Multicoloured leaves along the street in a hill
Wood soaked and sweetened by the rain falling
Merciful water dripping onto quiet pavements
Dribbling slippery down the tarred thirsty road
A neutral sky where the air harbours no pressure
The rooftops and local windows leaking domestic
An uninspired dog lays heavy by an entrance hall
When there is nothing to do is there nothing to do
Flattened tired carpets still pretend to be luxury
Inside wooden walls of the same old thing again
Sometimes the coffee steaming will hold comfort
One of those days without a name to label it by
Forgotten picture frames capture some yesterdays
Glossy managed smiles and gestures from parties
The trolls and magnets and broken love messages
Settled into grown up life and ways of escaping it
The stale kitchen mood meets a crisp autumn air
Spring long dead visits the city to play some tricks
Sunlight so mild giving agonizingly little warmth
To feed the endless day ahead and years of ordinary.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
But in this place there is no history lesson to learn. Only your poetry. Your blog for me is a bit like that book I open every now and then to travel away to a word of joy. Thank you again! Ad x
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Your words…your thoughts speak volumes.
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Fantastic news dear Stormie. Thank you. How I love painting with words. 🙂
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🌹:)
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You paint beautifully Nomzi.
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Who knew? 😀 Thank you. I hope you are enjoying a lovely week. They really do fly by. Something to do with having fun I think. I remember back at school how a history lesson would seem like eternity. And double history, my goodness. 😀
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Thank you Nomzi. I love autumn and your poem describes with such insight and rich imagery those feelings and melancholy I sense when autumn is approaching. Inside Autumn it is just one great beautiful piece.
It’s just beautiful. Thanks. Adrian
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Thank you very much for the generous words and for taking the time.
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I have not been generous, your work is inspiring. I look forward to reading more of your poems!
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Hello Nomzi – this is my first time on your site. I very much enjoyed your autumn poem and the fresh imagery you use to create a vivid scene in my mind’s eye.
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Hello Annette, thank you so much for taking time out to visit and share such kind and positive words. I really appreciate that. 🙂
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You’ve captured the joy and melancholy of autumn (and life).
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Thank you Ladyfi. You are so right. Bittersweet. 🙂
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Reblogged this on Tish Farrell and commented:
Inside Autumn by Nomzi Kumalo
Please take joy in the work of this wonderful poet
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Oh Tish, simply marvelous news. Thank you so much dear and have a fabulous autumn. 🙂
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such evocative words, Nomzi; every line conjures a scene, and every scene resonates in its own particular way – ‘merciful water’ , ‘flattened tired carpets’ ‘a neutral sky’ – so many images that open out into bigger vistas that we experience in all our senses…
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Oh Tish, how fabulous it is to be appreciated this way for my work. What a lovely surprise and gift. A beautiful autumn weekend treasure. So encouraging. Thank you. I hope you are having a lovely weekend too. 🙂
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