List: Journey To Africa

This will be like a journal so it will probably contain both poems and prose as the mood takes me, just so you can all take the journey to Africa with me and keep it in order I hope!

• The Start - April 1

  Left the coast of Australia,
  stretching like an acquiline nose

  43 lines, 13 comments, on Apr 1 8:09 AM 2007
• In The Clouds

  the universe exists outside my window,
  plane of thoughts on life's insignificance,

  9 lines, 13 comments, on Apr 2 11:31 PM 2007. In Thoughts
• Lookaway Tears

  Don't want to go,
  not allowed to stay,

  58 lines, 37 comments, on Apr 6 1:51 PM 2007. In Society, Life, Personal, Thoughts
• Blessed are the Children

  For I have looked in the eyes of suffering,
  seen the blankness of hopelessness,

  38 lines, 21 comments, on Apr 13 4:27 PM 2007. In Abuse, Society, Life, Thoughts
• Out of Africa (tribute to Karen Blixen)

  and I stand and watch my Africa disappear,
  after all the years and tears,

  61 lines, 20 comments, on Apr 17 12:46 AM 2007. In Life, Love, Sad, Thoughts
• A Place I Should Belong

  It was the heat that drew me to you again,
  simmering, the way passion does sometimes

  35 lines, 14 comments, on Mar 26 10:16 PM. In Life, Love, Nature, Personal, Spiritual
• Cannonsfire

  I was once a dull roar,
  field mouse grey and

  12 lines, 17 comments, on Apr 2 9:59 PM. In Personal
• Vaginal Scars

  she came to me
  a piece of flesh

  42 lines, 20 comments, on Jul 24 6:16 AM. In Society, Life, Pain, Personal

• right now

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