Volmaan Blues

Klaasvakie

Klaasvakie

Kom haal vir my

Die vol maan

Skuil-skuil

Soos

Naguil in die skaduwees

More

Vroeg-vroeg

Moet ek die slaap

Uit my ogies vee

Klaasvakie

Klaasvakie

Kom haal vir my

Gister se lig

Vang

Vandag se oog

Die laatmiddagsiel

Gaan my

Beslis inriel

Gaap-gaap

Herhaal ek my mantra

Sonder verdriet

Deur Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2014-06-13.

The Art of Politicking

No

An answer possible

Yes

A vision comprehensible

Sure

A situation controllable

Perhaps

An expectation respectable

Definite

A context acceptable

Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2014-06-13.

Overheard

The liberals are worried

I hear

Their paradise

Filled with dread and fear

Our realities

Reached their sphere

The radicals are worried

I hear

Their paradise

Blocked by opportunities clear

Our dualities

More and more clear

The survivalists are worried

I hear

Their paradise

Hidden by the cloak and dagger

Our strategies

Exacerbated unwanted tragedies

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, May 2014. 

Slavery +

Slave to my ideas

Waging

A daily battle

Born of a generation

That never

Understood

Total peace

Slave to my identity

Nursing

A growing understanding

Born of a generation

That never

Accepted

Unequivocal inequality

Slave to my mind

Navigating

Changing human landscapes

Born of a generation

That never

Embraced

Forced negativity

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2014-04-27.

Apartheid failed and we live with the pain

Tell me about the Cape Flats

You ask

Trying to understand

The headlines

A narrative

So unbelievable

Perhaps

Tainted by my own

Cynicism

Voices bitter

Expectant

Embattled

Praying for peace

A last resort

Neither

Sodom or Gomorrah

Gam ‘nation

Lost

In the sand storm

For survival

There is

No set norm

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2014-04-16.

Life Lost

He was executed

Allegedly

No witnesses

We were only told

An Easter weekend vigil

His mother’s angel

Lifestyle choices

Transformed

Prematurely

Finding

Death’s voice

He was hunted

Allegedly

No witnesses

On the local news

Early in spring

His mothers’ angel

Lifestyle choices

Transformed

Prematurely

Finding

Death’s voice

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2014-04-16.