Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Friday, June 5, 2015

The Winter Trees

By Arnia Kiara Oosthuizen

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words"- Robert Frost

An amazing friend of mine gave me, The Poet's Sphere, a poetry book. What an amazing gift! And since it is Winter here in South-Africa and we are freezing I found a poem about Winter.

In the woods near the university.


The Winter Trees


Against the evening sky the trees are black,
Iron themselves against the iron rails;

The hurrying crowds seek cinemas or homes,
A cozy hour where warmth will mock the wind.
They do not look at trees now summer's gone, 
For fallen with their leaves are those glad days
Of sand and sea and ships, of swallows, lambs,
Of cricket teams, and walking long in woods.

Standing among the trees, a shadow bends
And picks a cigarette-end from the ground;
It lifts the collar of an overcoat,
And blows upon its hand and stamps its feet-
For this winter, chastiser of the free,
This is winter, kind only to the bound.

CLIFFORD DYMENT

I love poetry because it awakens feelings and emotion within you, just by using words. I hope you have a warm winter's day or a nice summer's day, wherever you are.

With love xx

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Romance was murdered

By Arnia Kiara Oosthuizen

News just in: Romance was murdered this morning when he was getting off the high-way. One-night-stand, laziness and Alcohol shot him through the window. He was trying to make his way to Effort and Time (his family). The people responsible have not been caught yet. It is a sad time for all the single people out there. His funeral will take place on the 14th of February.

Or could the loss of Romance be blamed on Cupid, because he is always drunk? And forgot all about his duties? Like protecting Romance, Time and Effort? He will be taken in for questioning for failing to do his duties and also for FUI (Flying Under the Influence).


Romance was totally murdered. Maybe, it's the era that we're living in or maybe it's the phase of our lives, which we're in? I have no idea, but where are the flowers, the going on dates, the getting to know one another, the excitement when the person messages you, the late-night phone calls?
Because I have not experienced it! Maybe it is an ideal that is painted by movies, but I don't want to believe it.

The other night when I was out with friends, a guy came up to me and asked for a dance. During this dance, I accidentally stepped his toe. He then demanded that I give him my number, to make up for his sore toe...

No, sonny boy! If you made the effort to talk to me, then maybe you would've gotten my number. I tried to make conversation, but all I got was shrugs... Maybe if you took the time to even ask my name, I would've wanted to talk to you. I should've stepped on your other toe, as well. Too bad I didn't.

I am not saying that guys alone should do all the effort, girls should also take time and put effort into relationships. I truly believe in equality. Guys and girls should pay for dates. Guys and girls should really put effort into relationships. But where has that effort gone??? Maybe murdered along with romance. Or maybe Cupid tripped and fell on effort and he is suffering from brain damage and Cupid refuses to do anything about it...

Whatever it may be: I will find someone who will try to bring back the romance, effort and time to get to know me. Maybe this person will put Cupid in rehab and get him sobered up, so he can continue to do his duties.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Day 2: My 5 most favourite words

By Arnia Kiara Oosthuizen

So, like I said, I joined the #WritersBootcampZA. Every day, for the month of July, we have to follow the task given and write a blog post about it. Day 2's challenge is to write about your 5 most favorite words. So here goes:

  1. LOVE: I love love! To me it resembles all things beautiful: passion, integrity, appreciation. Love also means that you know the faults of the thing/person which you love and yet still choose to love them/it.
  2. HAPPINESS: Happiness is my life motto and it is the conscience choice that I make every single moment of every single day. No one is going to make you happy, except you! Happiness is an inside job!
  3. MEDIA: I am a lover of all things media: Social-media, Mass-media, Ora-media... You name it and I love it. I love to spend my days on anything media-ish!
  4. WATER: Yes, water. Why? Because it takes away the thirst, it gives life to plants and all living things. It resembles calmness and all things relaxing. 
  5. CHOICE: One always has a choice. Nobody determines your course in life, except you. Yes, people can persuade you, but the choice is still yours! 

This is my 5 favorite words and they have much more meaning to me than these small explanations! Join the #WritersBootcampZA, there is still time!

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Power of words

By Arnia Kiara Oosthuizen

The power of words are amazing.

Quote in a coffee shop
The reason why I say that words are amazing is because of the power it has.
The other day, I had an interview to work at the Aardklop Music Festival, here in South-Africa. It wasn't really an interview because the people already know me, so we just started talking about random things. The discussion ended up with the power of words.

The manager said that words can either get you this job or it cannot. That got me thinking about the power of words.

The way how they can cut like knives. The way they can make your day.

Words can start a relationship. Words can end it. Words can start a war or end it.

I have always loved words and the way how you can make art with them and how you can write magic in the form of a book. I, myself, could never really find the right words to say or write to make magic, but I really love reading and how every author has his own voice and his own magic in his books, but still using the same words. I love reading poems, where the words have so many meanings. MAGIC!

But words can also cut like knives and somehow you never quite forget the knives that stabbed you. I still remember how people bullied me in primary school, which is quite a few years ago. I still remember how people said mean things to me in high school and also at university.

Lately, I needed a lot of inspiration to get me through my studies because it got quite tough with studies and the picture above, which I took in the coffee shop, gave me the needed inspiration to keep on going. Yes, these words inspired me to STOP GIVING UP!!!!!


Go and watch this video on Youtube, because it perfectly describes what I mean in a song!!!

We should be careful with what we say because it has so much power. We should rather try to make magic with our words and make it art, instead of hurting people.