The agapanthus at the edge of death
The summer garden is bursting with blooming agapanthus (African Blue Lilies), with their umbels of showy lilac and blue and purple...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Aug 3
- 1 min
The Silver Shadow
The silver shadow in my breath is a foreshadow of my death. I know, I accept, I cry, I die. I long to rest inside a flower. With my...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Aug 3
- 1 min
Voices from beyond ( tanka)
spirits sing in her ear the earth is so near, so near the fire in your spine a spiral in the sublime shimmering the light divine
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Aug 3
- 1 min
My feathered friend – lightly little bird, lightly
( Dedicated to all my feathered friends, who chose to live between the earth and the sky, open to the ultimate Socratic question, why? –...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Jul 28
- 1 min
Become the liquid light
Sunset at Kredouw Olive Estate. So beautiful, so inspirational. "She feels that the world has forgotten her and that she has forgotten...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Jul 7
- 1 min
The Heart Sutra in Buddhism
Heart is thy nature Look with the light of the moon and the stars Look with the light of prescience and be clever It takes courage to see...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Jul 5
- 1 min
What I yearn for cannot be expressed
“It is dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly… There are quicksands all about you,...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Jul 3
- 1 min
"A Bright Affair"
( A quote and a poem, celebrating the book, Carrying Sand to the river on the Seed-symbol of the Self in a forever changing world) We...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Jul 3
- 1 min
Carrying Sand to the River - just released
It has taken me almost 40 years to dare to write a book about the phenomenon of the mandala. The experience of the living mandala in all...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Jul 3
- 1 min
Alloy of Loss and Beauty
This morning it is raining in the dry Karoo. During the quiet night hours, I heard the gutters gurgling in between the plinking of lazy...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Jul 3
- 1 min
Oh, I saw her face...!
Life becomes a study of images, sounds, textures, nuances, the world around you and in exposure, it becomes a delicate exploration of the...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Jul 3
- 1 min
The marriage of the sky and the olive trees
The olive trees at night never cry, nestling under the sky that never falls. They speak each other’s name and exchange blue-pink light in...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Jul 3
- 1 min
A moment more real, than real life
“And let the cloak of life cling to your bones Cling to your bones Wake up, wake up” Murray Gold ( in Dr Who) when the sun brushes the...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Jan 7
- 1 min
The Little Gold in you
“… and may a humble love army of engoldened midwife-warriors rise up in sacred action to redeem humanity” ( Andrew Harvey) We are already...
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