New writing
Fiction and prose by established and emerging authors. Send your poetry or fiction to New Writing at skryfwerk@litnet.co.za to be considered for publication on LitNet.
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You are never to kill a snake
2020-08-27"Retreat, slowly, without turning around,
over the field, past the dam, past the baby cow crying in its pen"
Bible story
2020-08-14"Now, my Prince, I can hear your chariots
thundering towards the once sublime city
you left behind, and I tremble, my Prince"
LAW FOR ALL’s Top 10: "When justice meant the world had to stop, so Ayanda could dream" by Sumayya Mohamed
2020-08-14"And the people came together to lift South Africa up again. To love her again, appreciate her beauty and appreciate that they themselves were enough."
LAW FOR ALL’s Top 10: "Brave" by Monnica Rampine
2020-08-06"I hope you forgive me, Ma. I thought this was the only way to make the pain go away."
LAW FOR ALL’s Top 10: "Say something" by Harry Owen
2020-07-30"about Syria
Libya, Afghanistan
say something about Nairobi"
LAW FOR ALL’s Top 10: "Nqo" by Siyabulela Javu
2020-07-22"Nqo-nqo-nqo
Is anybody home?
I have been walking for 26 years"
Storm within
2020-07-08"Release the cables wound around
Your lungs so tight that not a sound
Of truly you can squeeze it through
To open up for all to view"
Tercet for Kieva
2020-07-06"at a delicate and fragile eighty
she still wears mascara
lavender and lace"
Childhood
2020-07-02"Visions of soft, weeping rain drenching fynbos
A lonely, cold krantz echoing baboon and jackal"
I tracked the stars
2020-05-13"There is longitude
there is latitude
diagonals
depth and circumference"
Shakespeare (The sonnets)
2020-05-06"Adorable and romantically possessed,
but with good looks no longer blessed,
he still delighted in the liveliness of progeny"
Objects of desire for Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat
2020-03-17"Like the sea I have chased with my mother, and like
all of these words, I am thinking of you too much."
Papaya for Rainer Maria Rilke, cold plums for me
2020-03-03"I am finally on my own again. Flying solo. Gather this, hunt this, reward yourself with this."
If John Steinbeck had been a poet, I would have loved him
2020-02-26"I have a certain knowledge of madness that no one else speaks of, a certain kind of madness that comes alive at midnight."