Author: Marieke

Rose Girl’s World is a world full of words, true love, songs, meaning, beauty and inspiration🌹

Love Is Stronger

Even when the thunder rages through the sky
Seasons come and go
Storms strike the land
And huge waves hit the sea

Even when the night is deepest dark
The rain falls upon us
The river flows tumultuously
And the water takes

Like a sun that keeps its shine
A tree rooted firmly
A mountain that stands its ground
A hidden life force underneath

Like a rock that cannot be split
A flame that cannot fade
Words cannot damage it
And whatever you and me do

Our love is stronger
than anything

©RoseGirl2018

How The Two Lovers Of True Love Have Their First Fight

Previous: Flying Into Our Tale

‘Oh shitty shit!’ I say
And you ask:
‘What is the matter, my true love?
‘My cutest cutie,
I wrote in my poem
That we need to fly into our tale
But I took it a bit too literally
And then I jumped from above.
I can imagine a lot
But unfortunately,
My fairy wings weren’t there
So then I fell
down to the ground.’

‘What the hell,’ you say
And I say:
‘Yes it is truly true
I have this tendency
to take things too literally
Especially when it comes to
what you say, sing and do.
And then another habit,
I also tend to make in my mind
Bad scenarios all the time.
And then I panic about it.’

‘What the hell! you say,
Oh no! my sexy sweetie!
And then you keep telling me
that I need to fly
And you keep wondering
why oh why I don’t do it.’

I say: ‘Yes indeed you need to fly,
My cutest cutie!
And to overcome your fears
And to just fly over to me’

You say: ‘Stop telling me what I need to do
Cause if I get it correctly
You are the one that needs to fly
You need to fly out of your mind
And to trust the better stories!’

I say: ‘Oh shitty shit my cutest cutie!
If I get it correctly
Do we have our first fight now
It’s starts to get really exciting.’

You say: ‘Yes I do think so,
my sexy sweetie,
but I love you anyway’

I say: ‘Ohhh I love you too!
And our true love can survive anything.’

You say: ‘Indeed. And the good thing about a fight,
is that we can make it up,
so now kiss me.’

I say: ‘Oh yes let’s kiss,
for sure
Let’s take that very literally.’

©RoseGirl2018

Flying Into Our Tale

Here we stand, my fairy man
And we need to fly
Spread your wings, my fairy man
Why do you still hesitate?
Are you afraid
to leave your land behind
Where everything is so well-known
Are you uncertain of the new land
and if its harvest
will come your way?
But my fairy man,
we need to fly into our tale
It’s written especially for us
And its writer is smiling from above
As he already knows
True love will always find its way

©RoseGirl2018

Allowing The Sun To Come In

Yes she will love him into eternity
And she will wait for him always
Even if it would take one thousand years

And in the meantime
She will take care of herself
She will believe in their love,
in herself and in him
She will ground herself firmly
in her house of poetry
where the door is open for him
She will be strong
And will make of every day
the best
She will write, she will dance,
she will sing
with him in her heart
She will allow the sun
to come in

©RoseGirl2018

Dreamy Flower Girl

In a world where nothing was sure,
you had the safety of your dreams
In a world where you needed to be an adult,
even when you were just a child,
you had your imaginary friends
to be less lonely
In a world where things were harsh,
you carried a flower within your heart

And now I realize, how I’ve become the harsh world,
How I say the harsh words
in the way I do my inner talk
Every time when I say:
‘I am stupid, I am not worthy,
My poems are crap’
I beat you, my inner dreamy flower girl
Like in the past, you have been beaten by others

But from now on,
No more harsh words
I will love you, love myself
And protect my inner
dreamy flower girl

©RoseGirl2018

Down On His Knees For Her

And she loves him no matter what
Whatever he did or does
Whatever he said or says
Even if she is heartbroken
She continues to love him,
to support him
She understands and shows him
her boundless compassion
She continues to sing him
her songs of love from her heart
Let her words gently caress him
She forgives him
As she loves him always, forever,
no matter what

