Smart Phone
In the waiting
room
sits a large
number of travelers.
With one notable
exception,
all of them are
busy
with a little
thing called smart phone
that fascinates
them all the time.
With two thumbs
at the same time
they write their
stories,
meaningful or
not they are written,
and sent out
into the world.
Only one person
does not write, but reads,
he reads a book.
Doesn’t he have
anything to say?
Artificial Intelligence
Rivers overflow
their banks
houses are
demolished
cars swept away
by the raging
waters:
man has
disrupted nature.
In vain
wisdom’s warning
words.
Would a chip,
implanted in the brain,
offer more
wisdom or even more blindness
and
indoctrination?
Lonely Goodbye
for those who,
wherever, have to die lonely
Chilly the room
the white walls.
Audible only
the echo of
loneliness.
Not a tender
word anymore,
no warm embrace.
Just the time,
a leaking tap,
ticking.
None knocking at
the door
nobody you
expect,
no one, except
death.
Peace Dove
for Ukraine & Gaza
It is raining
it is rains
sadness
For innocent
victims
for the
destruction of a country
for the escape
of murderous violence.
Hungry, a turtle
dove leaves
from the shelter
of her tree
Like a noose
the black ring
around her neck.
Recognition
Stacked on the
writing table, the books
multicolored,
large and small, thin and thick
poetry from all
over the world.
Peaceful words
waiting
for the
recognition, for the acceptance
of being
distinct and different,
to be allowed to
be themselves.
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT, was born 11 September 1944 in Rollegem, the Flemish part of
Belgium. In 1987 he moved to the Mediterranean artist village of Altea and
integrated in Spanish literary life. Germain Droogenbroodt is an
internationally appreciated poet, invited yearly at the most prestigious
international poetry festivals. He wrote short stories and literary reviews,
but mainly poetry, so far fourteen poetry books, published in 28 countries. He
is also translator, publisher, and promoter of modern international poetry. He
translated – he speaks six languages – more than thirty collections of German,
Italian, Spanish, Latin American, English and French poetry, including
anthologies of Bertolt Brecht, Mahmud Darwish, Reiner Kunze, Miguel Hernández,
José Ángel Valente, Francisco Brines and also rendered Arabic, Chinese,
Japanese, Persian and Korean poetry into Dutch. As founder and editor of the
Belgian publishing house POINT Editions (POetry INTernational) he published
more than eighty collections of mainly modern, international poetry. In 1996 he
set up a new poetic movement, called neo-sensacionismo with the famous Chinese
poets Bei Dao and Duo Duo. Germain Droogenbroodt organised and co-organised
several international poetry festivals in Spain. He is vice president of the
Academy Mihai Eminescu, organizing the International Poetry Festival Mihai
Eminescu in Craiova, Romania, co-founder, and advisor of JUNPA (Japan Universal
Poets Association), artistic advisor of the Italian movement Poetry &
Discovery, general counsel of the Chinese cultural Association Huifeng, International
Shanghai and is founding president of the Spanish cultural foundation ITHACA.
He also collaborates with the Italian poetry publication Margutte. His poetic
oeuvre is many-sided. After his début with “FORTY AT THE WALL” (1984), defined
as neo-romantic poetry, he published “Do you know the country?”, Meditations at
Lake Como (Italy), a collection of nature poems. In 1995 he was awarded a
Hawthornden Fellowship (Scotland) where he wrote “CONVERSATION WITH THE
HEREAFTER”, poems about death, awarded in Belgium with the P.G. Buckinx-Prize
and “PALPABLE ABSENCE”, a bilingual (Dutch Spanish) collection of love poems. A
critic of the Dutch Information Office for Libraries described his love poems
as “virtuoso poetry”. At the end of 1998 appeared “BETWEEN THE SILENCE OF YOUR
LIPS”, his collected love poems. During his sojourn at the Palace-Fortress
“Neemrana” in Rajasthan, 1998, he completed the poetry cycle “THE ROAD”, (read
TAO) a poetic bridge between the East and the West, inspiring the Flemish artist
Frans Minnaert and the Indian painter Satish Gupta, who enriched “The Road”
with their drawings. This philosophical, mystical poetry is so far his most
popular book, published already in 25 countries, according to the Icelandic
poet-critic Thór Stefansson prophetic, philosophic poetry, translated by such
famous poets as Bei Dao (Chinese), Fuad Rifka (Arabic), Jana Stroblova and
Josef Hruby (Czech), Milan Richter (Slovak), Emilio Coco, Luca Benassi and
Tiziana Orrù (Italian), Ganga Prasad Vimal (Hindi)…In 2001 he wrote in Spanish
“AMANECE EL CANTOR” (The Singer Awakes), a homage to the deceased poet José
Ángel Valente, followed by “COUNTERLIGHT” written in Ronda (Southern Spain) in
2002, published in Spain by Calima Ediciones, in Romania by ex Ponto, in Belgium
by POINT Editions, in both Mongolian languages by GCompress Co., Ltd.
Ulaanbaatar, in Arab by Albayat (Morocco), in Hong Kong by “Contemporary
Poetry”, and in Taiwan by Poet Culture. Corp. The latter publication includes
also “COUNTERLIGHT“. His poetry book “IN THE STREAM OF TIME, Meditations in the
Himalayas”, was published in 2008 in Belgium and as part of “Selected Poems by
Germain Droogenbroodt”, 2008 in Shanghai by the Shanghai Literature & Art
Publishing Group and in Spain, laureate of the XXIX Premio de Poesía Juan
Alcaide 2008. Struga Poetry Evenings also published “IN THE STREAM OF TIME” in
their prestigious “Pleiades” in 2010. The book was also translated in Japanese
and launched at the Kyoto City International Foundation in Kyoto, Japan in 2010
and in Gaelic (Irish) in 2012. A selection of his poems was also published in
Bengal in Bangladesh (2012 and 2015). “UNSHADOWED LIGHT”, was launched end 2012
in a bilingual Dutch-Spanish publication at the Book Fair in Antwerp and in
several Belgian towns and in Spain. “IN THE STREAM OF TIME, Meditations in the
Himalayas” was published in Romania in 2015. The anthology “THE DEWDROPS OF
DAWN”, a selection from 11 poetry books, was published with illustrations by
Satish Gupta in German, in Dutch and in Croatian (2014). “DEWDROPS”, a
selection of 100 haiku in Japanese, English, Spanish, and Dutch was published
by JUNPA, Kyoto, and launched in Japan end 2016. His last but one poetry book,
“THE EPHEMERAL FLOWER OF TIME” was published end 2016 in Dutch and Spanish and
in English (2017) and in 2021 in Serbia, in Japan and in China. “THE ORACLE OF
TIME”, published 2019 in the US. His last but one book “The Unrest of the Word”
was published Dutch-Spanish in Belgium and Holland and DANCING BUTTERFLY, his
second collection of haiku, as published end 2022 in Japan. THE ROAD OF BEING,
his latest poetry book, was published 2023 in Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile,
India, Holland, Pakistan and next in Albania and in Italy. Poetic Reflections,
his next book, honoured with the Fuente Vaqueros International Poetry Prize
(best of 500 international submissions) will be published end 2023 in Spanish.
Several famous artists made paintings and sculptures inspired by his poetry as
international composers composed music to poems, such as the Dutch composer
Bart Bakker who composed the “Germain Droogenbroodt cycle”, 12 pieces for
flute. Germain Droogenbroodt is yearly invited to give recitals and conferences
at universities and at the most prestigious poetry festivals around the world.
He was recommended for the Nobel prize of Literature 2017.
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