My World – A Poem

My World My world, this is my world - It is all mine when I feel it is. I have the power in me To create, to make it beautiful. I can love and give of my heart, I can make myself and others happy. I can share, I can explore and Invent the cures … Continue reading My World – A Poem

Poem: Collecting Leaves – Revised Version

Collecting Leaves - The revised version - Golden sunshine captures me as I look into the leaves ... Smells and sights and sounds I feel As into the depths of golden hues I allow my spirit to sink and swim and swallow wholeness From without into within and all around and all beyond me When … Continue reading Poem: Collecting Leaves – Revised Version

Ek Wil Huis Toe Gaan – An Ode to South Africa – With Translation

In my previous blogpost, I explained the writing of this poem, which seemed to write itself one chilly evening in Britain, during October 2013. I have now cobbled together a translation, which appears below the original here, for those who do not speak Afrikaans nor know the South African lingo ...