AND YET… I LOVE YOU (A Mangyan poem) * It is difficult for me to think of you because between you and between me is the vast sea

THE OFFICE I have a table. I can write I have a table. I have a chair. I can write I have a chair. Even more: I have

Picture Germain Droogenbroodt   Unconcerned rosy announcing upcoming spring apricot blossoms Germain Droogenbroodt

Like a nightingale resounds the graceful sing-song  of the mountain stream Do not doubt about the anchorage of spring the flood brings flowers Climbing the mountain dazzling beauty

Dante’s Cave Velika Dolina, Skocjan Finally I came to the end of the world to a limestone cliff falling in pale steps and far below a pool somehow

                  DAWN Slowly the way a poem writes itself daybreak comes into being from nothing disposes of silence and brings

Poetry: a Bridge between Cultures Poetry & Music Recital in Elda (Spain) Introduction: Rafael Carcelén Poetry: Germain Droogenbroodt Guitar: Vicent Ballester Flute: Bart Bakker Poetry recital in Spanish

LIKE YOU Like you, I Iove life, the sweet enchantment of things, the heavenly landscape of January days. My blood too boils and I laugh through eyes that

IN WINTER In winter, the murderous death enters homes; it seeks the sister, the father, plays violin for them. But when the earth moves under the spade of

Love My soul was a light blue dress, the color of the sky; I left it on a rock by the sea and naked I came to you,