2013
This is Your Time - This is your time, your time to rise, to blaze and shine …
Free Us to be Free – Because so much progress has been blind to our beauty …
Shooting Star – Your shooting star lights up my sky …
Africa Proud - I stand upright and tall - No more bowed back, no more bent knees …
Earth, Air, Water, Fire - I am Earth: Grounded and mounded and moulded in clay …
Haiku: Beauty - Bare trees on still pond …
2012
Forty Two - It was the year that rocked with the shock of the stopping clock …
Through It All - Worlds may collide – the sky turn to black …
Hard to Say - It’s hard to say ‘I love you’ when words have turned to dust …
Misty Woods - Shrouded trees and autumn mulch …
African Time - I’m living my days in African time …
Chasing the Blue - We’re chasing after blue in skies of white and grey …
Cracked Pavements - The pavement blocks are neatly square, yet sometimes cracks appear …
Wild Africa - Africa wakes up, hungry; she prowls in packs and preys …
Genesis - Out of the void of anticipation, out of the time before time began …
She: Light, He: Dark - In the dark, there is she; she is the light …
Poised - The pen, poised over a virgin page. The brush, held before a ghostly stage …
Loss - It is loss (as much as gain) that binds us. It is pain (as much as joy) that joins …
The End - In the end, life is cruel. It takes too much, too soon. It gives too little …
We Africans - We, the spark of creation, we, first nation of nations …
African Idea - Africa wakes – It boils and bubbles, it stews and steams …
Karen Weinberg: In Memoriam - She made me laugh, let’s start with that …
The Edge - The world is round, until we walk right off the edge …
Still Pond - There is a secret place on Hampstead Heath …
2011
Forty One - Another bumpy trip around the chunky sun …
Tree-Keepers - The other day, on Hampstead Heath, while mist lay shrouded …
I Want To Be A Writer - ‘I want to be a writer, Mom, Is there a secret trick?’ …
Monet’s Dream - The leaves are falling to the ground, I caught one as it fell today …
What Dreams May Come - What dreams may come, what cosmos reflected …
Villanelle for Justice - She rages against the fading of light …
Bee-Lieve - As you nurture new buds and fresh shoots …
Wasted Days - So many wasted days, I scarcely dare to count them …
To My Muse – To my muse in all her guises: my raiment – cloaked in nature …
Serenity – Calm turquoise waters and white tufted skies …
Galapagos - Genesis islands, straddling Hades and Eden …
Ambivalence - We think we know; in fact, we’re sure …
All the Clocks - All the clocks are running down, all our temples turn to dust …
Treasure Hunt - Each day I set out, like a curious scout, in search of a land of surprises …
The Writer – I write my waking incoherence and when I sleep, I dream in words …
Shine, Africa, Shine! - Africa – the dark continent: so named by explorers …
No-Doo-Bee Days - Doo-bee, doo-bee, doo-bee, doo-ways …
Witness to a Kill - I’m witness to a massacre – unwitting and unknowing …
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - Yesterday, I was muddled and cuddled and bubbled …
Animated Life - Sometimes it seems that you’re not listening …
Stripped - Stripped of all the trappings, the clatter …
Secret of Success – You say you want to know (and others too) the shining secret …
Lagos Lives! - Lagos lives, seeding and sprawling, steaming and smoking …
Step Out - Step out into the breaking day: step lightly and step brightly …
2010
Forty - What a year! Oh, what a year! Around the block, around the bend …
Wishing Leaves - We sat upon the bench that autumn night …
Resonance - The One who resonates in time and in tune …
Moment of Truth - There comes a moment, an empty, aching moment …
The Barefoot Don - He walks the mountains, plains and fields …
Let Bells Ring Out - There are bells for weddings, bells for births …
I Lie Awake – I lie awake and hear your velvet sigh …
No War - Don’t speak to me of holy wars of martyrdom and sacrifice …
African Dream - As white-hot skies give way to bloodshot red …
