In this category:

    FLEURSDUMAL POETRY LIBRARY - classic, modern, experimental & visual & sound poetry, poetry in translation, city poets, poetry archive, pre-raphaelites, editor's choice, etc.
    POETRY ARCHIVE
    Archive A-B
    FLEURSDUMAL POETRY LIBRARY - classic, modern, experimental & visual & sound poetry, poetry in translation, city poets, poetry archive, pre-raphaelites, editor's choice, etc.
    MODERN POETRY
    Bevers, Bert

New on FdM

  1. Georg Trakl: Nähe des Todes
  2. W.B. Yeats: Song of the Old Mother
  3. Bert Bevers: Großstadtstraße
  4. Lesbia Harford: I was sad
  5. I Shall not Care by Sara Teasdale
  6. Bert Bevers: Bahnhofshalle
  7. Guillaume Apollinaire: Aubade chantée à Laetare l’an passé
  8. Oscar Wilde: Symphony In Yellow
  9. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones
  10. When You Are Old and grey by William Butler Yeats

Or see the index

All categories

  1. AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (12)
  2. AUDIO, CINEMA, RADIO & TV (217)
  3. DANCE & PERFORMANCE (60)
  4. DICTIONARY OF IDEAS (180)
  5. EXHIBITION – art, art history, photos, paintings, drawings, sculpture, ready-mades, video, performing arts, collages, gallery, etc. (1,511)
  6. FICTION & NON-FICTION – books, booklovers, lit. history, biography, essays, translations, short stories, columns, literature: celtic, beat, travesty, war, dada & de stijl, drugs, dead poets (3,850)
  7. FLEURSDUMAL POETRY LIBRARY – classic, modern, experimental & visual & sound poetry, poetry in translation, city poets, poetry archive, pre-raphaelites, editor's choice, etc. (4,768)
  8. LITERARY NEWS & EVENTS – art & literature news, in memoriam, festivals, city-poets, writers in Residence (1,612)
  9. MONTAIGNE (110)
  10. MUSEUM OF LOST CONCEPTS – invisible poetry, conceptual writing, spurensicherung (54)
  11. MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY – department of ravens & crows, birds of prey, riding a zebra, spring, summer, autumn, winter (184)
  12. MUSEUM OF PUBLIC PROTEST (141)
  13. MUSIC (220)
  14. PRESS & PUBLISHING (91)
  15. REPRESSION OF WRITERS, JOURNALISTS & ARTISTS (112)
  16. STORY ARCHIVE – olv van de veestraat, reading room, tales for fellow citizens (17)
  17. STREET POETRY (46)
  18. THEATRE (186)
  19. TOMBEAU DE LA JEUNESSE – early death: writers, poets & artists who died young (356)
  20. ULTIMATE LIBRARY – danse macabre, ex libris, grimm & co, fairy tales, art of reading, tales of mystery & imagination, sherlock holmes theatre, erotic poetry, ideal women (229)
  21. WAR & PEACE (127)
  22. · (2)

Or see the index



  1. Subscribe to new material: RSS

Bert Bevers: Bij het bekijken van een foto van mijn overleden vader als nog jonge man

bevers5003

Bij het bekijken van een foto van mijn
overleden vader als nog jonge man

Langs het jaagpad van verleden in alle soorten
klank tegen verval verweer. Kleine blonde Mariandl,
toe ga met mij eens aan de wandel, want zo alleen
te lopen is heus niets gedaan.

Hoe we oude liedjes zongen tot het vroeger
werd, ze nauwelijks meer klonken. Hoe ik in mijmeringen
gelukkig nog met papa loop, hand in hand, soms ook al los.
Nozel en stuimig, tot later ongeschikt voor jeugd.

Hoe pauwblauw de nacht zich opricht.

Bert Bevers

© Bert Bevers:  verschenen in Onaangepaste tijden, Zinderend, Bergen op Zoom, 2006, ISBN 90 76543 09 7

fleursdumal.nl magazine

More in: Archive A-B, Bevers, Bert

Previous and Next Entry

« | »

Thank you for reading Fleurs du Mal - magazine for art & literature