tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29175022609223272792024-03-14T01:53:41.091+02:00Bleeding Moon Poetryhaiku - cinquain - tanka - sedoka - modernist - nonet - prose - free verse - rhyme - and any other style I decide to try masterCatherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-67759099530987496912018-06-17T09:50:00.000+02:002018-06-17T10:56:55.981+02:00Grief Deferred<br />
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Solar
plexus punch.<br />
Breathless
incredulity<br />
clutches
crumbling straws.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">You – left – me</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">for eternal tomorrows.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Breathe</span></i><br />
my
muted mantra.<br />
<br />
Chitter
chatter clatter<br />
sympathy,
shock and hugs.<br />
<br />
Weep
they say.<br />
Grieve
they say.<br />
<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Leave</span></i><br />
my
muted mantra.<br />
<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">leave – me</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">to wail</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">to grieve</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">to rend my hair</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Someone
sits</span><br />
where
you would sit.<br />
Occupies
your space<br />
in
my world.<br />
<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Anguish. Breathe. Leave.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Pitter
patter platter</span><br />
casseroles,
snacks and cups.<br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US">© </span><span lang="EN-US">Marion Friedenthal</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This poem is for those who wish to grieve in solitude before facing the world after the devastating death of a loved one.</span></div>
<br />Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0South Africa-30.559482 22.937505999999985-56.7802775 -18.371088000000015 -4.3386864999999979 64.246099999999984tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-72053160875968193362011-07-27T23:17:00.001+02:002011-07-27T23:17:52.050+02:002 Poet Mondo<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">if our earth explodes<br />
will its fragments disappear<br />
forever lost in darkness</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><br />
<br />
Not sure if I've got this right in respect of the sentiments expressed, but anyone is welcome to add the 2nd stanza for this Mondo in the comments? Details regarding Mondo:<br />
<br />
Mondo comes from the Zen practice of rapid question-answer between Master and student. Often the answer would be in nonverbal form such as pointing to a natural object. The poetic tradition of the Mondo is similar in nature, it can be a single line containing statement-response such as "summer sun sets, I am done". Such lines are often found in the Renga. But it can also be a 2 stanza poem written by two authors, one asking and one answering. The answer of course should reflect the spirit of the Zen student taking understanding from nature. <br />
<br />
The Mondo is:<br />
1. written by 2 separate poets, one asking, one answering.<br />
2. 2 stanzas of 3 lines each, 19 syllables or less, often 5-7-7, sometime 5-7- 5 is used for each stanza. The first stanza is the question, the 2nd is the response.<br />
3. written in the spirit of Zen, responsive through meditation and observation of natural surroundings. </span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-25105298039212199662011-07-27T23:14:00.000+02:002011-07-27T23:14:49.398+02:00Cabalistic - Acrostic Dectina<h1></h1><div class="text" id="text">Carve<br />
a sign<br />
before we<br />
all leave this place<br />
lest we be forgot<br />
in the time still to come.<br />
Secrete our rituals in great rock<br />
that all may know we once were here.<br />
Invincible warlocks, hear me now -<br />
Carve a sign before we all leave this place.<br />
<br />
<i>(All rights reserved) </i></div><div class="text" id="text"><br />
</div><div class="text" id="text"><i>The Acrostic Dectina is a poetry form invented by Philip of Poet Freak. </i></div>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-46696713329110710242011-04-25T11:10:00.000+02:002018-06-17T10:22:26.472+02:00Truth that shames<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-ZA</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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if I had been there</div>
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would my love</div>
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have spoken out</div>
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tried to defend</div>
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rebuked the crowds</div>
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would I</div>
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have cowered</div>
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invisible in shadows</div>
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as they crucified</div>
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the one whose example</div>
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taught me how to love</div>
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how to speak out</div>
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how to defend</div>
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how to rebuke</div>
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weight of Truth</div>
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drags on my chin</div>
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bows my head</div>
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till all I see</div>
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is blood in the dust<br /><br /></div>
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Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-91712906220501457032011-03-26T23:32:00.003+02:002011-04-02T08:38:53.243+02:00Till death do us...<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"> awakening<br />
consciousness filters<br />
through woozy senses—<br />
succumbs to a shroud of<br />
terror that engulfs, consumes,<br />
any semblance of sanity;<br />
as rough wood remains<br />
<br />
unmarked by shredding nails<br />
panic scrapes across torrid<br />
vocal chords, unable to even<br />
