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Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2011-02-20 01:50 AM



VOICE
18 February 2011

She didn’t know then
that it held them captive,
breathless,
mesmerized,
as-namaste-one,
while they ignored the content
of her carefully composed
Classical Civilisation essay,
to imbibe the harmony
and pleasure
of the sound.

Owl

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Alison
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1 posted 2011-02-20 01:54 AM


You know, I think you are a brilliant poet.  I am so happy that you are writing and sharing with us.  I have loved your older poems, but I really like reading the work that you write now, today.  It's like seeing where you are and who you are at this time.

Love it - please keep it coming.

Alison

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
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Durban, South Africa
2 posted 2011-02-20 02:20 AM


Thank you, Alison.  I think you are a brilliant poet too.  It is very heart-warming that you have noticed that my postings have all been old ones for a while – but that is you, a very kind, compassionate person.  

I had a very hard time and dry-poetry-writing period after losing my darling Daisy-dog on 18 December 2009 and my darling Tigger-cat on 26 October 2010 – although neither of them were sick for very long and they are in Heaven, and although I am very grateful for having had them for so many years, it has been so hard.  However, on 31 December 2010, they and Flicka sent me my two new darling fur-babies (thank you Kate, for that word), Benji, my (now) 11-month old puppy and Cleo, my 4 year old kitty cat.  In some ways, it makes me miss and long for Tigger and Daisy so much more, but in others, it is bringing me back to life again, and this year I have written 31 poems already.  

This poem is actually about a long time ago, but it was written so very recently – it is about a compliment that I have remembered for so many years.  I thought the tutorial group I was in, was so enraptured by the content of my essay (we had turns each week in reading out and discussing one essay – or something like that), but it turned out that after I had left the lecturer’s tutorial room, that he mentioned that he hadn’t really listened to what my essay was about because he found my reading voice so melodic or words to that effect and the others apparently agreed with him wholeheartedly.  It was only a while later that one of the students told me about it.  To this day, I really don’t understand it, because the tutorial group had heard me speaking in our discussions every week (and I always have lots to say), and nobody had reacted in that way before and the essay was very factual as opposed to poetical – however, I loved the compliment and wasn’t going to contest it then, nor will I now.

Owl

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