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on growing older
10/30/26
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9/30/26
For Judy, aged 50
9/25/26
Morning in Amsterdam
9/24/26
Till I end my song
8/31/26
The curl of words
8/8/26
Slivers of sunlight
7/30/26
Rage against the dying of the light
7/7/26
Wordsworth again
6/17/26
Hope
6/17/26
The Nun's song
6/17/26
Dutch song for freedom
For Liberation Day 2026
5/6/26
Ramadan / Lent 2026
as time passes...
4/13/26
Holy Week 2026
4/3/26
Another Gerontion
After reading T.S. Eliot
2/2/26
Old year 2025
12/31/25
After 45 years
12/18/25
Poem for the world
12/11/25
New Songs for Mary, in 2025
12/1/25
Old women in supermarket
10/27/25
Remembering my small son at bedtime
10/1/25
Singing through the night
9/14/25
Poem about Kindness
8/29/25
For Anna A Birthday greeting
7/26/25
Yara aged 14
6/18/25
Waiting for Whitsun
6/1/25
Mayday resurrections
5/1/25
Spring in South Holland
3/29/25
Song for the end of the world
3/29/25
Ridiculous rhyme
2/9/25
New Year 2025
1/9/25
For a new year
1/1/25
We are Europeans
12/18/24
Then and now
12/10/24
Trees
11/13/24
Rejoice, whatever
10/20/24
The skin: When washing, pause a moment
9/15/24
Zwei Amseln
German of W's poem "Two Blackbirds"
9/9/24
A dream
9/1/24
when Pentecost was past
5/26/24
The garden
5/1/24
About resurrections and so forth
4/20/24
Poem for the new year 2024
1/5/24
For my husband
12/1/23
Lamentations
11/14/23
Meandering
10/13/23
Visit from small friend
10/12/23
For Gaenor, 2023
9/29/23
About resurrections
9/28/23
For Donald, at 85
9/24/23
Celadon tea set
9/1/23
For Amal at 60 years..
6/7/23
Especially for Elio
6/3/23
Palm Monday, 2023
4/20/23
Another house
4/10/23
Song of complaint
3/30/23
Last words for Tom (or Michael)
3/1/23
Considerations on the death of Remco Campert, Dutch poet and writer
7/5/22
August in Oegstgeest
8/13/21
For Gaenor
7/15/21
For Lance and Sally, with huge thanks
6/2/21
The baroque cello
2/23/21
The first of February 2021
2/1/21
Daniel’s birthday 2020
10/14/20
The boat and Dany
6/20/20
For you aged 56
1/13/20
Rehabiltiation
1/1/20
David's birthday cake
12/2/19
Ash Wednesday on the Atlantic coast of Brittany
3/6/19
For Jenny, as life goes on...
9/10/18
The Gull’s Meal
4/29/18
Fado songs
11/20/17
Story for Nathan
10/11/17
So far untitled
9/19/17
Poem in time of death
7/23/17
In the jungle
1/11/17
Some thoughts in Seville Cathedral
3/3/16
Poem for Daniel
10/14/15
The mathematician-engineer
6/1/15
So boring, in Bari...
11/14/14
Always my darling
9/25/14
July writings, 2014
7/20/14
Written especially for Judy
7/7/14
Seeing the island of Itaki from the sea
6/24/14
Thoughts in Finike marina, Turkey, mid-March 2014
3/15/14
Turkish scenes; ten years’ sailing in the Mediterranean
2/12/14
For Luc
12/9/13
For Jane & Rafael, Greta and Oliver
7/31/13
Intimations
11/13/12
Poems from Paradise Bay
9/19/12
Pondering in Tuscany
8/18/12
Quiet thoughts in the Marche, Italy
7/27/12
What I learned in Greece
7/27/12
Noon in Urbisaglia
7/27/12
Poem about a possible handicap
7/22/12
Isaak
6/1/12
The sea near Ithaca
5/29/12
Above Lake Como, Italy
Written with cousin Nomi on holiday
5/12/12
For Naomi
12/10/11
Returning to Italy, summer 2011
8/16/11
Still Trying (a struggle with words…)
7/17/11
Sonnet for 2009
11/20/09
The Irish Sea Saga
Four weeks at sea
8/16/06
Two Blackbirds
9/9/04
Young limbs, old(ish) lives
5/24/04
Israel, april 2002, and later
12/10/02
Penelope’s Song
11/11/01
Escape to Amsterdam
uncovering one's past
10/11/01
To a newborn daughter
3/10/01
Leaving Chaya in California, and whats stays
3/1/01
For my neighbour in Amsterdam
3/1/01
Into the lion's jaws
2/3/01
20th century sabbatical in California
1/2/01
User-unfriendly
11/28/00
Remembering my father
11/11/00
Poem praising everything
By my friend Chaya, who lives in California
2/14/99
Hot flashes
1/26/99
For Anne
11/28/98
Looking out the window
2/11/98
On top
8/31/97
The god Amun
8/30/97
Hills and succour
7/10/97
Restoration work
4/10/97
Equilibrium
4/4/97
Millstones
4/2/97
My cat Jane
for everyone who knows a cat...
