MARIAN EIKELHOF

 

MARIAN EIKELHOF

 

One Day

 

Promise

 

I clean up my life

 

find you in my backyard

 

smiling at me

 

picking roses

 

being in love

 

 

 

 

Love In Times Of A Pandemic

 

And the virus came

 

like a black tornado

 

it took away

 

my love

 

my life

 

And all I could do

 

was wake up from the waves

 

as if I never lived before

 

as if I had my very first date

 

with time.

 

 

 

 

Poem For My Brother

 

I died several times but never before it was together with you…

 

 

My dear brother

 

through the windows of my past

 

I can still see your face

 

Just wish I could draw every line

 

every shade

 

save the memory

 

from the spinning wheels of time

 

before it fades.

 

MARIAN EIKELHOF

 

MARIAN EIKELHOF was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in the year 1963. She is a poet who works in her daily life as a psychologist. Her work inspires her to write about the emotional aspects of life. Not only she describes feelings of love, intimacy and desire, but also she reflects about states of profound sadness and feelings of emptiness. On the whole she criticizes dehumanisation and an ongoing process of alienation in human relationships. Marian’s poetry book “a zero hour contract with life” has been translated from Dutch into English and Turkish. For children who are being bullied, she wrote the book “Lekker Boeiend!” (“I am not impressed!”) and together with her sister Els Eikelhof she has written the manual “Feel yourself Okay” for teachers guiding children with a disability. Her poems have been published by several prestigious magazines and Marian is a peace activist defending humanity by attending poetry festivals in Europe and Latin America.