Author: whadmin

  • Kindle

    Kindle Help, I need a Kindle For my books are on a spindle Meticulously stacked on a shelve So neat, it must have been the work of an elf However these are the modern times Where the bell not tolls but chimes I doubt any elf rhymes While dusting books in vintage soukhs For the…

  • Illusion

    I was there with you Upon the steps of the cathedral In the twilight Dripping of Christ Of the stars, Of the sun. I was there with you Upon the sand Waves of foam crashing at our heels. What has come has gone to the sky. And, what has come of it? Nothing short of…

  • In Response to Plutarch

    Play me through Pan’s pipes To soft, from memories fall In haunting echoes of desire. Pan lives! His magick reeds yet call Lover’s wings to even higher ecstasies Than Love’s brief flight… And sighs refrain its mist and fire. Pan is the song of Love’s delight That plays through lover’s memories In measure eternal. Play…

  • Shine for Me

    I’m tired. Much too depleted for this, too spent for Love’s antics, I know why the task is left to the young, who are forever in pursuit of the next Big Adventure, while I sigh in contemplation with the complacence of middle-age. Too much passion has worn me thin; too many years of dwelling in…

  • Diagnosis Alzheimer’s …

    Every morning my boss attempts to wake me up by pushing a button, making me start up for the day ahead. Alas, today… bleep… I am just about to make it, then suddenly I am stuck for I … bleep … to start my friendly boss’s machine, thingy … I do not know what it…

  • Gedicht voor Pa

    Poem written in Dutch, in remembrance of my father (1927-2010) also to be found in the local undertaker’s portfolio of suitable poems Pa, Je leven begon even voor de jaren dertig Als kleuter was je toen drie Aan de hand van Bomma Victorine Ging je graag naar tekenfilms zien. Met Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck en…

  • Acceptance of war

    Acceptance of war. “Man…. homo sapiens? More like Homo stupidissimo. We have learned… nothing. Man and his endless wars. Endless. “ This was a comment made by Francis Meyrick on the YouTube video M*A*S*H Opening Song & Slideshow, to which I replied: “See? You have learned something! War is endless, it’s normal. War is even…

  • Writing in a language that is not your mother tongue.

    Writing in a language that is not your mother tongue English is not my native language. I started writing in English after having ordered pork chops and steak at a local Flemish butcher. A few hours earlier, I had passed my practical English grammar exam at the local university. Luckily, the man possessed a sense…

  • Chapter 2 – That eerie feeling

    Chapter 2: That eerie feeling Peter and Annie did not think too much of it when all of a sudden a little twig blew under the canvas of their tent. After all, they found themselves in the middle of the woods. It would be strange not to find any twigs in your tent or would…

  • The day the wind lay down – Chapter 1 – Enjoying the silence

    Peter and Annie were still snoozing in bed when they were gently awoken by the soft sunlight and the clear blue sky entering their bedroom… As Peter was in one of his more romantic moods, he thought it would be a nice day for an old fashioned romantic picnic. Looking lovingly at Annie, still sound…