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Poëziepaleis zoekt jong talent!

 

Kinderen & Poëzie is een landelijke dichtwedstrijd voor kinderen van 6 t/m 12 jaar die het leuk vinden om gedichten te schrijven.
Wanneer mag je meedoen?
– Als je 6 t/m 12 jaar oud bent;
– Als je in groep 3 t/m 8 van de basisschool zit;
– Als je op het speciaal onderwijs zit; je mag dan zelfs meedoen als je ouder bent dan 12. Geef dit dan aan bij opmerkingen op het wedstrijdformulier.

En verder is er de dichtwedstrijd Doe Maar Dicht Maar.
Kun jij goed schrijven? Ben jij creatief met woorden en heb je gevoel voor dichten, rappen of songteksten schrijven? Doe dan gauw mee met de dichtwedstrijd Doe Maar Dicht Maar. De honderd beste gedichten winnen een plekje in een mooie dichtbundel!
– Je bent 12 t/m 18 jaar;
– Je spreekt en schrijft Nederlands;
– Je zit op het VMBO/ Havo/ VWO/ ROC of MBO;
– Je zit op de eerste t/m de derde graad van het secundair onderwijs in België.

Hoe kun je meedoen?
De deadline van de beide wedstrijden is 10 februari 2020.

Wie meer wil weten over de voorwaarden om deel te nemen en welke prijzen er te winnen zijn, kan meer vinden op de website van POËZIEPALEIS

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Agnita Feis: Het land is stom (gedicht)

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Het land is stom

Geen kleur.
Geen klank.
Het land
is stom.

Slechts oog
en oor
voor zwaard
en trom.

O mensch
verhef
uw stem
dan toch!

Gil, krijsch,
huil, brul!
‘t Is tijd,
nu nog.

Maar straks
niet meer……….
Het vuur
brandt voort.

‘t Verteert.
‘t Verkoolt……….
‘t Blijft stil.
Geen woord.

Geen kleur.
Geen klank:
Het land
is stom.

Slechts oog
en oor
voor zwaard
en trom.

Agnita Feis
(1881 – 1944)
Uit: Oorlog. Verzen in Staccato (1916).
Het land is stom
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Gladys Cromwell: Approach (Poem)

 

Approach

Apparelled in a mask of joy till now,
I knew thee not. Asleep, I see thy face
More simply. Sorrow s leisure lets me trace
The nicer lines. Thy sealed lids, thy brow,
Thy lasting posture, purposes avow ;
In thy spent form resides a moveless grace.
A pageant was thy life, and in its place
I find a truth to feed and to endow
My heart. Thy wonted mask of joy belied
The meaning death s bare attitude makes clear.
From living gesture thought went often wide,
And I was poor interpreter ; but here,
Where it would seem our thoughts anew divide,
The steady silence draws thy spirit near.

Gladys Cromwell
(1885-1919)
Approach
From: Songs of the Dust, 1915

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Will Streets: A Lark Above the Trenches 1916 (Poem)

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A Lark Above the Trenches 1916

Hushed is the shriek of hurtling shells: and hark!
Somewhere within that bit of soft blue sky-
Grand in his loneliness, his ecstasy,
His lyric wild and free – carols a lark.

I in the trench, he lost in heaven afar,
I dream of Love, its ecstasy he sings;
Doth lure my soul to love till like a star
It flashes into Life: O tireless wings

That beat love’s message into melody –
A song that touches in this place remote
Gladness supreme in its undying note
And stirs to life the soul of memory –
‘Tis strange that while you’re beating into life
Men here below and plunged in sanguine strife!

John William (Will) Streets
(1886 –1916)
A Lark Above the Trenches 1916
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Bert Bevers: Cour (gedicht)

 

Cour

Brieven zweven gangen in vol leugens zonder
wonden, op iedere verdieping. Zicht daarop
vanaf de binnenplaats. Binnen zeggen spiegels:
Geen mens. Naar buiten wordt niet gekeken. Er
gaat een ochtend volgen om nimmer te vergeten.