And now it’s his turn
to walk towards her
to go down on his knees for her
to let his kisses make up
To thank her and the heavens for this precious gift
To show her his love, his compassion
and understanding
To adore her, to admire her,
to sing for her,
to desire her,
To kneel for her before her eyes
And ask her to dance

©RoseGirl2018

Grandfather

Grandfather, do you remember
How we went on adventures together
You took me with me into the forest
at night
You were the greatest storyteller ever
And told me scary stories
But when I walked with you arm in arm
I always felt safe and protected

In a world where I felt lost
and didn’t understand
You were my beacon, my haven
And whatever happened
together with you
I could always embark the world
of make believe

You taught me to be strong,
to be wild, to dream
and to always play like a child

Do you remember,
How I suffered from headaches
And how you then laid your hand
on my head
And said: I will take away all pain
for you?
And you did it, you could do it
As you were the one that could
do anything, you created my world

When they told me you had died
suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of only 65,
– I was 16, too young to lose you yet
I thought this was just another story by you
And I expected you to come back
and we would laugh about it together
But you never did
I didn’t understand
I couldn’t believe

How could you,
the greatest storyteller ever
who was strong like a rock,
then not make another story of it?
It hurt so much that you left
me alone with my stories
And your hand wasn’t there anymore
to take away my pain

©RoseGirl2018

Melting

Previous: Frozen

And when he rode out on his horse
there was a cold wind blowing from the east
He saw a figure in the distance
He rode closer
And there he found a frozen girl
with her ice tears still on her cheeks
It was his own girl, his wild rose

He took her
And let her melt in his arms
Warmed her with the fire of true love in his heart
And he carried her
all the way back to her house of poetry
And there he gently brought her inside
And said: ‘Continue to write, my love
For your poems will melt the world’

©RoseGirl2018

Frozen

And she took a hammer
And knocked all her words down
She left her house of poetry
She ran and kept running
She ran for the hills
Far out of sight
It was a cold day
And the wind from the east
made her tears freeze
on her cheeks

She ran until the cold
completely caught her
And what was then left of her
was a frozen still life of pain

©RoseGirl2018

Next: Melting

The Widow

And when her man left
It was like he was dead
She grieved and she mourned
She cried all day long
At the grave
In which she had buried
all the painful memories
That still came to haunt her
in her nights without sleep
She was a widow of her man
And she veiled herself in black

But her man had never been dead
He had only left
to catch the sun for her
And the day when he came back
to bring her his offer
He couldn’t find her no more
As his wild rose had withered
And she now was the black widow of sorrow

©RoseGirl2018

Imagine We Dance

My love, if things are hard
and dark and we feel lost
We just close our eyes
and we imagine
we dance
with each other

We just keep
moving
You hold me closely
And I embrace you

We dance until
the sun begins
to shine again
And until we see
the rainbow appear
in our tears

©RoseGirl2018

When The Bird Falls From Her Tree

Once there was a bird
And one day her tears got so heavy
That she fell from her tree
Down on the ground she was
She was a heart-wounded bird

She crawled to a corner of the forest
Where she laid down
As if she was dead
She hid herself
underneath some leaves
In her tears she drowned

She lost all hope
that one day
she would be together
with her male counterpart
She tried to recall
All what had happened
She cried and asked:
‘why oh why’

Then there was a wise owl
who had watched it all
And he said:
‘Oh bird,
why are you weeping around
And you don’t use your wings
Why did you stop to sing?’

She answered:
‘I found my true love
The one I have been looking for
all my life
But now he doesn’t love me no more
I lost him
As he forgot about me
and without me he moved on’

The wise owl smiled:
‘How can he forget you
As your song is sung
in his heart
And how can he not love you
As the love that is true
You can never lose’

But how can he recognize
and find you
If you weep and hide
Underneath the leaves
He only left
to find his strength
And to let you find
your strength too
So one day you can both
return home
to the powerhouse
of your true love

So now, get up
and use your wings again
You are meant
to fly in the blue skies
Sing your own song
So he can hear it
gloriously in his heart’

Slowly she rose
And she looked up again
She spread her wings
And flew back to her tree
She started to sing

And he,
in his forest far away
Started to smile
As he heard the song
of his counterpart
be sung in his heart

©RoseGirl2018

Two Poems By A Teenage Girl: December Grey & Hope

(Picture: me on the left in 1996)

Two poems I wrote when I was a teenage girl. I translated them into English.

