Shahid Solomon Poems

The thoughts behind thoughts
Binary rays of love and fear
Projected into the prism of experience
Rainbows of emotion swaying in waves of colour
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Looping thoughts of looping
Sleeping, drinking, eating
Rash optimism
Unseemly melancholia
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Intelligent
Solo leopard stalking the twilight moon
Curious
Like Baby Daniel sniffing primal fynbos
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I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe? "
― Sylvia Plath

Streets of lace, class, crime, shabby cars and dead poets
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Last night I hardly slept
Last night when the moon
Graced me with a square of milky light
I felt the sweetly reflected sun
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Taking my kisses not lightly
The world is saying hello
Unkept, unkempt and unsexed
I can belong to none, and be owned by all
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