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Jillian Botha
Member since August 23, 2007
Member for 18 years, 9 months
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Still pondering the title - any suggestion?
Toxic is our love, all tangled and torn
Poisonous are the words heard by these ears
Like a prisoner of war, all shaven & shorn
We are left to give voice to our fears
Toxic to the touch, laced with vindictive venom
Hands once caring, gentle are now groping claws
Tearing asunder, clawing through to the very marrow
Words uttered through once soft lips, now vicious maws
Toxic chasms of doubt, churning with betrayal continuously
Boiling, bubbling over with acidic intention to indenture
To move this past the once well intended intentions
Now exodus to darker lands, black, no place to venture
Toxic infusions of gaseous invisibility, rendering us inadequate
To the once, simple, easy flowing process of unconditional love
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This to, now comes with ifs & maybes, a sad, lonely banquet
Of light never moving, where the dancers are left inky black
Toxic is the stench of this of this once fragrant existence
For controlled by lust for power, to be the ultimate one
To rule over all you deem to have acquired through pestilence
Lies, pain, twisted fates, destroyed dreams now in state of oblivion.
Toxic is your touch,
For you ask to much
You have taken everything there is, controlled it
Moulded it, to your perfect ideal of illusioned existence
Jillian Botha’s timeline
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23 TueReceived a critique
on Still pondering the title - any suggestion? from @Geezer
"I saw a blackened landscape, and two silhouettes pulling away from each other. As I read on, I remembered a cartoon that I saw long ago, it was a black and white cartoon and it started with scenes of a landscape so lush…" -
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22 MonAnniversary
15 years of membership
- September 2019
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12 ThuReceived a critique
on Words.....Journey to Immortality from @medes879
"Beautiful picturesque scenery you have painted here with your words....And your last stanza summarizes it all...We see God's Divine Technology and Art set before us every day....live and in action....Beautiful birds...f…" -
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22 TueAnniversary
10 years of membership
- August 2012
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22 WedAnniversary
5 years of membership
- August 2008
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One year of membership
- October 2007
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12 Fri
- August 2007
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23 ThuFirst critique offered
on "Failure designation" by @Prototype
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23 ThuFirst publication
Darkness of mind, darkness of soul
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22 WedJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
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15 WedHighest posting month
August 2007 — 32 poems
About Me
About me
I am a passionate person when it comes to those that are closest to my heart. A wandering soul i am told, for i have this constant hungry need to learn and to seek out new topics and information on subjects that interest me. I have been writing since I was 15 and it is a bug that once it gets a hold on you, you will be hard pressed not to feel the need to write as often as you can. My kids, my Mom and the other
Memories, drops of water flowing in the ocean that is life, never miss those drops for once they have fallen and hit the ocean's surface, they are gone for all eternity and become part of the huge expanse of water, feel each drop as it starts and rejoice in each drop that joins that ocean, for it shows life, love and the purity of soul..........
Location: Gauteng, ZMB
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Sylvia Plath
Robert Frost
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Through my Father's eyes
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