Bert Bevers

Ongepubliceerd
Juli 2019

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Marcel Schwob: La Lumière (Poème)

 

La Lumière

La lumière bleue est passée,
Allons vers les lumières blanches.
O chérie es-tu donc lassée?

Nous avons des ailes aux hanches,
Puisqu’on nous a chassés du bleu,
Ouvrons, chérie, ouvrons nos ailes,
Voguons comme des caravelles
Vers le soleil tout blanc de feu.
La lumière blanche est passée,
Allons vers la lumière rouge.
M’amour, je te tiens embrassée,
J’ai mon couteau sanglant qui bouge.
Vivons ici dans le vermeil.
Ton petit doigt aura pour bague
Un coeur foré d’un coup de dague:
J’ai de l’or -as-tu point sommeil.
La lumière rouge est passée,
Allons vers la lumière verte.
Viens chauffer ta gorge glacée:
Entrons, la porte est grande ouverte.
Buvons tout cet or vert fondu;
Buvons, nous verrons monter, lentes,
Des flammes blanches et sanglantes.
Mignonne, m’as-tu répondu?
La lumière verte est passée,
Allons vers la lumière pâle,
Allons: notre forme effacée
Glissera sous ces flots d’opale.

Marcel Schwob
(1867-1905)
La Lumière

Portrait: Félix Vallotton
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Lord Byron: Thy Days Are Done (Poem)

     

Thy Days Are Done

Thy days are done, thy fame begun;
Thy country’s strains record
The triumphs of her chosen Son,
The slaughter of his sword!
The deeds he did, the fields he won,
The freedom he restored!

Though thou art fall’n, while we are free
Thou shalt not taste of death!
The generous blood that flow’d from thee
Disdain’d to sink beneath:
Within our veins its currents be,
Thy spirit on our breath!

Thy name, our charging hosts along,
Shall be the battle-word!
Thy fall, the theme of choral song
From virgin voices pour’d!
To weep would do thy glory wrong:
Thou shalt not be deplored.

George Gordon Byron
(1788 – 1824)
Thy Days Are Done
(Poem)

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Agnita Feis: De verlaten loopgraaf (gedicht)

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De
verlaten
loopgraaf

Een wond
in d’ aard!
Een geul!
Een spleet!

Deed dat
de mensch,
die denkt,
die weet?

Arm, voet,
been, hoofd,
‘t ligt al
dooreen.

Men zoekt
een mensch!
Er is
er geen!

Slechts bloed!
slechts stank!
Slechts lijk!
Slechts dood!

Op, op!
Meer moord.
Uw land
blijv’ groot!

Agnita Feis
(1881 – 1944)
Uit: Oorlog. Verzen in Staccato (1916).
De verlaten loopgraaf
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Montague Horatio Mostyn Turtle Pigott: A Little Novel (in four little chapters) (Poem)

 

A Little Novel
(in four little chapters)

CHAP. I

A little nook in garden shady;

A little squeeze of finger-tips ;
A little question to a lady;

A little “Yes** from rosy lips.

CHAP. II

A little flirting with another;

A little shadow on a blind;
A little tiff, a little bother:

A little bit of Beauty’s mind.

CHAP. III

A little coolness in the greeting;

A little rift within the lute;
A little hour of wild entreating;

A little lady, proudly mute.

CHAP. IV

A little note of sad upbraiding ;

A little poison in a glass;
A little willow-tree o’ershading

A little tomb-stone in the grass.

 

Montague Horatio Mostyn Turtle Pigott
(1865–1927)
Melody versus Malady (Poem)
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Bert Bevers: Protestgedicht, 1968

  

Protestgedicht, 1968

(gevonden in een oud schoolboek van een soixante-huitard)

Ga weg, op uw plaats wil ik zitten.
Va-t’en, gij daar in uw driedelig grijs.
De tijd is rijp voor nieuwe winden.