ripple sound as suffocating<br />
death lurks in rhythmic doef —<br />
doef — doef — of soil slowly<br />
obliterating makeshift coffin</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><i>(All rights reserved.)</i> </span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-33324512247167346072011-03-24T09:20:00.001+02:002011-04-02T08:40:13.171+02:00Stolen<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 6;"><span style="font-family: "Zurich Lt BT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">six young girls…<br />
breakfast cereal smiles<br />
malleable playdough<br />
trusting in a woman<br />
where did you go?<br />
<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ring a ring a rosies</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 6;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Zurich Lt BT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a pocket full of posies<br />
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Zurich Lt BT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
six young girls…<br />
lured by a woman<br />
many years ago<br />
drugged and raped<br />
where did you go?<br />
<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">atishoo, atishoo,<br />
all fall down</i><br />
<br />
six young girls…<br />
snatched by a woman<br />
many years ago<br />
did her lover kill you?<br />
we’ll never know.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Zurich Lt BT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><i>(All rights reserved.)</i> </span></div><h6><span style="font-family: "Zurich Lt BT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">This poem is dedicated to the following girls who were abducted in South Africa during the late 1980s. They have never been found.</span></h6><h6><span style="font-family: "Zurich Lt BT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Tracy-Lee Scott-Crossley, Fiona Harvey, Joan Horn, Rosa Piel, Odette Boucher, Yolanda Wessels</span><span style="font-family: "Zurich Lt BT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"></span></h6><h6><span style="font-family: "Zurich Lt BT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">This has been substantially reworked thanks to the input of my poetry friends (from Facial Expression Poetry Circle) - Luke Rapture Elk, Maggie Garavaglia, Julie Watkins and Beth Winter who helped me improve on my original poem... Thanks guys. I think it is so much better now.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></h6><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 6;"><br />
</div>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-59716448291669491542011-03-21T12:19:00.000+02:002011-03-21T12:19:15.105+02:00Dawn<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">beyond white</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">tinged with grey and pink</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">rain-washed blue</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">peeks through</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">fresh breeze dawn</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">punctuated by</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">sporadic bird calls</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">unwelcome sound</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">of city traffic</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">flips my mind</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">back</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">back</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to a time</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">of innocence</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">when chirruping hosts</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">nested in</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">bluegums</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">wattles</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">acacias</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">fleeting silence</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">between darkness</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and dawn</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">alive with joy</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">tranquil past</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">rarely revisited</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">pain of</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">going there</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">runs too deep</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">awakens</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">longing</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">feeds</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">regret</span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>(All rights reserved.)</i> </span></span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-78648436027145576902011-03-21T12:17:00.000+02:002011-03-21T12:17:01.179+02:00White Dove<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The white dove glides above the lawn</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">a beautiful sight in the early morn;</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">I watch with envy each move so free</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">and wish that beautiful dove was me.</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Oh, how I wish that I too could fly</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">up and away in the clear blue sky;</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">governed by my most basic needs</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">and free of man’s hates, lusts and greeds.</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">I’d spread my wings, I’d rise and soar</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">never to be bound to the earth anymore;</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">I’d fly with the wind and hide from the rain</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">and once it was sunny I’d fly on again.</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Oh, beautiful white dove, lovely and free,</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">I’ve wished and wished like you to be;</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">but no matter how hard I might try</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">unlike you, white dove, I can't fly.</span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <i> </i></span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>(All rights reserved.)</i> </span></span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-43093139110044757492011-03-15T15:06:00.000+02:002011-03-15T15:06:43.062+02:00The Vicar’s Wife<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Dignified funeral,<br />
