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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."  - Don Marquis
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation." - Robert Frost

Adult Poetry
All the works below from the Adult Collection - 'Marijke Alida - Selected Poetical Works 17-26 years'
Ah, be not proud, for thou wilt see
Gravely - who knows ?
Growing almost tired
How stupid in the wind
In this sea-pause tht chains me as its own
Kneeling, deep inhaled
O these things have lasted long for us
On a Grecian Urn
Roses in water die
The jewel that pulses in the throat
Through the ringing dust-groups
Upward-seeking, the Self
 
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Marijke AlidaMarijke Alida

Marijke Alida, married with 3 children, was born in Holland, grew up in Sydney North Shore and studied Languages, Philosophy,Psychology and post-graduate course on world religions at Sydney University.

She has held positions as Psychology counsellor, Natural Therapist, Art buyer, staff training Consultant and English teacher at business and technical Colleges for the Dept. Education and NSW  State Govt..

Marijke is an award-winning public speaker, established and taught at her own Public Speaking Academy S.C.C.S., spent many years teaching composition and presentation of speeches on a private/consultancy basis and she has conducted Youth Leadership training programs throughout schools in Sydney.

Her main interests are philosophy, spiritualism, psychology and natural health and her writing, for both children and adults, encompasses music, prose, drama and primarily, Poetry.

 selected Poetical Works 17-26 years

“Some poems are for the Voice, some for the Heart some for the Soul and some for the Mind, yet grand or simple, each may lead away and away ……… “.

Excerpts from  ‘Selected Poetical Works 17-26 years’ by Marijke Alida

“Most artistic endeavour, in whatever medium, if truly ‘Art’, is nothing more, nor less, than the successful recall and skilful expression of, inspirational experience.”

“Poetry is the expression in disciplined form, of what is remembered after flights of inspiration and the difficulty of its birthing process is partly due to the difficulty of remembering one’s experience during such ‘flights’.”

“Poetry, when either created or read, becomes a catalyst for expanding a person’s creative, immune, psychological, mental and spiritual, potential”

 “Please know here that one, either as a child or adult, does not need to fully understand a poem (as distinct from verse) in order to receive love, understanding, pleasure or learning, from it - for Poetry, being after all, the literary shell, merely, in which something wonderful and true is wrapped, that shell content can bypass its outer wrapping and speak directly to the heart, the brain and the soul.”