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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


Machen wir die Liebe nicht reich?
Don't we make Love rich? We who love recklessly and uninhibitedly, intense and yet vulnerable, we who are shameless: our naked beating...

Marieke de Koker
May 11, 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 10, 2024


You are not my muse
I look at you and I see Home, no embellishment needed. No fantasy, you are reality. You are gravity holding me tightly, you are Truth...

Marieke de Koker
May 8, 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 5, 2024


Too Much
Between the lines live my forbidden desires: the intense want to hold onto anyone who will stay through the fleeting years...

Marieke de Koker
May 1, 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


Opera Watching
enthusiasts will delight in the beauty, binoculars and a camera are a must. Pure language wrapping around an exceptional productive old commission...

Marieke de Koker
Jan 20, 2024


Atchafalaya
Atchafalaya waiting for you to come as you are and leave different...

Marieke de Koker
Jan 20, 2024


Living History
Palaces of the dead crumbling under the forces of Mother Nature until their names have fallen off their mausoleums, white paint turned...

Marieke de Koker
Jan 17, 2024


Southern Stories
Coming to the South I wonder, where did all the stories go? Like a giant library the marsh mud holds legends of old times, the trees...

Marieke de Koker
Jan 17, 2024


grammar police
to the grammar police with there cues and peas holding onto the past the world moves to fast but you cant stop change or cultural...

Marieke de Koker
Dec 23, 2023


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


White Man
For the ghost who haunts my dreams, pale and skinny emo...the guy who looks like me, White Man, you are the part of me I hate the most...

Marieke de Koker
Nov 11, 2023


Sunshine Man
He said if growing up means giving up, then I’d rather stay a child seeing a world full of beauty, hoping for the future...

Marieke de Koker
Sep 21, 2023


Rain Dance
Sun streaks peak through the blanket of clouds, painting the sky with rainbows: there is no color like the smell of damp earth. We dance...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 15, 2023


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...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 15, 2023


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...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 4, 2023


We Are Music
When the spirit takes flight, when the feet can’t keep still, hips and shoulders sway side to side, hearts beat in unison, making one...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 4, 2023


Not Woman Enough For Me
You. Who are not woman enough for me, You. Who are not what I thought you would be... objects soaring like shells and stars, the wrong way

Marieke de Koker
Aug 3, 2023
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