a massive affair —<br />
all the church members<br />
dressed in the blackest<br />
<br />
black or the darkest grey.<br />
Sombre mood — much as martha,<br />
the vicar’s wife, had exhibited<br />
since the vicar’s passing. Living<br />
<br />
in a cottage behind the old mill,<br />
spending her days doing good works,<br />
still receiving parishioners as though<br />
nothing had ever changed.<br />
<br />
At the ‘right’ time, the womens<br />
guild moved quietly through the<br />
small home, ooh-ing and aah-ing<br />
about martha’s high standards as they<br />
<br />
savoured the smell of furniture polish<br />
that reflected loving care on every surface.<br />
Methodically the ladies sorted martha’s<br />
possessions into piles. Charity, garbage,<br />
<br />
martha’s friends, ‘don’t know’, donations.<br />
Within a few hours they arrived in the only<br />
bedroom and boxes slowly filled as the<br />
remnants of a pure life were examined. <br />
<br />
susan gibbons gleefully lowered the box<br />
from the back of the top shelf, ‘martha’s toys’<br />
scribbled on the side in bold black ink. She<br />
opened it with a smile of anticipation<br />
<br />
before dropping it, squealing in sheer<br />
horror. Or was it delight? annie o’reilly,<br />
spinster, fainted as a massive, rigid,<br />
plastic penis rolled towards her feet.<br />
<br />
Soon the entire town knew that whilst martha's<br />
days were spent in service her nights were<br />
spent in self-pleasure. What happened to<br />
her sex toys? The womens guild took them...</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><i>(All rights reserved.)</i> </span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-92073690501277807502011-03-08T12:31:00.000+02:002011-03-08T12:31:03.043+02:00Fringe Benefits<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-ZA</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Titan Tom</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">did them all</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">before lunch</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">the aunt</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">the half sister</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">the stepmother</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">individually and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">then as a group</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">he went home</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">exhausted</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">the sight, the smell,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">the sound of her</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">washed over him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">how was the shoot?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">it was all good</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">i’m just fucked</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">can you manage just</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">once more for me?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">breathlessly against his lips</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">always babe always</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mark, aka Titan Tom,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">followed his wife</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">to their bedroom</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">where there wasn’t</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">unrelenting pressure</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">to perform</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">where there weren’t</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">any cameras</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">or lights</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">or crew</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">only</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">two people</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">in love</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">plus a gross or two</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">of work issued</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">condoms</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(All rights reserved.)</i> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-86664432655575413732011-03-07T07:59:00.000+02:002011-03-07T07:59:08.137+02:00Alice D<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody">Black snake<br />
heaved<br />
breathed<br />
slithered<br />
while he straddled it's<br />
speckled spine. Then,<br />
<br />
rearing, it's eyes<br />
blinded his<br />
with piercing noon sunlight.<br />
<br />
Tortured metal<br />
screeched<br />
sheered<br />
dismembered<br />
as he drove head-on<br />
into the eighteen wheeler<br />
<br />
end of trip</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"> </span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><i>(All rights reserved.)</i> </span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-76314684071224741862011-02-17T14:42:00.000+02:002011-02-17T14:42:26.669+02:00Necklaces<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody">crime begets crime<br />
<br />
inhumanity<br />
seethes<br />
towards<br />
hapless<br />
victim<br />
<br />
petty theft<br />
<br />
begets<br />
stoning<br />
begets<br />
forced<br />
petroleum<br />
ingestion<br />
begets<br />
confinement<br />
within<br />
rubberised<br />
tread<br />
begets<br />
ignition<br />
of flaming<br />
anger<br />
begets<br />
seething<br />
mass<br />
begets<br />
inhumanity<br />
pointing<br />
laughing<br />
dancing<br />
encircling<br />
<br />
petty thief<br />
