“Gaite Jansen’s first chapbook is a rite of passage from innocence to awakening, girlhood to young womanhood, voiceless to voiced, and one vocabulary to another. Here are the mature wounds and revelations of first love exposed on the skin of Jansen’s world, in the simple, timidly- lurid language of her unfoldment into a brand new vocabulary. I cannot help but marvel at the difference between a mouth full of Dutch syllables, and a tongue-load of English lyric verse.”

Peggy Dobreer

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A transformative journey, to experience the heart of who I am, by peeling off the layers of who I am not. Immersed in silence and nature, is where my inner world surfaces, where both dark and light show up. Sparks of inspiration igniting poetry, photography,illustrations. A heart expressing itself freely, abundantly, is how I know I'm on my way home

Poetry is more than a collection of words. Poetry elevates our soul and improves the quality of our life.

It deepens and renews the very thing that makes us human; our limitless imagination. Imagination is the foundation our society has been built on. And the more we imagine, the more passionate we become... and that is the greatest virtue of all

So many things I want to write down, but I can’t find the words. I can’t say to you, my dear friend, how grateful I am to know you and how afraid you won’t be there to catch me, the next time I fall, or even more afraid I will let you down when you need me.

Oh, wait, I do have a couple of words to describe how I feel!

4 AM Poems is a collection of many emotions and events. The good times, but also the bad. Love and suffering, friendship and hatred, nature and nightmare. What does a person think when he is still awake at four in the morning? If writing is a way of processing, then this collection is a collection of descriptions for the thoughts, feelings and formative phase that every young adult goes through. Everyday events written to take you to a different way of thinking, and even to completely differe...

Aad van der Klaauw, librarian in the Netherlands, lives in Staphorst. A small village in the province Overijssel.

Taste me Words Poems published on the world’s largest poetry site Allpoetry.

Poems about the seasons, strong people like Nadia Murad, religion, countries and other themes. Read my lines, taste my words.

Lydia Muijen has worked and lived both in the US and the Netherlands. In 2000 she acted in her first theatrical performance in Florida, where she was casted as Syra in the Merchant by Plautus. After having moved back to the Netherlands in 2001 she and six other friends set up a student based theatre group called ToCo. After having completed her MA and MSc she moved to Los Angeles. Theatrical productions include The Taming of the Shrew, Not to be the Shakespearean Death Project and the Pillow ...

“Born For This” is a collection of poetry, written over the course of three years, by author and beauty queen Alissa van der Lei. Alissa van der Lei was born on June 12th 2001 in Rottevalle, a small town in the North of the Netherlands. For as long as she can remember she wanted to be a writer, and when she was only eleven years old she published her first book, followed by the second one when she was thirteen. What she loves most about writing is how it can be an escape from reality, and...

‘The benevolent soul’ is een gedichtenbundel met 50 Engelse gedichtjes. Geschreven vanuit ‘The Benevolent Soul’, wat symbool staat voor de ultieme naaste.

Er zijn periodes in je leven waar je door de ‘donkere tunnel’ moet. Periodes waarin je voelt dat je wordt overvallen door angst en twijfel. De plek waar het pikzwart is en je iets of iemand naast je verlangt om je hand vast te houden: een ‘Benevolent soul’. Iemand die ervoor zorgt dat je in staat bent om te springen. De ult...