MARIAN EIKELHOF

MARIAN EIKELHOF

AT THE END OF THE DAY

she was looking right into the abyss of her success

as it quite well showed the labyrinth she was walking through

her fears and hopes

the boats she missed

fragments of the past

her little paradise

and finally the relativity of it all

like a black orchid in the late afternoon

like life.

we all die.

WHO SAID IT WOULD BE EASY….

Darling, I will not lower the price

just because it’s me

seven mountains it will be

catch me one or two tears

from paradise

tulips

yellow tulips

strawberry

ice cream

should you want me.

AS MY FRIEND SAID

Don't talk about your lost heart

the amount of cholesterol in your blood

how you found out

they cheated on you and

it made you so much stronger

strengthened your identity into

a new

wonderful you

you deserve so much better

you deserve the best in fact

interesting workshops

profound partnerships

spirituality

erotic adventure

unedited dreams

don't linger on and on about

your allergies

your futile tragedies

the fact

that you should think more

about yourself

that a lack of vegetables

appears to cause depression

laughing is good for your hair

the effects the meno pause

has on you

don't talk about that

my friend said

Talk about my war

hidden for the eye of the world

my loved ones are dying

life has a flat tyre

talk about that.

MARIAN EIKELHOF

MARIAN EIKELHOF is a poet who works in her daily life as a psychologist leading her own consultancy firm, named Psychologisch Adviesbureau Ariadne. Her work inspires her to write about the emotional aspects of existence. Not only she describes feelings of love, intimacy and desire, but also she reflects in her poetry on sad, fragile experiences and she criticizes dehumanisation. Marian has recently published the second edition of her collection of Dutch poems titled “een nulurencontract met het leven” and a first edition of her English collection of poetry carrying the title “a zero-hour contract with life”. This impressive book has recently been translated into Turkish by Mesut Şenol and published by the Artshop World Literature Platform in Istanbul, directed by Vedat Akdamar. Marian is active furthermore active in defending human rights with a special emphasis on the empowerment of women internationally. To focus on the peace process with other poets she is continental director of Europe in the World Festival of Poetry and she has just started a foundation together with the Cuban writer Victor Hugo Perez Gallo, under the name “Foundation Literary International”. Marian is participating in the project “Salt Boundaries” organized, among others, by the Syrian poet Malak Soufi and poets of the WFP. The artistic project “Salt boundaries” strongly rejects the abhorrent situation of war refugees and has expressed this vital theme for humanity in poetry festivals that took subsequently place in Rome (Italy), Malaga (Spain) and will be highlighted again in Havana, Cuba. In the UNEAC (the union for writers and artists located in Havana, Cuba) the idea was born to defend humanity by seriously committing ourselves as artists to achieve a higher purpose by significantly helping the most vulnerable group of people on the world, namely the refugees, orphans and numerous victims of an inhumane war.