I'm ready to face reality!
Got my T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E dvd
went to foggin' privileged Uni 

Still remember the nights in Arizona;
making waves in Canada, Kelowna. 

Well I'm ready to face their truth:
When they say it began in youth. 

https://youtu.be/LewVEF2B_pM

"Vlog Flock-a-duck', said the TikTok"

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It's both good to receive and give

so make a goodie-bag and live!

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My Eternal Christmas Village has come true *sigh*

And there's still some room

for times to come

for me&you.

For me and you! 👪

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I feel like I should type you that I love you:

That there was no better way

then for us to go astray!

Like you I've known the many manny manifold lies

or things appeared as Science in a cleverly disguise. 

That are now proclaimed The Truth

and will later be disproved, untrue.

Again, like I wrote: it's for now the best we got.

The oldest living humans in ...

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Life has revealed itself:

from the spiralling unknown

to the homesteads 

in tall flats

digitally grown.

As I now find the ways

of life-sustaining days.

As I now find the days

of life-sustaining ways. 

May all poets thrive

in happiness alive!

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Just a week in advance, here's a smooth preparation:

For a Christmas Gathering (flawed like a human). 

A church group meeting, in a time

when community or just being offline

almost seems to be fleeting. 

Don't worry, I'm here for the merrybag of life!

With plenty of veggies to grow and thrive!

Poured in RonaldMcDonald reusables I borrowed (don't tell anyone)

This shoul...

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Are you the voice of loneliness?

Crying out for connection, 

in a world too large to fathom

did you grasp my love for sanity?

Did you clasp my hands to be longing?

Our lines still fine with friendship; 

Our hearts trembling to belong...

Still beating for human touch.

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Just g...

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I've done enough for others;

more than enough.

Especially for Earth.

Earth&Humanity. 

Blown many-a-whistle

crawled through thorn&thistle.

Basements and cellars in North-Holland are flooding...

Don't tell me that's not worth the news~!@#$%^&*

Just tell me, when did you forsake the truths

did you forsake the truce

for more bad news. 

So if these lands will ...

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This year I'm thankful

that there ís an Advent to celebrate

with documentaries about beautiful places

on Earth&Heaven, like Tibet.

And that I grew in the Church wisdom

of Christian, Catholic ecumenism. 

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I've reached the end of this journey

and it's been good.

I decided

that this is the end:

here is where I live,

here is where i die.

And at the end of the road

to come back home 

again as ever

and leave all sufferings outside.

I'm so young&naive

but this house&home I'll never leave!

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Día de las Velitas (Day of the Little Candles)

it's for us a whole new celebration.

She brought a little bit of Colombia

to us, and now we're family. 

So for you, a little bit of hope

set alight, like candles on a starry starry night. 

And to bring a little joy for tomorrows. 

This is love and it covers all our sorrows. 

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This was my last geopolitical stance.

I have given it all I can. 

I have found a kid so clever. 

I will teach him how to be a chef. 

That he knows the right stuff to find;

to nourish and feed humankind.

Like you I have given my all

for Earth, Humanity and All. 

So I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

And now from global affairs I'll depart!

https://youtu.be/0...

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Would you be okay?

If I'd type, not say,

we're all a bit 'agenda'

which rhymes with propaganda. 

And are you saturated?

Fully indoctrinated?

I really wouldn't know,

perhaps I'm also so. 

So brainwashing the last

perhaps the least of these, 

or maybe not so fast!

So is this information

brainwashing, propaganda, indoctrination? 

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I thought I'd been the victim of a cyber attack:

The screen stayed black and I couldn't get it back. 

So I spent all night in dread and fear:

wondering what to do, if the screen was through. 

It was just a loose wire, as you can see.

Fear and paranoia got the best of me. 

So the moral of the story: don't think so gory

Or did the pot make me lose the plot?

I'm back...

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I'm braggin' and showing off:

Here's to Sinterklaas preparations!

Tzatziki with traditional Dutch&Frisian bread;

A lovely traditional tartellette; 

And of course some sweets for our chewers,

bananas and grapes on saintly skewers :)

Got up early, before the sun.

The presence of Sinterklaas has just begun. 

Let the chicken soup be healing.

Come and join our happy feel...

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This is an ode to reason:

It's not very poetic either,

yet covered in chocolate chunks (how about that?!).

It's me, wanting a crisis, because it brings out the best in me. :S

Oddly, (and I'm an oddball), but I can't seem to "millennially"

fit into the social-media stereotype.

And you know: How I don't like judging; things I don't know or understand

but I judge, and I...

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I'm cozied up at home.
Lonely nor alone. 
The wind is howling happy
and I'm not feeling crappy!
The Psalms from Sons of Korah
are rhyming like the Torah! :D
And while wanderers may roam,
I am happily at home :D
And you may find me daft
But The Princess Of Europe Is Loved

https://youtu.be/ivPEKaBHjYA

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That good old hymn, in chorus sung:

Immortal words in notes prolonged

and even the foundations

of all united nations

will take me to the Nexus

of England and Its Language

where English has prevailed

through trials and justice, jailed.

