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Charika SwanepoelCharika Swanepoel is a South African poet and literary scholar. She is currently pursuing her MA. in English Poetry and some of her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in and on platforms such as New Contrast, Prufrock, Aerodrome, Literator, Glass Poetry etc. She is also reader at Helen Magazine and Frontier Poetry as well as assistant reviews editor at New Found (org). Charika’s poetry collection has been shortlisted for publication by Platypus Press for their 2017 “Celestial Bodies” poetry series.
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I’ve always been sentimental
about my family name.
It amazes me,
scraps of paper,
my grandmother’s handwriting;
the way she swirled the S.
I’d like to think it means something
more than what I cannot tell.
I’d like to keep my name,
“What’s in a name” you’ll ask
and I’ll say: “Almost everything.”
about my family name.
It amazes me,
scraps of paper,
my grandmother’s handwriting;
the way she swirled the S.
I’d like to think it means something
more than what I cannot tell.
I’d like to keep my name,
“What’s in a name” you’ll ask
and I’ll say: “Almost everything.”