Words and music have always been intertwined for me. I hear music in words and music evokes words in me. Sometimes a poem turns into a song, new adventure in music-making for a classically trained violist.
5 Garden Poems
VROEG ZOMERZAAD Dikke mei : dus laat maar waaienmeisjes draag maar wouden in je haarzwaai je schortje om te zaaienvrucht voor later in het jaar En duizend lover-blaadjes, fluisterschoon je dragers zuchten slakenin hun volle grootse luisteren laat ons lachen in de bark, zalig natgespat door bruisend water Licht en teder vleugelendvlieg jij olmenzaad, in…
Hannah-Sophie
Hannah-Sophie was written for a friend of mine whose daughter is handicapped, and beautiful. It will be part of the art and performance project Dag Bloemen Dag Vogels in Kunstcentrum Haarlem in April 2019. On a lucky Saturday these words will be part of a performance by Julia Henneman. Hannah-Sophie She is a garden in…
One from 2015
one from 2015, in honor of a neighbor who died that year After the rainthe wind hurried great softcloud banks awayleaving white etchings on theinnocent blue afternoon sky. A green leaf circled upand up andup–like you? you always loved the wind–“het leeft”, you said, “het is zo wild”. Serene, wild, happy,Maria and the wind! There…
Julia Viola 