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Afzal lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He writes for pleasure.
afzaljhb@gmail.com
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Afzal Moolla
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- With apologies to Robert Zimmerman
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- Our shared Strands
- Hope Redeems.
- my lifetime of lies …
- my confession …
- Racism + Silence = Complicity …
- the parallel lines of love …
- love and silence …
- accepting blame – i know that you cannot forgive me …
- The Traveller and the Baobab Tree …
- The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation Today – Looking back in Time to Hiroshima and Nagasaki – August 1945
- would you walk with me?
- Racism is Binary …
- for Ché – the wind carries his name …
- the swaying of the grass …
- She Walks Alone …
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Beautiful. It brought a tear to my eyes.
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Thank you my dearest brother Ro! Been far too long, man! Love to all and I’ll email you soon
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Thanks for sharing
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thank you all the more.
Peace ✌
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Great Intro!
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thank you very much. deeply appreciated.
warmest wishes.
peace ✌
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Welcome..Do check my posts too and share your views 🙂
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Thank you and shall share my views. I do see you amazing posts.
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thanks..awaiting your feedbacks..!
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thank you friend
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🙂
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Bread Crumbs to Your Door
Thanks for visiting Source of Inspiration and leaving breadcrumbs to your beautiful and interesting blog. I have been a consistent admirer of Mandel and his group. How interesting to read about your family’s experience with the whole apartheid horror. Then I read some of your poetry and was awed by your ability to capture the rawness of life in so few, poignant and well-placed words. I don’t read other people’s blogs very often but yours will be on my list. I need to retire from retirement but my life always seems to be in fast-forward as life delights and intrigues me, even the rough places. hugs, pat
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My dear friend Pat, it is my pleasure to read your words and visit your blog. Your kind words about reading my blog are so very deeply heartwarming and touch me deeply. life certainly does seem to be in fast-forward 🤗 and yes yes yes – even the rough places. Hugs to you, Afzal
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You have an impressive blog!
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many thanks – deeply appreciate your kind words
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Yo, bro
Check in fer yer new Liebster — do yer doody 🙂
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Happiest of New year’s to you
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i just nominated you for the liebster award c: https://quiyetisfreakingawesome.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/liebster-award/
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thanks for following our crazy carnival!
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and thank you too !
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First off, thanks for visiting my blog often (Dont Label My Kid!)
Next I am too black and white my wife says but I don’t know any other way to say it. I hate poetry, I hate rhyme and anything that requires me to think too hard. I don’t even care for the word poetry itself. I suppose there may be a bit of jealousy there..lol – As a matter of fact I am sure of it. writing is appreciated by many I guess, but very limited.
The reason I say this is you are the first one to hold my attention long enough to maybe want to learn and read more. It is 100% your awesome first impression that pulled me in here. You have mastered more than words. The first impression is so crisp and so inviting. I love everything about your blog set up and just because of that you may have started a conversion experience for me! I am going to peek in now and then and see whats up. You may have saved me..lol
I do love your setup. I get the feeling that there may be much more to the man then you allow us but Ill figure it out…haha
tj
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I am (for once lol speechless) … words would be far too meagre to express how heartwarming and inspiring your sentiments are felt this side. that you have taken precious time to write to me is humbling indeed, and I say this with both a deep sense of humility and honesty. there are so many facets to the written word that dislike of a particular form (eg: poetry) is something even members of my dear family share lol! that we are and have connected through words is wonderful enough and your blog is a wondrous place to visit and to read your pieces. I often ‘like’ pieces and then read them, which I know may seem a bit unhinged of me, but no one yet has accused me of being hinged LOL. thank you once again, new friend, for your sentiments that have truly touched and moved me deeply. it is always indescribably heartwarming and inspiring to know that my scribbles have touched another human being. thank you! kea leboga and siyabonga!
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ps: will definitely be visiting all the pieces I’ve ‘liked’ on your blog, my friend. thank you again.
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I must say I love the flow of your writing it sings to me as I read! You have a way of getting right to the heart of the matter and bringing your readers along with you, it really is a most poetic and beautiful thing! 🙂
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Oh thank you ever so much for your very kind and humbling sentiments. It means a lot to me that my words touch you and for that I am both humbled and inspired to keep my pen dipped in the ink-pot. Thank you once more for your generous words of encouragement, my friend. Have a peaceful and gentle weekend and warmest wishes from South Africa! Thank you. Truly.
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Lovely heartfelt reply, thank you for that! and well wishes for the weekend what more could a girl ask! hhaha! The very same to you my friend please do keep that pen of yours dipped in the ink! That is exactly what the universe will find to be a perfect balance Im sure of it! You and your pen are meant to be! 🙂
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I’m speechless (that’s a first lol) and thanks again my friend. Take care, keep well and my warmest to you and to those dear to you. Cheers from a rainswept Johannesburg here in South Africa
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Aw nice! you are welcome Afzal and from the feel of the air here today Im going to be needed as many warm wishes as you can spare! Winter in Rhode Island is just around the corner! Take care! 🙂
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Enjoy what’s left of the Fall … and thanks again … warmest wishes
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Thank you! 🙂
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always a pleasure.
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I nominated you for the Liebster award, check it out and participate if you choose! I am enjoying your Blog very much! https://aparodyoflife.com/2016/10/12/read-all-about-it/
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thank you very much indeed! Much appreciated
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How many languages do you know, sir?
