GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

 

 

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?

 

Useless Prayers

 

So many calamities take place on earth

continually and increasingly plagued

by disasters and injustice,

although millions of prayers

are daily sent to heaven.

 

But which God, who speaks all those languages,

can give them a hearing, when it is man

who disrupts even the heavenly vault?

 

A Victim

 

Not yet closed

but wide-eyed

and full of horror

the eyes

pursed the lips

because time was too short

for a farewell greeting

for a last prayer.

 

In Vain

 

All day long

it thundered and lightninged

as if heaven wanted to knock

at whatever door to be heard,

concerned

about the downfall

not only of the climate

but also of humanity.

 

Hope

 

It is winter,

the chilly wind has torn off

the last leaves from the trees

which before were protection

and accommodation for the birds.

They shiver in the cold

but still whistle

because they also hope

for better times.

 

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

 

 

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT is an internationally known poet. He is also translator, publisher and promoter of modern international poetry. He wrote short stories and literary reviews, but mainly poetry, so far 18 books, published in 33 countries. As founder of the Belgian publishing house POINT Editions he published more than eighty collections of modern, international poetry, organised and co-organised several international poetry festivals in Spain, co-founder and advisor of JUNPA (Japan Universal Poets Association), general counsel of the Chinese cultural Association Huifeng, International Shanghai and founding president of the Spanish cultural foundation ITHACA. He also collaborates with several international poetry associations. Several famous artists, such as the Indian Satish Gupta, made paintings inspired by his poetry and also music was composed to his poems. He set up the internationally greatly appreciated project Poetry without Borders, publishing twice a month a modern poem from all over the world in + 40 languages. Germain Droogenbroodt visited countless times the Far East and studied Chinese philosophy which inspired his poetry. The Chinese pretend his poetry is Taoist, the Japanese who published five collections of his poetry, including two of haiku, pretend his poetry is ZEN. The Indian poet-publisher Thachom Poyil Rajeevan wrote about his poetry “Your poems have a serene depth of meaning and experience-a quality quite unparalleled in contemporary world poetry. Only Tagore in India comes near you in the way you meditate over words”. Germain Droogenbroodt received more than 30 international poetry awards and is yearly invited to give recitals and conferences at universities and at the most prestigious international poetry festivals, including at the I-Ching Congress in China. He was recommended for the Nobel prize of Literature 2017.