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Ut stiltme en stoarm

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The collection gathers short lyric poems that move between contemplative calm and turbulent passion, using concise, musical lines and recurring images of sea, wind, seasons, and evening light. Many pieces voice longing, solitude, and consolation, often addressing a beloved or a singing presence while alternating hope and resignation. Natural phenomena—waves, storms, dawn, and autumn decay—serve as metaphors for inner states. Occasional sonnets and mythic or spiritual invocations broaden the formal range. Overall the poems emphasize sensory detail and melodic rhythm to explore memory, desire, and the search for solace amid change.

XIII.

’k Bin Boaz, geande yn ’t rike nôt, dêr’t bliid
In wyn yn núndret en de sinne oer strielet;
Fier, mids in berchtme brún en driigjend, mielet
It haedljocht oer in stream syn glinstring swiid.

Stil-sjongend skrept it diigre folk mei piid:
Hjar driuwt de krêft dy’t treastget en skewielet;
Men meant en rispet, bynt, en ’t wirk bisielet
Ta tank oan ’t wiis biwâld yn ’t ivich wiid.

lin lynjend op myn stêf oerskôgje ik ’t lân;
Sêft giet in brún fanke oan myn each foarby,
In „Hear, haw heil” klinkt seinjend troch de romte.

Ho’n wielde dochs dit feest! Ho leit de brân
Fen ’t gouden ljocht oer ’t goudne nôt sa lij!
—En ’t fanke bûgt en giet mids koarn en blomte...