Category Archives: poetry
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A true story
6May 20, 2023 by petrujviljoen
I’m working in Braamfontein. Somewhere in the 1980s. The corner café for cigs and whatever. Every office worker knows one. …
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Letter
5March 17, 2023 by petrujviljoen
It has always been words you turned to;writing obliquely, with stealth as if a thiefwriting with your back against the …
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thinking …
1February 21, 2023 by petrujviljoen
Monk – flat-handed (sheer) piano a study in dissonance
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Grief
2February 18, 2023 by petrujviljoen
counting falling rose petals – detachment
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Lament
7January 12, 2023 by petrujviljoen
the screamingearth seethinghumanity
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Politics
6January 3, 2023 by petrujviljoen
Spending months on the pulse of South African politics – it matters, because it is us. Most of the crisis …
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I Looked Within
17December 31, 2022 by petrujviljoen
I looked within, found some blood as fresh as the beginning of injustice and the rose moaned forget-me-not // the …
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The Cat and I (II)
14November 5, 2022 by petrujviljoen
Stardust mingled with the mess of our lives I exclude everyone momentarily; it’sthe cat and I, her exactly next to, …
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Silent Sunday
9October 30, 2022 by petrujviljoen
swept – the up-curl of the corner of the carpet
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Blur
4October 19, 2022 by petrujviljoen
I can’t see for reading –the blur of the unsafe world wheredecency, steadily is undone
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