South African Poetry Girl
There are only 3 choices in love: freedom, or madness, or death. If you cannot be free and you dare not face death you must go mad. And do you know what happens to a woman who goes mad? Internal combustion. She burns. That's what happens. She burns. ~Andre Brink~
Afrikaans sentence of the day:
Môre is ‘n nasionale vakansiedag, niemand hoef te werk nie.
Tomorrow is a national holiday, nobody has to work.
sonder begin of einde
herhaal ek jou liggaam
Die dag het ’n smal skadu
en die nag geel kruise
die landskap is sonder aansien
en die mense ’n ry kerse
terwyl ek jou herhaal
met my borste
wat die holtes van jou hand namaak"
Enter this short story competition for children and young adults if you live in South Africa!
Random House Struik is running a children’s and young adult short story competition, with James Patterson as their inspiration.
Patterson, who is passionate about encouraging children to read, writes a range of books for young readers. He was voted Author of the Year in 2010 at the Children’s Choice Book Awards in New York.Children and young adults living in South Africa can win R5 000 and books for their school library to the value of R10 000.
There are two categories - one for children between the ages of 9 and 12, and another for young adults between the ages of 13 and 17.
The deadline is 31 March 2013.
Visit this link to enter
Lolita — Joli Garcon (Ron Bon Beat Edit)
+ Lyrics:
Moi, je l’ai vu, mais c’est la vie. Il m’a pas connue, je n’ai pas cru
Hier j’ai rêvé qu’il m’a touchée. Avant-hier il a dansé avec moi
Oh mes rêves, oh mes rêves!Joli garcon, aime moi. Ne dit pas, au revoir
On peut dire qu’il se moque de moi. J’ai une envie folle de toi
On peut dire je souffre comme ca. J’aimerais bien t’embrasser
Mon cheri, ne bise pas l’autre filleLyrics - translated:: [Pretty Boy]
I saw him, but that’s how it goes. I didn’t know me, I didn’t believe
Yesterday I dreamt he touched me. The day before, he dansed with me
Oh my dreams, oh my dreams!Pretty-boy, love me. Don’t say goodbye
One can say that he doesn’t care about me
I crave you. One can say, I suffer like this
I would like to kiss you. Honey, don’t kiss the other girl.
