A Time to Calm Down

Annora Eksteen

92 Poems (2006–2025)

1. A beautiful death

2. A cottage in a cold place

3. A last song for breytie

4. A London wish

5. A morning at the Great River

6. A rocking boat and a rocking chair

7. Because his world lies wide in me

8. Being of another time

9. Blow on blow on

10. Broken

11. But did I not see the view

12. But I have a wonderful muse, who helped me to remember

13. But I walked away again

14. Daybreak Dance (Paintings with flowers)

15. Dear Kitty: I'm in sorrow about your Anne

16. Deep in the dungeons

17. December with highveld rain

18. Elvin thief of the night

19. First night

20. Flower dreamer

21. For goodness sake woman, pull yourself together

22. Freedom

23. Friday and the tick of my clock

24. From my transparent home, I can now see: the lighthouse 

25. From my window … the sea

26. Hand work

27. Heads together in space

28. It is now in the past

29. Impressions: Then. Now

30. Invisible traveller

31. In 2017, on the first of September, when I remembered, I died

32. In a night without rain

33. In the end, my dad

34. In Pretoria East Cemetery

35. I crossed the roads of many people

36. I don't have work (a covid year)

37. I loved her … my Meg of the lochs and hills

38. I play my flute

39. I talk to my dad

40. I think of my protecting angel, Agathe

41. Jacaranda blossoms

42. January’s highveld rain

43. Light as a feather

44. Like this, I love

45. Lila

46. Live in light

47. Midnight ballad blues

48. My dad and the flea man

49. My dad suffered in his long ending

50. My poet dad

51. My grave epitaph

52. My moon

53. My name is Ana Wind Nymph

54. Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and I suffer from that stress

55. Oh dear

56. Old blue gnome

57. Old taps are beautiful

58. One dozen, please

59. One evening at a music scholarship competition

60. Pa and the lilies of Stellenbosch

61. Panic, fear

62. Red poppies blowing in the wind

63. Reflections: A mammogram 

64. Reflections: A diagnosis

65. Reflections: My left breast mastectomy

66. Reflections: Sentinel lymph node biopsy

67. Reflections: A short while of chemotherapy

68. She who walked with the Karoo moon

69. Shells in my hand

70. Sigh

71. Silence and love

72. Skylark

73. Soothing song for summer

74. So when did we meet

75. The day my grandmother died

76. The essence of a water nymph

77. The silence or the word

78. The sun upon Elsieskraal

79. Thandi: be happy beloved Zulu girl

80. There where you were

81. These tasks I have to do are worth it

82. The wind will blow away our fear

83. Time takes care of loss

84. To build a transparent home

85. Water music

86. Walking and thinking about my dad

87. We are in our bodies

88. What a diamond she is!

89. When I had no work in 2020

90. When the words come

91. With kindness always