Wij willen grote auto’s, en een parking
voor onszelf. Want ruimte moet er zijn.
Recht hebben wij daarop, besef dat wel.

Het volk moet alles weten, iedereen toch
evenveel ongeveer. Af willen wij van geloven
in de Werkelijke Tegenwoordigheid, af!

En negers mogen dromen wat ze willen,
maar negers mogen zij niet meer heten.
Ouden-van-dagen bestaan niet meer

en vrouwen moeten kinderen wíllen.
Herenigen zullen wij hier families die
uit hun bergdorpen oma’s willen en net

zo ongeletterde bruiden. Opvoeden zullen
wij het volk vanachter megafoons en vanaf
uitklaphoezen, beschijnen met nieuw licht.

Ga weg, maak onze plaats snel vrij nu.
Wij pardonneren u uw desertie.
Wij vergeven jou jouw deesertsie.

Bert Bevers

Ongepubliceerd
Bert Bevers is a poet and writer who lives and works in Antwerp (Be)

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Gladys Cromwell: Folded Power (Poem)

 

Folded Power

Sorrow can wait,
For there is magic in the calm estate
Of grief; lo, where the dust complies
Wisdom lies.

Sorrow can rest,
Indifferent, with her head upon her breast;
Idle and hushed, guarded from fears;
Content with tears.

Sorrow can bide,
With sealèd lids and hands unoccupied.
Sorrow can fold her latent might,
Dwelling with night.

But Sorrow will rise
From her dream of sombre and hushed eternities.
Lifting a Child, she will softly move
With a mother’s love.

She will softly rise.
Her embrace the dying will recognize,
Lifting them gently through strange delight
To a clearer light.

Gladys Cromwell
(1885-1919)
Folded Power

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Kerouac on Record. A Literary Soundtrack

Kerouac on Record.

A Literary Soundtrack

 

He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during the 1940s with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk to the fore.

 

The novelist, most famous for his 1957 book On the Road, admired the sounds of bebop and attempted to bring something of their original energy to his own writing, a torrent of semi-autobiographical stories he published between 1950 and his early death in 1969. Yet he was also drawn to American popular music of all kinds – from the blues to Broadway ballads – and when he came to record albums under his own name, he married his unique spoken word style with some of the most talented musicians on the scene.

Kerouac’s musical legacy goes well beyond the studio recordings he made himself: his influence infused generations of music makers who followed in his work – from singer-songwriters to rock bands. Some of the greatest transatlantic names – Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison and David Bowie, Janis Joplin and Tom Waits, Sonic Youth and Death Cab for Cutie, and many more – credited Kerouac’s impact on their output.

In Kerouac on Record, we consider how the writer brought his passion for jazz to his prose and poetry, his own record releases, the ways his legacy has been sustained by numerous more recent talents, those rock tributes that have kept his memory alive and some of the scores that have featured in Hollywood adaptations of the adventures he brought to the printed page.

Simon Warner is a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster who teaches Popular Music Studies at the University of Leeds in the UK. He has, over a number of years, written live reviews and counterculture obituaries for The Guardian and The Independent, and has a particular interest in the relationship between the Beat Generation writers–Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others–and rock culture. His previous books include Rockspeak: The Language of Rock and Pop (1996) and Howl for Now: A Celebration of Allen Ginsberg’s epic protest poem (2005).

Jim Sampas is a music and film producer. His musical works often focuses on major cultural figures such Jack Kerouac (who is his Uncle), The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, and The Rolling Stones. He has persuaded a galaxy of stars to partake of a unique aesthetic marriage, as vintage works are resurrected in contemporary arrangements in projects covered by such major news outlets as People Magazine, NPR, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, and many others.

Kerouac on Record
A Literary Soundtrack
Editor(s): Simon Warner, Jim Sampas
Hardback £25.20
Paperback £16.19
Published: 2018
Format: Hardback
Extent: 480 p.
ISBN: 9781501323348
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
£28.00

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