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Third Eye Candy Jan 2019
klank skin boys do one thing right
they climb a hill to get there… but who are they?
i ask because i’m not an idiot
i know a coin of subtlety is a Poet’s *******.
but in this case…
a soliloquy with a sassy domain…
as oblique as a promise that a stone
will never betray
a tidal way
of turtles.

klank skin boys bedazzle their actual kundalini!
sharp as a tack in an acid bath of upsidedown Houdini’s.
they scrawl all the yawning oblivions at their disposal
on parchments as far as what your guessing and then some…
they have no word for how lonely i am or why i
i wrote this,

or why i wrote

" this "
Dorslip en droogkeel huig ek
in die donker van terg gees middernag
vir die soet nektar name
waarna hierdie barslip hunker.
Skimletters vorm elke klinker
net so ryk soos 'n paar gisters terug.
Pype weerhou om die klank deur te laat,
wat finaal n skerwestorting bring.

Is ek aan n groter soeke om woorde te smee-
wat getuig van verlange en ander leed
,of aan jou invloed die pryseer te gee.

**** jy in heimwee ook dan aan my,
dit is al wat ek wil weet
of het jy ten einde my liefde by n ander gaan kry?
Johan Nel Jul 2016
Teen die hange van die berge-nag
Speel die donker op die ligte sag
Die kalm daal op die chaos-stad
Van klank en mense op elke kronkel pad
Dit voer jou mee in 'n sterre mat

In skoon lug met 'n oop kop
Kan gedagtes net vloei en skrop
Aan dinge wat is en kom
Aan mens wees, goed en krom
Aan die eenvoud en dit wat verstom

Woorde lê in 'n niks-wees dwaal
Dis rou, dit is maar net  -  dis kaal
Net om die stemme wat skree te verlos
Dinge wat 'n uitlaat soek in die kosmos
Dit het ink gevind, soos vuur in fynbos
© Johan Nel (written in December 2015)
Dit was daar
Ń knal in die nag
Skerper as die dop-klank
Van dinamiet in dolomiet
En gevaarliker as klapperskiet;
Die knal in die nag...

"Dit was daar op stemdag "
, sê ek.
Dit was... ekt gehoor!
Skiet ek my siel uit
Teen die leë gehoor

"Dankie my bokkie"
,Met x'e gekys
Help nie my hart nie
X'e is ook maar ń tipe kruis
Ñ tipe graf in afwag
Ń tipe nood, ń stille dood.

Dan tref die waarheid my hard
Soos ń gewyde plathand
Van ń skietman of ń doodsman
Dis jou land , dis díe land
Hoekom nou skielik bang?

Ekt dit gehoor, ekt dit gehoor
Ek sweer op die graf
Van die gesneuwelde stem.
Maar nou kom noem-
Moet ek erken...

Ek vrees die geweerskoot
Meer as die galg
Wat stil is soos slange
Wat my wurg en my walg.
Ek is banger vir die knal
Wat die hele buurt vang
As die halfpad val
En heeltyd hang
Soos kleintyd speeltyd
Van rodswaai en my lyfie
Aan toue op hang.

Wats ñ geweerskoot nou
Teen die monsters van binne
Wat klou om te hou.

Raak rustig , haal asem
, toe nou bedaar.
Jy weet mos jou denke
Was maar nog altyd
Jou grootste gevaar.

