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Khoisan Sep 2021
Innocence is the catalyst
a child the key
Compassion births belief.
Senryu
Khoisan Feb 2022
Look toward the stars
in our existential quest
carry on searching
Khoisan Sep 2023
I'm out of the game
a yard a yarn a yearning
flaccid broke insane
Khoisan Apr 2021
Brushes softly stroked
no anger only patience
love gentle as a dove
Khoisan Dec 2020
Sorry guys
at this point in time
the algorithm
just don't have enough
monocular
#hp
Khoisan Nov 2022
Braving half bludgeoned

her skin mended the deep scars

freedom takes courage

strapping boots and walking tall

leaving the monsters behind.
Khoisan Jun 2022
Fly me to the moon

no Buzz or the old Armstrong

E-nano-matrix

"Bezos, Musk" exoplanets

covid injected "Will Tell".
E to Enter
Inspired by William Tell
Khoisan Nov 2019
A great teacher sets good examples,
allows you to stumble, and learns
from your mistakes, acknowledges
his own, sharing words that edify both.
Khoisan Oct 2022
Butterfly cocoons
love's belly button platoon
born beneath the moon.
Khoisan Aug 2018
Subliminal pest
Wailing wall of ****** clots
Mosquito swat plaques
Pestilence at night lol
Khoisan Jun 2018
Binging and smoking
With foolish prance
Instant combustion
Meandering across barrier lines
In less than sixty seconds
Smashing, cringing and choking
Euphoric blunder
Six feet under
Khoisan Feb 2019
Cloaked wings fuel feeds

Tongue loaded flint locked bullets

Eve stuck to her leaf
Stick to your instincts you probably right
Khoisan Jul 2018
Desperate I stood
Bruised from shame
A man on the edge of decay
With an olive branch
She brought me back
Into her forgiving heart
The next morning self-satisfied
I left without remorse or goodbye
For the young and the restless be careful out there
Khoisan May 2023
A
sword
for the sworn

A
palace
for the queen


A
bride
for the estate


A
head
above his fireplace


A
stone henge
of cobbled grace.
Queen Camilla of England
Khoisan Aug 2021
If you had a dream
in the real world I believe
your love for the word.
Khoisan Jun 2021
My light house
are
painted on a black canvas
it
gets brighter
as
I
travail ontoward
.
The end of the tunnel
Khoisan Jul 2021
Beyond our burdens
and
the
weight
of our tears
beyond the storms
in
our
African years
there's
a
place
whom
God knows,
bares
all the colour's
of
the
rainbow.
Khoisan Apr 2021
A
stray arrow
breaks the jagged
he💔rt
a
truarrow mend
the
two p💖rts
blind to the mind
is
the
captain kind
one never knows
the real foe
behind
the
bow.
A kind of hell
ask
William Tell.
Khoisan Apr 2022
See the fray of decay,
look at the level of debris,
even the God
who walked on water
they nailed to a tree.
Khoisan Dec 2021
Sharkfin soup and tea
Chinese ****** the sea
even in my country❓
BLT's Merriam Websters
word of the day chellenge
Carte blanche.
Khoisan Sep 2018
Blueprints etched on
Walls of caves inheritance
For this day and age
A Revival of flesh onto bone
Our birthright cast in stone
Heritage month here in South Africa
This one is for all who identify with the
Khoi-San culture in South Africa these rock art paintings are over 8 000 years old inspired by Keith Wilson- Stones
Khoisan Jul 2018
I caught an arrow that broke your heart
You dodged a bullet meant for me
Shipwrecked relationships
Khoisan Apr 2022
Wrong crowd empty cup
she dipped her toes
in the wrong throes
tumbling like a lost kite
head-spinning
blinded by the height,
the eyes have vision
but this naive girl
had compromised her sight,
abandoned and disgraced
catching the twenty-two
in-between
a rock and a hard place.
Unseal your own drinks
pour your own cups
and scrutinize all meals
you have the right
to be careful.
#Woman of strength true story
Khoisan Nov 2018
Rare Misty mornings

