Beachy poetry
On this sweet June day, a poem inspired by my recent trip to Lanzarote. Famara Skin crisp as that time we drove down winding roads...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 301 min
Raspberry jam
Sometimes life is holding on to what is close A gift of homemade raspberry jam A poem that made me think of you Rose kombucha brewing...
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Joke De Roeck
Jan 91 min
I found a polaroid from years ago
With the happy faces of my friends staring at me and a heart wide awake, my pen poured a poem. An ode to sisterhood. These girls My world...
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Joke De Roeck
Dec 22, 20231 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
Nov 13, 20231 min
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
Mar 19, 20231 min
Sundaydreaming
Late morning musings Patti Smith shirt Book of Days Sunshine balcony Bare feet Black coffee Grateful Dead Dreaming of New York in The...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 9, 20232 min
Procrastination queen
This third poetry book has been on my procrastination pile, mind and to do list where it has been collecting dust. To be a...
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Joke De Roeck
Dec 18, 20221 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
Oct 16, 20222 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, 20222 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
Sep 28, 20222 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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Joke De Roeck
Sep 18, 20221 min
End Of Summer Sunday
The rain wakes me Earlier than I would like But hey it’s Sunday and I have Absolutely no plans but to live Life in PJ’s read poetry cook...
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Joke De Roeck
Sep 13, 20221 min
Afternoon vinyl poetry
This afternoon I played that record where You sing remember the love we made Of course you’re not singing to me But now you’re asking I...
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Joke De Roeck
Sep 2, 20221 min
Sunkissed bliss
Sunkissed skin Bringing summer in Pouring golden glows Into my pores Time to pause No need to worry cause This is your holiday Working...
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Joke De Roeck
Aug 9, 20221 min
Nocturnes
Oh how the night changes life as we know it people are less aware shame vanishes, embarrassment is nonexistent dancing is the new...
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Joke De Roeck
Jul 30, 20221 min
Life's the road
Life's on a roll meeting people on a daily basis tagging along going places I wouldn't even know about if it wasn't for talking to...
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Joke De Roeck
Jul 22, 20221 min
Coffee lover
Make coffee as if you’re making love to me warm your hands as the heat rises the body of the plunger about to burst no need to let it...
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Joke De Roeck
Jul 3, 20222 min
Finishing things
I am a forever procrastinator, always living high up in the clouds and never ever finishing a thing. My therapist once suggested: just...
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Joke De Roeck
Jun 18, 20222 min
Poetic nerves
Last week I did something that scared me. It still makes me nervous thinking about it and it has been making me nervous for many years....
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Joke De Roeck
Jun 8, 20221 min
A poem for past us
Two years we roamed this earth together you and I from lands far apart finding each other at the end of the world just as it stopped...
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