Published in Resistance Poetry

·Pinned

War Or Peace

Listen To The Children, Please — Do I care about conflicts and war the rights and wrongs the struggle for resources man power and ego - no - no - no, I whisper as my heart aches for the innocent who die, are wounded and traumatized — the children, our next generation the ones who survive abused, misused or vanish into the darkness…

Poetry

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Poetry

2 min read

Published in Literary Impulse

·Pinned

Tell Me, Camus, About Love

A Few Words of Inspiration — “You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.” Albert Camus A comfort to my mind and soul you impart in me, Albert, the magnitude of love and the glory of kindness in a wearisome world. Your observations from…

Literary Impulse

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Literary Impulse

3 min read

Published in Our Human Family

·Pinned

How Does It Feel When the Perpetrators of Racial Segregation Become the Victims?

Living through the pain of the Jim Crow laws — Not having grown up in the United States and completely overwhelmed by the inhumaneness of inherent and systemic racism, I’ve begun reading up on the history of racial discrimination in the U.S. At this moment in time, we have the medial “in your face” examples of institutionalised racism and its…

Racism

11 min read

How Does It Feel When the Perpetrators of Racial Segregation Become the Victims?

Racism

11 min read

Published in Scribe

·Jul 10

My Dear Granddaughter

A Bestowal —

Poetry

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Poetry

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My Dear Granddaughter

A Bestowal

Published in Sky Collection

·Jul 9

Alive: An Afterthought

Battling Truths — In between the laughter and the tears there are moments of serious reflection as dazed I lie or sit, lips pursed in silent sorrow mourning the turn our world is taking — these entrenched ideologies — Never before have I been so painfully conscious of the lack of compassion. From…

Poetry

2 min read

Poetry

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Published in Sky Collection

·Jul 5

Alive

A walk through time —

Poetry

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Poetry

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Apr 19

In The Early Morn I Sensed A War Unfold

Foreboding II — 22 February 2022, 03.30 GMT What I feared and doubted would happen has happened. Putin has ordered his troops into two breakaway pro-Russian regions in the East of Ukraine. His expansion plans are being rolled out under the guise of a peace and protection mission. A time for reckoning and…

Prose

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Prose

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Published in Scribe

·Apr 19

Rhyming Is a Comfort

In Good Times and Bad Times Like Now —

Poetry

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Poetry

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Rhyming Is a Comfort

In Good Times and Bad Times Like Now

Published in Scribe

·Mar 25

The Calm Before the Storm

Foreboding I — The whiff of chimney smoke hangs low powerless to bear the pressure and penetrate the atmosphere Black smoke spreads across the roofs forming a loopholed blanket The smell of soot is everywhere Grey clouds gather menacingly low Heavy and tempestuous, they displace the white billowing and light pink-like floss Overhead, dripping drops of…

Ukraine

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