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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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Coney Island
Coney Island will never be as beautiful as the day I buried my heart in the sand, running fearlessly into icy waters

Marieke de Koker
May 11, 2024
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Machen wir die Liebe nicht reich?
Don't we make Love rich? We who love recklessly and uninhibitedly, intense and yet vulnerable, we who are shameless: our naked beating...

Marieke de Koker
May 11, 2024
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Incitement
Like an asteroid colliding into our lives, knocking us out of circular paths, shaking us vigorously... Awoken, we open our eyes. Will we...

Marieke de Koker
May 11, 2024
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Pandora and Schrödinger
I tread on the suspense of not knowing, the bittersweet...My infinitely impatient nature remains outwardly still and frozen, unable to open

Marieke de Koker
May 11, 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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Reborn
Awoken from a decade long slumber with the sobering realization that everything I thought mattered could disappear in an instant, that I...

Marieke de Koker
May 6, 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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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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Nostalgia
I’ve been caught by a strange Catch-22, a malfunction of the psyche. I have everything I’ve always wanted, yet I long for the past...

Marieke de Koker
Mar 13, 2024
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Living History
Palaces of the dead crumbling under the forces of Mother Nature until their names have fallen off their mausoleums, white paint turned...

Marieke de Koker
Jan 17, 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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grammar police
to the grammar police with there cues and peas holding onto the past the world moves to fast but you cant stop change or cultural...

Marieke de Koker
Dec 23, 2023
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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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mundane
Rare is the moment: sit and stare. White crescent moon smiles, sunny blue sky, the whole world melts away... it's just moon and me...

Marieke de Koker
Nov 18, 2023
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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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Machismo
For the man who has learned to lie so well that he convinced even himself that he doesn’t care. A poem for the man who doesn’t have the...

Marieke de Koker
Nov 11, 2023
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Sunshine Man
He said if growing up means giving up, then I’d rather stay a child seeing a world full of beauty, hoping for the future...

Marieke de Koker
Sep 22, 2023
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