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CRR LXXIII (Something in the AM…)

I am walking away
or so I think and say.
With every step I take
in to a future today,
a step away from yore today,
a walkabout of every  new today.
.

I am thinking
or so I walk and talk away.
With every word I share
in love’s nomadic you,
I re-live the good old days
I feel the pain of rueful sayings,
a lingering [...]

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Rippled and Timed

Rippled and Timed
.

Today, our living waters
the fountains and streams
of yesterday’s forsaken wells.
Rippled upon time.
.
Tomorrow, our future rain
the storms and rivers
of today’s wrought ways.
Forgoned in time.
.
Yesterday, ripples knowledge
into today… and today.
Today… tomorrow
paved by yesterday’s dreams.

- Taken from Mystic Wayfarer
A Coloured Gedagte by Ross Rayners

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The Day – Holding tears

What a beautiful day it is, I am because of today. Today is the celebration of the birth of my mother, Roslyn Rayners.  Old Lady you may not be here anymore, but not a day goes by that you are not remembered. You live through me, Sherwyn, Chene and your first grandchild Keziah. It feels [...]

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Epoch

Epoch

Dit is onmoontlik om suksesvol
te wees sonder uithoevermoë.

Indien jy suksesvol was
sonder opofferings
dan het iemand vir jou geoffer.

En indien jy gesaai het
net om die moed van glo te verloor
dan sal iemand jou vrugte maai.

>> L.J. Benjamen <<

~*~

>> Translation by Ross Rayners <<

It is impossible to be successful
without [...]

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Disclosure

Disclosure
Know that all of you
that share with me,
in thinking and knowing
in the yester, morrow
or eventide are sheafed
on the lips of tears.
Each tear contains a whisper
that is your plea as a witness
as each plea echo life,
that is in me.

- Taken from Mystic Wayfarer
A Coloured Gedagte by Ross Rayners

“All things in this [...]

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