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Take me back to North Beach so I can float on the waters, my body forming a bare cross... surrendered to the All PowerfulÂ
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Marieke de Koker
Aug 1
Neverending Story
The deep clouds have brought their storms, both destruction and nourishment bring about change, for one must die to be reborn
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Marieke de Koker
Jul 29
Break
We are told to bend but never break. But shattering into pieces allows us to rebuild ourselves in ways we could never imagine, rendering
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Marieke de Koker
Jul 18
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
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Marieke de Koker
Jul 7
Transcendant
The wind sends her whispers... Traveling through time itself to speak wisdoms and fill our hearts, we stood there listening to this language
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 19
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...
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 18
Point of No Return
I stand at the point of no return... I have outgrown and outworn my beloved shoes... I can choose my shoes but I cannot choose my feet...
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 18
Empty Wall, Full Heart
There is no greater inspiration than an empty wall, I will give away all of my paintings so that the world may become my gallery... My joys
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 10
Choice
Sometimes we mistake what is comfortable and known for being a choice
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 10
True faith
True faith is not believing that life will change to favor you. It is recognizing that you hold the power to thrive in spite of what...
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 8
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...
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 8
Beloved Sweater
I say goodbye to my beloved sweater - my skin - outgrown and outworn I shed, bittersweet... You who have carried me all these years, you...
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 6
This Is Me
Anarchy: the moth emerging from its cocoon saying, "This is me."
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 6
I am moss
Give me humid warmth and sunlight with occasional mists and I will grow without roots or rains, asking for little, giving everything
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 5
Rain Dance III
I shelter not from thunderstorms but run into the heavy downpour arms outstretched, I laugh gleefully like a lovesick drunkard...
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 5
Namaqua
My awakening is Namaqualand in August. I am bleeding orange, pink escapes from my lips, purple appears in my dreams at night...
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 5
Learning To Walk
The higher I jump, the higher I fly, I wait in vain for my bones to crush on the hard ground but they never do. Or have I just not...
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 4
I bathe in myself
My thoughts are too deep, I don't want to let them pass... I bathe in myself
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 2
Strangers
When we speak with someone we perceive to be a stranger, we realize we are not strangers at all
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Marieke de Koker
Jun 1
True Love
Nothing is expected, nothing is owed. Just be, and being is the greatest gift
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