Poetic Text: Always, everyday Pt 1

I haven’t really written anything in the past while and I don’t know if maybe that’s the reason I’ve been feeling so devastated by the state of my life right now or visa versa. I did however sit at home, sick, on Tuesday and pulled out a pencil and a note pad, the results were something long and I’m not even sure what to call it.
In attempts to keep the two loyal readers of this blog, I am going to put up in about 4 sections once a week (trying not to overwhelm anyone with the random ramblings of a partially delusional woman) the scribblings from Tuesday.
Here’s the first bit.  I’ve called it “Always, Everyday” and for the purposes of this blog I shall call it a poem.  Hope you like it.

Your absence is cruel and unusual punishment
As though God were upset with me for having forgotten to say my morning prayers
I die…
Always, everyday
I don’t see you
I cry…
Always, everyday
I don’t feel you think of me

I’m falling
Always, everyday
with every sound you make
Step you take
the smell of your breath
The feel of your face
The slightly awkward obsession you have with Kwaito music
Always, everyday
I’m giddy, goofy and giggly
It’s the bite
the little bits of you that fall off
sit easy amongst my many me’s
and build a fire to keep the both of us warm 

Hughes Corner: To Artina

In the spirit of valentine's day, a sweet love poem. 

I will take you heart.

I will take your soul out of your body

As though I were God.

I will not be satisfied

With the touch of your hand

Nor the sweet of your lips alone.

I will take your heart for mine.

I will take your soul.

I will be God when it comes to you.

Fave Five: Slamming It!

Nothing soothes the spirit quite like a good love poem, regardless of the type of poem or any other such evaluation criteria. When you hear or read it, be it with a happy or sad ending, you can never ignore the likeness of emotion, the feeling of knowing, or rather identifying, there is a melody acquired from well-constructed metaphors and similes. The captive pleasure contained within a broken heart and the dancing clatters of a new romance.
A beautiful word has always resonated within me, what more of a bunch of beautiful words strung together to illustrate meaning and familiar emotional stances.

I’ve been watching a lot of American slam poetry on YouTube of late and on this post I list my fave five poets and poems, here goes:

5.            Dear Ex-lover by Jasmine Mans

4.            A lot Like You by Rudy Francisco

3.            40 Love Letters by Jeanann Verlee

2.            I Will Wait For You by Janette Ikz

1.            Before Bed by Zora Howard

Current Read: Half a Yellow Sun

In 2014 I vow to read more books written by or telling authentic African stories and it starts here.

I read and finished Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s collection of short stories titled ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’ and loved it. I am very happy to have discovered this author and her work and I’m equally thrilled about delving into this novel as well. Published in 2006 and has since gone on to receive awards including the Orange Prize for Fiction award in 2007, this is an award given out annually to a female author of a full length English novel. 

The Word: Nirvana

Dictionary definition: a place or state characterized by freedom from or oblivion to pain, worry, and the external world.

Origins: 1830–40;  < Sanskrit nirvāṇa

Synonyms: awakening, serenity, bliss, ecstasy

Use in a sentence: Lying in your arms, the ultimate feeling of nirvana!