{"product_id":"whispers-of-the-soul","title":"WHISPERS OF THE SOUL","description":"\u003cp\u003eI cannot catalogue myself in normal terms because of all the things IÕve done and places I've seen in addition to the abnormal society that spawned me.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eI was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in the township of Newclare to a rebel father and powerful mother. I grew up in a place where gangsters, drug addicts, intellectuals, artists, and priests all rubbed shoulders. This place, though much changed, has coloured my outlook ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eI schooled for a long time in the mountains and vineyards of the Cape, from where I explored the natural beauty and wonders of my own country. To this day i have an innate love of nature embedded in my soul.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eMy tertiary studies have explored a vast array of subjects and I have in a hit and miss way ended up as an architectural technologist more by default than anything else. My love for physics, philosophy and history remains paramount. I have been told I am not a bad painter either.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen my friend Dr Surreya Mohamed added me to Hafez Poetry site at the beginning of 2018, i had no idea of how poetry would consume me. I had never given it any serious thought and in that sense, I am also a poet by default.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eIn retrospect this is hardly surprising as i am a product of apartheid and its injustices.  The result of this is the firm outspoken views I hold against oppression, exploitation, and the abuse so prevalent in the global social fabric. I am also an advocate of environmental issues and animal rights. All the food for relevant poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is difficult in a polarized world; where so few have so much and so many have almost nothing; to displace yourself into the third person and make unbiased observations in truth. In my poetry I attempt to explore the poles of this dilemma and tender a fair smattering of normal poems on love and whimsy.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eI never discard any experience or learning I have had. If I must describe myself, i am a holistic eclectic. I am an earthling. Give me a certificate for that.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44232301543585,"sku":"9781387435708","price":41.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/8pd75z-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1713716583","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/whispers-of-the-soul","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}