- wanneer geweerskote in
kopskote verander...
Raak die wêreld donker
JL Mar 2013
Apple taste
Placed atop
Your head--
Shotgun
Klu
Klux
Klank

Bang
00 Buck
Shattering
Thine
Crystalline
*****-
Optera
Forever
Encased
Behind Glass
Locked and keyed
Plead
Plead
Please
Let me out
To
Use my wings
I'll allow myself
This
Dream
Only for a
While of
Rubbing
Antennae
(With"you")
Caked
In Pollen
(All the other children used
To laugh at my unobtrusive
Thorax)
I forgot
The taste
Of Breeze
Please
Free me from
This prison
Cell
Inside
Your
Nucleus
Warm and inviting
I think
I could learn
To lov-
To lo-
No, I understand
You don't use the L-word
In this
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family Genus
Species
You
Use much more subtle
Habitual
Mating Rituals
Practiced by
Boys
And Girls
Alone
Once
Their government
Handbooks are issued
Ashamed and
Full of doubt
They seek out
The silence
Offered on
Forgotten
Moons
Where they can
Meditate to
The infinite hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm­mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm of the universe
You can hear it
Now
If you listen close
Enough
*Almost
A

Whispering
Deep inside (me?)


I
Think




I  could...


love you
worker bees can leave
even drones can fly away
the queen is their slave

-Little Haiku Poems I E-mail people at work
Delton Peele Jun 2020
Drawn by the bliss
my eyes are still closed from the last kiss
You ........................leave me.................
( OK for dramatism I'm leaving this line blank .......
So pretend I didn't say " breathless")
Oh my love why does love hurt so bad
And though ours is always short lived
I.....m.....obsessed i can still taste you on my lips
Why does our love need to be like this
When it comes to you there can be no substitute
Like a mad dog i run
Im insatiable i know when you come around
I become unstable
and i run
And i watch the toilsome sun
And the lunatic moon
Doomed to chase her
Without shame
from noon to noon
Like a moth to the flame
Relentless i dare not say
What the moon does is insane.
Anybody who can see what i go through to be with you .
Would say we both act the same



Dawn as the mist and the darkness
Are slowly consumed
Oh my heart yearns as days get longer
The very heart of me feeds on the time we are apart
Even my love for waiting grows fonder
I fantasize

My desire gets  stronger
And i run
You are near
The season is here
my enchantress
I succumb to you
Impatiently im not waiting
The lazy hot sun slowly crawls over the rock to help me
Aqua blue sky and ohhhhhhh
My love you are always looming
Within my lunatic mind
And i run to the end of my chain
My neck snaps where the pavement ends
I know where you are
Eyes fixed i need you
Oh my love
These chains will never hold not now no No NO
Calm down get a grip try to be smart about this .
Then i thrash like a mako
Klank jerking klank yanking
Klink
Thats it
A week link
Nostrils flared eyes purple
Half naked chest full
A wink and a perverted smirk
And i run
In to the splendor
I see you my love.
Do you remember
How many times you cut me
The blood you have taken .
The pain you inflict
My dear i was a meer child when we met  the first cut waz so severe
Im inflicted infected from youre nectar im so sick without you
I dont want a cure ill never recover
Like an addict ill always be here for you........................
Oh my wild mountain blackberry
love could never convey the the emotion or the essence of way i feel about you .
What can i say .......i love wild mountain blackberries

the times i would  say to my emotional attachment
could we go pickin
THOSE DAYS ARE OVER
I WILL IF NEED  BE SLIDE INTO THE BUSH AND STAY AND EAT UNTIL YOU TAKE LEAVE MY SWEET
In die hart van Afrika se suidegrond,
Styg ’n taal, sterk en bond.
Diep in son en sand,
Stemme dra oor hierdie land.

Afrikaans, die taal van hart en kin,
Gevleg met stories van waar ons was en bin.
Van boereveld tot stad se straat,
Sy ritme sterk, sy klank hard.

Woorde wat van berge hoog weerklink,
Stories oud, na die hemel gesink.
Met elke “sê,” ’n belofte gegee,
Van erfenis wat nooit sal verdwyn.

Ons taal sing van lag, van trane en vrees,
Van stryde gewen en drome geheg.
Al verander die tyd, al rol die gety,
Afrikaans bly staan, sterk en vry.

So hef jou stem, laat dit luid wees,
’n Lied van trots, ’n taal om te lees.
Want in elke frase, elke woord en rym,
Dra ons ons Afrikaans, deur elke tyd.

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