Manuela Cardiga's Blog, page 65
July 14, 2014
WORD SALAD WITH A MODENA VINEGAR DRESSING AND OLIVE OIL OF THE FIRST PRESSING
I am waiting
Waiting to unfold
Unbend
Stop
The pretend
I am waiting
Waiting to be bold
Take hold
Of the moment
Take or Lose control
I am waiting
Waiting to discover
Unfold
Unbend
Be bold
Take hold
And maybe,
May be
Be a lover.
Manuela Cardiga
Waiting to unfold
Unbend
Stop
The pretend
I am waiting
Waiting to be bold
Take hold
Of the moment
Take or Lose control
I am waiting
Waiting to discover
Unfold
Unbend
Be bold
Take hold
And maybe,
May be
Be a lover.
Manuela Cardiga
EK PRAAT DIE TAAL
Môre, Meneer,
Liefste Mevrou:
I'm a good honest girl,
And a clean living "vrou"
I ain't got nothing
Interesting in my bed,
As a matter of fact
My "suikerbos"
Is dead...
I don't "vreet wors"
I don't "praat" flirty
And I'd never ever
Do nothing dirty;
But see, "die volk"
Must procreate,
So even though
I really hate
This whole
Sex thing?
I close my eyes
Breathe real deep
And scream:
"For Sarie Marais,
Van Riebeck and all
Come on Koos!
Lets have a ball!"
Manuela Cardiga
Liefste Mevrou:
I'm a good honest girl,
And a clean living "vrou"
I ain't got nothing
Interesting in my bed,
As a matter of fact
My "suikerbos"
Is dead...
I don't "vreet wors"
I don't "praat" flirty
And I'd never ever
Do nothing dirty;
But see, "die volk"
Must procreate,
So even though
I really hate
This whole
Sex thing?
I close my eyes
Breathe real deep
And scream:
"For Sarie Marais,
Van Riebeck and all
Come on Koos!
Lets have a ball!"
Manuela Cardiga
AFRICAN MYTH IN A CITY STREET
The Ratel
Followed
Oh followed
The Honey-bird
Oh Follow Follow
(the fluttering word)
The Ratel
Devouring the world
Ravening hunger
For poison:
Oh words of poison
And all that's
Absurd.
Oh Follow Follow
(the fluttering word)
The Ratel
Raising it's
Iron claws
Oh the thorns
And the stings
And the pain
Of the bees...
Oh Follow Follow
(the fluttering word)
The Ratel
Raising it's
Pleading claws
I think, I drink, I eat
The flesh of doubt
I'll suckle on honey
And tear the stings out.
Oh Follow Follow
(the fluttering word)
The proffered
Love-song
Of the Honey-bird.
Manuela Cardiga
Followed
Oh followed
The Honey-bird
Oh Follow Follow
(the fluttering word)
The Ratel
Devouring the world
Ravening hunger
For poison:
Oh words of poison
And all that's
Absurd.
Oh Follow Follow
(the fluttering word)
The Ratel
Raising it's
Iron claws
Oh the thorns
And the stings
And the pain
Of the bees...
Oh Follow Follow
(the fluttering word)
The Ratel
Raising it's
Pleading claws
I think, I drink, I eat
The flesh of doubt
I'll suckle on honey
And tear the stings out.
Oh Follow Follow
(the fluttering word)
The proffered
Love-song
Of the Honey-bird.
Manuela Cardiga
Part II of the ZOMBIE TRILOGY: ZOMBIE LOVE SONG
I will not reject
Nor regret love,
Be it irrational
Or sudden,
I will not hide it
Nor fear it;
And if I stumble,
I stumble.
I will not place blame
On the resurrecting flame;
I will embrace it,
And welcome
The evidence
That I, for one,
Am not dead:
That this cadaver
Still has breath.
Manuela Cardiga
Nor regret love,
Be it irrational
Or sudden,
I will not hide it
Nor fear it;
And if I stumble,
I stumble.
I will not place blame
On the resurrecting flame;
I will embrace it,
And welcome
The evidence
That I, for one,
Am not dead:
That this cadaver
Still has breath.
Manuela Cardiga
SELLING ROMANCE AT THE CAFFÉ OF "LAST CHANCE"
Flirt with a glance:
Give love to life
And life to love;
And breath
To no-regret,
Cause tomorrow
You may just
Be dead.
Manuela Cardiga
Give love to life
And life to love;
And breath
To no-regret,
Cause tomorrow
You may just
Be dead.
Manuela Cardiga
July 13, 2014
SANCTIMONY PATRIMONY ALIMONY
I want a fool
Just like the fool
That married my Ma
(and I don't mean
My Pa!)
