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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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Azure
I could dive into the depths of your mind and watch the vivid world underneath your surface, those whale songs unspoken and unsung

Marieke de Koker
Aug 5, 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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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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Break
We are told to bend but never break. But shattering into pieces allows us to rebuild ourselves in ways we could never imagine, rendering

Marieke de Koker
Jul 30, 2024
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I am impossible
I follow my heart and it shows me things I never knew was possible, because the heart is far more intelligent than the mind

Marieke de Koker
Jul 19, 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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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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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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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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Point of No Return
I stand at the point of no return... I have outgrown and outworn my beloved shoes... I can choose my shoes but I cannot choose my feet...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 19, 2024
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Empty Wall, Full Heart
There is no greater inspiration than an empty wall, I will give away all of my paintings so that the world may become my gallery... My joys

Marieke de Koker
Jun 19, 2024
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Choice
Sometimes we mistake what is comfortable and known for being a choice

Marieke de Koker
Jun 10, 2024
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Deconstructed: A Series of Haiku
Birth is beautiful, it is bloodshed and membranes spilled out on the floor... Do you see beauty in process and creation, or does blood...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 9, 2024
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Beloved Sweater
I say goodbye to my beloved sweater - my skin - outgrown and outworn I shed, bittersweet... You who have carried me all these years, you...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 8, 2024
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This Is Me
Anarchy: the moth emerging from its cocoon saying, "This is me."

Marieke de Koker
Jun 7, 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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