(for Annelize, in answer to Daniel Hugo)
Your sunny glance is brighter and more cheerful
than the riant suns, moons and stars in the universe
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(after Percy Bysshe Shelley)
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The poet that although trampled upon did dedicate himself to God I do see
the words of his "het schrijverke" stays with me
in the city dreams and prosperity and success everywhere is celebrated
but as a poet in his own time Guido Gezelle will stay humiliated
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Outside a mulberry tree hangs to the ground
but in my thoughts his odes do jump around,
inside where my feet creak on the floor
he wrote the poems that people do nowadays adore
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(for Annelize)
As if this summer is staying forever and do not pass away
with you I do want to live on each blessed sunny day,
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Dewdrops hang like diamonds on the web and sparkle in the light
where a small black spider do wait patiently for an insect,
between prickly pears, in this construction the weight of the spider rests
when the sun rise over the horizon in an open new day.
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Everything animate and inanimate heard his lire
while his music brought to the heart desire
his songs did enchant with great beauty
and did set the spirit and soul free
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(for Annelize, in answer to C. M. van den Heever)
A heart full of love does beat within me
and my feelings to you I must confess:
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Rosy her small finger points into the book
where we did the search for wild animals undertook
while like a small lion next to me she does growl
and with bended fingers she hoots like an owl,
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With two soft arms you did reach out to me
in your small dress in church I did a real fairy princess see,
undaunted you drove your own electric-car up and down
pass the barking dogs in the streets of the town
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