roasted<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">conjugal rights,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the great leveller,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">negated when</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">purple-robed prince</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">swore allegiance</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to his wife</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and queen who,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">resplendent in the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Robe of Purple Velvet,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">forevermore walks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> w</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> o</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> paces</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ahead</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">of him. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i> </span></div>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-59949662290928159552011-01-28T15:31:00.005+02:002011-01-29T08:12:57.184+02:00Old African Elephant<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">assessing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">life span of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">breathless</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">bull elephant</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">clinging to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">tenuous life</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">release</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">looms </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">closer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">closer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">distressed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">hyenas</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">giggle</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">nervously</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">vultures</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">hover</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">hyenas</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">giggle</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Metaphor written, with love and respect, about Dr Nelson Mandela - Madiba - when </span><span style="font-size: small;">the media camped outside Milpark Hospital<i> </i></span><span style="font-size: small;">after he was admitted during the week of 28 January 2011. Viva Madiba Viva.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">In African fables the elephant is always the wise chief who impartially settles disputes among the forest creatures.... <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span>In the African fables, the elephant is usually described as too kind and noble, so that he feels pity even for a wicked character ...<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Ashanti of Ghana relate that an elephant is a human chief from the past. When they find a dead elephant in the forest, they give him a proper chief's burial....</span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://www.a-gallery.de/docs/mythology.htm</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Hyena giggle: The giggle is a high pitch, staccato sound that is not communicating a good time. In fact, it is commonly produced by distressed, or submissive, animals in situations where they are both excited and conflicted between approaching and leaving the situation. For example, giggles are made by submissive individuals at a kill waiting their turn while being chased away by higher ranking animals. http://www.acoustics.org/press/155th/theunissen.htm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-20783583115405954912011-01-27T22:51:00.000+02:002011-01-27T22:51:43.243+02:00brunfelsia pauciflora<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-ZA</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">stumbling blindly</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">through a veil of tears</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">searching for the sunlight of tomorrow -</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">longing for the darkness of yesterday</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">and the illusion of warmth</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">in a cold embrace</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>brunfelsia pauciflora</i> is the botanical name for the Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow plant</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>(All rights reserved)</i> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></div></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-28004508989383220792011-01-25T07:01:00.001+02:002011-01-25T07:01:51.741+02:00Snoring<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Snoring! Snoring!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Oh, dear God, I’m tired!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">His jaw should be wired</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">This man once desired.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Snoring! Snoring!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">I just want to weep!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">This guy is a creep</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">He won’t let me sleep.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Snoring! Snoring!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">In my marriage bed!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">I’ll chop off his head</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Sleep in jail instead.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Snoring! Snoring!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">SHUT THE FUCK UP!!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><i>(All rights reserved)</i> </span></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" /> </span>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-16513880574423161382011-01-25T06:38:00.001+02:002011-01-25T06:39:08.934+02:00ME C/F<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">gave mother<br />
hell, from moment<br />
of dry birth when<br />
arrived kicking and<br />
