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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I am from
2025-09-25"I am from extraordinary ancestral cloth, woven from true love and kindness.
Childhood laughter a song I still hear."
Memories
2025-09-18"It’s where love is captured
Where dreams come true
Create many memories
They’ll bring happiness to you"
In the stillness of my mind
2025-06-05"I can hear the choir sing
While I’m dressed in Sunday best.
To say my last goodbye"
Welgevonden revisited
2025-05-22"For Henry each day is an initiation,
a new door to a mystery,
the grandeur of the Silbersteins
and Welgevonden’s history."
1 April 2025: Gekkedag-uitnodiging
2025-04-01Die LitNet-redaksie nooi mense uit om vir ons te skryf oor dinge in die lewe wat gek is. Dit kan oor enigiets gaan: hoe absurd die prys van brood is, of hoe snaaks dit lyk as sekere mans snorre kweek, of watter regerings aan bewind is, of hoe vergesog dit is wat in verskillende wêrelddele aan die gang is – of net eenvoudig iets snaaks, ’n onverwagse of humoristiese staaltjie wat jy met die res van ons lesers wil deel.
The lost city
2025-02-27"When cartographers come to study us,
they’ll find no clear borders, no legend
to decode the ways, we have merged."
Dance of bloodied feet
2025-02-13"bred barefoot
to stagger over the shards
of yesteryear’s looking glass,"
Resurrection
2025-02-06"The year of the Master’s Resurrection and Ascension.
His call, as the Thunderous Sounds of the Apocalypse."
Gossiping trees
2025-01-23"An uninterrupted meeting of the minds,
Discussing thoughts, anecdotes
From the mother branches"
The show must go on
2024-09-12"The makeshift stage is artfully suited to both the tricks of high office and the gambols of farce, often indistinguishably."
From a murmur to a shout
2024-08-22"The village erupted in surprised praise. Somehow, the imagery of the entire police team, from the station commander to the most junior constable, picking up sand and wielding brooms, became a beacon of hope."
Pink suitcase
2024-08-07"when I walk out of the door
my pink suitcase rattling behind
on broken wheels I thought you would fix"
Forsaken place
2024-05-30"Nothing grows here now except silence and birdsong by day and the call of the jackal by night."
The lost diaries of Tiyo Soga
2024-02-09"It is not easy, waiting for fair sailing weather, permanently watching for the winds to turn."
Protection needed
2024-01-17"Somewhere a mother lifts
a hand to shade her eyes to look and
look again
down the long dusty street
for a son that will never
arrive again."
Wishes beyond glory
2023-08-24"I wish you the open heart that brings the truth and love to all mankind,
beyond any political blocks and false leagues.
Only the free flow of borderless wisdom!"