I wrote this poem in 1996:

December Grey

Silent city of the nameless
touched by nightly sleep
A screaming reality is veiled
in neon light
Escaped from a misty memory

And loneliness whispers into the night
In the distance a song is sung
Unheard longing of a homeless seeker
For the nameless, they do not understand

I wrote this poem in 1998:

Hope

Hidden in the darkness
In the deepest black
A small light cautiously beckons
There in the farthest distance
Where life dances in the flame
It shines towards me
But then; the fear
that I burn my fingers
increases the doubt that rages
Because in the black hole
everything is black and cold
Where can I find the strength then
to reach for the stars?
The will leads to the light
and in the light there is the source
Myself that is all I own
Back to the core, back to home

©RoseGirl2018

The Greatest Story Of Love

Let me be our storywriter
And in all what we did and do
In all what we said and say
I’ll find the beauty,
I’ll find the love

Let me transform our storyline
and heal the pain
I’ll find comfort and hope
Even on the darkest page
I’ll let the words dance,
will let my sun shine on
every spot, every corner,
every shadow
And then I’ll write, we will live
the greatest story of love

©RoseGirl2018

For G. -Gangsters In Love

This is for you, G.
It sounds like a gangster name
Because that’s what we are, G.
We are gangsters in love
Lovers in crime
Of course I would like
to have our full names on billboards
Along with our pictures
So the whole world knows about us

And then we put ‘WANTED’ on it
Because that’s what we want
I want you, you want me
And then we aren’t just G. and M. anymore
We show everyone our true gangster faces
As we commit our crimes of love:
Me loving you
You loving me

But, oh man
It’s a jungle out there
It’s a fucking hell
So for now
I will just call you G, G.
But you fucking know who you are, G.
And I know who you are too, G.
Because that’s why I fucking love you

*This poem is based on fictional realism. Any resemblance to actual persons is purely intuitive or just accurate.
The author M. who prefers to stay anonymous, is only responsible for the last sentence and confesses to be fully guilty of that.

©RoseGirl2018

Sleepless Nights

I lie in my bed
Tears on my cheeks
My fairy man,
Will you please
come flying through
my bedroom window
And then
your arms around me
You kiss me goodnight
You say it will be fine
You take my tears for me
And give me my sleep

©RoseGirl2018

Secrets

We walked through the forest together
Side by side
On a cold day in February
You told me about a new song
on your mind
And about finding a home

I told you my secret
I had never shared it
with anyone before
How I was captured
in a violent nightmare
And you showed me
the way out

But I didn’t tell you
My other secret then
That it was you
who I secretly loved

©RoseGirl2018

A Girl’s Dream

I remember,
I was a teenage girl
And the Dutch winter was cold
With a friend I skated on
the frozen ditches and lakes

And one day when
we were tired of the ice skating
We went inside to see a movie
It was then that I watched
for the first time ‘Dirty Dancing’

I was in awe
I was breathless
Never had I watched such a film before
I wanted to watch it
over and over again
And although the Dutch winter was cold
Dirty Dancing made it all hot

It coloured all my romantic girl dreams
How a guy and girl that had to conquer huge obstacles
In the end lived the ultimate love story
And of course
I also wanted so badly
to dance so dirty
with the man of my dreams
It made me long for
my own dirty dancing man

And now,
many years later
I hear ‘The time of my life’
on the radio
And I see the final Dirty Dancing scene
in my mind again
How the girl is lifted by the guy