screaming and haven’t<br />
stopped since<br />
<br />
well, except for the first<br />
decade, more or less, till<br />
love and trust were abused, along<br />
with shapeless young, body -<br />
went off the rails big time after that<br />
disrespectful, lazy, wilful, sad -<br />
<br />
marks dropped off at school,<br />
rebellion against parents set in,<br />
promiscuity started rearing its<br />
ugly head - took immense willpower<br />
not to submit to the clamour of<br />
over zealous hormones – by age<br />
<br />
twenty six had been around<br />
the block a few times and<br />
so fucked literally, emotionally and<br />
psychologically, drank three dozen<br />
schedule fives on road to oblivion –<br />
<br />
stomach pump was not much fun -<br />
pipe down throat, watching tranquilisers and<br />
anti-depressants that had almost<br />
dissolved totally in the acidic<br />
stomach contents - fuzzy little<br />
blotches spreading feelers - almost<br />
<br />
succeeded, slept for three days,<br />
maybe more – time disappeared – spent <br />
seventeen years telling incompetent<br />
psychologists how screwed life and mind<br />
were - told by one arsehole<br />
with a degree, but little intellect,<br />
<br />
that reason for all the guilt was because<br />
there was enjoyment associated<br />
with the sexual abuse of a child – enjoyment of<br />
the destruction of a trusting soul –<br />
stupid bitch – relegated her to obscurity<br />
searched for and found a real shrink, not<br />
<br />
a pseudo-shrink – this one actually<br />
helped - in less than twelve months<br />
panic attacks, emotional confusion,<br />
self-destructive behaviours were<br />
under control for the first time<br />
in more than three decades of<br />
<br />
courage in the face of fear<br />
guilt in the face of innocence<br />
inferiority in the face of ability<br />
derision in the face of love -<br />
yet some things remain forever,<br />
until death offers ultimate release<br />
<br />
from the recurrent fear that brain<br />
damage was self-inflicted, and<br />
from daily haunting by someone loved<br />
<br />
who, finding a joyful soul,</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">crushed the life out of it</span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>(All rights reserved)</i> </span></span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-44403511193665694232011-01-25T06:34:00.001+02:002011-01-25T07:02:32.716+02:00Cause and Effect<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">multi-nationals’</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">profiteering</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">exploitation</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">sweatshops</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">boycotts</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">altruistic</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">endeavours</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">hurting</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">whom?</span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><i>(All rights reserved.)</i> </span></span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-51697547745668524942011-01-25T06:23:00.001+02:002011-01-25T07:03:11.012+02:00Unlikely<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody">consolidate the<br />
year’s news events<br />
<br />
the inhumane<br />
indiscriminate<br />
causal murder<br />
<br />
watched, daily,<br />
on TV news,<br />
as innocence dies -<br />
B-OOM.<br />
<br />
palatable doses<br />
for captive audiences<br />
vicariously<br />
<br />
observing<br />
death<br />
destruction<br />
anarchy;<br />
<br />
docile<br />
stupid<br />
uncaring<br />
<br />
superior species<br />
propagating<br />
<br />
bloodshed<br />
hatred<br />
wars<br />
<br />
consolidate the<br />
year’s news events?<br />
<br />
unlikely</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><i> </i></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><i>(All rights reserved)</i> </span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-80215096136629465032011-01-21T10:03:00.002+02:002011-01-25T07:04:33.316+02:00Ambush<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">sun sets</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">the blue ablaze</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">as predators eye snacks</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">at african cocktail party.</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">crowded around the muddied waterhole</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">revellers intuit too late -</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">whirling in fear, they flee</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">straight into death.</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">sun sets</span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><i>(All rights reserved)</i></span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><i> </i>Thanks to friends at Facial Expressions Poetry Circle for their valuable advice on this one.<i></i></span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-80966677390589838182011-01-21T09:59:00.001+02:002011-01-25T07:05:16.559+02:00Cycle of Life - Tanka - Metaphor<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody">spring frolicked within<br />
autumn’s colourful shadow<br />
absorbed winter’s vibe<br />
while summer detested them,<br />
desiring autumn’s freedom</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"> </span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><i>(All rights reserved)</i> </span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"> </span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-53377141134898716802011-01-21T09:50:00.002+02:002011-01-25T07:07:23.514+02:00D.I.Y. Relationship<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody">Dreamy eyelids disinclined<br />
to acknowledge whispering clothes,<br />
belt buckle snap,<br />
creaking hinge,<br />
engine roar;<br />
silent echoes<br />
ech-o ech-o<br />
vivify;<br />
languid stretch,<br />
sighing breath,<br />
feet stumbling across the room;<br />
bleary road map eyes focus.<br />
<br />
Crisp money;<br />
scribbled note;<br />
“Buy yourself something nice -<br />
