Jillian Botha

Member since August 23, 2007

Member for 18 years, 9 months

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Still pondering the title - any suggestion?

Posted Sep 22, 2025 · 24 lines · 2 critiques

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

September 2025
23 Tue

Received 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…"
22 Mon

Posted a poem
Still pondering the title - any suggestion?
"Toxic is our love, all tangled and torn"
Open thread 24 lines
August 2022
22 Mon

Anniversary
15 years of membership
September 2019
12 Thu

Received 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…"
10 Tue

Posted a poem
Words.....Journey to Immortality
"Words, spoken by the mind’s eye"
Open thread 20 lines
05 Thu

New follower
@Marthalyn
05 Thu

Critiqued
"XENOPHOBIA" by @Chiori
"Ok, firstly from a purely literary point of view - this is a brilliant write - filled with fire and passion of belief in what you stand for - which is a great trait and quality. Yet, this I will say with the utmost resp…"
December 2018
16 Sun

Received a critique
on Ode of I from @IRiz
"Very good poem. I love the flow and the repetition."
15 Sat

Received a critique
on Ode of I from @zebra
"Touching beyond measure, palpable, feeling you Feebe ...Some poems are more important than poetry Some make the reader live the heart of the writer and that my dear you have done If theater you exceed; if reality may yo…"
15 Sat

Posted a poem
Ode of I
"Weary am I now"
Open thread 40 lines
July 2018
18 Wed

Received a critique
on Voiceless Souls from @lovedly
"Memories, even faint ones are like drops of water flowing into the ocean what we really call life, never miss those memorable drops for once they have fallen and merged with the ocean's surf they have submerged with ete…"
16 Mon

Received a critique
on Voiceless Souls from @IRiz
"Great cause, Feebie. So much to do and yet we have so little time and only one pair of hands."
June 2018
29 Fri

Received a critique
on Voiceless Souls from @raj
"putting others before you is a great deed and what you have done speaks a lot about your compassion. I liked your conviction "I will make them whole by the end of November" and I;m sure you would be able achieve that go…"
29 Fri

Critiqued
"Od[ious][e] to Obscenity:" by @OriginalRhyku
"Hi Rhyku, This was an interesting read. Especially loved this line - "No need to be a monastic sourpuss" - I know a few that would say otherwise in peak hour traffic around here LOL. The freedom to swear like a trooper…"
29 Fri

Critiqued
"A Muse In the Park" by @gregwa8
"Hi Greg, A well written choreography of words that dance as you read them. Whimsical and fun. Thank you for sharing. Yours in Script Feebie"
29 Fri

Posted a poem
Voiceless Souls
"Ode to the brave little souls"
Open thread 36 lines
28 Thu

Received a critique
on Dear me that was - June Contest entry from @raj
"good edits Feebie... all the best for the contest... ..............................................................................."
28 Thu

Critiqued
"The Bearded" by @gregwa8
"Hi Greg, A fun, light read - thank you for that - and gave me a much needed smile so early in the morning after a pretty scary night. Loved the bit about "getting prickly when she with hold kisses".....I remember doing…"
28 Thu

Critiqued
"Dear Grammar Teacher [Epistle]" by @raj
"I loved the rhyme and that subtle sense of fun you brought to this Raj, I wonder what "Miss Hitler" would make of your note to her - I am certain of one thing though - she would and should be proud of the writer / poet…"
28 Thu

Posted a poem
Dear me that was - June Contest entry
"Let me start….by smacking you upside the head"
Open thread 30 lines
26 Tue

Critiqued
"Hang Me" by @chevyvent
"Hi Chevy, Firstly, thank you for sharing. Though it took me a while and a number of reads to find my flow that I look for in any poem I read - I must say this is different. Well done on that. Though - I think I have mis…"
26 Tue

Critiqued
"TO NSONGURUA (June Contest)" by @Drey Hommies
"Hi Hommies, I felt this was an interesting read - not being familiar myself with the Epistle format that this contest calls for I cannot quite critique that. However - the breaking up of the story being told here was ac…"
26 Tue

Critiqued
" The Crying Man " by @Eumolpus
"Hi Eumolpus, I read. I read again. Processed. Read once more. From a totally clinical side:- you definitely got the rhythm and rhym down pat in my humble opinion. As I read, the words just flowed through so perfectly fo…"
25 Mon

Posted a poem
Brother Mine
"You snuffed that God given gift of flame"
Open thread 36 lines
August 2017
22 Tue

Anniversary
10 years of membership
October 2014
11 Sat

Posted a poem
Soulless insurgence
"By the light of the waning moon"
Open thread 41 lines
July 2013
11 Thu

Posted a poem
Through my Father's eyes
"In my father's eyes I was someone"
Open thread 24 lines
August 2012
22 Wed

Anniversary
5 years of membership
March 2012
12 Mon

Posted a poem
Trinity
"A tribute to trinity"
Open thread 20 lines
April 2011
20 Wed

New follower
@Hooded Stranger
20 Wed

Posted a poem
Tears of the angels
"The tears of angels rain upon you"
Open thread 28 lines
19 Tue

Posted a poem
One last glimpse
"Flowers for the dead, red as the blood you spilled,"
Open thread 24 lines
19 Tue

Posted a poem
Elemental Chemistry
"Forces of nature, that’s what we are, you and I"
Open thread 24 lines
August 2008
22 Fri

Anniversary
One year of membership
October 2007
12 Fri

Most-discussed work
Unspoken regret

17 critiques to date.
August 2007
23 Thu

First critique offered
on "Failure designation" by @Prototype
23 Thu

First publication
Darkness of mind, darkness of soul
22 Wed

Joined Neopoet
Membership begins

First poem published 1 days later.
15 Wed

Highest 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

Favorite Poets

Sylvia Plath

Robert Frost

Contest Wins

This member has not yet won any contests.

on Still pondering the title - any suggestion? from @Geezer

15 years of membership

on Words.....Journey to Immortality from @medes879

"XENOPHOBIA" by @Chiori

on Ode of I from @IRiz

on Ode of I from @zebra

on Voiceless Souls from @lovedly

on Voiceless Souls from @IRiz

on Voiceless Souls from @raj

"Od[ious][e] to Obscenity:" by @OriginalRhyku

"A Muse In the Park" by @gregwa8

on Dear me that was - June Contest entry from @raj

"The Bearded" by @gregwa8

"Dear Grammar Teacher [Epistle]" by @raj

"Hang Me" by @chevyvent

"TO NSONGURUA (June Contest)" by @Drey Hommies

" The Crying Man " by @Eumolpus

10 years of membership

5 years of membership

One year of membership

on "Failure designation" by @Prototype

Membership begins

August 2007 — 32 poems

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