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My Heart Bleeds

12/09/201912/09/2019 ShelleyPoetry, Reflecting Inward, Uncategorized

One is too many.

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Sitting On Hope

16/10/201624/02/2017 Shelley (thedealis)Freedom, Poetry

Hope for a future to realise Hope for a joy surpassing our mortal minds Hope that our streets may be filled with laughter Hope that the young shall shed no tears

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A People Lost

04/03/201602/02/2017 Shelley (thedealis)Freedom, Poetry

A People lost
With all the time
But no space

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Pacifiers

18/02/201602/02/2017 Shelley (thedealis)Community, Opinion

This week’s tandem topic is “Pacifiers”. This is an opinion piece for me simply because I’m agitated by the agitation. Again, this is not intended to offend anyone, person or group. It is merely my opinion.

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The Young and the Restless

12/11/201502/02/2017 Shelley (thedealis)Community

“Change in a South African context has always come about with the assistance of students. Student uprisings are part of the South African historic quilt (and what a colourful quilt we have).”

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Freedom in Bondage

27/04/201502/02/2017 Shelley (thedealis)Community, Opinion

Freedom, in my mind, is being unshackled by slavery.   Being unfettered by limitation.  Deliverance and emancipation from oppression. South Africa is deemed free as a nation.  But are we truly free? We have children running wild.  Waving guns.  Starved. […]

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All Rhodes Lead To…?

10/04/201502/02/2017 Shelley (thedealis)Community, Opinion

So…Cecil John Rhodes…The name on the lips of almost every South African.  The man whose image I never would’ve thought to defend.  Yet, here I am.  But not for his sake, but ours. We live in a country so rich […]

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