Dear Hera

26 December 2018 0 comments

  You goddess you! Anger and freedom Fire licking wind bursting like pomegranate seeds pop pop Shoot them down on the path to your soul And when you reach the space where lava meets earth transforms it into crackling will...

Category: Poems | Tags: Acceptance, Anger, Freedom, Identity

The brilliance of grief – for a role model

16 December 2018 0 comments

  Grief is like an uncut diamond. Each side when polished reveals the beauty inside. Each facet, once sharpened, displays the shimmering strength of what eventually emerges as the honed stone – atoms pushed together through the build up of...

Category: Musings | Tags: Expat life, Grandfather, Grief, Loss, Love

Any kind of love

14 December 2018 0 comments

Does it matter how I know you To love you Does it make a difference to Love To flow only down a certain path Blood Family Friends Intimacy Religion Nation-State Does the colour of my skin Risk our love Does...

Category: Poems | Tags: Grief, Loss, Love

Between the lines

26 November 2018 0 comments

They sat across from each other The little girl and the scared boy One more quiet The other making up for the silence They sat with their eyes dancing around Each other’s mouths Longing to taste A small slice of...

Category: Poems | Tags: Grief, Love, Men, Romance

An ode to my son – part 2

16 November 2018 0 comments

I went to an all-girls school. We had little awareness of the budding magic of our young bodies, we did not have boyfriends, a party was a sleepover with amateur manicures and gossip. We did not have any internet, our...

Category: Musings | Tags: Children, Identity, Love, Me, Motherhood, Women

An ode to my son – part 1

11 November 2018 0 comments

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You are the...

Category: Musings | Tags: Children, Identity, Love, Me, Motherhood, Women

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