alida_k

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alida_k
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I live in a very small town, Koringberg, in South Africa. I work with horses and try to write as much as possible.

  December 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 2 total

Bones

Please don’t try to distill me
My disquiet is mine and it’s lonely
Like my name and my feet it belongs unfree
I feel in my bones.
When you speak your questions
To you the answers have no meaning
Something soft within my mind is breaking
I...

– by Alida Kemp

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Unearthed

What do I do with this hole
In the ground?
I picked up the shovel and dug it out.
It gets harder yet harder each day
To choose which one of us should be the one to stay.

This dark earth smells as if it belongs to me
And only one of us it...

– by Alida Kemp

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