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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 9, 20241 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 22, 20231 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Sep 13, 20221 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jul 22, 20221 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jun 8, 20221 min read
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Wild woman
She is a wild one No body knows Where nature ends and She starts Petals unfolding into A hurricane Skin shimmering in the moonlight Soft...
Joke De Roeck
May 2, 20221 min read
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Port wine in summertime
Girl I've been making love all night fell asleep to the taste of sweet port wine he made the sun set in my third eye all went dark until...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 19, 20221 min read
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You know what I love
You know what I love? Saying I love you Three days into knowing you Heart explosions Hard positions Intense everything Yes to anything...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 13, 20221 min read
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Reality begins single
Reality begins single whilst dwelling on one another and rejecting to live solo A few told me someone true unique and original (an...
Joke De Roeck
Feb 2, 20221 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Feb 1, 20221 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 31, 20221 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 30, 20221 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 29, 20221 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 28, 20221 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 17, 20211 min read
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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....
Joke De Roeck
Aug 28, 20212 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Aug 23, 20211 min read
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Good day
Morning light streaming in to our caravan’s delight cup of coffee warming hands feet wet on the grass we drink in the day get drunk on...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 29, 20211 min read
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Yes! Our book is heeeere!
Yippiieeee! POISON IVY, our book of poems and illustrations, is rrrready to roll, baby! Time to celebrate, somersault, handstand and...
Joke De Roeck
Mar 14, 20211 min read
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Birthing a book
It’s been a while oh yes indeed! Making my way from festival to festival, camping on beaches, visiting friends, road tripping soaking up...
Joke De Roeck
Feb 11, 20212 min read
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