And then I realize,
In you, my love,
I’ve found my dirty dancing man

©RoseGirl2018

Time Of My Live – Dirty Dancing Scene

Old Poems

I found some old poems
that I wrote as a child
and as a teenager
Words of sadness
and of dark nights

How I was
so much lost in the world
And tried to find
my way home
How I yearned for love
And for ‘the other One’

And now I realize,
Already back then
in my old poems
I looked and longed
for you

©RoseGirl2018

At Starbucks

At Starbucks I met an elderly couple
from New York
They started to talk to me,
Named me the flower girl
And said
they had seen me walking in town
With the flower in my hair
already before

That flower somehow connected
We were no strangers any longer
We talked about life and love
And shared our deeper life stories

And with a caffè latte in my hand
I told them about the words I write
And how I perceive the world
in stories and in poetry
Wherever I go,
I always have
the flower and my words with me

They asked:
‘Will you write about us now too?’
I smiled
And said: ‘Who knows’

©RoseGirl2018

The Fragrance Of My Heart

Do you smell the sweet scent
of a rose
That comes like a
breeze of Spring
dancing towards you
It lightly caresses your nose
And then
it heavenly infuses you
Seduces you
Pulls you
Magnetizes you
Wants to fully take you in?
That’s the fragrance of my heart

©RoseGirl2018

Among The Shitting Wild Cows

This morning among the shitting wild cows by the river Waal in Nijmegen the wild rose recorded a video while she danced on her high heels in the wild cow shit.

If the love flows….. things can get really wild

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO

Lyrics of the song:

There are days
that thoughts arise
and big mountains appear

Days that we don’t know
what to do
And all feels troubled
and unclear

But if the love flows
We don’t need to worry no more
For all is the right time
And that’s just fine

We help one another grow
We learn, we dance, sing and create

Every day we
come closer to our dream
And everything is safe and well
As long as we believe

And if the love flows
We don’t need to worry no more
For all is the right time
And that’s just fine

We give it all to God
We give it to the stars
And then we only need to love

©RoseGirl2018

By The Grace Of Your Eyes

Before your eyes
I blossomed
Your gaze was the sunlight
that shined me up
into the air

All the tales I told you,
Your eyes were the
magic wand that gazed
the fairies into it

And still
every word I write
comes alive only
by the grace of your eyes

©RoseGirl2018

Mirror

We both look into the mirror
And I see myself reflected in you
You mirror me my shadows,
my wounds,
and my deepest fears

Do you see yourself
reflected in my mirror
Please, don’t look away
Do you see how the light
of our love shines into it
and makes all visible
so we can heal?

Please use the mirror
Shine your heart’s light
into it
As bright as you can
I will do the same
Through the mirror
I will then mirror you
You will mirror me
and reflect it back

©RoseGirl2018

Morning Coffee

I sit on the couch
My legs tucked
I drink a coffee
The clock is ticking
I tap the cup
with my fingers
I sigh
My eyes stare
My heart misses
Through the window
a morning sun shines
I wonder,
You on the other side
of the world
Where the night has fallen
Do you see me
in your dreams
Like I dream you
in the morning sun

©RoseGirl2018

The Fire Of Desire

Do you feel how under our love
the fire of desire is burning
We won’t tame the flame
no longer,
We let the fire rise
Let our bodies express our love

Want me, desire me, take me,
Kiss me, feel me, taste me
Hungrily, thirsty
I want you, desire you, taste you,
receive you

With our fierce fire
we burn away all
that is not of love
All our fears, all our doubts,
all our worries, all our thoughts
Our minds fade away
In our fire of desire
In our hunger for each other

Oh my love,
do you feel the fire burning
do you feel the fire rising
Wildly we dance its flame
We do not need to think
We only need to feel
We are just bodies
that express
our boundless, untamed love

Fireworks
We are the storm in the sky
We are the fire itself
We don’t withhold any longer
Express all our emotions
in this fire of desire
We burn high into the sky
And clear ourselves,
Clear our love

