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Johan O. Steyn

Slow Burn: a story of entrapment

There is a dreadful silence hanging in the desert air. It is a bitterly lonely place. The wind is howling damningly through the rock…

Oct 22, 2023

Slow Burn: a story of entrapment

Oct 22, 2023

Dreaming of an angel

I stare blankly at my incompetence to draw deeply into my soul and to express the hidden recesses of my heart. The coal fire smoking…

Oct 22, 2023

Dreaming of an angel

Oct 22, 2023

A solitary chapel in a snow-covered landscape

The audience has been waiting. She was late. It’s a bride’s right to be late, is it not? It is her day, after all. She is the princess —…

Oct 23, 2022

A solitary chapel in a snow-covered landscape

Oct 23, 2022

Kyrie Eleison

Kyrie Eleison; Christe Eleison; Kyrie Eleison.

Oct 28, 2021

Oct 28, 2021

The Fire Next Time

I smell the beautiful burning wood — incense into the late-night sky A man, a neighbour making a fire.

Oct 20, 2021

The Fire Next Time

Oct 20, 2021

Brother Pedro

I wrote this piece around fifteen years ago. After a few years, I made contact with Pedro again recently. He is now a priest living and…

Oct 14, 2021

Brother Pedro

Oct 14, 2021

A champion you find me: always without fail

With an earth-like rawness, you draw me. The late afternoon stirrings, the breeze that brings the night: you lure me. Your taste bitter to…

Oct 8, 2021

A champion you find me: always without fail

Oct 8, 2021

Living in wonder in the midst of thunder

Sep 27, 2021

Living in wonder in the midst of thunder

Sep 27, 2021

My dearest, slowly decaying Bella

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for…

Sep 26, 2021

My dearest, slowly decaying Bella

Sep 26, 2021

Lullaby of longing

I go to bed every night with thoughts of you. Imagining… wishing… and longing for your embrace. Anticipating with a pregnant expectancy…

Sep 12, 2021

Lullaby of longing

Sep 12, 2021

Johan O. Steyn

Johan O. Steyn

Existential Philosopher (Who am I kidding? I just want to write about my lost-ness, groundlessness and the beauty of this dark life).

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