Poems

2024

Revealed

The scent of the story draws an ancient stone path.  A path that reveals itself in light and shadow.

There is no searching, only being led. Following what cannot yet be spoken aloud.

For history holds still a while longer. Grounded and just. For now.

The power of repetition is a cosmic law. Blinded by self-made rights, Remains an outstretched hand refused.

Imposed laws of humanity crushing down. Attentively observing the chaos that is growing more chaotic. The power of repetition writes our history as the revealing path itself.

Humanity has yet learned not to listen, but to stare at the gate of its own front yard.


Revealed is part of a multimedia art work `Carrying the Land’

2023

Dance with me

Suddenly I am here. Without purpose. Guided by only momentum.

Forces whose existence I did not know. Rising from a scene of fundamental destruction. 

The old stones invite wandering through the history. Of long forgotten memories.

Delicate fragments of life fill the air.

A gust of wind and a bird fluttering away, as if the ruins whisper in the evening darkness. 

And I move along on its tones. In a dance to connect. Encompassing the story.

Determination slowly masters my first movements. The urge to dance through the hidden storylines. That I will come to understand.

Soon enough. If only I allow it.

Floating over the stones of the old ruin. The soft whispers between the walls are words. Words in stories of ancestors, caught in the unheard music in full loudness around me.

Dancing through time and space, deeper and deeper I merely flow. Old stories come to me to like new chapters. To the music of the cosmos.

And I ask you to dance with me.


Dance with me is part of a multimedia art work “Carrying the Land”


2024

The stars of Alentejo

The stars of Alentejo invited me.

First the tiny ones to shine from afar.

The magical ones soon to follow as bright lights in the night. As if to tell me. Stay!

Then enchanted by the falling. Flying through the night like a glimpse of my thoughts.

Grabbing the infinity. A wish.

The sun announces its rise. And delicate pale blue dims the night's adventures in the gently swaying waves.

The stars fade into the rising daylight to recharge. For a moment out of sight of yet another new day.


The Stars of Alentejo is part of a multimedia art work ‘Carrying the Land’