We had to be revisioned;

our futures screen-envisioned

in the Episcope of Fond

I did not loose our bond

I have not lost our Bond!

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Love is alight like Fire,

I'm not really giving up!

Love is the brightest Sire,

happy to share its cup.

Love is the Sun in blossom

love is the Moon in bloom

Love is another season, seasons

with love as the happy room.

Seasons may come, and seasons may go

but love will forever in happiness flow. 

Love is alight like Rain

and I'm happy to love again :D

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I just saw a man on a bike with a cap

I thought it was Jan, my ol' neighbour chap.

It's seven years now when we just met,

not really bad neighbours, but more than that!

We learned to let go and we learned to accept:

live and let live and so the years crept.

Last year he went back to the heavens above

and four of us neighbors went there to show love.

His ex-wife still greets...

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I'm officially sick,

it's something with the lungs

or respiratory.

They even call it pulmonary!?

So let's make it official:

It's sick and superficial!

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From Nunavut to Patagonia,

You were Kalimdor, The Lost Continent

we had once traversed

across the Bering Strait

in what must have been cold times

to what Europeans would later call 'The Fourth Great Continent'

besides Europe, Asia and Africa

there is America. 

https://youtu.be/p_f0VGYW6Ns

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You conquered death itself,

and when Death lost its grip

All The Four Great Continents United

in one Large Collision

feeling your love charting through Geneva

surpassing the Speed of Light!

As our hearts tremble once more,

without begin; without end:

Like a European. 

You will always be part of Europe/Europa. 

Across the Entire World

without beginning nor end

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For the days woven in silken thread

and our love an adhesive DIY

when the times were money, and money spent

on a Disney Dance and a Poppin' Eye.

There we watched the movie with corn and tab;

yeah your bar was open and school a lab,

saw you dancin', fancin' the petri dish.

All the reefs were smiling, there were lots of fish. 

For the days we longed for some poppy l...

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Our house is on fire like a Donna Summer remix

and I'm not much better at conveying truth...

My accents suck in both French&English :S

So I party at home with Americas' youth!

Who signed the contract for futures together

a package deal and a job delivered.

But how can I explain it won't be in vain?

That we CAN save the forests from the pouring rain!

I thought of a...

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As it turns out, I don't mind 

having poetry as the one and only salvation

when I'm not at MacDonald's 

or chatting with ChatGPT.

It turns out I've settled in this rural town,

mural frown upon my brow;

When one plants wallseeds, what else to expect?!

Graffiti falls 

to the core, always to the center.

I'd decorate it with ivy. 

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Letting go should be a desert rain

drifting on this evaporation train

cutting itself to bloodflow

drippin' it on the solo

licking&tasting the shadow

hating myself, but mellow

Rhyme, Rhythm, Reason

warmer every season

https://youtu.be/k6eE3c70hgg

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I've decided

I'll focus on whatever survives

I don't care about words that 'thrive'

I'm not using up fossil fuels

nor cutting down trees.

You see, I've done all I can

to be better man.

A better human

https://youtu.be/1c4zWJf1vVo

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There's still hope in the church,

knowing full well we're not perfect

and seeking out repentance

for all wrongdoings.

Then one could still deny reality 

until it's too late. 

Throw out your moral compass

in favor of hate

and say it's our fate. 

Do what you should;

I don't have much else for good

https://youtu.be/XtHrdfayed8

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I will carry you

beyond the shores of infinite time

where love will clay our hearts

and even if we suffer

that suffering is fine

And you will carry me

And they will carry us

beyond ourselves

and you will be young again

And everything will be fine

https://youtu.be/awzNHuGqoMc

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Futile as I may be;

leaving a faltered legacy and

failing to capture 

into words

in English

the nature and truth of reality. 

Yet another attempt is made

Because the song Moonlight Shadow

by Mike Oldfield ft. Maggie Reilly

is worth loving life!

That I'd stab every PHILOSOPHER right in the heart

with ten fingers and still counting 

on you. 

How ...

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Do you know?

Can we reverse the Mass Extinction?

I'm just figuring it out. 

So let us know

what it's all about. 

https://youtu.be/V60gf6JcoPk

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Don't start a nuclear war.

Think about the children

All the human children. 

Don't start a nuclear war

Please use all your spies

And each and every device

To not start a nuclear war

Please end all the wars

But not with nuclear bombs

Let love feel you like a light

And poetry like an art

You don't start a nuclear war

That's not what Earth is for

...

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Would you tell anyone

If you used an impact drill

To drill the cork in a bottle of wine?

It could ruin a perfect rhyme

Would you tell anyone

You made an autumn space

Suitable for each season

With both rhyme nor reason

Would you tell anyone

You're happy to be noone

Even if it means someone

who knows language always rhymes

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You don't need love, but fashion

you don't need love, but drugs

You don't need hope, but money

you don't need sugar, honey.

