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Alternate Reality
They shall not be my universe, but my alternate reality staring back at me, and without the need for words their eyes would tell me: I...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 4, 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 4, 2024


Nightmare Song
You are my purple-hearted fairy: everything you touch sparkles, your words curve my mouth into a smile, your fairy dust the ink that fuels my pen...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 2, 2024


True Love
Nothing is expected, nothing is owed. Just be, and being is the greatest gift. In pure celebration I...

Marieke de Koker
May 31, 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
May 31, 2024


My Mirror
Standing there, we are the infinite magnification and amplification of each other. But with light too powerful...
We will inevitably

Marieke de Koker
May 30, 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 27, 2024


Divine Chaos
My existence is rebellion, my love for you pure anarchy. My radical acceptance leaves me smiling as the world burns down...

Marieke de Koker
May 27, 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


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


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


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


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...

Marieke de Koker
Aug 2, 2023


Us Against The World
Dreams are our lifeblood and oxygen. Hope and faith is humanity itself. And wisdom grows from quiet contemplation: a patient endeavor of soul feeding which one rushes past on the road to survival...

Marieke de Koker
Jul 28, 2023


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...

Marieke de Koker
Jul 5, 2023


The Silent Scream
She shakes as her elephant skin is pierced with drills. In her majesty she swats away the mighty man as if he is no more than a housefly...

Marieke de Koker
Jun 30, 2023
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