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Congratulations to the Libbo Foundation on their Listen Project. What a great, humanising initiative!

Children given a voice through writing initiative A Gqeberha couple has stepped in to give a voice to children from disadvantaged communities to help them overcome their struggles and strive to attain their goals.

dinge happen innie mang
(liewe hemel)

ek sê my broe
die mafias hettie mongrels vergewe
ma’ innie mang is hulle haba vergete –
hie’ word hulle ge-n’ca
because why, dinge happen innie mang

dis hectic innie mang
die man se hart bloei daa' bo
because why, it's a concern my broe’ –

stoppie bloed my broe
stoppit, my ghazilam
net die man daa' bo
kan ons nou rescue –

so, val op jou knieё
en gee hom sy due
my broe!

©2024 Selwyn Milborrow

Droom ek? My roman ‘Operation Gratitude’ is op Amazon asook te koop gedurende Elvis Week in Memphis Tennessee, Amerika! Dankie aan my mede-skrywer, Janet Bostic-Williams

News about my latest book 'Operation Gratitude: Kill Colonel Tom Parker'. I am honoured and proud to have co-authored this thriller novel with a talented writer, Janet Bostic-Williams. To pre-order, go to www.presleystories.com

"Ek wou nog altyd ’n teks skryf wat nie by die lees daarvan die leser laat besef dat hierdie is ’n bruin skrywer nie. Ek wil modern skryf. Net omdat ek bruin is, hoef ek nie noodwendig ’n lotsverbondenheid met Distrik Ses te hê nie.” - Clinton V. du Plessis

The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down -
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

- Mary Oliver

DAYS

What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?

Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.

Philip Larkin, "Days " from Whitsun Weddings.

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