PinnedThe Sun Under You TooCicadas and crickets harmonise to sing a song of exile under nature’s spotlight sitting dead centre in the sky. This midnight blue canvas decorated by diamonds that twist and turn, dancing to show off their sparkle and beauty– “Behold!”, moon whispers as the wind turns our attention to the silence. …Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
PinnedMercyWe emerge from exile into a fertile landscape, where vegetation explodes as a sea of proof that rain falls, quietly tickling all that exists in its signature gentle touch. The ecosystem is audible all year round and here, where feathered friends speak in tones of soprano, my old companion silence…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Jun 22, 2021Love, Aries.In an alternate world, the perspectives and status quo might be flipped. Organically, we’d celebrate an anniversary between friends, Commit to the homies for a lifetime, Say vows and officiate the heavy labour of love given to these unions. Perhaps we’d marry friends, not just one. Keep around, keep to love, to have…Poetic2 min readPoetic2 min read
Jan 16, 2021Soul: The Daily Purpose“What do you want to be when you grow up?”- a well meaning question, asked with good intentions for the most part. So well meaning, it does a phenomenal job of concealing itself as the villain in our lives, lurking in the shadows of the mind, following us from the…Film3 min readFilm3 min read
Jan 2, 2021Separate, together.A short reflection on the measure of love and intimacy. What is it that makes one connection more true than the next? The existence of physical touch and evidence of time spent face to face? …Love3 min readLove3 min read
Dec 21, 2020ReprieveBy all means, engage the self-full side for self-preservation Reside within the company of your awareness shining With all the due dilligence of sun signs arising Abide by the laws of attraction. …Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Aug 26, 2020AnatomyThe strange return to solitude’s waking siren Songs of silence, serenity, Borderline with my atoms at the shore’s divine Waning crescent I’m present in my bare anatomy. Take me apart, Bones unbound to the flesh Dissect every layer to arrive at the harbour Where trauma rests Nestled in the safety of…1 min read1 min read
Jun 6, 2020This Black Skin.Today I thought about my high school, Rand Park High and all the ways those brown walls made people of similar colour feel so painfully unloved. All the Black boys in my classes who took up diski during breaks and after school to escape back into their unashamed Blackness for…Blackness3 min readBlackness3 min read
Dec 13, 2019Misguided MiscreantsMiscreant: A person who behaves badly/unlawfully. (origin old French mescreant - ’disbelieving’) You step inside yourself in search of the truth, Bearing boulders as barricades the further you bloom Anxious shoulders droop to tunes of a necktie youth draped in tunics. Drench your euphemisms in the water of love, With words…1 min read1 min read
Nov 30, 2019The Incomplete Embers of Tiraten: pt. IIMaking our way back towards Melville on an uncomfortably hot Sunday, he asked what the rest of my day would be like. "Well, I don’t have anything planned until I have to pick my sister up, so yeah... You?" "I'm going for lunch with a friend." "Oh... that's nice." A…3 min read3 min read
