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Showing posts with label Namibia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Namibia. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 September 2026

Disastrous word - Verushcka Garises

It all starts as little as a drop of water
Just to turn into an ocean of crushing waves

Thursday, 5 March 2026

How much Does A Sunset Cost? - Jeremy Tiboth

Slowly, you were becoming indistinguishable from it all.
it only took a glimpse for it to paralyse you
i would have guessed you froze time again
if it weren’t for the golden dust particles dancing
in the sweet summer silence

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

The dust was here first - Vivian Tjijandjeua Ojo

The dust was here first
Mothers came to tend to the dust
and absorbed its clay shades for their skin.

Thursday, 9 May 2024

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

From exile - Mvula Ya Nangolo

From exile when I return
I'm going to beg someone to touch me
Very, very tenderly
And gradually put me et ease
I wish to feel again how life feels

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

What I Am - Undjizuva Kaputjaza

The most precious present ever presented to me
Was this moment
In which I shed a frozen tear
While drowning in a golden sunset.

Thursday, 6 June 2019

The Feast - Dorian Haarhoff

I have laid the round table
and set the seven-bit candle stick, centre-piece.
the hour is late. the chairs stand empty.
the invited guests have not come
nor sent regrets.

Friday, 1 July 2016

Namibia - Mvula Ya Nangolo

I’ve returned here for many a reason
I’ll certainly live here for many a season
Like thousands of others I hear its heartbeat
My heart opens up when I am in the mountains
Where I can be alone with my thoughts

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Old Woman Brewing - Dorian Haarhoff

in war days she moved
as heady matriarch
on powder plains,

Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Namibia - Dorian Haarhoff

wild west land
holster in the hip of Africa
strung on the studded belt of Capricorn.