever think of
What happened to those glass pieces?

The shattered glass pieces
Held some of your happiness like
A mother breastfeeding a new born baby
It slowly gathered and tried to joined
The remaining left over happiness

Years passed but glass pieces
Never parted with your happiness
And preserved it with lots of care

The broken glass pieces
Still hugs and kisses your happiness
With the hope of giving it back to you

Your happiness is secure & safely alive
With the shattered glass pieces

The remaining life of the glass pieces
Is destined to more breakages

Don't worry if
The glass pieces are crushed, stamped
Still shattered further in more tiny pieces
Disintegrated into powder

Be sure whatever they do to glass pieces
It will not let your happiness go
It's clenching your happiness tightly

Come one day to find how
The glass pieces are living
Come and see the castle of happiness
The shattered glass pieces has built
Naming your happiness "An Angel"

What if I told you that
I am the glass of LOVE that encased your
Happiness and that you shattered...!

(Read the flashback story in NOTES below)


One day when you were a kid
Your happiness encased in glass = shattered
You cried and scambled
To pick up some of your happiness
You wrapped your happiness
with a cloth and put inside the bag
You dropped the bag in a river
But grasp some pieces of happiness
You put some happiness under lock and key
But your happiness was stolen
You tracked down remaining happiness
and now carry your happiness in your pockets
Sometimes, it falls, out, you find it
And YOU cherish what happiness is left behind

YOUR HAPPINESS SURVIVED...

Did you ever think of
What happened to glass pieces?

(Read the poem...)
I surrender; I give you my everything                                                       ­           A pretender, without you I was nothing                                                     on my knees, I confess it all to you                                                   Comforting, I know your word is truth                                                           You were there, had my back all along                                                      Loving me ,in your arms I feel so strong                                                   What  relief, You've washed away my sins                                                             ­                                        Sweet  surrender , a  new  way  to  begin
Thank you, God for the mercy and love you have shown me.
I lap from puddles,
tasting of blistered bark,
teeth green from moss
the deer abandoned.

fed the fire with Walden,
its spine snapped
like a rabbit’s neck.
Ash branded my palms
with unread philosophy.

Soon it will be winter.

I’ll freeze stiff: a fallen carcass
unless poems hatch inside me,
larvae splitting bone from within.
This poem is written in the 55 form, that is, it consists of exactly 55 words. Inspired by Joy Ann Jones - https://hellopoetry.com/poem/5138107/medicine-sky/
 Sep 15 Khoisan
badwords
A light is on me
Radiant solitude
Illuminates me
I stand in absence
Of my shadow

Whole but
Incomplete
I exist, solid
Tactile reality
And longing

A part of me
Is missing
I can’t touch it
But, I feel its
Vacancy

I am incomplete

And still—
I dream in outlines
Of your touch,
A warmth I’ve never
Held, yet carry
Everywhere.

Across the distance
You are both presence
And ache, and
A pulse inside desire,
A voice in my silence.

I miss you—
Perfect stranger,
As if the missing
Was always you,
And I have only now
Learned its name
Nothing to see here
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