Below you’ll find a few rough drafts of my poems in English and Dutch. A printed book with a collection is forthcoming.
My inspirators are, among others, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tupac Shakur, Charles Bukowski, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Graves, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, W.S. Merwin, Jorge Luis Borges, W.B. Yeats, Walt Whitman and of course D.H. Lawrence.
Suggestions for creative collaborations, including editing and song writing, are always much appreciated, for inquiries do not hesitate to contact me.
~~~ SEA OF FATE Let me drive without the brakes and be the fool who raised the stakes Karmic debt is mine to pay If I must leave I'll never stay The ballast is of unknown weight but By God Let me sail the sea of fate ~~~ MOTHER NATURE Some creatures on the beach, you see Are not part of society Mother Nature is their only home The dunes their holy place to roam They look like us when passing by But there is more than meets the eye They live in tune with all Earth's songs And travel where spirits belong At night as they lay their heads Unaware of modern dread They sleep soundly, conscience clear Forever free from force and fear Out of reach of devilish voices Demanding we make different choices Those creatures on the beach, you see Mother Nature is their identity ~~~ BACKWARDS Forgive me For walking backwards Further away from you I left you there In this godforsaken end station Along with the heavy bags That we once packed The trains are leaving backwards Like me You don't understand But I don't have words And I am walking backwards ~~~ THE STONE The waves once covered the stone, effortlessly, before retreating when the moon gave the time to go Sunk into the ground, landing, the weightlessness fleeting so gradually, in ebb after flow Now the sand held it, to dry, to warm in the sun its weight heavy, still, more true than before The stone's journey must have only just begun so naturally, on the unfamiliar shore ~~~