3/25/97
Naomi's song
3/12/97
Mid-life
2/7/97
The one of great price
1/15/97
Dark night
12/2/96
Winter in Amsterdam, 1996
3/20/96
Song for St Valentine's Day
2/14/96
Poem for a Young Man
2/14/96
Confusion
11/18/95
Lullaby
11/14/95
Smoke in the sky
5/22/95
A Wedding Song
6/9/93
George Steiner
Poets' immortality
11/18/88
Children
7/22/88
You were the one
7/10/88
Bright morning
2/9/88
For my love
2/14/87
Poems for Daniel, my small son
4/3/86
Being 80 years in the forests of the night
1/10/86
My daughter calls me Mutti
12/18/85
The pianist
12/9/84
Home
2/9/84
Partings
2/9/84
For VW, and many others
4/11/82
For You
9/1/81
Conversations
5/4/75
A collage for Mr Bear
2/2/73
A song for the winter
Translation from a Dutch poem by Huub Oosterhuis
3/2/71
Translations from Dutch
Poems by Huub Oosterhuis
1/1/70
For a lost love
2/2/64
Considering King Lear and others
2/2/62
Troubled teenager
Definitely Juvenilia!!
3/11/61
Letter to my father
written aged 10 years, to Dad in Canada
12/22/53
Topics
All
1990s
Other
Prose
Translations
Recent
Travel
Sadness
People
Juvenilia
1980s
All poems
on growing older
10/30/26
Being loved
9/30/26
For Judy, aged 50
9/25/26
Morning in Amsterdam
9/24/26
Till I end my song
8/31/26
The curl of words
8/8/26
Slivers of sunlight
7/30/26
Rage against the dying of the light
7/7/26
Wordsworth again
6/17/26
Hope
6/17/26
The Nun's song
6/17/26
Dutch song for freedom
For Liberation Day 2026
5/6/26
Ramadan / Lent 2026
as time passes...
4/13/26
Holy Week 2026
4/3/26
Another Gerontion
After reading T.S. Eliot
2/2/26
Old year 2025
12/31/25
After 45 years
12/18/25
Poem for the world
12/11/25
New Songs for Mary, in 2025
12/1/25
Old women in supermarket
10/27/25
Remembering my small son at bedtime
10/1/25
Singing through the night
9/14/25
Poem about Kindness
8/29/25
For Anna A Birthday greeting
7/26/25
Yara aged 14
6/18/25
Waiting for Whitsun
6/1/25
Mayday resurrections
5/1/25
Spring in South Holland
3/29/25
Song for the end of the world
3/29/25
Ridiculous rhyme
2/9/25
New Year 2025
1/9/25
For a new year
1/1/25
We are Europeans
12/18/24
Then and now
12/10/24
Trees
11/13/24
Rejoice, whatever
10/20/24
The skin: When washing, pause a moment
9/15/24
Zwei Amseln
German of W's poem "Two Blackbirds"
9/9/24
A dream
9/1/24
when Pentecost was past
5/26/24
The garden
5/1/24
About resurrections and so forth
4/20/24
Poem for the new year 2024
1/5/24
For my husband
12/1/23
Lamentations
11/14/23
Meandering
10/13/23
Visit from small friend
10/12/23
For Gaenor, 2023
9/29/23
About resurrections
9/28/23
For Donald, at 85
9/24/23
Celadon tea set
9/1/23
For Amal at 60 years..
6/7/23
Especially for Elio
6/3/23
Palm Monday, 2023
4/20/23
Another house
4/10/23
Song of complaint
3/30/23
Last words for Tom (or Michael)
3/1/23
Considerations on the death of Remco Campert, Dutch poet and writer
7/5/22
August in Oegstgeest
8/13/21
For Gaenor
7/15/21
For Lance and Sally, with huge thanks
6/2/21
The baroque cello
2/23/21
The first of February 2021
2/1/21
Daniel’s birthday 2020
10/14/20
The boat and Dany
6/20/20
For you aged 56
1/13/20
Rehabiltiation
1/1/20
David's birthday cake
12/2/19
Ash Wednesday on the Atlantic coast of Brittany
3/6/19
For Jenny, as life goes on...
9/10/18
The Gull’s Meal
4/29/18
Fado songs
11/20/17
Story for Nathan
10/11/17
So far untitled
9/19/17
Poem in time of death
7/23/17
In the jungle
1/11/17
Some thoughts in Seville Cathedral
3/3/16
Poem for Daniel
10/14/15
The mathematician-engineer
6/1/15
So boring, in Bari...
