The need for softness
The need for poetry is greater than ever. I find crevices in words I want to escape in only to make sense of things. Never before did I...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 24
- 3 min
Autumn arrival
Last week was a funny one. The best way to explain the realm I was moving in is: jetlagged or in limbo between dream and reality,...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 7
- 2 min
Transformation
The first week of October lasted about a flutter of the eyelashes. So did the entire month of September. I guess that’s what it feels...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 16
- 2 min
Life and death
On Thursday I was in a rush to get out of the door to meet my love for our anniversary dinner. I wanted to write him a card and opened...
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Joke De Roeck
- Apr 20
- 2 min
Spring time juice
Spring has sprung, baby! Well, Valencia is more in a summer mood but I'm talking the start of something... Fresh! The city is drenched in...
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Joke De Roeck
- Mar 9
- 3 min
Holidays in the rain
When you live in Spain but your friends and fam live in Belgium, automatically your holidays will be spent… In Belgium. I know February...
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Joke De Roeck
- Feb 18
- 2 min
One year in Spain
Valencia! It’s been one year of living in you. You, glorious place made of dreams. Where scents of paella ambush your nostrils from every...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Travel memories and faraway friends
This week I had a drink with a friend I met exactly three years ago in New Zealand, at a festival called Kiwiburn that changed my life...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 10
- 2 min
My treasure chest
For nearly ten years we’ve been following this tradition now, my Brussels friends and I. We rent a house somewhere in the south of...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
2022 Reflections
‘Twas the night before Christmas, or not really. More like the night before my flight to Belgium where I instantly turned into a snow...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 18, 2022
- 1 min
A poetic reminder
To remind you I do write commissioned poems if that’s something you would like to gift yourself or someone else under the tree stars...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 3, 2022
- 2 min
New Zealand memories
If you know me a little bit or if you’ve been reading these posts sometime over the past ten years, you have probably figured out I’m a...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 7, 2022
- 3 min
A festival and a wedding: PART 2
The wedding After the funtastic festival that left me buzzing with delight, it was time to get back home to Valencia and scrub up for the...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 2, 2022
- 2 min
A festival and a wedding: PART 1
The first days of November are to remember those who have passed on to other realms and to reflect on death. I decided to do this by...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 24, 2022
- 2 min
To the Queen of Sass
No way. I just lit a candle – I still can’t light a candle without thinking of you and where you and your contagious flame might be...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
Blood on the dance floor
When you’re all out of chocolate but Young Fathers' Cocoa Sugar is blasting through the living room and the windows vibrate and the...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 16, 2022
- 2 min
Floating days and Death Cafes
It’s been a week of floating on fuzzy clouds, so high up hardly ever coming down. In the midst of poetry and friends warming my heart,...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 9, 2022
- 2 min
High on adrenaline and poetry
It’s been three days and my heart is still beating in fireworks. Thursday night I organised an evening of poetry and storytelling where I...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 5, 2022
- 1 min
Tuesday Night Black Ice Cream
Last night I saw Helado Negro performing his sweet tunes pouring them like warm oil in my ears I closed my eyes without thinking I was...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
A Night Of Poetry
Hello, lovers! What has everybody been up to and are you all just as excited as I am that AUTUMN IS HERE? This little troll is finally...
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