Dusty roads
Take me away from here to a place where dusty roads touch the horizon sun sets in the late afternoon throwing stones shooting stars how...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 31, 2022
- 1 min
Full moon
Reading Gil Scott-Heron poems eating leftover pasta in bed red wine in a teacup 5 AM and I’m still up the late hours is where the magic...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 30, 2022
- 1 min
Carysfort of love
Can you hear the wood golden strings singing within same story different guitar you touch it like magic fingers made for this bringing us...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 29, 2022
- 1 min
Saturdays
Saturdays like Saturdays should be clouds of rain linger turn the garden into mist where the ocean used to be is a long queue of fog, one...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 28, 2022
- 1 min
His first impressions
His first Impressions of The world people Grandparents Uncles Aunts Everyone Exposed old impacts Of love Now he can research Other forms...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 27, 2022
- 1 min
To be weird
Sometimes I need to remind myself it’s okay to be strange awkward antisocial on a different planet in my own world I get that a lot so...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 23, 2022
- 2 min
Halfway
Can you believe I’m already halfway through my Belgian journey? Yes, you read it right: I’m not here to stay. That was never the plan. I...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 17, 2022
- 2 min
Freddie Mercury retrograde
Do you feel it too? How the world is turning, making my head spin, waking me up with a migraine and a hangover the size of a planet...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 9, 2022
- 1 min
Starting a new year in style
A yearly celebration with friends, all gathered together in one house in the south of Belgium for one sweet week. My favourite week of...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
Merry covid and a happy Bon Jovi!
Nothing says 'welcome to Belgium' more than getting covid two weeks after arriving. Seriously, how do people do it, living here and not...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 17, 2021
- 1 min
A poetic reminder
To remind you I do write commissioned poems if that’s something you’d like to gift yourself or someone else under the tree stars ceiling...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 16, 2021
- 2 min
The concept of home
What is home? Is something I’ve been asking myself and others for as long as I can remember. Flying back to Belgium is like coming home....
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
Flying home
It’s been hard to keep quiet but now I’m ready to open my mouth and yell it out: I’m back! In the tiny winter wonderland named Belgium....
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 22, 2021
- 2 min
Chez Jay dreaminess
After the retreat I soaked in a warm bath of friendship and saying YES to every possible event happening in this fresh start of NZ...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
The retreat
In the chaos of heartbreak and the whirlwind that is life, I found myself in the middle of rolling hills in the Coromandel, pitching my...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 12, 2021
- 2 min
Changing it up
I guess it had to happen. Something had to happen to kick my butt out of the most uncomfortably comfortable routine life I found myself...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 15, 2021
- 2 min
Rainy day dream come true
I don’t know if I can still blame lockdown, but I’m sucked into my phone more than ever. Social media for breakfast lunch dinner and what...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 5, 2021
- 2 min
Book thief
You did the best that you knew at the time. At the time of smashing my window, breaking into my little old granny car. Noticing the...
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Joke De Roeck
- Aug 28, 2021
- 2 min
Poetry busker
Have you ever had someone write you a poem in public? In the middle of the street or at a festival? I have and I absolutely loved it....
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Joke De Roeck
- Aug 23, 2021
- 1 min
Poetic itch
To all you gorgeous folk in lockdown and/or out in the open: if your itch for poetry has become too strong to handle, your yearning to...
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