Poetry in motion

A selection of poems that move us, that reveal the stories.

What time is it?

We live in turbulent times. The impacts of climate change, bio-diversity loss and inequality are plain for all to see and only growing in scope

“Your children are not your children”

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.And he said: Your children are not your children.They are

An Extraordinary Technology. Mashudu Ramano

Written on 2 July 2019 at St Yves Chatres Cathedral France by Mashudu Ramano I saw extraordinary technologyTechnology that baffled meTechnology we see everyday and

Are you here? Axel Kacoutie

“I guess the difference is,how much of a differenceam I willing to make?” “For over ten years Axel has been working with sound, music and

The Winter of Listening: By David Whyte

Silence and winterhave led me to thatotherness.So let this winterof listeningbe enoughfor the new lifeI must call my own.“ No one but me by the

Fallen oak

Fallen oak The crack was deafening, dreadYet familiar to the boneProne by the time I got thereDressing gown storm soakedFeet wet and sobbing like a

I am a holon – Mashudu Ramano

I AM A HOLON Written on the 13th of February 2015 at the Cape Town International Airport. I am a holonA system made up of

Treasure – Lourdes Gant’s mother

I have a treasure Much better than gold, It is your friendship. It is your friendship, which I shall cherish Until I become old. Photo

I did not choose – Mashudu Ramano

I did not choose to existI did not chose to be bornI did not choose to be born a helpless, fragile and completely dependent babyI

I’m dying to fly to Africa. Dave Hampton

If I don’t fly, why the hell should someone else? There’s all sorts of degrees of engaging with the destructive impacts of jetting off far

Fate #3: Hope

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio Hope spoils your tastes for the way it is. It spoils you from the work that’s just what it does.” Hope

Fate #2: Now

Now Kids figure that something has been stolen from them…what they could have been,what they could have had,what they could have done.The whole world that