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Rulers of Peace
Kumu Ramsay said: The world is your shadow, the world is your mirror. Everything that upsets you shows where you have not yet...

Marieke de Koker
May 31


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


moonraze
the moon has scars just like me from the blows of life, and they say there's no life on the moon... but her body glows at night...

Marieke de Koker
Oct 14, 2024


Cry with me, Mother
Cry with me, Mother, and let our teardrops turn to rock. You can strike me until I shatter into a million pieces: I will become the sands...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 26, 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


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


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


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


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 5, 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
Jun 1, 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


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


Bliss Chasers
"I love because I love," becomes a complete statement. And we are bliss chasers not of need but of want, for who would not want to feel the warmths of the...

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


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


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
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