September 26, 2015 the global poetry event “100Thousand Poets for Change” (100 thousand Poets for Change) took place in more than eight hundred cities located in over one hundred countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Here in Mondovì local poets joined…
I AM SEVENTY SEVEN I am Seventy Seven, yes, I am old as they say, grey hair, receding hair line and chin with folds but what shall I do to the moons in my eyes, the glint, the glow, the…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) MADIBA* Did you see the moon trembled? A leaf fell down the tree. I believed you could become a bridge Between me and the universe. I’m not colorful And I know I have bright rights written…
BEE LINES The golden bees are making sweet honey From all my old failures —Antonio Machado, transl. Robert Bly In a rough grass patch by a leaning silver birch these boxes left as if in mid-move two raised on a…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) WHO GIVES LIGHT When you look at me my eyes turn into keys, the wall has secrets, my fear has words, poems. Only you make out of my memory a fascinated traveller, an incessant fire. ***…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) It doesn’t stop`raining now and the noise which enters isn’t only of the water. Paolo Bertolani You never had white hair they were just threads fallen from your sweater I absently picked them up in the…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) SUNDAY REST No twitter no face book no emails no messages Smarter than the smartest smartphone: Silence. GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT Pognana, Lake Como, Italy, Sunday 7th June 2015 POINT Editions: poems from the world’s best known and unknown…
