top of page
Search


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

Marieke de Koker
Jun 15


The World Is My Sister
The world is my sister, as broken and human as I. Forgive her shortcomings. Love her for...

Marieke de Koker
May 31


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


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


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


Fruits of my Heart
Just like the soul that reveals itself in a fleeting dream only to be buried once more in consciousness... Whomever is learned in the wisdoms of life will know where to find me: My greatest treasures...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 15, 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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
bottom of page