11/14/14
Always my darling
9/25/14
July writings, 2014
7/20/14
Written especially for Judy
7/7/14
Seeing the island of Itaki from the sea
6/24/14
Thoughts in Finike marina, Turkey, mid-March 2014
3/15/14
Turkish scenes; ten years’ sailing in the Mediterranean
2/12/14
For Luc
12/9/13
For Jane & Rafael, Greta and Oliver
7/31/13
Intimations
11/13/12
Poems from Paradise Bay
9/19/12
Pondering in Tuscany
8/18/12
Quiet thoughts in the Marche, Italy
7/27/12
What I learned in Greece
7/27/12
Noon in Urbisaglia
7/27/12
Poem about a possible handicap
7/22/12
Isaak
6/1/12
The sea near Ithaca
5/29/12
Above Lake Como, Italy
Written with cousin Nomi on holiday
5/12/12
For Naomi
12/10/11
Returning to Italy, summer 2011
8/16/11
Still Trying (a struggle with words…)
7/17/11
Sonnet for 2009
11/20/09
The Irish Sea Saga
Four weeks at sea
8/16/06
Two Blackbirds
9/9/04
Young limbs, old(ish) lives
5/24/04
Israel, april 2002, and later
12/10/02
Penelope’s Song
11/11/01
Escape to Amsterdam
uncovering one's past
10/11/01
To a newborn daughter
3/10/01
Leaving Chaya in California, and whats stays
3/1/01
For my neighbour in Amsterdam
3/1/01
Into the lion's jaws
2/3/01
20th century sabbatical in California
1/2/01
User-unfriendly
11/28/00
Remembering my father
11/11/00
Poem praising everything
By my friend Chaya, who lives in California
2/14/99
Hot flashes
1/26/99
For Anne
11/28/98
Looking out the window
2/11/98
On top
8/31/97
The god Amun
8/30/97
Hills and succour
7/10/97
Restoration work
4/10/97
Equilibrium
4/4/97
Millstones
4/2/97
My cat Jane
for everyone who knows a cat...
3/25/97
Naomi's song
3/12/97
Mid-life
2/7/97
The one of great price
1/15/97
Dark night
12/2/96
Winter in Amsterdam, 1996
3/20/96
Song for St Valentine's Day
2/14/96
Poem for a Young Man
2/14/96
Confusion
11/18/95
Lullaby
11/14/95
Smoke in the sky
5/22/95
A Wedding Song
6/9/93
George Steiner
Poets' immortality
11/18/88
Children
7/22/88
You were the one
7/10/88
Bright morning
2/9/88
For my love
2/14/87
Poems for Daniel, my small son
4/3/86
Being 80 years in the forests of the night
1/10/86
My daughter calls me Mutti
12/18/85
The pianist
12/9/84
Home
2/9/84
Partings
2/9/84
For VW, and many others
4/11/82
For You
9/1/81
Conversations
5/4/75
A collage for Mr Bear
2/2/73
A song for the winter
Translation from a Dutch poem by Huub Oosterhuis
3/2/71
Translations from Dutch
Poems by Huub Oosterhuis
1/1/70
For a lost love
2/2/64
Considering King Lear and others
2/2/62
Troubled teenager
Definitely Juvenilia!!
3/11/61
Letter to my father
written aged 10 years, to Dad in Canada
12/22/53
Topics
All
1990s
Other
Prose
Translations
Recent
Travel
Sadness
People
Juvenilia
1980s
All poems
on growing older
10/30/26
Being loved
9/30/26
For Judy, aged 50
9/25/26
Morning in Amsterdam
9/24/26
Till I end my song
8/31/26
The curl of words
8/8/26
Slivers of sunlight
7/30/26
Rage against the dying of the light
7/7/26
Wordsworth again
6/17/26
Hope
6/17/26
The Nun's song
6/17/26
Dutch song for freedom
5/6/26
Ramadan / Lent 2026
4/13/26
Holy Week 2026
4/3/26
Another Gerontion
2/2/26
Old year 2025
12/31/25
After 45 years
12/18/25
Poem for the world
12/11/25
New Songs for Mary, in 2025
12/1/25
Old women in supermarket
10/27/25
Remembering my small son at bedtime
10/1/25
Singing through the night
9/14/25
Poem about Kindness
8/29/25
For Anna A Birthday greeting
7/26/25
Yara aged 14
6/18/25
Waiting for Whitsun
6/1/25
Mayday resurrections
5/1/25
Spring in South Holland
3/29/25
Song for the end of the world
3/29/25
Ridiculous rhyme
2/9/25
New Year 2025
1/9/25
For a new year
1/1/25
We are Europeans
12/18/24
Then and now
12/10/24
Trees
11/13/24
Rejoice, whatever
10/20/24
The skin: When washing, pause a moment
9/15/24
Zwei Amseln
9/9/24
A dream
9/1/24
when Pentecost was past
5/26/24
The garden
5/1/24
About resurrections and so forth
4/20/24
Poem for the new year 2024
1/5/24
For my husband
12/1/23
Lamentations
11/14/23
Meandering
10/13/23
Visit from small friend
10/12/23
For Gaenor, 2023
9/29/23
About resurrections
9/28/23
For Donald, at 85
9/24/23
Celadon tea set
9/1/23
For Amal at 60 years..
