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Don’t be gone Spartacus

November 26, 2012 9

UPDATE – Marc passed away in April 2016, it’s been hard to process his death Over the past 10 years Marc (Spartacus) and I have maintained superficial contact with the odd e-mail and facebook interactions. We met when he was about 24, hopefully he turned 50 this month. He now lives (lived?) in England and I in South Africa. He …

Orphan Time

October 3, 2012 0

Finding myself mid life. Vulture thoughts circle dead things, the white bones of past pasts. Future shadow of the scythe touches today, an intruder stalking my boundaries. I lose more golden moments picking over carcass memories. Blurred recall, a swirl of what was and what might have been, mixed up and hazy. Wish and reality, guilt and reality, truth and …

A South African wife, poet and mother. Sula was the founding member of the Durban Live Poets Society (LiPS) in 1995 which she headed until leaving Durban in 2000. She has had journal extracts published in Fair Lady Magazine and in the anthology “Glass Jars Among Trees” and her poetry, for which she has won several prizes, has been published in various South African and international anthologies. Sula is a loving mother to 4 children and loves hiking, the outdoors, reading, writing, cooking, baking and sewing. (written by my husband :) ) You can e-mail Sula at sula1968@gmail.com