Rijksscholengemeenschap Goeree- Overflakkee (RGO) te Middelharnis
Hanneke de Vries
Once
Upon a time
There was this skunk
who stunk his way up to heaven
with stink that stank for ever and ever
So that even his brethren didn't think they could
create such a stink as this little skunk ambitiously would
If ever you meet a skunk in that obvious state
Keep him from me I tell you straight
For I will not easily survive
A stinky kind of life
now or ever
Never!
Want to know what I'm like?
When I'm glad I smile
I whistle
When I'm sad I cry
I weep
When I'm mad I throw
I fling things
When I'm weird I blow
I swing
Then when I'm great I fly
I'm king
But when I'm down I droop
I frown
Normally I'm just so, so
Just thought you might want to know!
BEING
Once in a blue moon,
I get this urge to ponder
To set my spirit free
To reach for worlds of yonder
To feel myself lift off
To feign I'm nothing more
Then drops of rain
a grain of sand
a speck of dust
Without the urge to yearn for
No heart, no memory, no soul
No tugging of my conscience
Just peace and quiet all-around
With only nature's lasting sound
of waves that beat against the lands
of storms that move the shifting sands
a timeless ageless mindless thing
I just want me to BE therein
selfmade poem on the book "Waterland" by Graham Swift
Flatlands swerve and ponder until they meet a starkend sky.
Water runs and ripples sustaining creatures' hidden lives.
Ages pass and leave their burdened trails behind,
heavily secreted under silk and ancient times.
Birds with bellies swollen, fly over darkened skies that wound,
whilst women guard the past and future in the safety of their womb.
Lives will soar and fall, to plunge in deep pain and regret.
Willing us to remember, daring us to forget.
On these ruins will sprout new lives, draped in hope and glore
Made of innocence and needs of nature's never changing force.
Which will, as does the water, duly take it's natural course
And strip away this golden gift, this unbefitting lore.
Impending deeds that hold the plight, the failures and the loss
of future generations, who're unprepared for such high costs.
Where lowlands, hills or mountains shall tempt the skies above and on,
Man will dare and fight and challenge his bearers pre-laid run.
Never able to escape the bounding fabric of their making thus,
"History never ending", will have it's way with all of us
1."starkend sky": poetic liberty to express a naked stripped bare
sky
"sustaining": de life giving essence of water
Every age has it's problems and leave trails of them behind
2."birds" the bomber planes flying to Germany and bringing devastation
(wound)
Women will go on having children no matter what situation they find themselves
in (Natures natural course)
Life has regrets and pain in store, which you tend to remember more vividly
then the "Ups".
In life the past will constantly pop up in various ways (in personal life as
well as on a larger scale; history) and you are forced to deal with it. You
can't erase those facts or their consequences.
3."Glore" is a poetic liberty used instead of "glory" because
it sounded better in the sentence.
Growing up you start with the feeling that everything is possible and you are
invincible (based on fairy tales and lore, speaking of heroism, the good always
wins, true love etc.)As you grow older you learn that they are illusions. You
realise; you are just as fallible as the next person because you are driven
by the same basic needs and drives as every body else. Hence the comparison
to water; it will go its natural way eventually as will our lives due to our
basic natural instincts.
4. Things you do have consequences for your offspring. They pay the price of misdeeds done by their forefathers because they are linked to them genetically and in society ("the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the sons").
5.Man is determined by his genes and where and how he was raised. In puberty
and adolescence you will generally fight this because you want to make your
own life; different from your parents or from where you come from. Getting older
you notice you have the same traits as your parents and the influence of where
and how you were raised colour your way of living and thinking, and you learn
to accept that.
Major events like wars, disasters, political changes etc on which you have no influence as an individual will also dictate large parts of your life and the way you live it. There is no escaping these influences, either personal or on a larger scale in the world, they will eventually form History