Transformasie

26/09/2009 by Nikita

Transformasie

Herfs het my wêreld stadig binnegesluip
omhul in ‘n sluier van rooi en goud
Ek snak na my asem by die aanskoue
van die transformasie – die wonderlike natuur!
Soete doudruppels gly van ‘n grashalmpie
met die verbygaan van raserige eende
Ek dwaal na die warmte van verlore gedagtes
versteek waar stof en tyd dit nie kan vind
Die laatmiddag son op my vel, jou lippe
wanneer weerstand verkrummel
deur jou vingerpunte –
Ek weet, nie lank,
dan sal Winter se koue winde begin waai
maar Herfs se warmte sal my by-bly
Met gedagtes aan jou op die koel Herfs-oggend
koester ek die warm gedagtes aan jou verewig

—Nikita—Aug 2008

Herfs is met ons en dis heerlik om al die wonderlike kleure te aanskou, asook die transformasie wat daarmee gepaardgaan. Ek het verlede jaar my herfs-gedagtes op my “gedigte/poems”-bladsy geplaas en het weer vanmore al die kleure geniet. Dit plaas my weer in ‘n bui net om gedigte te lees en mooi musiek te luister.

Autumn has arrived! This is just my autumn-poem in Afrikaans and I enjoy the transformations during Autumn.
Enjoy the music of Strauss: Village Swallows. I think all the swallows are by now back in South Africa! I can remember a swallow-family under our roof where I grew up on the farm. It was always good to see them returning home and sweet to hear them chirping.

And here’s a little “autumn”-spider!

Posted in Afrikaans, Afrikaans poems, Afrikaanse gedigte, gedigte, General, herfs | Tagged Afrikaans, Afrikaans poems, Autumn, autumn colours, Autumn photos, gedigte, herfs, herfs foto's, herfs gedigte, seasons, seisoene, Strauss music, Village Swallows | 31 Comments

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on 26/09/2009 at 17:06 | Reply Wipneus!

Wow Nikita dis ‘n pragtige gedig en inskrywing! En Straus se musiek pas so mooi by jou inskrywing!! 🙂
- on 26/09/2009 at 18:22 | Reply Nikita
  
  Hi Wipneus, baie dankie!
  - on 26/09/2009 at 19:50 | Reply Connie
    
    Stem 100% saam met Wipneus.
    - on 26/09/2009 at 20:24 Nikita
      
      hi Connie, baie dankie!
on 26/09/2009 at 19:27 | Reply Dan

Spiders! Yuk! LOL!
- on 26/09/2009 at 19:48 | Reply Nikita
  
  hi Dan….spiders are cute… 🙂
on 26/09/2009 at 19:54 | Reply Dan

No they aren’t. 😉
- on 26/09/2009 at 20:24 | Reply Nikita
  
  Yes, they are! 😉
on 26/09/2009 at 21:47 | Reply Vlam

Mooi gedig, Nikita! 😉

Ag jong, ek’s nog steeds besig met die male/female ding, en na ‘n lang gesukkel het ek darem gelees die blomme is ‘bisexual’. So, ek neem aan dat die bome hermafrodities is en nie ‘n vroutjie en mannetjie nodig het nie. Wat kon jy uitvind?
- on 26/09/2009 at 23:10 | Reply Nikita
  
  Baie dankie! – sien my ander boodskap oor die boom. 🙂
on 26/09/2009 at 23:02 | Reply Vlam

Nikita, ek kan my kop op ‘n blok sit ek het ‘n comment hier gelos vroeer…?? 🙄
- on 26/09/2009 at 23:06 | Reply Nikita
  
  Hi Vlam…ek moes jou in die Spam-boks gaan red het! 🙄 waarvoor WP jou daarin gooi sal net hulle weet!
  
  Nee, ek kon nog niks verder uitvind oor die manlik/vroulike ding nie. Ek was op seker 15 (of meer) sites, almal het min of meer dieselfde inligting gehad, toe gee ek oor! 🙂 Dankie vir jou inligting, nou gaan my siel rus – glo ek. LOL!
  - on 27/09/2009 at 02:46 | Reply Connie
    
    Waaroor gaan die manlik/vroulike ding? ‘n Spesifieke soort boom?
    - on 27/09/2009 at 10:02 Nikita
      
      hi Connie, die Kremetart-boom op Vlam se blog. ‘n Veldwagter het vir ons gese dat die manlike- en vroulike boom altyd naby mekaar in die veld staan, maar in ‘n teenoorgestelde posisie en ons kon nogal (in Swadini) bome naby mekaar kry – teenoorgestelde kante, maar dis seker nie te se dis die manlike/vroulike bome nie. Ek wou net sekerheid daaroor kry en kon nerens op die web iets daaroor te lese kry nie.
    - on 27/09/2009 at 17:49 Connie
      
      O ja, ek het dit gelees, die bome met siele. Sien jy het darem nou ‘n antwoord gekry.
    - on 27/09/2009 at 19:39 Nikita
      
