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Dancing with the reaper – poem

October 25, 2014 4

This poem is one of the first which I wrote and felt that it ‘worked’. I don’t have a formula when it comes to writing. Sometimes I am inspired by something that I have read. Sometimes by an observation or experience. Some poems are worked and re-worked over and over and still miss the mark. The night before writing …

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