Margaret Alice Poems

'O soete melodie wat droefgeestig draal...'

Amazing how we have to revert to our mother
tongue to express really deep feelings
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All sensual descriptions of love
are only symbols of an invisible
feeling, representations of
experiences with non-physical
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I don’t want to be here now, again
painted my lighthouse mermaid with
glitter in silver and gold, played with
the picture you sent me, changed
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I am swimming, swimming, swimming, just keep
swimming, swimming, swimming, one word and
one phrase at a time, though my consciousness
experiences total lack of context and absolute
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This morning a piano played beautiful roses
by threading a melody; violin strings sighing
together inserted velvet caresses, the Skater’s
Waltz created a sequence of dancers in shiny
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We are moving again, I am happy
to say, into an open-plan building
joining the rest of our Department
in Kingsley; how many boxes can
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Even rocks and grains of sand have consciousness;
as people who don’t show any emotion don’t excite
the imagination; inanimate objects excite even less;
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We should be extinct, we crocodile moms who
abandon our kids when they make the water;
saurian’s have no parental duties beyond
the basics of a successfully hatched egg
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Consciousness

A new century and a sane and just society,
growing awareness of the interdependent
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The West fabricated an overseer god;
angry, just and cruel, behaving like a
naughty child, destroying enemies
by lightning, fire and thunder
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