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29/03/2024

Sometimes it is written in the sky...

17/09/2023

'When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn’t. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven’t eaten for two days you’ll understand.'

- Jack Dempsey

12/10/2022

If you're passionate,
don't restrain yourself
from spilling
all that you are

- Unknown -

23/09/2022

We become so used to struggle
that we cannot rest.
So self-sufficient
that we cannot receive.
So starved
that we ravenously consume
and still hunger for more,
feeling empty.

- Rainier Wylde -

23/09/2022

And I get jealous of a stranger
who may see your eyes by accident
and fall in love with them.

- mypenspeakspoetry -

15/09/2022

She is dangerous when she's hurt,
she can easily destroy everything around her,
but she doesn't.
Instead she destroys herself.

- Unknown -

25/07/2022

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23/06/2022

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/if-by-rudyard-kipling

21/12/2021

Die Groot Bome van Afrikaans
‘n Groot Boom se bene het gaan lê,
sy woorde in meer as een hart belê.
Genoeg is darem waaragtig genoeg,
te naby aan ons “eie” word daar nou geploeg!
Ons land het sy eiesoortige epidemie,
en dit is glad nie die Covid pandemie.
Plaasmoorde, is ver meer as net ‘n gesang,
geslagsverwante mishandeling, ag nee sies man!
Geen wonder almal “trek”:
saamtrek, dwarstrek en voor-trek,
wanneer gaan dinge weer reg-trek
en ons kinders ophou wegtrek?
Suid Afrika is mos ook ons “Gelofteland”,
ongetwyfeld was dit ons “Bedoelde land”.
Nou sien ons die spore van ‘n “Geknelde land”,
bloed wat vloei in ons “Offerland”!
Kultuur en taal bind ons aanmekaar.
‘n Branderkoor van woorde in ons eie taal.
Heimwee wat gehoor word in “Die Stem” verhaal…,
teen die “Kouevuur” moet ons, ons staal!
Ons moet leer om gouer dankie te sê,
voor nog “Groot Bome” se bene gaan lê.
Juis in hierdie donker nag,
is daar ‘n klavier se liedjie wat wag.
Dankie vir mense wat ons taal laat lewe;
om van liefde of hartseer te sing is ‘n gegewe.
Kan die hele wêreld stil word om te luister,
terwyl die reën van stof en roet moet fluister?
Ons land en ons taal, moet in jou eie hart leef!
Dit moet jy maar weet my ou neef!
Want wanneer jy werklik diep binne in jou kyk,
is jy eintlik skatryk!
Ons lag in ons taal,
ons huil in ons taal,
en ons bid ook in ons taal.
Onse Vader wat in die hemel is en my gedagtes maal.
‘Soos bloed” in ons are,
weerklink die snare.
Ons land is géén “Kammaland”!
Hierdie is ons Blóéd-land!
Met meer as net sweet is hier betaal;
vergewe en vergeet is deel van ons verhaal.
Die rykdom van ons harte is nie met kettings verbind,
want ons vryheid het ons in onse Vader gevind!
Barmhartige, genadige God en hemelse Vader,
Onse Vader
Vir ons land, ons nasie, volk en taal my Heer,
sal dit wel wees as U regeer!

03/11/2021

https://youtu.be/C5etpMmcWF0

To all soldiers who fought and died during The Falklands War2 April – 14 June 1982Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits

13/10/2021

https://youtu.be/8tbP3f3i03E

03/10/2021

https://youtu.be/Za5V6NQDc2Y

From the album 'The Very Best of Maria Callas'.

15/09/2021

13/07/2021

08/06/2021

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“Shiny Happy People” from R.E.M.’s critically-acclaimed, 1991 album, "Out Of Time"To learn more, visit http://www.remhq.com.Buy the album: 3CD+BluRay Deluxe ...

16/05/2021