Poems Rethabile Likes

On Friday Night With The Mood Up by Rethabile Masilo | Poems Rethabile Likes On Friday Night With The Mood Up by Rethabile Masilo despite promises to my wife and children, and yoga classes in China Town once a week, I walk into the shop, my breath rank with wine, for a pack of Camels. I slap cash onto the counter to the beat of music in my head, pick up the goods and the change, and let myself back into my world again, the sound of the city in the air. I don't care that the tobacconist's hoary wife holds my hundred up against the light, or that this place has left, among us who come here for work or lo...

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver | Poems Rethabile Likes Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, n...