Annual Poems 

When a year has almost gone, thoughts about the past months find its way to paper in the form of poems. Often this is a sonnet. 

The English and the Dutch version are twins. Dutch was born first. Both are conceived by the same thoughts.

2022

Guess what bothers me upmost
These croakshows. Every day and night
With experts, neutral, left or right
Around a table, with a ‘host’

A crisis seems no problem but almost
A perfect reason for a fight
To win with words in black and white
Or with a so called friendly roast

Their aim: collecting blind support
And followers, for their own sake
But not to solve or help our Lord

Let’s stop this waste of time and make
Those useless talkshows be ignored
Dear You! You are too good for fake...

2021

The twentytwentyone year ‘s almost set
Global temperature got higher, that’s for sure
Viruses mutated through the alphabet
Rich became more rich, the poor more poor

Good News from Glasgow: it will take a while
But Mother Earth is going to recover
She will be healthy and we’ll see her smile
Clean blue will be the sky above her

There is just one more thing to say
Economists, professionally and wise
Agreed with Nature on a way

To pay the Earth’s recovery price
avoid again mistakes in Paradise
So Mankind cannot stay...

2020

The twentytwentyone year ‘s almost set
Global temperature got higher, that’s for sure
Viruses mutated through the alphabet
Rich became more rich, the poor more poor

Good News from Glasgow: it will take a while
But Mother Earth is going to recover
She will be healthy and Life make her smile
And the same will do the sky above her

There is just one more thing to say
Economists, professionally and wise
Agreed with Nature on a way

To pay the Earth’s recovery price
avoid again mistakes in Paradise
So Mankind cannot stay...

2019

Christmas time and then New Year
Days of contemplation, redirecting
For a brand new chance, new ways of acting
And more meeting without fear.

Sometimes, later, in again December
Happiness is hard to find
Sad events, not only luck in mind
Failure is it people do remember...

Wishes, better stop exchange them any more?
Happiness: is it a false concept?
Is peace an old-times ancient dinosaur?

No, actually it is no secret to be kept
If you want happiness, open your inner door
And share the pain Life gave us to accept...

2018

I know a Mother, who is ill
A virus is now quite agressive
And there is no easy pill.

Pharmacists say: we’ll not make
The medicin. It’s for one patient?
Sorry, our money is at stake.

So, dear Mother, please don’t fear
Your medicin will be a fever,
Makes the virus dissappear.

Our dear Earth, yes we have got
You as the one and only Mother
Fever makes you way to hot.

Can we go viral and do good?
Maybe yes, we are creative!
There’s no choice, next year we should!

2016

Anger wants to hurt the other
It can never be the base
Of some peace on Earth, our mother
So let’s try just face to face?

2013

The most beautiful discovery
true friends make
is that they can grow separately
without growing apart.