©RoseGirl2018

Clarity

The water is troubled
There are ripples of thoughts
We just let the water be the water
We won’t touch, won’t stir it up
But we’ll find the stillness
in the deeper depths of our love
And then the untouched troubled water will find clarity itself

©RoseGirl2018

She Is Shy

She looks like a strong woman
That expresses
openly all of her heart
And that just undresses
herself before your eyes
and shows you all her naked parts

But in fact,
She is a shy girl
And her own naked poems
often scare her
She then covers herself
with shame
And tries to hide
behind her words

And after every poem
she has put out in the world
She holds her breath
As she fears
After that,
After showing her heart,
She won’t be loved
no more

©RoseGirl2018

You Are Okay

You are okay
Right who you are
You don’t need to change
Just be

And embrace yourself
like I embrace you
Embrace your light
and your shadows
Find beauty in everything
you did and do

You are okay, my love
More than okay
You don’t need to change
Just be

©RoseGirl2018

When We First Met

It was on a day in October
that we first met
Somewhere in the south
of the flat lands

I entered the venue
and saw you standing there
You didn’t see me yet
I felt drawn to you

Your energy felt intense
Like it wanted to magnetize
me to you
I heard how you spoke
about your journey home

And later our eyes met
for the first time
And instantly
there was this bond
Or perhaps it was already there
even before we knew

Our eyes recognized
The flame was ignited
I had never felt anything
like this before
I wondered,
Is this love
It seemed not from this world

We didn’t know then
That from that day on
Nothing would be the same
no more
And that our journey had started

©RoseGirl2018

I Believe In You

I believe in the shining sun
in your heart
And how it is rising
more and more

I believe in your hands that can
build a world
That can play new songs
And write new words

I believe in your eyes
that are the most
beautiful ones
I’ve ever seen
I know they can see beauty
and hope
And they can envision

I believe in your feet
that carry you to
exactly
where you need to be

I believe in the strength
of your arms
as they can hold me
like no one else could do

©RoseGirl2018

Vulnerability

You fear your nakedness,
to be fully seen
and there is nothing you can hide behind no more

You fear to break
into pieces
When you stand
in your naked vulnerability
And you would allow
yourself to love openly

You fear
your naked skin
and your naked heart
cannot survive
on its own
Will you still be loved
if they see
all of the true you

My love, my eyes adore
all of what they see
of your nakedness
As they’ve seen
you naked ever since

And if you feel too naked,
Let me dress you
with my love
Let my naked body
be your second skin
Let it cover you
And come into it

©RoseGirl2018

Resistance

I don’t want the leaves to fall
I don’t want the seasons to change
And the days to be shorter
Christmas to come
The clock to continue to tick

I don’t want to be moved
by the cycles, the tides
and the winds
Or just by the rhythm of
every day life
But I want to be the one
together with you
that moves the world

Can we please pause
And put the world on hold
And then first
Have you here with me
Before everything
can get back
into motion again

©RoseGirl2018

Your Arms

One evening in Fall
In a Dutch town by the river Rhine,
we saw each other
You came towards me
And took me gently
into your arms

And later
Your arms searched for me
Again
And again
How much our arms longed
to be filled with one another

I felt like I river
I flowed towards you
I melted and became liquid
And your arms
were my riverbanks

©RoseGirl2018

Higher Love

This is not a love of
staying on the ground
Of being small and average
But it is a love of rising
and rising even higher

It is not a love of still
having your ties to the old
But it is a love of flying,
of breaking free,
reaching for the stars
in your full potential

It is not a love of trying,
of testing the waters first
But it is a love of jumping
A love of diving
Of surrender and blind trust

It is not a love for
the faint-hearted
But it is love for the braves
That dare to face their fears
And go beyond their comfort zone

It is not a love for just you
Or just me
But it is a love for us together
That we are meant to shine
into the world

©RoseGirl2018

Imagine

Imagine, my love
How we sleep at night
in each other’s arms
Do you feel my body
to yours
My skin to your skin

Imagine,
How we wake up
I see you and you see me
How we smile
And that’s just
what makes our day
How we dive
one more time
Under the sheets
to merge and melt
in one another