happy anniversary,”</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody">seeping sorrow.</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><i> </i></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><i>(All rights reserved)</i><br />
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Thanks to Jean Elmond of Facial Expressions Poetry Circle for rearranging this for me. He has given it life.</span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-60586291155455701822011-01-17T11:08:00.001+02:002011-01-25T07:10:16.423+02:00Day of Knowledge 2004<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody">8:30<br />
excitement boils<br />
parents, kids<br />
arrive at Beslan<br />
school number one<br />
<br />
gifts,<br />
balloons,<br />
laughter,<br />
<br />
celebration<br />
<br />
<br />
9:20<br />
truck arrives;<br />
stage is set for<br />
<br />
bloodbath<br />
<br />
<br />
9:25<br />
killing starts,<br />
living forced<br />
into the gym<br />
<br />
<br />
16:25<br />
no food<br />
no water<br />
no toilet visits<br />
<br />
<br />
14:20<br />
hot<br />
hungry<br />
thirsty<br />
<br />
hostages<br />
drink urine<br />
<br />
<br />
11:38<br />
mothers<br />
with babies<br />
released<br />
<br />
<br />
11:40<br />
‘they’<br />
do not allow<br />
older children<br />
to leave<br />
<br />
<br />
11:42<br />
death is<br />
imminent;<br />
mother of two<br />
stays put<br />
<br />
<br />
‘they’<br />
send her<br />
infant son<br />
to freedom<br />
<br />
<br />
13:45<br />
army confronts<br />
terrorists<br />
<br />
bloody skirmish<br />
<br />
<br />
13:47<br />
mother cocoons<br />
first-born<br />
soothingly<br />
selflessly<br />
lovingly<br />
<br />
easing terror<br />
into <br />
oblivion<br />
<br />
<br />
baby orphaned</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><br />
</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><i>(All rights reserved)</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">BACKGROUND<br />
The poem is named Day of Knowledge after the designated name of the first day of the new school year in Russia. This is a poetic tribute to the hundreds of children, parents, teachers and others who died during the bloodbath at School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia, over a period of approx. 60 hours in September 2004. In particular, this is a tribute to a mother who refused to leave one child in order to save another. Moving account of this hostage situation at :<br />
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<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/20/48hours/main668127.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/20/48hours/main668127.shtml</a><br />
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QUOTE<br />
"One of the terrorists said that a Russian plane flown from our airfield had killed his entire family," says Elena. "Now, he wanted to kill and didn't care that it was women and children." UNQUOTE</span> </span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-35664731230197496732011-01-12T13:53:00.004+02:002011-01-25T07:35:01.889+02:00Shackled Regret<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></h6><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">fifteen ramadan’s</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">measured</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">cadre ouma’s life when</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">four hours</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">almost claimed it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">fierce gun battle</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">between militant villagers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and armed oppressors;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">bloody skirmish, hand grenade;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">spear broken beyond repair</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">blinded</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by shrapnel,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">young back</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">pierced and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ripped by bullets</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">barely alive with chest</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">shredded, ouma’s request</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to be killed was rejected;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">nursed back to health</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">only to be taken, shackled,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">sensory-deprived, to where</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">no man, woman</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">or child</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">could ever feel</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">human again</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">incarcerated and tortured</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">war crimes tribunal</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">label: murderer and terrorist</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">apology rejected</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">child soldier learned too late</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the nature of war is death</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><i>(All rights reserved)</i></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Based on the true story of a child soldier, this is the companion poem for an opinion piece at http://myfatoldsouthafricanlife.blogspot.com entitled When Murder is not Murder. </span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917502260922327279.post-63949221690286233292011-01-10T13:05:00.001+02:002011-04-02T08:50:08.651+02:00Will power<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody">where mournful darkness<br />
had reigned since the old man’s death<br />
eager bright eyes now<br />
illuminated the room<br />
as his will was read aloud</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"> </span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="messageBody"> This is a Tanka with a syllable count of 5/7/5/7/7 </span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody"><i>(All rights reserved)</i></span></span></h6>Catherine Mackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07740025648799655351noreply@blogger.com0