This Dust Storm by Ayesha Kajee

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] This Dust Storm(for the women who write and those who fight, despite, despite) You huffed and you puffedand you blew our home astrayTill the veil fell, I bore the blind one’s buffunseen, joy and loss alike swept...

Loadshedding at Mouille Point by Ayesha Kajee

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] This fragile citysandwichedbetween mighty oceanand louring mountainfeels more frangible stillas thick dark descendsshrouding the artificial daywith which we veil our nightsand our night-fearschildlike Venturing deeperplunging into and throughthis oddly agreeable shroudI emerge near the dormant lighthouseemergency light...

Cornucopia by Ayesha Kajee

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] When do the things we consumebecome the things that consume us?When shopping sprees filled with gleefunded by theft and larcenyAllow orgies and feeding frenziesto stuff ears and brains and belliesWhen we consume gossip and calumny:gorge on the...

Winter’s Final Touch by Ayesha Kajee

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] The first Frost began many seasons agoYou belittled my win at a silly gameI wondered if you were truly upsetBy such a trivialityA tiny shard of ice cooled the flame in my breastAnd I began to be...

Dragon Breath by Ayesha Kajee

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] In his eyesTourmaline eyesI read promisesof universes unexploredMagical mystery toursMacchu Picchu for the soulBeckoningPromising escapeOblivion from greigeIn MythicTechnicolour So I spreadDream idyllsbefore him like pearlsWrap him inSupercalifragilistic fantasyDeceiving myselfBelieving in theTourmalinesEven as he steps not lightlyon dreams...