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Real stories of how poetry affected lives, and the role it plays now.
Like father like son
To some extent anyway One can't predict the future, nor plan what will happen too far ahead. Only do your best, from day to day, hour to hour. They say anything goes. So I s'pose these images chosen from the earlier y…
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Poetry is POWERFUL.
Since creating poetable, I've found myself subscribed to a few email lists to get in the hang of it, and have come some amazing poems ... each so different, so awakening or unexpected. So unAI. So out of my norm and w…
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Too many photos
When I was a kid, my parents gave me access to what I didn't know were 'contact prints' of old black and whites from their parents (or possibly earlier). The scenes were of hunting parties in the African bush (veld as…
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Paths less taken, Assumptions and Edumakayshun.
You might think, because you speak English, and, er, went to school last century that you'd have an appreciation of "Poetry". After all, you attended something called 'English' on the timetable three or maybe four tim…
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The Beloved Country
Isn't life funny? Before I was coerced into writing a set of "content" (I'm sure, like me, you despise that word in this context)? I hadn't written a blog in years. It's just so 90's. And yet, now that I've got a few…
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Holiday Reading
In simpler days an after Christmas reverie could often involve pretending to continue with the novel started earlier in the holiday. There's something about the luxury of time that beach holidays can't beat. Sure, the…
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If Up's the word, my journey into poetry
My journey into poetry could be the same as a million other English speaking school boys growing up in the sixties in South Africa. Except, I was transplanted at the tender age of 9 some what as a refugee of one white…
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