Little boy, Beautiful child
The world is your embrace
All is light and fearlessness
While untamed animals dance with you
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Dark blue swells of watery mountains
Hold tears from a thousand eyes,
And collapse in a great crash of white,
As they skid and hiss towards the shore shining
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Who's Next?
She's blond and blossoming young
She's a black doctor and drives a car
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Ode to the Arts by Sheryl Deane
Open the book and page through time
Our history captured first hand
By the pen of an artist, the stroke of a brush
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Give me an ocean to swallow
And I will follow that wave
Riding high in the wind and rain
Balanced on illusion
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(KommetjieCape Town- January 2009)
Why lie in the shallows little whale?
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Joyful singing fills the air
Sun rises over ancient farms
Birds chorus together with a happy song
Flying from tree to tree, and skipping branches
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A world of lily's float
Under an old wooden bridge
Etched in her soul
Imagined on her palette
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Has religious ceremony replaced love?
Has selfish gain replaced kindness?
Has greed replaced world order?
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A Soldiers Christmas
Little children gather round,
Christmas lights are shining.
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A gloomy day awaits the runner
Shivering, his restless eyes focus
Far ahead, to a distant summer
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Born in Durban South Africa, Sheryl completed her B.Mus at the University of Natal with a major in Music Education and English. She currently works as a Music Teacher and creative author, Sheryl has worked at DSK in Cape Town SA, Berkshire Young Musicians Trust, UK, and as an international teacher at school in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Her most recent teaching contract was at U -Link College in Wuhan, China.)
Beautiful Boy
Little boy, Beautiful child
The world is your embrace
All is light and fearlessness
While untamed animals dance with you
By the lake
Wild Flowers open in your gaze
Their perfume rising like butterflies
Fluttering in the warm breeze
Leading your path ahead
Little boy, beautiful child
Your heart beats strong
Wash clean the battered shores
Of adult greed and pain
Take us to a place
Of Peace
Teach us all you know
Show us how to feel
Guide us to wisdom
Bathe us in your childhood delight
Little Boy, beautiful child
Your cries wrench grown hearts
And helpless innocence breaks fierce souls
Those that hurt you are cursed
For generations of war
Will spill from your innocent wounds
And infect cities to icy retreat
Forgive us little boy,
Unfreeze the cruelty of adults
Show us the path we lost when
We focused on being grown-up
Little boy, Beautiful child
Stay with us always