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You never knew me
By the time I was free to be myself, you were long gone. Distance is a wall and silence builds it brick by brick. And now, where are we standing? Between gaps in time, the words always come too late. Oh, how I wanted to show you all that I am, all I have to...

Marieke de Koker
Jul 30


Traveler and the Tree
The traveler has no home. They belong to everyone and no one. But I, the tree, grow roots to shade...

Marieke de Koker
May 30


The Rebel
You, who rebelled against nature and declared belonging a loss: For to be is not to be. "The world is my oyster and I am its pearl. No..."

Marieke de Koker
Apr 29


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


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


Beached
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


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
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


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


Phoenix
I ripped out every part of myself, spilled my guts on the floor, my beating heart staring at me...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 9, 2024


This Is Me
Anarchy: the moth emerging from its cocoon saying, "This is me."

Marieke de Koker
Jun 7, 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


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


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


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


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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