You Always Tell Me My Thoughts 6.2.2008 Poem by Margaret Alice

You Always Tell Me My Thoughts 6.2.2008

'O soete melodie wat droefgeestig draal...'

Amazing how we have to revert to our mother
tongue to express really deep feelings
'Duiwelsdrek en bitterasyn, die draak van
Drakenstein, belaglikheid op note…'

I shall have to stop frequenting commercial
portals, last time was when PoemHunter
was ill and went on a tragic blink; I was
tempted - My oh my oh my, to think

Of my meeting Tony Danza - just for that
reason I started writing poetry, of course,
and publishing with strangers and buying
crystal awards - 'Uit dieptes gans verlore,

Van redding ver vandaan' - I am sure
Afrikaans must touch your soul since you
always tell me my thoughts - 'Waar hoop
se laaste spore in wanhoop bly vergaan...'

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Margaret Alice

Margaret Alice

Pretoria - South Africa
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