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The forest expands around me

And I feel clean

I’m taking the trash out

I believe

A bit of faith

Hope and desire

Over the brim

Avoiding the mire

Dear sweet butterfly

Not part of our rat race

A hornet skims right pass me

A close shave

I am stung

by the beauty of these surroundings

Its potion rids me of life’s pain

A warm blanket of solace

Falls over me

Exploding blight untamed

I don’t want to head home

I don’t want to head home

I plead to forever remain

BETTER

I wish I were better

Better at opening up

At letting it in

Better at loving

Better at giving

Better at breaking the chains

That bar me off

Better at making

that which is hard

soft

Better crossing the bleak clearing

Better at steering

But most of all

I wish I were a better man

Than I am

THE TURBID POOL

Any old iron

Any old iron

You can hear them coming

Machine men

With machine plans

Any old iron

Any old iron

Infinite growth

And throttle contracts

Blocking out the sun

Breaking reason’s back

Any old iron

Any old iron

Watch the results

Let go of those pipe dreams

My friend

It’s cabal that never ends

WAT IS POËZIE? LINE-UP OPENINGSPROGRAMMA

Poëziefestival De Nieuwe Liefde - 24, 25 en 26 mei 2013
Een avontuurlijk festival over poëzie, dat zich afspeelt in De Nieuwe Liefde en op diverse locaties in de omringende Dichtersbuurt.

De vraag ‘wat is poëzie’ is de avontuurlijke rode draad die door het hele festival heenloopt, en natuurlijk is dat ook het thema van de opening op vrijdag 24 mei 2013 om 20.00 uur. Twaalf uiteenlopende dichters, kunstenaars, tekenaars, schrijvers en buurtbewoners laten in woord en beeld zien wat zij vinden dat poëzie is. Twaalf korte, scherpe, spannende ‘poëziepitches' door:

• Anne Vegter (Dichter des Vaderlands)
• Kira Wuck (jonge dichter, Finse meisjes, 2013)
• Martijn den Ouden (jonge dichter, Melktanden, 2010)
• Jan Rothuizen (beeldend kunstenaar, De Zachte Atlas van Amsterdam)
• K. Michel (dichter/filosoof, o.a. Bij eb is je eiland groter, 2010)
• Marlon Groenhart (buurtbewoner, oprichter Abundanz en Umustgrow)
• Mirjam Berloth (buurtbewoner, beeldend kunstenaar, kunst in leegstaande panden)
• Monique Samuel (politicoloog, publicist, Mozaïek van de revolutie)
• Laser 3.14 (straatdichter/beeldend kunstenaar)
• Christine Otten (schrijver, o.a. De laatste dichters, Om adem te kunnen halen)
• George van Houts (acteur/cabaretier, o.a. De verleiders, Van Houts & de Ket)
• Kettly Mars (schrijver/dichter uit Haïti, winnares Prins Claus Prijs 2011)

TRACES OF A LIFE LEFT BEHIND

Every movie needs a story

Coherent or otherwise

Every encounter something to remember

Every October a September

Everything I want

Stands on stilettos heels in the snow

Eyes glance right past me

And I’m lifted up

Waves of the past rise as the wind blows

Fragments of reality tatter the fantasy

Up here in coherent sky

Angelic voices stem from mood indigo

Down there we see a woman cry

As she slips in and out nowhere

She is passable

yet time left traces on her face

Down there

a barber dreams of a hairless world

So he can get away from it all

Everything feels palpable

Down there

a poet strikes a chord

Yet remains unheard

Disappointment, fury and fire

Theatre of the absurd

Down there

a painter rubs his brush over the canvas

Realising his fatal mistake

A fall from grace

When life is cordoned off with metal bars

When the glass is half full

to remain half empty all the time

all you can do is swallow your spit

and sardonically smile