When I see you suffer,

I hate being European;

As if all was arrogance

and all was everything

and all was nothing

Until the day 

suffering found its way

and decided to stay

In Nobel Norway

https://youtu.be/HWjCStB...

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World Alzheimer's Day leaves me incompetent

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It's not like Sonnets For Celebrities

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Delving deep, traumatic truths

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Children, grand children, great grand children

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My father suffered a stroke

And he still is the young bloke

he ever used to be

only his body refuses to see.

Our bond is good, albeit hard

at times we argue and discuss.

And sometimes sing, the bard

with the Jesus Christian fuss. 

He taught me 'bout Omar Khayyam

and these quatrains remain strong

in refrains of our secret song;

where we will stay forever y...

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I was just a kid.

Like a teenager, going on sixteen

but I still cry like a baby. 

Everyone in the supermarket was silent.

I didn't even dare 

to look.

That we can't fix the things 

no matter how hard we try.

When the best things

are good. 

Bye!

https://youtu.be/5EdmHSTwmWY

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The aroma of my neighbor's cooking creations; 

the sounds of the Northern Hemisphere

open up the door to familiar sensations

and lives that could forever be sustained around here.

Lia and I are making ready for winter,

but first there is the fall, with the pumpkin Halloweens.

While Tom&Lucero are preparing me dinner

the children slowly growing into adulthood teens. 

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I could play 'How Soon Is Now' by The Smiths

to honor Earth&Humanity, but I won't

because I'm not charmed

that this dystopia

This Dystopia

is glorified in cinema.

Why glorify suffering, your children are buffering

and streaming the next terrorism, genocide, war.

IS ISIS really worth fighting for?

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Do you remember us, too dear?

Shooting stardoms on the Hague and pier;

Were you the Entertainer, for I the Entertained

were wishful on a world where

all our lives are whole sustained!

Then it's nor wrong nor bad

and fair to question why!?

I think of idols, think of us

and how we took The Sky. 

I'm sorry if I'm fake (to you);

Forgive all my mistake

https://you...

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I took my Special Pokémon Trainers Guide

to an International European Chess Tournament.

Grazing the Austrian Alps

we knew we'd never be like Michael Phelps (at least I did)

but studying all the game mechanics, finishing fourth;

probably my prettiest power performance pride!

Back at home (on a sick note) I skipped class 😱 

to defeat The Pokémon League

and still be the best. 

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We grew up together;

these were cultural phenomena

and also... fun!

Teaching tools for fitting "fools"

in cross-cultural, multilingual settings

suitably adjusted for the faithful&trusted.

Who wants to learn about our customs?

So randomly ordered, conventions bordered

but seldom spoken, a wisdom token

and a gratitude gained:

While some things left, some things remained...

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For a couple of weeks I'd lost the fighting spirit

and the analogy'd gone lost

to find myself struggling again,

cast out 

but you'll have to keep on pushing

against their piercing pressures;

as they curse after curse in ignorance

and you'll rise against the tide once more,

hopefully as friends.

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Whether Arthouse or 3D,

it's all cinematography

and boy did we grow up!

Marvel at the cinema

where fantasy takes flight

and immerse yourselves in storylines;

Become the actors of your dreams

a new director so it seems.

It's time for new reflections

on cinematic actions.

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I only live for the world;

it has given me more than I

am or could ever be,

because it's whirled

could there be others

that aren't?

Or would they be lost in translation

by definition

in essence

to discover the Nature of Natures

within the frameworks of one human being.

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I thought it'd be a good time for announcements:

Dad, I'm not gonna succeed at Uni anymore.

Flashbacks: Dad shouting at me, 'do you wanna be NORMAL like that neighbour kid?'

I worked for Jamie Oliver, got him a good review. 

But in this country, you need a diploma for everything.

In these social circles, I'm still treated with contempt.

I thought the only way out was to scream an...

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The first baby steps

don't just go?!

It's all about precision...

Speaking of impatience,

but we don't hear with our ears open

nor listen with 'em closed. 

For this is us in an awkward authenticity

which is self-proclaimed, overly

outspoken our tokens of gratitude, repeat:

To try to defeat Defeat. Try to defeat-defeat. 

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I might be away for a while, or less frequently on Write Out Loud. 

I don't know. 

But I'm searching for a better way. 

Not the Vincent van Gogh craziness. 

Nor some bad social media influencer. 

Art and Artistry still seem somewhat stressful.

Just like The Whole Internet Online Experience.

But ChatGPT works well for me. 

I use it every day for advice. 

It will be good f...

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Once a proud soldier of Saddam

now you scurry to deliver curry with me.

One brother iced by ISIS

with an arm mangled by something. 

The Dutch Government gave us new lives

for honor to uphold virtuously.

Far away from the wars and genocides

we share our knowledge the offline way

as an effort to keep the terrorists away.

Growing up I must have thought more of this life.

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