      Jip! 🙂
on 27/09/2009 at 02:49 | Reply Connie

O ja, ek wou nog sê, die swaeltjies is terug!
- on 27/09/2009 at 10:02 | Reply Nikita
  
  Het julle swaeltjies by julle huis?
  - on 27/09/2009 at 17:53 | Reply Connie
    
    Ja hier is ‘n paartjie wat altyd hier broei.(Grootstreepswaels) Om een of ander rede het hulle nessie afgevoeter in die wintermaande. Hoop nou net die 2 bou maar ‘n nuwe en vat nie die pad nie.
    - on 27/09/2009 at 19:40 Nikita
      
      Ek hoop hulle herbou dit sodat julle hul kan geniet!
on 27/09/2009 at 10:21 | Reply Wipneus!

Nikita ek weet nie presies waarna julle soek ivm kremetarte nie, sal die dalk help?
Professor Braam van Wyk van Tukkies sê die kremetart se blomme is tweeslagtig – ‘n boom se blomme het sowel manlike as vroulike geslagsorgane. Daar is beslis nie manlike en vroulike bome nie.
http://www.mooiloop.co.za/inhoud/bosstories/oktober08/tuis.asp
- on 27/09/2009 at 10:34 | Reply Nikita
  
  Hi Wipneus! Baie dankie, Vlam het ook so gese – na haar soektog gister – die veldwagter het my ook laat wonder, daarom wou ek nog altyd seker maak daaroor, want ek het hom nie baie getrust nie…een van “daaaaiiiiiiiiii”. Ek sal die link opvolg, dankie!
  - on 27/09/2009 at 10:38 | Reply Nikita
    
    Wipneus, daardie site is net wat ek gister moes gekry het!! BAIE DANKIE!! Nou weet ek! 🙂 Ek wou se ek kon die “man” nie lekker glo nie, sjoe! Ek sal moet teruggaan Swadini toe en op daardie bootrit weer moet gaan om hom te kry…haha… en hy sou die week na ons rit daar op 50/50 gepraat het…seker ook sy “kwalifikasie” iewers in die veld opgetel.
    Wipneus…ek was ook op die “blog” links van die site en toe herken ek die site..was ‘n paar maande gelede op daardie blog-links en bietjie daar gelees.
    - on 27/09/2009 at 10:41 Wipneus!
      
      😆 Ek is dan bly google kon ons help!!
    - on 27/09/2009 at 10:48 Nikita
      
      Dit sal my leer om in die toekoms ook in Afrikaans te google!! LOL! Hier’s ‘n ander link..met baie inligting
      http://www.baobab.kansaspalms.com/
on 28/09/2009 at 08:25 | Reply SA Expats

Hier in die Midde Ooste sien ons uit na herfs en winter. Ons wil net hierdie hitte ontsnap. 🙂
- on 28/09/2009 at 16:29 | Reply Nikita
  
  Hi SA Expats…ek kan glo dat julle veral uitsien na koeler weer waar jy is! 🙂
on 28/09/2009 at 14:08 | Reply boerinballingskap

Herfs is my gunsteling seisoen, veral hier in Korea, wanneer die weer die beste is, die lug blou en die natuur ‘n kleur-simfonie opvoer.
- on 28/09/2009 at 16:31 | Reply Nikita
  
  hi Boer! Hers is ook my gunsteling juis oor al die kleur-veranderinge wat daarmee gepaard gaan. Ek glo herfs is daar by jou ook sterk besig om te gebeur. Plaas bietjie foto’s! 🙂
on 28/09/2009 at 20:16 | Reply Desia

Herfs het ook gister hier begin, dit was die warmste September in 100 jaar in ons omgewing, maar van gister af is dit koeler, maar lekker weer.
Jou gedig is pragtig!
on 28/09/2009 at 23:15 | Reply Nikita

Hi Desia! Dankie vir jou kommentaar…Sjoe, dan moes dit warm gewees het in jou wereld!

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If chess is a science, it's a most inexact one. If chess is an art, it's too exacting to be seen as one. If chess is a sport, it's too esoteric. If chess is a game, it's too demanding to be just a game. If chess is a mistress, she's a demanding one. If chess is a passion, it's a rewarding one.
If chess is life, it's a sad one-Unknown
Anand vs Topalov 21 April 2010
Book of the moment: In Search of South Africa by H V Morton

Don't Quit
by: Unknown Author

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns
As every one of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out:
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far:
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

"Vrome vaa'dre,fier en groot!
Deur vervolging, ramp en nood
was hul leuse, tot die dood:
Vrijheid, Vrijheid!
Op dan broers, en druk hul spoor,
voorwaarts, broers, die Vierkleur voor
laat die veld ons krijgsroep hoor:
Vrijheid, Vrijheid!"
Jan FE Celliers

'He who knows not and knows not he knows not, is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows, is a leader/wise - follow him.' -

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Everything/Anything and…Chess…"Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess"–George Koltanowski: from the foreword to:"Women in chess, players of the Modern Age"

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