Category Archives: Poems

Not Random…

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

Not idle words, nor random throws into the game, I believe some things have meaning. How sad to think they don’t. There are times they help us make some sense of pain, sometimes we actually recognize we hurt because we … Continue reading →

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Karima Reads @ Four Bridges Sunday April 28th at 12noonslt

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

Always love a first time! First times can be a little scary, but they can also be exciting and Red and I (talkwithmarie) activist, poet and host of this poetry get-together, have been talking about this for sometime, and the … Continue reading →

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For Those Worthy Of It…

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

For Those Worthy Of It… for mia Earned and secured not to be taken carelessly not to be joked about loosely gained in slow motion lost in a heart-beat a lover’s debt to the other paid. Remembered, cherished served the … Continue reading →

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It’s Like This…

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

It’s Like This for a poet The first line is like a pearl pressed in your hand by a total stranger. Just take it. Say, ” Thank you.” The ones after that you can almost own, bend and hold but … Continue reading →

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April 18th

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

My father died on April 18th, when I was twelve years old. This is the first poem I have ever written about that, and it is more than a few decades later. Every April since, I have felt like I … Continue reading →

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Wired and Happy – Revisited

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

OK..I know..this is pretty out there, but when I went to the Criss Museum back in 2011 to see Sigfred Rodenberger’s show, I was repulsed and fascinated at the same time by this drawing. I put it up in my … Continue reading →

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The Possessive

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

The Possessive mia Because you are so many different things I can share some of you with another few… I can learn to return to the law of the playground, and break my cookie in three, But you must know … Continue reading →

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My poem is like my lover…

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

My poem is like my lover… My poem is like my lover locked in a back room. How can I leave it dangling, in such a state? Nothing can be more important than to ride it to a finish. This … Continue reading →

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Drone

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

Sometimes, less is more. The less said, the more we can draw our own conclusions. For about a month, I was feeling like I had a “biggish poem” inside. That means to me personally, that I might be taking a … Continue reading →

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Take A Chair…

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

Take a Chair… (For DB) A chair is but a chair is but a chair. Now you see it.. recline in it, even if you move it to another room It’s still there. When it sprouts arms, and stretches, changing … Continue reading →

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