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The Scream
I screamed. And screamed. In a diamond strong rage forged by mountains of force and bleeding earth. I screamed, "ENOUGH." To my darkness: You do not own me. To evil: You will not rob me. To my...

Marieke de Koker
1 day ago


You Were Mine
You were once my world: enveloped in you, I could not see you. Now, I watch...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 5


Rulers of Peace
Kumu Ramsay said: The world is your shadow, the world is your mirror. Everything that upsets you shows where you have not yet...

Marieke de Koker
May 31


moonraze
the moon has scars just like me from the blows of life, and they say there's no life on the moon... but her body glows at night...

Marieke de Koker
Oct 14, 2024


Elegy for the Living
Maybe I’d bring you a bunch of sweet orange flowers. Is it ironic that I planted marigolds used to honor the dead? Is it ironic that love has never felt more alive? I’m never one to remember faces, but I can still see you staring at me. Except now it’s like black and white film without color. And I'm...

Marieke de Koker
Sep 13, 2024


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


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
Greatest Gift
I, who give too much to this world of endless need, when my shoulders grow weary from the weight of change you give me wings to fly and light up my eyes. You are my hope...

Marieke de Koker
Jul 21, 2024


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


Detachment
I have nothing and I have everything: in nothing the world is my oyster. Nothing to lose, only to gain, each...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 15, 2024
Faerie Glen
I caught a glimpse of a world that lives on love, and ever since my mind has been high up above. They bend all rules to fly freely, there is no better way really: to live as chaos becomes magic and whims become logic, the world itself inside out, backwards and upside down...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 11, 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


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


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


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


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


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


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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