Liberty Delsouiller

Liberty, born of French parents who moved to South Africa in search of a better quality of life, was born in a beautiful coastal town called Somerset West. When she was seven, her family moved north all the way to a farming town called Tzaneen in the province of Limpopo. Here her parents started an orphanage, which has been running for 17 years.

Liberty finished her school career as well as studies in education in Limpopo and then decided to move back to the town of her birth, and her heart. With her having taught in underprivileged areas, her poetry has been influenced by her background of vulnerable children, and deals with the ideas and thoughts of a young woman in her early twenties.

Rolling milestones

Liberty Delsouiller New writing 2019-12-16

“Such freedom to cut the deadlines,
Tear off the expiry dates”

Broken gangster child

Liberty Delsouiller New writing 2019-12-12

“I think you changed a part of me.
I think I am a little more gangster, too.”

You did not take her Honour

Liberty Delsouiller New writing 2019-11-12

“She walks with her head
Higher than yours.
She carries no shame.”

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