EMBRACE the WAVES of LIFE Photo Credit © Coached Success Embrace the waves of life – Poem by Kyle Daniels. I wrote this poem for the person who has been hurt and wounded by life, and no longer allow themselves to let their guard down. Imagine waves coming to shore, some waves are going to … Continue reading Featured Poet: KYLE DANIELS
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Book Cover Art © Vatsala Radhakeesoon Book Review : ‘Streaks of Trance’ Author: Vatsala Radhakeesoon Reviewer: Don Beukes Linktreehttps://linktr.ee/Don_Beukes Photo Credit © Vatsala Radhakeesoon Publisher: Steve Cawte/Imspired Streaks of Trance In this unique collection of poetry, including Haiku as well as an eclectic art collection, Radhakeesoon certainly succeeds to put the reader … Continue reading Book Review: ‘Streaks of Trance’ by VATSALA RADHAKEESOON
Book Cover Art © Janine Pickett Available from Amazon Dedication I dedicate this book to any of you who has ever been marginalised because of your culture, religion, race or sexual orientation. This is for those of you who exist in the shadows, the misunderstood, the dismissed, the forgotten ones. - Don Beukes City of … Continue reading NEW BOOK RELEASE: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi*Thus Passes the Glory of this World: CITY OF DUST
Photo Credit © Raquel Soriano Gil 🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨 Odyssey to Reverie Un sitio de esos – I sometimes yearn to languish endlessly in a place devoid from strife pain sadness hate jealousy and materialism in this ever increasing chasm called humanity where heightened emotions create toxic divisions leading to splitting fissures of boiling emotions so I … Continue reading ODYSSEY TO REVERIE:GLOMAG NOV2020 with RAQUEL SORIANO GIL
© Cover art by Luke Borrill I am happy to announce that my second collection of poetry has been published by Alien Buddha Press and made a reality by Red Fox. This unique ekphrastic collection is a result of close collaboration with artists from South Africa, America and the UK. Most of the poems were … Continue reading ICARUS RISING – VOLUME 1:New Book Release by Don Beukes
Book Cover Art © Jonel Scholtz The Aljibe (For Raquel) Part One As the distinctive sleeping lion head peak of Monte Arabibecame visible in the distance, Rachel briefly glanced upat the famous UNESCO bronze age landmark in thisregion of Spain. The fact that human beings lived aroundhere three thousand years ago did not impress her … Continue reading The Girl in the Stone: Excerpt – THE ALJIBE
© Glomag © Glory Sasikala Symphony of Humanity A rising chorus of indiscriminate explosive targeting from old enemies intent to erase delete usurp threaten annihilate hurt hate deceive bully eradicate, all in the name of forced submission. The ultimate genocide mission for the global village to witness on screens the cream screams of … Continue reading Glomag August 2022 Printed Version Anthology
Artwork and Book Cover © Jonel Scholtz Foreword by Alberto Quero © Alberto Quero Of Nature and Humankind Writing a preface for Don Beukes’ book “The girl in the stone” was a very pleasant task. Yet, it was very difficult. And here is the reason why. The book talks about a trip, in all … Continue reading The Girl in the Stone/ La Chica en la Piedra
Artwork © Esteban Half a Soul (For Esteban) I acted brave whilst excited that you would be reunited with your dear mother – The time for goodbyes just so fleeting as I waved you goodbye, unseen by you as half my soul left with with you – Maybe that is why I felt a most … Continue reading Half a Soul: GlomagJune2022
Artwork © Esteban Danish Inferno Echoes of War – Another world war reaching Danish shores whilst the radio sings of happier times as the church bells chime maybe for one last time and a priest prepares for a last communion praying for peace hoping for divine release of existential blessings to protect a congregation … Continue reading DANISH INFERNO:Glomag May 2022
© Esteban My Name is Tabrahs Alug Occupied – My tribal cultural homeland invaded segregated splintered invaded burned splintered infested terrorised despised overcome fragmented hated shredded shunned infiltrated smothered deleted trampled bullied punctured blinded damned cursed outnumbered dissected dismissed dehumanised fractured by war- mongering bloodthirsty soulless vacuous self- crowned tsars obsessed with leaving bloodstained … Continue reading GlomagMarch2022- My Name is TABRAHS ALUG
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Don Beukes is a South African, British and EU Poet and writer. He is a Poetry Chapbook Reviewer at The Poetry Café. He has written Ekphrastic Poetry since 2015 collaborating with artists internationally. He is the author of ‘The Salamander Chronicles’, ‘Icarus Rising-Volume 1’ (ABP), an ekphrastic collection and ‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’ (Concrete Mist Press). He taught English and Geography in both South Africa and the UK. His poetry has been anthologized in numerous collections and translated into Afrikaans, Persian, French, Kreol (Mauritius) and Albanian. He was nominated by Roxana Nastase, editor of Scarlet Leaf Review for the ‘Best of the Net’ in 2017 as well as the Pushcart Poetry Prize (USA) in 2016. He was published in his first SA Anthology ‘In Pursuit of Poetic Perfection’ in 2018 (eBook) (Libbo Publishers) and his second, ‘Cape Sounds’ in 2019 (Gavin Joachims Publishing Cape Town). He is also an amateur…
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Immersive and inspirational!
First Poetry Music Audio Recording “Voices of Freedom”
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Voices of Freedom -21
Dancing without a name
She was naked in her silence
Stone, statues, salutations
Desires from a Hellenistic waterfront
Ancient scriptures reveal hidden sources
Among firey chariots and beat up taxis
Neon lights flicker to the rhythm of abandoned youth
In a Holy, Glory brought on by the Atomic age
Birds swell like waves in the evening sky
Lighting fires of brilliance, in the skulls of men
Heroes fall like mad children
Women dine upon wine and gold
Winter months take Persephone’s hand
And fear takes refuge upon the land
Freedom of expression is lost in Cancel Culture News
We must break the shackles of Adversity
Tyranny, Irony, Authoritative Views
With a New Generation if we are to continue
*(matthew bowers)* ~93
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© Glory Sasikala Let Love Live The fragility of humanity surely should result in an encompassing loving fraternity where all are welcomed tolerated and supported no matter your religion caste beliefs or even your sexual orientation in this ever expanding global nation. Let love live daily in your heart mind and soul even when dark … Continue reading LET LOVE LIVE:Glomag Feb2022
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Skating on a rift
A fine line between
hallucination, pain
and party
Lost in an array of
consuming moments
physical needs
blind desires
The rush and pull
a whipping boy a slave
to yourself and substance
A hostage to Pervetin
Crystal shards blind
Devour essence
And soul screams out
In agony cast aside
And thrown
Into a pit of
Black vipers
Laughter
guilt
greed…
Interchangeable
middle names
Your true identity has
faded, some time ago
Electrical nuance enters
your blood stream
In these few moments This
is where you define “Life”…
Chasing
Ghosts
Dragons
down slippery slopes
Only coming
Up for air
To the promise
Of Mr D
Chasing
Ghosts
Dragons
down slippery slopes
Silver refection catches
the taste of fire
Metallic taste buds
Desert tongue
Strange things
Strange thoughts
Secret sexual escapades
that will be taken
to your grave
Cold
numb
empty
Hollow burden
weighing you down
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