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Aria to the Night
Hello my stranger. My not-stranger. It’s easy to see your pain and scars as you bask in moonlight and hide in the dark. I don’t see purple: you are the color of dark chocolate and ebony, or the dazzling night sky...

Marieke de Koker
Jul 8, 2024


Rain Dancers
The Rain Dancer and the Fire Sprite, the most perfect duet: our feet kiss the Earth, the wind sings in our ears, rain drops dance on the

Marieke de Koker
Jul 6, 2024


We were not made
When I am with you all rules of the world melt away, for we rule in heart and spirit. Our selfless love is rebellion. We were not made for this...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 24, 2024


Whispering in Dumbo
I could stand for hours whispering to you in the dark in the shadows of the night. Whispering or saying nothing at all, and thereby saying everything. Oh how I could bathe in those brown eyes and deep dive...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 24, 2024


Become
Their hands do not write with ink, but speak a language of their own: the word of the hand, where words become silence, become touch...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 24, 2024


Poisoned Chalice
I watched you break yourself a thousand times into a thousand pieces in the name of Holy Love which was nothing more than a poisoned chalice like drunken happiness slowly killing you from...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 15, 2024


Butterfly Dance
In dreams I fly free. My butterfly dance wakens, I...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 7, 2024


Purple haze
Though my mind grows weary, every cell in me has a soul and they are all calling out for Purple

Marieke de Koker
Jun 5, 2024


Namaqua
My awakening is Namaqualand in August. I am bleeding orange, pink escapes from my lips, purple appears in my dreams at night...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 5, 2024


Alone Together
Can we be alone together? So that I may have my secret solitudes and follow my whims of the day, and you’ll be an arm’s reach away? So that I can show you...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 4, 2024


Alternate Reality
They shall not be my universe, but my alternate reality staring back at me, and without the need for words their eyes would tell me: I...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 4, 2024


Spirits Flying
I pass you on into the world as you pass me on: like ripples we grow, our spirits flying to the edges...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 4, 2024


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 2, 2024


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

Marieke de Koker
May 31, 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
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 30, 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 30, 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 30, 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 29, 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 29, 2024
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