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Cry with me, Mother
Cry with me, Mother, and let our teardrops turn to rock. You can strike me until I shatter into a million pieces: I will become the sands

Marieke de Koker
Aug 26, 2024
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Lenapehoking
I see the forests worshipped in their tall grandeur shading families from the scorching sun... From Colombia to Lenapehoking, this is Home

Marieke de Koker
Aug 5, 2024
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My Ship
A ship that spends its existence anchored in place will never fulfill its destiny, never to set sail on the wild tides... Will you

Marieke de Koker
Jul 31, 2024
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Loved Ones
The silver hairs and lines in their skin make them even more beautiful, knowing we have shared all these years together

Marieke de Koker
Jul 13, 2024
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For Isaac
If words are your only vessel, then I am beached. For I live in a wealth of intuition, of which the world has become impoverished

Marieke de Koker
Jul 1, 2024
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I Know You
I could trace every inch of your face in my dreams, every corner and curve of your body. The stretch marks and wrinkles, the ebb and flow...

Marieke de Koker
May 27, 2024
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I call on you, my ancestor
If you had the choice to choose yourself, would you have closed your eyes without regret? Would you have spent your last days in peace?

Marieke de Koker
May 24, 2024
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I forgive you
true Wisdom means
looking past the words
and into your eyes
who tell me your deepest, darkest secrets

Marieke de Koker
May 15, 2024
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Birth
Most magnificent and terrifying, standing at the precipice of death, giving birth to new life: the ultimate gift, the ultimate sacrifice

Marieke de Koker
May 15, 2024
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You are not my muse
I look at you and I see Home, no embellishment needed. No fantasy, you are reality. You are gravity holding me tightly, you are Truth...

Marieke de Koker
May 8, 2024
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Home
We built a home brick by brick...Our blood and tears cemented into the foundations of this Home which even in ruin will stand the tests...

Marieke de Koker
May 5, 2024
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All that's left is love
When all's said and done over a lifetime of years, all that's left is love

Marieke de Koker
May 1, 2024
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White Man
For the ghost who haunts my dreams, pale and skinny emo...the guy who looks like me, White Man, you are the part of me I hate the most...

Marieke de Koker
Nov 11, 2023
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Desert Rises
When the hazy purple dusk turns black, the shape of dunes on the horizon melts away into the Milky Way which stares at us with ancient...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 4, 2023
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Not Woman Enough For Me
You. Who are not woman enough for me, You. Who are not what I thought you would be... objects soaring like shells and stars, the wrong way

Marieke de Koker
Aug 3, 2023
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The Curse of Eve
She ran home crying in her blood stained dress, she feared she was dying, her mother never told her about womanhood...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 2, 2023
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