Birds chirpy pecking happy

Worms stay up longer
Misty morning just having fun
Khoisan Apr 2022
Thumbnail text-omics
me myself v the iPod
brain cell migration
human genes on nano screens
incognito poetry.
Khoisan Nov 2021
Message
in
a
bone

silent
the
thought
left
alone

Ancestral
pre - fone
Khoisan Nov 2021
There are literally only a second to change your mind
Khoisan Dec 2022
Love is the way 
it knows all about you
never blinking
about danger
the baby
the stranger
Love is the way through a mainger.
Khoisan May 2022
Who's persistence is rife
can I see and feel what begs
and in the order of love
you still offered me a knife.
Khoisan May 2022
I leaned toward it
that is where the road turned me
into a spare wheel
Khoisan Dec 2019
We made them
nurture them during the day
fist punch full of glitter
mesmerizing the night
a sky full of glittering stars
Khoisan Oct 2022
Cruel fell from the sky
even the midwives
left us then, to die.
Black-eyed battered beauty
a withered wick
on a burning stick
I made a choice
the child my duty
tiny eyes a crying delight
I kept the baby
I followed her/his light.

Everybody came from somebody
came from God came from Mary.
Khoisan Jul 2019
Y
o
u
can
restore
porcelain
when it's broken
the cracks adds character
Khoisan Apr 2023
When the tide rises all ships are raised
it was fundamtally
mother Mary's call.
When boats fell
from standing tall
it's captain took the fall,
who laid hands
on such innocence
who took a stand
albeit a woman
a child
or a man,
is the ocean too deep
and the river too wide
are we as a people
afraid of the fault
caused by crimson tides,
who are we praying for?
Jesus rose when he died
where She humbly stood for
nations to rise.
Khoisan Dec 2021
When a leading star
cast a ray of hope
on a manger
where a mother
birthed love
by pain and tears
there Santa appears
before dawn
where the child was born.
For whatever reason you may not like Christmas this child was born especially for you.
Khoisan Dec 2021
Love is bittersweet

as
it
laps
around your feet

deceptive coastlines
Khoisan Apr 2023
Soon very soon
we will witness
death by avalanche
and the world
will be praying for ice.
Inspired
by Mote's poem
Titled X.
Khoisan Oct 2018
To
turn a leaf
touch a snowflake
Dance
in
the
rain
Khoisan Apr 2023
Smoke drumrolls dance,

indigenous
verve,

observed
conserved
preserved
reserved

a shaman's stance

reduced

to an historical prance.
Natives in a global circus.
Tourist attractions?
Khoisan Nov 2018
I gave them a million miles
Of anger
And all they wanted back was me
Khoisan Nov 2018
Unconscious we are all judges
At the cross of the ballot box
A point to ponder
Khoisan Nov 2018
She'd become
Her whisper
The wind incarnate
CHANGE
It is said that a change is as good as a holliday
Khoisan Dec 2021
He often wondered
do you cheat
when you close them
copper-tone shades
shut your eyes
and I'm a goner.
He "once" had a girlfriend
who loved wearing
copper-tone shades
got to thinking
her eye might have been bullets.
Khoisan Dec 2021
Plenitude
in the heptagon
of gratitude
natural pride
the abominable defied.
"Heptagon" - metaphorically
denotes the continents.
Khoisan Mar 2020
The devil divides
Pangea broken
the ancient sanctum
A global cause a course for prayer together we can overcome
Khoisan Apr 2020
On this site
bad things happen
to good people
it feels like a crackdown
in a lockdown
Khoisan Oct 2019
hurricane tossed
I hate my body
my mind is clogged
banging baggage
life is a mock
the hustle for crack
unsympathetic...tock
on a deadly track.
Khoisan Jul 2018
I leave the mirror
Scarred by rejection
Thinking at a glance
Its just an optical illusion
I'm the spitting image
Of who I want to be
Gleefully I left them there
Empty
Believe in yourself no matter what they say
Khoisan Feb 2023
Caught
and
crushed
inside the butterfly
trap
it's simply "lemonade"
at the goosebump
parade.
Retrospectively
Cry
Khoisan Jun 2019
Cry
There
is
a
rainbow
beyond
the
flood
don't
be
afraid
let
it
rain
Symbol of hope
Colors of grace
Healer of hearts
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