Margaret Alice Second Poems

It is time Afrikaners learn apartheid
was devised with evil intent; it was
not good intentions that went awry,
it was evil capitalism at the behest
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Again my work station is a Fairy Kingdom;
donning a pink filigree scarf I became Pea
Blossom of ‘Shakespeare’s Midsummer
Night’s Dream’; inspired by the desire to
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Do I have ability to imagine what I want - First thing
is I want freedom to become my alternative self, the
inner person who has been subjected by the timid spirit
who only wants to read all day long, I want to break out
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I’m cold, cold, cold, freezing in the land of the sun,
ice queen wrap around my shoulders wearing purple
T-shirt and freezing underneath, autumn always brings
nostalgia and pain for something lost, I know not what
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Driving along misty lanes after the rain, a memory of
adventure, scared 1st-year student in platform shoes
enjoying the feeling of rural peacefulness, until nearly
missing my turn into the broad city street
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It seems that arrogant ignorance is becoming the
norm in our Government Departments - amusing
as it is hearing of an interpreter’s inexperience &
lack of excellence in a Court trial watched world-
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Tried to stay quiet on Public Prosecutor Percy Yutar
in his vindictive case against Nelson Mandela at the
Rivonia Trial, tried to say nothing about his malefic
rancour, sneering comments and smarmy, crawling
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Even explaining or defending this
hateful system masquerading as
god-sanctioned and heaven-sent,
disguised as ‘Africans’ freedom’
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Work colleagues helping refine my
new self-image - just becoming Miss
Marple is too restrictive, given my
love for racing in a fast car - à la
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Written For My Birthday

Marilese, Marilese…
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