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Who owns peace
Homes turned furnace. Screaming dogs, burning forests, raining bombs...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 27


Fading
Fading like fireflies, rushing past our destiny, we lose...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 15


blind and bury me
blind me and bury me with shiny things and glaring screens so I don't see my broken heart. clutter my thoughts with...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 14


Birds vs Metal
When the birds once more are singing and the blaring metal monsters stopped screaming, I have found...

Marieke de Koker
May 30


Jack Frost
Why have you left your Turtle Island home and spread your arms over Mzansi, our land of gold and sunshine turned silver frost. Will this winter wonderland become our hungerland?

Marieke de Koker
Sep 21, 2024


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


Atchafalaya
Atchafalaya waiting for you to come as you are and leave different...

Marieke de Koker
Jan 20, 2024


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


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


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


Nature, Starved
I wish the moon would swallow me whole so I can bathe in the illuminescence of her white belly, so I can float weightlessly amongst lotus...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 15, 2023


The Silent Scream
She shakes as her elephant skin is pierced with drills. In her majesty she swats away the mighty man as if he is no more than a housefly...

Marieke de Koker
Jul 1, 2023


Blessed Be Our Martyrs
Our mother, she cries, with unceasing tears. She sobs for hours, for days, for weeks. We hear the thundering beat of her broken heart as...

Marieke de Koker
Jul 1, 2023


Mr Consumer
We sing until we choke on the ashes of bleeding forests, we run until our lungs are filled with soot and our hearts sink into the depths...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 6, 2023


Born of Angels
Born of angels - not a mother, not a father - raised by love incarnate in a vivid world without color, where the harsh contrasts of white on black cease to frame the grainy faces...

Marieke de Koker
Jul 15, 2021


Les Flammes
Le soleil d’été, les beaux jours dont on rêve dans les peintures. Les Romantiques, les Impressionnistes n’ont jamais vu les Français périr un jour d’été...

Marieke de Koker
Mar 1, 2020
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