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		<title>A lucid doodle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilva Pieterse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a tracing of my dreams I&#8217;ll draw for you In the shapes of streams And the sounds of seas A lucid doodle The colour of waterdrops To show you where my world stops And my bones begin I&#8217;ll take you to the place Where my poems sing]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not depressed</title>
		<link>http://www.ilvapie.co.za/2011/11/03/im-not-depressed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilva Pieterse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not depressed I’m just deflated Out of style and over-dressed At second-best, I’m overrated An old birthday balloon (Out of breath, somewhat bated) I hum my jingles out of tune One-hit-wonders soon outdated Like a song without sound Mourning a muted meltdown I&#8217;m at the point of no concern For my inability to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wonde wonderwerk</title>
		<link>http://www.ilvapie.co.za/2011/07/05/wonde-wonderwerk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilva Pieterse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ek het ons storie geskryf Met &#8216;n lem op my lyf Die son was te helder daai dag Vir my hartklop om langer vir joune te wag. Ek het die mes soos ‘n kwas vas gehou En diep snye geskilder – ‘n van Gogh vir jou. Ons verhaal het verskyn Op my vel – lyn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cocoon</title>
		<link>http://www.ilvapie.co.za/2011/06/06/cocoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilva Pieterse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She spun a cocoon The colour of a silent moon Around what remained Of her lost and un-gained. She bound bone to bone Stitched smile to song And calmly coloured her cries In the shades of reason gone wrong. But when she saw That her loss was a learning curve And her being Not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captivated</title>
		<link>http://www.ilvapie.co.za/2011/06/01/captivated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilva Pieterse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ilvapie.co.za/?p=162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hold me like a promise; Break me like a vow. For today I am as fragile as the secrets of a child, And as desperate as a dream dressed in dust.]]></description>
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		<title>Another woman</title>
		<link>http://www.ilvapie.co.za/2011/03/15/another-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilva Pieterse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is another woman living In the friction Between your hips and my thighs Do you think I haven&#8217;t seen The memory of her Swimming in the moisture of your eyes? Do you think I haven&#8217;t noticed The sadness In the lines around your smile? Do you think I haven&#8217;t realised You&#8217;re somewhere else all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bourbon Street</title>
		<link>http://www.ilvapie.co.za/2011/01/30/bourbon-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilva Pieterse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You and me We should be poetry We should be prose The way our breathing slows And our hearts beat Like wings on Bourbon Street. You and I We should be together Birds of a feather Flying like time. We always had rhythm, you know We just never had rhyme. We committed a crime together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read them their writes</title>
		<link>http://www.ilvapie.co.za/2011/01/17/read-them-their-writes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilva Pieterse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My words Are serving a sentence For mixing their tenses. While my pen Pleads repentance For its pompous pretenses. Silly little Bic Went a tad overboard When declaring itself A match for the sword. My words got the slammer When, as partners in crime Ignored rules of grammar And reasons for rhyme. But what now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fine-tuned</title>
		<link>http://www.ilvapie.co.za/2010/11/26/fine-tuned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilva Pieterse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You were beautiful in Borneo Like a song I&#8217;d been expecting To start playing on the stereo I was fragile when you found me A lifetime&#8217;s worth of sorrow And disappointment built around me But you gave me a standing ovation A merry-go-round of applause And cut through my curt conversation With your musical mixed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Danse</title>
		<link>http://www.ilvapie.co.za/2010/08/13/la-danse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ilva Pieterse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You said that I could find you In the space that lies between The reality that binds you And the traces of your dream. You asked me, &#8220;Can you dance To a poem by Baudelaire?&#8221; &#8220;La danse,&#8221; said I. &#8220;C&#8217;est la poésie Avec des bras et des jambes.&#8221; Your hands made a ballroom of my [...]]]></description>
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