What lies beyond these mountains
rests within me, deep and low
an unspoiled valley
where mythical creatures
with unearthly motives
lead late travelers to their destiny.
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Beyond these mountains
What I want to tell my inner child
You are safe now I’m here.
Muscles grown, back straight, fists ready.
No one will harm you.
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Signs of life
After all these years you still don't know
how to live, just like every night you
seem to have forgotten how to fall asleep.
It feels indeed like falling
into the arms of the unknown
that you should have been
familiar with by now.
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How a Flemish street found its way to a Nigerian magazine
The Nigerian Libretto Magazine has published my short story Silent Night. The inspiration for this story comes from a street in Rapertingen (Hasselt) where residents put up a lot of Christmas decorations every year. Of course, I took the liberty of creating my own reality. Also, I gave the street a different name, so I can always claim that any similarity with existing facts or persons is purely coincidental.
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I just got published in Nigeria
My poems “Beyond these mountains,” “What I want to tell my inner child” and “Signs of life” were published in Writenow, an online literary publication based in Nigeria. That means that I can cross Africa off my wish list, after Europe, North America and Asia. Because secretly I want to publish all over the world – literally.
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