Terror
Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, Ukraine…
It is, as if it were snowing
But what is falling is ash
A woman runs away
From her collapsing house
Carrying a child in her arms
Sirens wail deafeningly
But the child, the child
Does not cry anymore.
Unanswered
Restless and turbulent
like the sea against the rocks
are sometimes the thoughts
the questions about the meaning
and the why
about the origin
and the decay:
about being.
An autumn leaf
An autumn leaf
that has freed itself from its tree
with the help of the wind knows
that there is no return to its tree
but it does not grieve, and whirls
enjoying its short-lived flight
towards unification with the earth.
About the Author
Germain Droogenbroodt is an internationally appreciated poet. He has written short stories and literary reviews, but poetry is his forte’. He has so far published 17 volumes of poetry. As founder and editor of the Belgian publishing house POINT Editions (POetry INTernational) he has published more than eighty collections of mainly modern, international poetry; he has also organised and co-organised several international poetry festivals in Spain.
