MARIAN EIKELHOF

MARIAN EIKELHOF

At The End Of The Day

She was looking right into the abyss

of her success

as it quite well showed the labyrinth

she was walking through

her fears and hopes

the boats she missed

fragments of the past

her little paradise

and finally the relativity

of it all

like a black orchid

in the late afternoon

like life

we all die.

One Day More

One day more

to walk through the unknown

one day more

to find back what is forgotten

one day more

for the words never spoken

one day more to forgive

the infinite sin

one day more

to express the

pain with no right to exist

one day more

to suffer

what I never suffered from

one day more

to laugh about my losses

one undefined day

is all I ask.

Just Around The Corner

As death dropped by this morning

for a coffee

I felt so safe

I felt so secure

in the waiting room for eternity

there was you

loads and loads of happy faces

a loving God

and behind the gate

my favourite coffeeshop.

MARIAN EIKELHOF

MARIAN EIKELHOF is a poet who works in her daily life as a psychologist leading her own consultancy firm, named Psychologisch Adviesbureau Ariadne. Her work inspires her to write about the emotional aspects of existence. Not only she describes feelings of love, intimacy and desire, but also she reflects in her poetry on sad, fragile experiences and she criticizes dehumanisation. Marian has recently published the second edition of her collection of Dutch poems titled “een nulurencontract met het leven” and a first edition of her English collection of poetry carrying the title “a zero-hour contract with life”. Marian is active furthermore active in defending human rights with a special emphasis on the empowerment of women internationally. To focus on the peace process with other poets she is continental director of Europe in the World Festival of Poetry and she has just started a foundation together with the Cuban writer Victor Hugo Perez Gallo, under the name “Foundation Literary International”. Marian is participating in the project “Salt Boundaries” organized, among others, by the Syrian poet Malak Soufi and poets of the WFP. The artistic project “Salt boundaries” strongly rejects the abhorrent situation of war refugees and has expressed this vital theme for humanity in poetry festivals that took subsequently place in Rome (Italy), Malaga (Spain) and will be highlighted again in Havana, Cuba. In the UNEAC (the union for writers and artists located in Havana, Cuba) the idea was born to defend humanity by seriously committing ourselves as artists to achieve a higher purpose by significantly helping the most vulnerable group of people on the world, namely the refugees, orphans and numerous victims of an inhumane war.