Germain Droogenbroodt

 

Germain Droogenbroodt

 

I Will Write For You…

 

I will write for you a poem of love

when in the evening grey

an exhausted bird

vainly seeks

a place to sleep

I will write for you a poem of love

when the lantern of the moon

offers to the night

a glimpse of light

I will write for you a poem of love

when the sun paints with its red

the hope of dawn

I will write for you a poem of love

when a gentle breeze caresses

the wrinkled face

of the heart

I will write for you a poem of love

when so high in the sky

two clouds embrace

in a kiss of love.

 

 

 

Prayer

 

May my mind

be as pure

as this moment

of sunlight and blackbird voice

unworried

 

the why-

 

to which all replies fail

excepting that which in a multiplicity

of leaves and colours may offer:

the rose.

 

 

Last Verse

 

Of all verses ever written

I want to be for you the last verse

the last line, my light

my spring, my palpable life.

My fingers of satin

will play on the ivory of your body

and dance with your caressing fingers erotic tangos

and passionate sevillanas

Like sweet grapes of autumn

I will sift your hairs one by one

and sail on the deep lakes of your eyes

I will get drunk from their glints

and from the nectar of your mouth

and enter in your very own life.

 

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

 

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT is an internationally appreciated poet, translator, publisher and promoter of modern international poetry. He wrote short stories and literary reviews, but mainly poetry, so far 14 poetry books, published in 19 countries. As founder of the Belgian publishing house POINT Editions he published more than eighty collections of mainly modern, international poetry, he organised and co-organised several international poetry festivals in Spain, is vice president of the Academy Mihai Eminescu, in Romania, organizer of the Mihai Eminescu Internaional Poetry Festival, co-founder and advisor of JUNPA (Japan Universal Poets Association), artistic advisor of the Italian movement Poetry & Discovery, and founding president of the Spanish cultural foundation ITHACA. He also set up the internationally greatly appreciated project Poetry without Borders, publishing every week a poem from all over the world in 29 languages. Several famous artists made paintings inspired by his poetry and music was composed to his poems. Germain Droogenbroodt visited countless times the Far East and studied Chinese philosophy which inspired his poetry The Chinese pretend his poetry is Taoist. His poetry books are greatly appreciated by Chinese readers and were published in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Japanese pretend his poetry is ZEN, four of his books were published in Japan, including a collection of haiku. The Indian poet-publisher Thachom Poyil Rajeevan wrote about his poetry “Your poems have a serene depth of meaning and experience-a quality quite unparalleled in contemporary world poetry. Only Tagore in India comes near you in the way you meditate over words”. Germain Droogenbroodt who received more than a dozen of international poetry awards as poet and as promotor of international poetry, he is yearly invited to give recitals and conferences at universities and at the most prestigious international poetry festivals. He was nominated for the Nobel prize of Literature 2017.