Tag Archives: Poetry

Borrowed Time

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

When you live on the edge of borrowed time you have to pay it back sometime that’s how it seems to be and before you know it life moves on without you and it all gets recycled into mulch and … Continue reading →

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Shrug

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

Shrug for B. Oh well…just let it go it might be a poem it might be a song it might be a lesson we just never know When the bad things rock our world When love is lost When what … Continue reading →

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Remembering The Boston Bombings & Other Horrors A Year Ago

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

Filtered Posted on April 17, 2013 by Karima Hoisan Filtered Filtered, because otherwise we would all o.d. on Life. Better to latch the dirt to our eyes the rose tints. I know the poets; they would be screaming first. Keep … Continue reading →

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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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