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

Marieke de Koker
Jun 14


blind and bury me
blind me and bury me with shiny things and glaring screens so I don't see my broken heart. clutter my thoughts with...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 13


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 30


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 30


Bittersweet
Bittersweet is the imminent premature end, a journey cut short of its promised destination... We climbed the highest mountains and drowned in flooded valleys, waiting for the final pinnacle. Waiting for the immaculate horizons to tell us: we made it. After...

Marieke de Koker
Nov 4, 2024


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 13, 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 25, 2024


Eulogy for the Old Man
I grieve for the old man who isn't old at all, but his heart is wrinkled with pain. He is dying inside. How quickly a beam of sunshine...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 8, 2024


Neverending Story
The deep clouds have brought their storms, both destruction and nourishment bring about change, for one must die to be reborn

Marieke de Koker
Aug 1, 2024


My Ship
A ship that spends its existence anchored in place will never fulfill its destiny, never to set sail on the wild tides... Will you

Marieke de Koker
Jul 30, 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 18, 2024


Beached
If words are your only vessel, then I am beached. For I live in a wealth of intuition, of which the world has become impoverished

Marieke de Koker
Jun 30, 2024


Poisoned Chalice
I watched you break yourself a thousand times into a thousand pieces in the name of Holy Love which was nothing more than a poisoned chalice like drunken happiness slowly killing you from...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 15, 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 8, 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 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 28, 2024


Brave
Brave is that druid who risked its life to render the most magnificent, exquisite bloom...

Marieke de Koker
May 19, 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 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 10, 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
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