That Kind Of Feeling GRAHAM VIVIAN LANCASTER
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think its forever. Carl Sagan.
For Nicola
L TRAYBERRY PRESS
ALEXANDER HOUSE Incorporating
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ISBN: 978-0-9870146-8-9
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WORKS BY THE AUTHOR: Wind Song Storm Song Strength Of ten The Devil’s Own
NOVELS:
SELF HELP: Everyone Can Do It Its Never Too Late Surviving The Ladder The Cost Of Money Who’s Shrinking Your Money? The Happy Customer POETRY:
Marks On My Soul Gypsey Whale Song Gravel Roads Fledgeling African Ride Moments of Truth Picaroon Journeys That Kind Of Feeling Rusty Gates Poetry Study Guide
HUMOUR:
Bert and Co. Bert Another Story Nothing For Mahala Smoke Screens Penga Street
ADVENTURE SERIES: Wild and Dangerous + Study Guide Secrets of the Sea Cyclone Tracy Wrath Of The Gods Dangerous Alliances When The Earth Thunders + Study Guide Awakening Africa Flying With Eagles Over The Edge + Study Guide ******************* The Adventurous Life Of Rory Flint Rat To Riches + Study Guide Town Mayor and Mayoress Dock Town Upside Down Sibanda Of The Zambezi River Courage And Secrets
Dock
INDEX 1 Early morning 2 Delusion 3 Quiet 4 Headmistress 5 Rude Awakening 5 Silver Spoon 6 S’dudla’s Food 7 The Dark 9 Oneness 10 Courage 11 Granddaughter 12 Poet 13 A Foreign Observation 15 Repeat 16 Temporary 17 Complete 18 Fragments 18 Forrest 19 The Struggle Wasn’t Only Black 20 Days In The Old Fort 21 Shards 21 Safe 21 Bland 22 Adrenaline Blast 23 Disbelief 24 Clouds 25 Lost In A Port Elizabeth Township 27 Lost To A Careless Knot 28 He 28 She 29 Neighbour 30 Many Times 30 Midnight Fish Cakes 31 Prisons 32 Your Story
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Fate Ignition Roy Campbell Nothing Contact Lawless Subterfuge Today Easier To Walk Away Wide Eyed Wonder Immortality Illusions Repaired With Damage Thin Ice Flatter To Deceive Love Hate Tyson Piddle People Floundering Confident Five Years Hell in A Bottle Last Post Early Morning Past Headmaster Bounty Hunters Walk On Rusty Gates Remember Two Things Circus Comes To Town Chance Flea Market Stall Meeting Simon’s Caves
Early morning That kind of feeling Early morning bird’s Timid voice And Impala risen Steaming From grassy nests As earth Comes alive; Dewy bush Grass seeds clinging Cool wet on bare legs Running down Seeping into sock tops Of darkening leather boots As a sullen tangerine rim of sun Lifts tentatively Out of the horizon Behind lacy black Silhouette thorn trees Spicing the morning With colours Colour shafts Of pale pinks and light gold; Inhaling moist air Sharp flavoured With wild herbs: That kind of free feeling
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Delusion Peace Gentle peace Descending With quiet grace On some Why do you disdain Me so Like a beggar Asking alms?
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Quiet A psychedelic tangle of nightmares Head bashing struggling constant tides Of staid idea change resistance, And failed yesterdays That couldn’t work before their time Because they couldn’t see how Yet would work so well tomorrow If the world caught up And sometimes I so envy The quiet peace of the dead Yet wonder if they know
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Headmistress “Yes it is a beautiful school Because it was designed by a woman So everything is hexagonal,� She says And my mind computes Many derivatives Of her statement But I conclude; Like her angled thoughts There is no flow.
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