Tag Archives: Poetic Ponderings

Brakeman on the Tracks

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Karima Hoisan

I feel the Big Bang pushing from behind so there is no staying still. I got on this train my very first day, and I’m still riding. It’s taking me further out into the universe… I know it’s really pushing … Continue reading →

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A Net Full of Eels

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Karima Hoisan

A Net Full of Eels For Hoyt Slippery eels sliding through the net holes the mesh, somewhat large, it can’t contain them all. Suspended, how they eye the water world of survival far below. With all their strength and agility, … Continue reading →

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Pictures in a Box

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Karima Hoisan

Pictures in a Box Pictures in a box just laying flat in the dark, how long has it been since I opened that drawer; since I went back and listened to what they were saying? “Look!” This was you and … Continue reading →

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Winter Coat

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Karima Hoisan

Adriana – Oil on Panel | Artist Jeremiah J. White Winter Coat  ************* My mother’s winter coat falls on its own in the back of a closet on a warm day in June in a country she never knew; never … Continue reading →

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Nice

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Karima Hoisan

Nice Someone told me, the night before last,that, my poem I read to him was nice.Perhaps he meant it as a compliment,in an understated way,but I took it as a death sentence.the harshest penalty…Nice? Oh, have I come to this … Continue reading →

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So Sensitive

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Karima Hoisan

If you have heard all your life,”Oh you are just so sensitive” Is it a curse to lament or a gift from the Higher Giver? Maybe a bit of both, still I would not change my easily shattered ways. I … Continue reading →

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Life in Monochrome

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Karima Hoisan

Life in Monochrome All we see are the shadows, the projections the sun paints across the world. Our vision of reality is as pale as tree branches outlined in grey waving on the walls, just a monochrome of real life … Continue reading →

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Nights At The Big Top

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Karima Hoisan

Nights At The Big Top   We swing towards each other and then swing back… like a high flying circus act, I’m afraid if I jump, you will lose your grip. I’m afraid if I show what I’m feeling, I … Continue reading →

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Playing With Time

Posted on June 29, 2019 by Karima Hoisan

Playing With Time We can play with Time if we want, because Time plays with us. Makes us feel that a week could not possibly have passed that fast. It make us feel young when we are old, Makes us … Continue reading →

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Pool

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Karima Hoisan

Pool This body of water was so much more than a liquid luxury, blue when the sky was blue, the clouds floated on its surface… the reflections of the sun, coated branches of a tree, in vibrating… illuminating points and … Continue reading →

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