THE POEM OF PLAYFUL
WORDS
© Farouk Asvat
My brother
From another mother
(And another father),
Last of last night
I told my mother's
mother
That next of next week
My mother's daughter's
son
The one after the one
after this one
Wants to visit his
father's father
So I told him
He will have to cross
the crossroads
Before the forking of
the forking paths
That is over the hill
That is over that hill
That is just over that
other hill
Understand?
© farouk asvat
composed 1985 [johannesburg, south africa under #apartheid ]
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[§] Books by Farouk
Asvat:
● Sadness In
The House Of Love (novel)
● The
Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In
Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind
Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A
Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time
Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This
Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks
…
(poetry)*
● The
Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love
(novel)*
● Weapons Of
Words
(literary criticism)
● all my paperback
& kindle editions
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[] acknowledgements:
The Poem Of Playful Words was previously
published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (piquant publications, p55, 2006);
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (kindle, 2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (amazon paperback, p54, 2014).
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