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 Jan 2018 Ophelia
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Sing-ing
 Jan 2018 Ophelia
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Poetry
to me
is taking
my pain
and making
it sing.
 Jan 2018 Ophelia
njabulo mangena
To understand what love is we must understand what it is not,
Love is not jealousy, jealousy is fear and fear is the opposite of love,
If love fears it’s not love its something else,
Love doesn’t hurt, if something hurts it oppose the nature of love,
If love hurts, then it’s not love its something else,

Love is not a want; love is a need and not a want,
If love is what we want, then we don’t want love we want something else,
Love has no experience we learn everyday,
If love has experience then its not love its something else,
Love it self can not be understood but we can understand what it is not, love is not something else,
There are things we think are love yet they are just something else
 Jan 2018 Ophelia
atlast
My mother is a piano
A little out of tune
Dusty keys
That play with ease
Ivory as the moon

Sometimes I’ll touch the wood
And admire its antiquity
Think of all the things that it
Ever dreamed to be

Sometimes when my fingers
Fly through a song
I wonder how this piano
Ever got so strong.

My mother is a piano,
She makes music out of air,
She answers each finger
With an embrace, with care

Her legs planted firmly
in the ground
How much I love to hear
her deep, rich sound.
Love happens at first sight
And love is blind.
With eyes or without eyes
Love may not happen
And it might.

It is the best thing
Which ever happened to me.
It ruined my life.
Left scars on my body
My career, left and right.

Love is a beautiful feeling
Which ends in happily ever after.
Or they never saw each other again.
Still wished good and prayed
In darkness for other's light.

It is an ambition spark,
To make jovial men serious,
Work hard towards crazy goals.
And a potion for grave looking
To laugh with delight.

Love is the best form
Of punishment one can give
To innocent souls, trusting in nature
Who tricked by the cruel world
Don't seek revenge or fight.
Love is an emotion which can cause both happiness and sadness. That is what makes it a complete emotion.
Never fall in love with a poet
for their words are sometimes lies
on occasions they're a shield
on occasions a disguise

They will take you on a journey
upon which they bare their soul
in a bid to ease your burdens
in a bid to make you whole

But in every word they choose
for the stories that they tell
lies a little piece of heaven
and a little piece of hell

Tormented souls we poets are
sometimes quite broken and despaired
in search of lost expressions
missed by others who once cared

Never fall in love with a poet
unless you're prepared to share their pain
to hold them close on the darkest nights
over and again
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