If I was to compose my own song along the lines of the Sound of Music’s – these are a few of my favourite things… I would include the Nguni Cow. The Nguni cattle breed is indigenous to Southern Africa. Antjie Krog in her book Change of Tongue writes: In Setswana, cattle are known as [...]
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Poetry Friday – The Nguni Cow
Posted in poems on March 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Skywatch Friday – hope entwined with gloom
Posted in Photos on March 27, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Earlier this week for My World Tuesday I posted photo’s taken when we stayed at the Golden Gate National Park in South Africa. Here is the sky reminding us to see the hope entwined with the gloom. Go check out the sky at SKYWATCH FRIDAY
Monday Poetry Stretch – Triolet
Posted in poems on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The poetry stretch at Miss Rumphius Effect this week is to write a triolet, which is an eight line poem with a tightly rhymed structure and repeated lines. I did two triolets comparing new romantic love with mature sacrificial love, I think. Love is not blind Watching pride and prejudice Loud subterranean passion stirs Longing [...]
My World Tuesday – Golden Gate, South Africa
Posted in Photos on March 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
These pictures were taken at the Golden Gate National Park in South Africa and include views of the famous Drakensberg Mountain Range. If you look closely you can see the grass roofs of the lodges which are part of the Highlands Mountain Retreat where we stayed. To travel the world from the safety of your [...]
One Single Impression – Equals
Posted in poems, Quelimane on March 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The prompt at One Single Impression is Equals. Different but Equal Your intense cold equals my intense heat we both long for them to end. The way you welcome spring, is so neat I embrace the caress of cool air against my skin. As I feel my way through a cavernous puddle stretched right across [...]
Poetry Friday – The Slave’s Dream
Posted in poems on March 20, 2009 | 17 Comments »
I read to the children while they are eating their breakfast from a set of books, one of which is Classic Poetry, an illustrated collection selected by Michael Rosen, pictures by Paul Howard. This week the poem was The Slave’s Dream. The Slave’s Dream By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His [...]
Three Word Wednesday
Posted in Motherhood, Mozambique, Prose on March 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The three words at Three Word Wednesdayare: burden, natural, ubiquitous. These three seem to have given me verbal diarrhea. The Ubiquitous Three Words Finding my ubiquitous children a burden, I send them out to play and come and see what 3WW has to say. My 8 yr old son, Benjamin, soon runs in declaring, eyes [...]
Poetry Stretch – Anaphora
Posted in poems on March 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The challenge this week at Miss Rumphius Effect is to write a poem using Anaphora. Anaphora is “the repetition of the same word or phrase in several successive clauses.” At this moment …. At this moment a black and yellow butterfly Frolics upon an invisible wind wave, At this moment I listen as playful children [...]
My World Tuesday – Malawi Rift Valley
Posted in Photos on March 17, 2009 | 12 Comments »
For New Year we went to neighbouring Malawi. These photo’s are overlooking part of the Great Rift Valley, a 6000 mile fissure in the earth’s crust, stretching from Lebanon to Mozambique. We stayed at Fisherman’s Rest which is run by a Christian organisation which also provides alternative holidays by encouraging people to visit the Community [...]
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