Marieke de Koker
Rain Dance
Let the rain wash away our tears and sins Birthing life into the cracks of our broken world That all my be anew Let the sun streaks peak...
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Marieke de Koker
- Aug 15
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...
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Marieke de Koker
- Aug 4
Desert Rises
When the hazy purple dusk turns black The shape of dunes on the horizon Melts away into the Milky Way Which stares at us with ancient...
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Marieke de Koker
- Aug 4
We Are Music
Their voices and spirits Colored the world vivid I felt the breeze dancing in my face The way it did on warm spring nights With the...
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Marieke de Koker
- Aug 4
Two Strangers in Harlem
I met two strangers in Harlem on a summers day in the vivid street and on the train because my heart was open They tell their stories if...
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Marieke de Koker
- Aug 3
Not Woman Enough For Me
You. Who are not woman enough for me, You. Who are not what I thought you would be The unknowing all-knowing The flawless one The...
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Marieke de Koker
- Aug 2
The Curse of Eve
She ran home crying in her blood stained dress She feared she was dying Her mother never told her about womanhood From that day on Her...
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Marieke de Koker
- Aug 2
Matrilineage
“It’s too much. It’s too tight. It’s inappropriate,” she said. “You look like a sleaze. A tease,” is what she meant. My own mother...
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Marieke de Koker
- Jul 28
Us Against The World
We sit in a pile of rubble and clutter holding onto the precious little things that remind us of the life we want to live that remind us...
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Marieke de Koker
- Jul 28
Elvis and the Rock
In the enchanted expanse of the great Kalahari Where the red sands and clay beds transported me to Mars Where the stars bloomed like...
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Marieke de Koker
- Jul 17
Spider Woman
Like a spider losing its legs one by one She crawls through life She was so busy running towards her dreams That she never noticed how...
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Marieke de Koker
- Jul 6
St James Hampton
Out of kitchen foil and boards he built the throne of God Not one but many thrones Until he could fill a whole room with thrones and...
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Marieke de Koker
- Jul 1
The Silent Scream
Before you hear a sound All that there is Is the quivering Almost imperceptible A shiver from the surface skin of the earth To the deep...
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Marieke de Koker
- Jul 1
Blessed Be Our Martyrs
For the victims of the 2022 and 2023 floods in South Africa Our mother, she cries, with unceasing tears She sobs for hours, for days, for...
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Marieke de Koker
- Jun 6
Mr Consumer
We sing until we are choking on the ashes of bleeding forests We run until our lungs are filled with soot And our hearts sink into the...
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Marieke de Koker
- Jul 15, 2021
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...
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Marieke de Koker
- Mar 1, 2020
Les Flammes
La terre est chaude Mon cœur est froid Mon chez moi fond Mon cœur se fige Le soleil d’été, les beaux jours dont on rêve dans les...
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