Friends and outsiders call it history.. The time, the years that lie between us. The picture of it, an intricate maze and mystery.. Something unexplicable that came to pass. When apart, we live our se...
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Author: Ina Orton
I started writing poetry about 25 years ago, but like most people suffer from Fof , fear of failure.
I am 65 years old and live in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Worked in Public Libraries for 34 years and am retired now. I am divorced and have a daughter and a son ,1 grandaugter.
In die koelte van my kamer waar ek kan dink, droom wat ek wil sonder die aanhoudende aanvalle wat hamer teen my brein wat graag in kalmte verstil… Weg van die doellose gedoem doem, oorverdowende...
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I saw an insert about the black tradition, Stokvel, on national televition recently. It triggered fond memories of a pleasant place in my life soon after 1994 that I could nor woulld ever forget. The ...
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The Potgieters lived in a big house near the gumtree plantation. I always thought it was a magical natural forest, but the mine planted those trees for support in the tunnels underground. Oom Pottie ,...
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I drag myself through endless days too weary with pent up pain for tears.. I struggle silently, searching for ways to avoid the anxious panic of my fears.. It’s not always possible to escape fr...
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Dear Madiba, I never had the wonderful priviledge to meet you in person, shake hands with you or hug you.. Yet I mourn, like millions of people all over the world as if you were indeed my father.. you...
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Sensitive souls live carefully among others. In time they errect an invissible barrier between them even if they are sisters and brothers, only and for that reason only,to feel safe… Sensitive s...
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It was the summer of 1957/1958.It was also the summer before l went to primary, or as we called it, big school.Nursery schools as we know it today, were almost unheard of and my mother prepared us for...
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Credit is a very dangerous phenomena, especially if you don’t know much about money, budget matters. Even people ( in SA the whites) before ’94, were easily snared into that deadly financi...
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It all started with the garden tap. Pure drinking water has lways been, wiil probably always be, a big problem in the Free State, a province in Central SA, and other dry areas in the country.It is ver...
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