6/7/23
Especially for Elio
6/3/23
Palm Monday, 2023
4/20/23
Another house
4/10/23
Song of complaint
3/30/23
Last words for Tom (or Michael)
3/1/23
Considerations on the death of Remco Campert, Dutch poet and writer
7/5/22
August in Oegstgeest
8/13/21
For Gaenor
7/15/21
For Lance and Sally, with huge thanks
6/2/21
The baroque cello
2/23/21
The first of February 2021
2/1/21
Daniel’s birthday 2020
10/14/20
The boat and Dany
6/20/20
For you aged 56
1/13/20
Rehabiltiation
1/1/20
David's birthday cake
12/2/19
Ash Wednesday on the Atlantic coast of Brittany
3/6/19
For Jenny, as life goes on...
9/10/18
The Gull’s Meal
4/29/18
Fado songs
11/20/17
Story for Nathan
10/11/17
So far untitled
9/19/17
Poem in time of death
7/23/17
In the jungle
1/11/17
Some thoughts in Seville Cathedral
3/3/16
Poem for Daniel
10/14/15
The mathematician-engineer
6/1/15
So boring, in Bari...
11/14/14
Always my darling
9/25/14
July writings, 2014
7/20/14
Written especially for Judy
7/7/14
Seeing the island of Itaki from the sea
6/24/14
Thoughts in Finike marina, Turkey, mid-March 2014
3/15/14
Turkish scenes; ten years’ sailing in the Mediterranean
2/12/14
For Luc
12/9/13
For Jane & Rafael, Greta and Oliver
7/31/13
Intimations
11/13/12
Poems from Paradise Bay
9/19/12
Pondering in Tuscany
8/18/12
Quiet thoughts in the Marche, Italy
7/27/12
What I learned in Greece
7/27/12
Noon in Urbisaglia
7/27/12
Poem about a possible handicap
7/22/12
Isaak
6/1/12
The sea near Ithaca
5/29/12
Above Lake Como, Italy
5/12/12
For Naomi
12/10/11
Returning to Italy, summer 2011
8/16/11
Still Trying (a struggle with words…)
7/17/11
Sonnet for 2009
11/20/09
The Irish Sea Saga
8/16/06
Two Blackbirds
9/9/04
Young limbs, old(ish) lives
5/24/04
Israel, april 2002, and later
12/10/02
Penelope’s Song
11/11/01
Escape to Amsterdam
10/11/01
To a newborn daughter
3/10/01
Leaving Chaya in California, and whats stays
3/1/01
For my neighbour in Amsterdam
3/1/01
Into the lion's jaws
2/3/01
20th century sabbatical in California
1/2/01
User-unfriendly
11/28/00
Remembering my father
11/11/00
Poem praising everything
2/14/99
Hot flashes
1/26/99
For Anne
11/28/98
Looking out the window
2/11/98
On top
8/31/97
The god Amun
8/30/97
Hills and succour
7/10/97
Restoration work
4/10/97
Equilibrium
4/4/97
Millstones
4/2/97
My cat Jane
3/25/97
Naomi's song
3/12/97
Mid-life
2/7/97
The one of great price
1/15/97
Dark night
12/2/96
Winter in Amsterdam, 1996
3/20/96
Song for St Valentine's Day
2/14/96
Poem for a Young Man
2/14/96
Confusion
11/18/95
Lullaby
11/14/95
Smoke in the sky
5/22/95
A Wedding Song
6/9/93
George Steiner
11/18/88
Children
7/22/88
You were the one
7/10/88
Bright morning
2/9/88
For my love
2/14/87
Poems for Daniel, my small son
4/3/86
Being 80 years in the forests of the night
1/10/86
My daughter calls me Mutti
12/18/85
The pianist
12/9/84
Home
2/9/84
Partings
2/9/84
For VW, and many others
4/11/82
For You
9/1/81
Conversations
5/4/75
A collage for Mr Bear
2/2/73
A song for the winter
3/2/71
Translations from Dutch
1/1/70
For a lost love
2/2/64
Considering King Lear and others
2/2/62
Troubled teenager
3/11/61
Letter to my father
12/22/53
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