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Nightmare Song
You are my purple-hearted fairy: everything you touch sparkles, your words curve my mouth into a smile, your fairy dust the ink that fuels my pen...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 3, 2024


True Love
Nothing is expected, nothing is owed. Just be, and being is the greatest gift. In pure celebration I...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 1, 2024


One With Beauty
You said, “Do not be afraid, I want you to look. Do not hold back, I want you to feel. I want you to feel everything."

Marieke de Koker
Jun 1, 2024


Resilience
I am the weed that grows through concrete, I am the diamond emerging from volcanic pressures, I am resilience. Not because I fight against..

Marieke de Koker
May 31, 2024
I knew you before
Teach me how to love you, for I do not know how. I have never before felt someone watching me from the corner of their eye. I have never before felt someone’s hand screaming to reach for mine. I knew you before I knew you. If I...

Marieke de Koker
May 31, 2024


True Beauty
True beauty: I see it once and in its absence the profoundness of that beauty unfolds itself, the all-encompassing resplendence imprinted...

Marieke de Koker
May 31, 2024


My Mirror
Standing there, we are the infinite magnification and amplification of each other. But with light too powerful...
We will inevitably

Marieke de Koker
May 31, 2024


You live on in me
You live on in me, no matter where I might go, I will pass you on

Marieke de Koker
May 30, 2024


Meeting You Is
I can only accept what the universe has ordained as you unwittingly unravel my life to reveal all along I’ve been...

Marieke de Koker
May 30, 2024


Fire and Rain
I swim in the oceans of Neptune, I run across the plains of Mars, and make love on the Moon...

Marieke de Koker
May 29, 2024


Bliss Chasers
"I love because I love," becomes a complete statement. And we are bliss chasers not of need but of want, for who would not want to feel the warmths of the...

Marieke de Koker
May 29, 2024


The Patient Dragon
Let me not feed my inner beast, my most magnificent and exquisite beast. I pray that cold shoulders will keep her dormant, stunted, and frosts quell her thirst. Waiting for...

Marieke de Koker
May 28, 2024


Divine Chaos
My existence is rebellion, my love for you pure anarchy. My radical acceptance leaves me smiling as the world burns down...

Marieke de Koker
May 28, 2024


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


Lonely Are We
Lonely are we who love too much and must be cast aside to appease the limitations of the world. Have they all...

Marieke de Koker
May 23, 2024


Brave
Brave is that druid who risked its life to render the most magnificent, exquisite bloom...

Marieke de Koker
May 20, 2024


Altruist
Give me a seed and I will grow a garden. Give me a hand and I will never let go. Give me love and...

Marieke de Koker
May 19, 2024


Purpose
It is in the pursuit of purpose that all purpose is lost. Blinded by what we are searching for, unable to see what's right in front of us

Marieke de Koker
May 17, 2024


I am but a selfish child
I am my own downfall, running headfirst into chaos without any regrets. I want all the beauty and all the pain, staring into the face of...

Marieke de Koker
May 16, 2024


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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