Tag Archives: Poems

Brand New

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

This poem is a shoot pushing through the ground It’s Spring. It’s April, a bud curled up so fresh it has no idea What it wants to be. It just knows Why it wants to be… It wants to be … Continue reading →

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Soot-Stained Sheet

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

Please click the .wav link to hear the poem recited to original music: .wav recording Soot-Stained Sheet Take me outside…to breathe the air around your hair, to walk down city streets while holding hands, navigating through the human flow, we … Continue reading →

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Vector

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

Vector, I hear you call to me from far across the stars, Your voice is like a flute, a solo introduction to a symphony. You spin my head with possibilities, and you keep calling, “Come to me, I know the … Continue reading →

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Laughter…The Best Rx

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

When you touch that funny bone, it’s wriggle squiggle giggle. Too bad if you can’t catch a breath, stuck with a heaving belly, crinkly tears of merriment you’re laughing yourself to death. Listing starboard, falling down upon the floor, sardonic … Continue reading →

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Only The Muse

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

Let me sleep until I write, ” My dreams are spun in you.” Comatose would be my choice if never more a verse burst from my loins. Barren in this wasteland, dried up floundering on the sand, don’t poke me … Continue reading →

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Satin Doll Solo

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

Satin doll…smoke-filled room, eyes all over you… feather boas, crowded ashtrays, hard wood stools and plumes, dark brick walls behind the bar, where the trash turns smoky blue; couples fumble vertically, up against the wall pressing their passion under the … Continue reading →

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The Pale

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

I want to call the dead back to life. In the hugeness of data…somewhere they must be found, And attract all of those souls by changing energy Reassembling them in my dreams…in my dreams. I want to shake the living … Continue reading →

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9 Lives

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

9 Lives I had 9 lives but 8 were taken away. The first I lost beneath a speeding bus. With years of balancing on the curb one day I just  slipped off. Maybe I used up my grace or a … Continue reading →

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Rivers From The Window

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

You can send me a message from the train, that carries you past rivers from the window, a car filled with people saying nothing, where low whispers draw out the frowns, and a laugh is charged with capital punishment as … Continue reading →

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Downstream

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Karima Hoisan

Downstream ===================== The river moves downstream, silver liquid, self replenishing, bleached white foam, surfs the baby waves. It is the way. Pulling anything that frees itself from shore, It is the only way. Downstream…. over moss rocks, crystalline transport, birds … Continue reading →

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