Maybe one day ... I will be the stone
maybe one day all the words that I have read silently moulded in my head stunned with spectre and speculation and all life’s experiences...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Apr 19
- 1 min
A quiet ache in the solitary darkness of a poet's soul
There is a quiet ache in the solitary darkness of a poet’s soul, which is unfathomable for many, but an unsuspected treasure at the same...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Mother Earth - the Middle of the Middle of All
Mother Earth has many faces. But unfortunately, our relationship with her has settled into a pattern of conscious and unconscious...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Apr 16
- 2 min
The trees are our mothers
Several years ago, we moved to an Olive Farm in the Karoo. So it is no coincidence that a vast, beautiful ash tree grows in our backyard....
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Apr 15
- 1 min
Our True Nature
Our true nature encompasses our limited self-absorbed ego. It is an infinite ocean, all-embracing and elusive as space. The human (ego)...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Apr 14
- 1 min
The Human shadow
Poetry and art channel fierceness as a force of beauty, vitality and meaning. The creative fire transforms the human shadow and suffering...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Apr 11
- 1 min
The Art of Poetic Living
The art of poetic living is like an agave tree. First, it shoots one long branch towards the sky. It then slowly collapses to one side,...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Apr 3
- 2 min
SILVERING
Louisa Punt-Fouche is a South-African author, poet and artist, intellectual mystic, scholar of the evolution of consciousness, clinical...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Apr 2
- 1 min
Prometheus
With flame in hand, the creative fire, Prometheus, had burnt down my house many times with me inside. It seemed impossible to live...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Mar 29
- 2 min
The Mountain Sage observes the play of shadow and light dancing on earth
“There is always somebody that knows, while you think you are hiding.” The sages that have informed my writing, poetry, musings, stories,...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Mar 28
- 1 min
Silvering- an anthology of poetry - released March 2023
There is a quiet ache in the solitary darkness of a poet’s soul, which is unfathomable for many, but an unsuspected treasure at the same...
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Louisa Punt-Fouche
- Aug 3, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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