I mean a cool
Investment tool...
You know, the kinda
Guy who leaves
You with smile
When you finally
Get him to say
"Goodbye"
What do you mean?
Earn my own life?
Break my nails?
Risk the strife
Of daily work life?
DARLING!!!
Don't be such
A sanctimonious bitch!
I done my bit!
I married RICH,
I'm now looking
For Number Two,
And I'm trying
To teach silly you
To do it too!
Manuela Cardiga
Just like the fool
That married my Ma
(and I don't mean
My Pa!)
I mean a cool
Investment tool...
You know, the kinda
Guy who leaves
You with smile
When you finally
Get him to say
"Goodbye"
What do you mean?
Earn my own life?
Break my nails?
Risk the strife
Of daily work life?
DARLING!!!
Don't be such
A sanctimonious bitch!
I done my bit!
I married RICH,
I'm now looking
For Number Two,
And I'm trying
To teach silly you
To do it too!
Manuela Cardiga
TO POETS: TO MAKE THE MOST OF RHYME
God did not gift us to whisper seduction
But to scream from the rooftops
Words of discomfort:
Make them laugh,
Make them wince,
BUT LET'S MAKE THEM THINK!
Manuela Cardiga
But to scream from the rooftops
Words of discomfort:
Make them laugh,
Make them wince,
BUT LET'S MAKE THEM THINK!
Manuela Cardiga
ZOMBIES IN LOVE
I want to crack open
The safe of bone
Where you use
Your intellect
To hone Your passion:
Fashion desires,
Theories And rhymes.
I want to run
My avid tongue
Over the tremulous
Convolutions of
Your cerebellum:
Leave it pink
And sweet;
Slick-shinning
With my spit.
Manuela Cardiga
The safe of bone
Where you use
Your intellect
To hone Your passion:
Fashion desires,
Theories And rhymes.
I want to run
My avid tongue
Over the tremulous
Convolutions of
Your cerebellum:
Leave it pink
And sweet;
Slick-shinning
With my spit.
Manuela Cardiga
EROTIC CAPITAL - A Tribute to Catherine Hakim
"Steady on those heels!"
The Sargent screamed
"TITS OUT!
Stomach in!
Wiggle those hips
Show me some skin!"
"This here is
REAL LIFE
Not one of
Your stupid
Little girl dreams!
So you bitches
Thought an IQ
Was enough?
Forget it girls,
This world is
TOUGH!"
«"You Grandmother
Picketed Capitol Hill
Burned her bra
Screamed for the Pill?
Read a Woman's Room
The Female Eunuch
And that made her cool?"
"Well gals, let me
Tell you-all the truth!
The New Rule
Is the same
As the OLD RULE!
You want to get ahead?
You gotta make men drool!"
"It's not enough that
You can out-think, out-work
Or out-drink the stupid dicks,
You got to entertain...
And I font mean
With your brain."
"You gotta tint
Those nipples
And pout those lips!
And on that note...
Dismiss!"
"Go shave your legs
And don't even think
To miss ONE SPOT
I don't take slop
In my Company!
You all be back
At OH-eight hundred,
Captain Divine
Will give us some tips
On how to use
Those lips
To get a-head.
YES! Number One
That was a pun!
I'm still a woman,
Sensitive and fun!
So get on the phone
And practice
A husky tone...
Its time to enrol
In the Erotic Capital
Patrol!"
Manuela Cardiga
The Sargent screamed
"TITS OUT!
Stomach in!
Wiggle those hips
Show me some skin!"
"This here is
REAL LIFE
Not one of
Your stupid
Little girl dreams!
So you bitches
Thought an IQ
Was enough?
Forget it girls,
This world is
TOUGH!"
«"You Grandmother
Picketed Capitol Hill
Burned her bra
Screamed for the Pill?
Read a Woman's Room
The Female Eunuch
And that made her cool?"
"Well gals, let me
Tell you-all the truth!
The New Rule
Is the same
As the OLD RULE!
You want to get ahead?
You gotta make men drool!"
"It's not enough that
You can out-think, out-work
Or out-drink the stupid dicks,
You got to entertain...
And I font mean
With your brain."
"You gotta tint
Those nipples
And pout those lips!
And on that note...
Dismiss!"
"Go shave your legs
And don't even think
To miss ONE SPOT
I don't take slop
In my Company!
You all be back
At OH-eight hundred,
Captain Divine
Will give us some tips
On how to use
Those lips
To get a-head.
YES! Number One
That was a pun!
I'm still a woman,
Sensitive and fun!
So get on the phone
And practice
A husky tone...
Its time to enrol
In the Erotic Capital
Patrol!"
Manuela Cardiga