Kismet - I see you in your night of anguish, I see you in your cave of tears …
The Web of Love - We gather on the beach of life, with surf and sand and sun …
Wild Love - For some, love is tame, it is cute and cuddly like an adorable pet …
Marie’s Poem - I know a special lady and you may know her too …
Oh, To Be A Cloud - Oh, to be a cloud, adrift in deep blue skies …
Futuristic Man - A futuristic man I am, I am a future’s man …
Wheel of Fate - We set the wheel of fate in motion, but cannot know the way it turns …
Casino Life - Some say that life’s a gamble in which you win or lose …
Poem for New Year - The year is new, poised and expectant …
2009
Unspoken Words - I’m searching for ways to say what I mean …
Sahara - A silky dust devours the miles ahead between the barely living and the dead …
Subway Angel - Across the tracks, she glances up and smiles …
Desert Love - My lover’s face is nothing like the desert plain’s wide open space …
Castles - Castles built on sand soon crumble, poems raised to love soon stumble …
One True Light - The world shook and I felt the tremor, fires raged in the City …
Thirty Nine - As markets crashed and wild fires spread, fresh waves of doubt …
Safe Place - Now you’re safe in your place and I’m safe in mine …
Dressing Gown – My dressing gown hangs over yours, content in their fluffy embrace …
Free Falling - Over the edge, at World’s End and Adventure’s Beginning …
Gentle On My Mind - You’re gentle on my motley mind, unexpectedly so …
Twinkering - Making changes, swift and small that seem to matter not at all …
Women of Africa - In the land of bow and spear, of chieftain and warrior …
Haiku 5 - A sting in the tail is neither poison nor pain …
Haiku 4 - Curtains slowly part, beauty is revealed as art …
Haiku 3 - Twin swans, white as silk, rise and fall with gentle swell …
Haiku 2 - Open petals glowing, with buzzing to and fro’ing …
We Never Kissed - We sipped wine to a starling serenade …
The Harbour - Life’s a great adventure – that’s true …
We Could - We could … but what about consequences? …
A Hundred Questions - A hundred questions in the room …
Life in Pieces - My life was full, crammed and spammed and jammed …
Rain - Before the rain expectation hangs in the air …
Possibility - Could it be reality is not a lot of what there is to see? …
Switch! Earth Year - Switch off the lights, turn off the plugs …
Dance Me - Dance me to an echo’s beat, a pulse of tests and time …
Gifts - There are gifts (so many musely gifts) that you gave to me …
This Day: The Inauguration of Barack Obama - This day is not just any day …
2008
Thirty Eight - A lifetime lived in just one year, at least that’s how it seems …
Colours in the Dust (Morocco) – I leave behind the dusty brown …
Prayer for Africa - Dear God, for the love of Africa, hear my prayer …
God Bless Africa - God bless Africa, for she is the seed of humanity …
Music of Africa - Music is the heartbeat of Africa, and as we drum, so we are drummed …
2007
Africa Calls to Me (Version 1) - Africa calls to me with the beat of her drums …
Africa Calls to Me (Version 2) - Africa calls to me and I hear her voice …
African Odyssey – Beneath the boundless African sky, unblemished blue overhead …
Haiku 1 - Hungry finger tips feast on spread of glistening lips …
2006
I Know a Place in Africa – … where I can feel the sun on my back …
Africa’s Pride (Ghana) - Basking in the welcome, walking in the rain …
2005
First People – First people of this ancient land, last exiles in the desert sand …
I Am An African – Not because I was born there, but because my heart beats with Africa’s …
2004
Baobab: Africa’s Tree of Life - At the heart of the African plain stands a tree both old and sage …
Separation – Gondwana, born of Pangaea, when separation first started, like a unicell dividing …
2002
Ode to the Elephant - Your sacred image looms large, painted on the rough canvass of Africa …
1995
Tangawatu – A young boy lay down in the African night …
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