Just out of sheer curiosity.
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I’m lucky to know a few languages BUT not at all fluent in many. Just the basics. I wish I had learned more languages when younger, I barely manage English lol
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oh you do a great job with english.. but apart from that?
I’m just asking that because i noticed you appreciated my poem written in hindi.. i was taken aback- because hindi in SA? It was intriguing…
Also, i guessed you might have some knowledge of Urdu… that language really fascinates me.. i’ve tried to learn a little, using a few words here and there.. but I never had an absolute opputunity.
So, just asked. Nothing else.
In my opinion, you’re a humble artist… I’ve found myself really caught in what you call scribbles! It’s amazing to read someone write so beautifully in such raw, unedited words. 🙂
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*oppurtunity
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Thank you again, my friend. I find your poems lyrically beautiful and is always a pleasure to read your pieces. I actually grew up in Delhi hence the Hindi. My parents were in exile working for the African National Congress and we travelled a lot as political exiles. We only were allowed to return to SA following the release of President Nelson Mandela and the return of political exiles. I learned to read and write Hindi at Springdales School in Delhi. Dad was posted in Delhi at the time to head the ANC office there. My knowledge of Urdu is rusty as I grew up speaking Hindi and English and yes, it’s a beautiful language fusing Farsi and Hindi and I love the poetry and ghazals especially. Once again thank you for your always kind and generous sentiments. They are humbling and deeply felt. Have a wonderful day and dhanyavaad, mere dost
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Awh, that’s awesome, I was brought up in Delhi too! 🙂
And , no wonder… now I understand your deep love for SA..
Thank you for sharing this bit.. It’s a pleasure to know a little more about you. 🙂
As for the compliments, they’re true and heartfelt… I really do enjoy reading you.
And, haha, it’s only legitimate for me to call you sir, I’m just an 18 year old girl with scanty knowledge of the world… I couldn’t think of anything else to address you, honestly (Mr. Moolla would be weird, don’t you think?) 😛
It means a lot to recieve appreciation from someone like you. Thanks! 🙂 Have a good day. Thanks again for this conversation! Means a lot.
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Fellow Dilliwaalas! Please do not underestimate the depth of your writing – far far beyond your age – and yes, no ‘sirs’ or ‘mr moollas’ – we are fellow travellers here on WordPress and it’s more than humbling for me to hear that you find my pieces worth a read. Thank you again, for your heartfelt and true sentiments. They inspire me to keep on scribbling. May you have a gentle and peaceful day and my warmest wishes to you and all dear to you. Respectfully, Afzal (NOT sir or mr)
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And I’m no ‘sir’ … just Afzal … warmest wishes and looking forward to more of your pieces. Brilliant!
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Hey there! You are nominated for the One Lovely Blog Award 🙂 Please take a look at this link: https://psychedelicbay.wordpress.com/2016/06/26/one-lovely-blog-award/ to learn about the rules and this award and how you can complete it. I hope you consider doing this ^^
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Thank you ever so much for this honour! Humble gratitude and heartfelt thanks
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Thanks for following The Immortal Jukebox. I hope you will enjoy the wide variety of music featured and perhaps make some discoveries. I usually post once a week and your comments are welcomed. Regards and good luck with all your projects. Thom
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Thank you, Thom, I’ve been savouring your posts thus far, being a avid music lover and especially of jazz and rock blues … Thank you, likewise, for your interaction on Scribbled Verse … Good luck and thank you again … Peace ✌
👍✊✌🌻🐹
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Hi Afzal. Thanks a lot (in tons 😉 ) for visiting my blog and liking the posts. I am really glad that you liked them.
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Thank you Nitin, for your blog and for sharing your work with us all … Brilliant ! Keep on keeping on brother
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I really like your blog, marvellous work.
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many many thanks! very humbled and touched. ✌👍
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I’m happy to hear that. I do hope you enjoy my blog.
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love your blog, being a film fanatic lol
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Thank you for all the likes and comments.
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My very warmest wishes to you, Bukky
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Thank you so much, Afzal, for taking the time to visit and like my blog. God bless you.
Bukky
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thank you for doing likewise. Brilliant work you’re doing and an inspiration for myself. Thank YOU
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Hello, I wonder if you might give permission for your poem to be in a display of protest poems related to pictures of the shoes and feet of Yazidi girls who have escaped sexual slavery? If you say yes, I will check whether the committee agree that it works for this context. This is a non profit exhibit being organised by the John Smith Trust in the UK. I am not from the Trust but a contributing poet. I think your poem ‘Enough’ speaks volumes to this topic. Unfortunately, we have a very tight deadline so any reply gratefully received. We would credit you and the site the poem is on: protestpoems.org
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hello Siobhan, please feel free to use any of my scribbles. it will be an honour to be associated with the project in my minuscule way. warmest wishes and ever onwards in the struggle for human rights for all. Respectfully, Afzal Moolla
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by the way, Siobhan there’s a missing word in the scribble.
The wounds of colonialism, it should read.
May thanks again and warmest wishes from South Africa!
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Hello again Siobhan, have fixed the missing word … all of the very best with the project and don’t hesitate to use any of my scribbles. They are ‘copylefted’ and not ‘copyrighted’ and it’s always heartwarming to know that a scribble of mine has touched another. best wishes again. Afzal
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