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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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Take me back to North Beach
Take me back to North Beach so I can float on the waters, my body forming a bare cross... surrendered to the All Powerful

Marieke de Koker
Aug 5, 2024
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Neverending Story
The deep clouds have brought their storms, both destruction and nourishment bring about change, for one must die to be reborn

Marieke de Koker
Aug 2, 2024
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Transcendant
The wind sends her whispers... Traveling through time itself to speak wisdoms and fill our hearts, we stood there listening to this language

Marieke de Koker
Jul 8, 2024
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Rain Dancers
The Rain Dancer and the Fire Sprite, the most perfect duet: our feet kiss the Earth, the wind sings in our ears, rain drops dance on the

Marieke de Koker
Jul 7, 2024
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Nothing and Everything
Do not ask me to choose between the sun and the moon, between night and day, between earth and sky and water... for I could never choose...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 20, 2024
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I am moss
Give me humid warmth and sunlight with occasional mists and I will grow without roots or rains, asking for little, giving everything

Marieke de Koker
Jun 7, 2024
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Rain Dance III
I shelter not from thunderstorms but run into the heavy downpour arms outstretched, I laugh gleefully like a lovesick drunkard...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 6, 2024
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Namaqua
My awakening is Namaqualand in August. I am bleeding orange, pink escapes from my lips, purple appears in my dreams at night...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 5, 2024
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A Song For The Wild Beast
If she does not venture out, if she is not brave, does she live whilst missing the greatest parts of life that make life worth living?

Marieke de Koker
May 31, 2024
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I am the Vulture
I am the vulture lurking in the shadows, watching the world in quiet wisdom...

Marieke de Koker
May 29, 2024
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Rain Dance II
Kiss me in the warm summer rain and it will be as if a thousand faces kiss my skin... Adorned with diamond droplets the world clings to my..

Marieke de Koker
May 27, 2024
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Brave
Brave is that druid who risked its life to render the most magnificent, exquisite bloom...

Marieke de Koker
May 20, 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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Freedom
Freedom. I have been chasing after her for more than a decade. She is as elusive and mysterious as she is entrancing

Marieke de Koker
May 1, 2024
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Greeting the Dead
I feel no greater peace than walking among the dead, treading above bones deep in the ground laid to rest in the arms of Mother Earth...

Marieke de Koker
Jan 17, 2024
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Southern Stories
Coming to the South I wonder, where did all the stories go? Like a giant library the marsh mud holds legends of old times, the trees...

Marieke de Koker
Jan 17, 2024
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Letter to the Sun
Sunshine feels like warm arms outstretched: embrace; warm breath of life; fuzzy hug... melting into calm, the feeling of safety...

Marieke de Koker
Nov 20, 2023
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Rain Dance
Sun streaks peak through the blanket of clouds, painting the sky with rainbows: there is no color like the smell of damp earth. We dance...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 15, 2023
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