RHYME UPON A TIME 

You make moments special You end up with a lovely time It's nothing so unusual The seconds on the hour chime Components make the whole So...

These damned words This bloody badgering That pause and panic herds Draws torrid thoughts Unglues the chords Like anxious birds On pylons...

It ventures into the same area being decried Suggesting knowledge of why Dragan died And whilst amongst the outers a riot Specify who you...

The wind is blowing up a storm No surprise, in the District the norm The alarmed trees waving branches about Steel and mortar 'round...

Key to understand that this is not an anomaly This happens with sickening regularity Exacerbates the hell of survival on the streets With...

It's systemic, endemic, obscured by the pandemic It's been normalized being brutalized And only in part the larger reality playing out...

I find it best not to even start looking for a word or words to describe the state of things right now, my cold comfort that I don't find...

These are those foretold times, Long subject of poems and rhymes, When virtues become crimes When the dollar, euro and pound, Boldly...

Now the ask all the more in the realm of sacrifice Not for brownie points, not for agenda, not to be nice But the acceptance that we are...

Good Friday, with all its implications for the meaning of sacrifice Since childhood a wake-up call that the world does not play nice...

Because it's wrong That sorrow has become our default drive dragging disappointment along Depression and anxiety hushed asides that board...

Looking for a poem Why a poem should have a home Whether in an anthology the size of a small dictionary Or embracing that classic trim...

Our breaking news The darker hues Shots fired at night Gangsters - that blight News the night before last On repeat the one past Morning...

Recently I provoked someone's sympathy Because of my behaviour, mind, and not what was happening to me Reminds of the time someone handed...

Shining Stars ECD Centre in Franschoek, our newest partner in Early Childhood Development, is an inspiring story of turning challenge...

Look, from my point of view You were rather odd too But always fairly indulged Your chest with arrogance bulged Secure and comfortably...

Allow me a moment to reflect on sorrow. That overwhelming wave that floods your being and drowns out all other sensation but the...

After the getting dressed Straightening what is messed Smoothing out the wrinkles Ironing out all the crinkles Comes the ask, haunting...

No longer officially our master Free from the state of disaster Comes pause for what we've lost Accounting the terrible cost The frilly...