Dichotomy of Man

    Originally inspired by the poem Monster   Feathers and claws scrabble in the dark.   The sun is a warm distraction but I am blind to my heaven and words hit a dark wall, erected by the king.   I close my eyes And the words spring…   my soul drags itself from beneath the pot of

Stealing People?

  To ‘steal another woman’s man’… The phrase is old and unreliable it reeks of guilty blame and shying away from responsibility.   Stealing; a concept seen cleanly when speaking of chocolate and cheap jewellry. Woman; a word associated with shame.   The guilty party is not the stolen nor the thief but the water

From Man To Woman

From Man to Woman                                                 Arna Baartz *2006   Beautiful and kind heart open wide like womb or time, soft edges undefined. Man is here wants to be loved we see…..to exist is all. Making the rough the tough spearhead, the phallic reaching, mother womb fertile fields a sad man’s tomb. A question soft and true;