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Encompasse: Etsko Schuitema

Friday, August 20th, 2010

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Encompasse

 

The horns of my seeing

extend from the corners of my eyes

to embrace the furthest horizon.

I am the young bull,

I rock the heavens with my gait

as I walk the hills

I embrace it all, keeping it close

like an infant to my milky breast.

 

It is all mine,

I hold it all in my encompass,

the lantern moon hanging from the vault,

the awakening of the sun,

it’s stretching bright and setting sleep,

all

are stretched round by the bubble tent called me

enclosing the emptiness within which

the four corners of the wind roar from me to me

through the firmament, the clarity

where once there was my head.

 

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Travelling among the Stars: Amanda Cronje

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

 

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I immigrated to another universe, or am I just seeing the universe I was borne to

In its original fullness

I am departing from the old to the new in incremental stages.

Taking very step in deep silence

Reading the moment and acting based on what will be kind

 

The meaning of healing is not about reconnecting to restore what was,

Reconnecting is the homecoming only to gradually transport away from and to everything,

Transient is my existence and I am aiming to leave behind only love.

 

No guilt, no resentment.

Painful events from an existence worth living serve only to transport the traveller to walk among the stars.

They are no longer reasons to mourn

 

No longer that sure of my heart’s desire,

But for the knowledge that never before did I want to live this life as much as I want to at this moment.

I inhale the universe in all its splendour

A few universes departed from a previous existence.

 

With much gratitude to a teacher - Etsko

Amanda

21 March 2010

 

And then I notice this little note -

Like the spider, there are some of us who refuse to stop spinning, even when it would appear to be far more sophisticated to be without hope. Our rope, though perhaps frail, can still be spun with optimism, curiosity, wonder, love, and the sincere desire to share a trip to the stars. Our goal is worth the struggle, for in this case the star to which we aspire to is full humanity for all.

Leo Buscaglia- 1987

 

Photo Courtesy: ht.sfc.keio.ac.jp 

 

 

Kleur: Amanda Cronje

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

 

Ek soek U gesig in die

 eerste vlam-pienk verfhale van die dag

 

Ek asem U ys-blou in wanneer ek langs

die see loop

 

Ek voel U genade wanneer

korrelseesand my voete troetel

 

Ek ken U tyd wanneer ek op

Graniet rotsvas sit

 

Ek vier ‘n danksegging-fees wanneer

Rooi en goud die einde van die dag aankondig

 

Ek snak na lug

wanneer ek na polsende silwer sterre staar

 

Wanneer persfluweelnagte die maan uitnooi vir ‘n dans

erken ek U.

 

 

 

Vir Walko

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Love like Food: Amanda Cronje

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

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Love like food

Is to be enjoyed

Not to be held

 

 

Love like food

If held

Will turn into a deadly potion

 

Love like food

Is to be savoured

For then it can bless the hungry

 

Love like food

If not held and savoured instead

Will turn to Devine Energy

 

 

 

With love for Zelda

8 July 2010

 

 

 

Encompass: Etsko Schuitema

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

 

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The horns of my seeing

extend from the corners of my eyes

to embrace the furthest horizon.

I am the young bull,

I rock the heavens with my gait

as I walk the hills

I embrace it all, keeping it close

like an infant to my milky breast.

 

It is all mine,

I hold it all in my encompass,

the lantern moon hanging from the vault,

the awakening of the sun,

it’s stretching bright and setting sleep,

all

are stretched round by the bubble tent called me

enclosing the emptiness within which

the four corners of the wind roar from me to me

through the firmament, the clarity

where once there was my head.

 

 

 

Poetry by Mustafa Ali Wahidi

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

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Am I a grain of sand in the universe

Or is the universe a grain of sand in my hand?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Make your dreams a reality

Before reality makes YOU a mere dream 
Make history

Before you are made history
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


When they stopped believing in us

We were given the divine choice

Should we be like them all our lives

Or should we never stop believing in us

I wont stop believing in us
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


True brilliance rises,

Like roses from a dark pond;

From some of the most insignificant
and troubled waters
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


You think you are safe when you scorn

When you hate and when you discriminate others

But your safe haven behind ‘their’ walls is a prison

Where you shall be locked all your life

So learn to appreciate

That what you cannot understand my friends.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


I shall seek and I shall find

The waves in the seas of my mind

To swim through and beyond unconfined

To realms undefined

To peace, to solice,

In my parallel mind
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


I feel

I grieve

I remember the fragrances

The distant sounds

The glimpses of my past

The memories of a forgotten life

My life.

Am I still the same person as I was back then?

I wish I was

But then

Would I cherish all of my past

As I cherish it today?

Would I feel it as much

As I feel it today?

I guess all I should do now is

Live and love and strive

To be cherished…forever
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Somtimes life gets difficult

And we feel we might fall

We endup neglecting a lot of special things

Which actually might be our ticket out of these difficulties
If we just open our eyes

We get trapped in the bottomless pit of worries and pretention

We stop feeling as well

Just to survive

Or so we think we are surviving

We are merely breathing

When we tread this dangerous path

We do fall

Only further than we had anticipated before

Lets try and change

Lets try and cherish the special things

We ignore every day.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

There comes a time in all our lives

When we feel loneliness, hurt and fear

All three at the same time
The hurt we really feel as it feels like our hurt is a
boxers practice punching bag

It keeps hitting us and tiring us

All we can do is take deep breaths

And keep telling ourselves

We understand… we understand.