Imagine,
How we drink
our morning coffee
in the garden
How the birds
and the cats
look at us

Imagine,
How we write our words,
Play our music and we
look again
at one another
and we smile,
we just smile.
As we know
We came from far

Imagine,
How we ride our bikes together
Through the forest,
the countryside,
along the sea
Do you hear our laughter
in the wind

Imagine,
How we close the curtains
at night
How we light the candles
And find each other’s arms
on the couch

My love,
Feel, taste, smell,
See, sense, hear.
And imagine.
Just imagine

©RoseGirl2018

This Perfect Love

We are imperfect
We have our ways
We have our stories
Our scratches on the plate
We have fingernails broken
Little dots on the lens
We have noise on the line
We have our habits
and our flaws
We have our things
We have the sounds
out of tune
We have words
that do not rhyme
We have physical shortcomings
Or we have of something
a little bit too much
But we are perfect
for each other
And we have this
perfect love

©RoseGirl2018

A Picture Of Togetherness

With your heart’s eyes
you captured us
in an image of
togetherness
You and me
in peaceful green

I am proud to be
your true fairy woman
You are proud to be
my true fairy man

How nature connects us
Breathes through us
Blesses us
How we are alive
And together
In this timeless vision

As the heart’s eyes see
Always far beyond

©RoseGirl2018

Slow Down

When the mind runs in circles
And you run after it too fast
When ideas pop up
tirelessly
And you can’t even follow them
no more
When new poems, new songs hum
around like butterflies
But you can’t catch them yet
When your fingers on the strings
Can’t keep up
with your voice
When there is so much to do
But you don’t know
where to start
and where to go
When you feel time is pressuring
And you’re like a rat
in a race
Then we need to take
a deep breath
And we need to slow down

©RoseGirl2018

The Ways Of The Wild Rose

You saw me as a wild rose
Light and playful
I was blossoming
And I told you my tales

But when time passed
Thoughts became more rigid
Missing you became more aching
And I forgot about the ways
Of the wild rose

How she doesn’t grow straight
But she goes the way
she likes to go
Not restricted by garden borders
She dances around in the fields

She touches your heart lightly
but reaches very deep
Her smile invites you
to let go, to dream and let
dreams become real
She shows you ways you had imagined
But never dared to go

And how wild she is
Intensely she let her
heart’s desires blossom
And she leaves you breathless
You want to beg her
for more and more

She colours the fields
Paints your heart
in the colour of love

I will grow into the wild rose
again
And will retrieve her ways
Light and playful
Wildly I will dance around
in your heart

©RoseGirl2018

Stick To The Love

When the radio plays old songs
Or the noise it too intense
When the heart is too much touched
We want to drive away

We take our vehicle of our mind
To drive away from our heart
With every doubt, every fear
We drive away

But no,
we are not going there no more
We don’t take the road of the past
This time we stay
And whatever happens,
We stick to the love

©RoseGirl2018

She Wants To Disappear

When things burn
too much,
She wants to run
She wants to remove her words,
erase her picture
Tear out her page
And then disappear
behind the clouds
Where she can’t be seen no more
Where she is not there no more
Where there is nothing left
Not even a trail
But then behind her cloud
She longs for him
to come to seek her

©RoseGirl2018

The Place Where The Crazy Birds Go

Once there was a bird
And she grew up in a dark forest
where she didn’t have a safe nest
to stay
She was born lost
Even before she could go her way

She was not like the other birds
As she had a sensitive heart
that was as a precious, vulnerable treasure
With so much love and light to give
But throughout the years
She had learned to disgust her diamond
And she didn’t see its value

And when she left her tree
To go into the world
She didn’t know where to go
and what to do
And all the time she was searching for love
She knew deep down
she had her counterpart

And in her search she flew
against trees
She fell to the ground
Other birds shook their heads
They didn’t understand
And said: she must be crazy

And one day they told her
That the forest needed to remain sane
And that she as a crazy bird
should go where the crazy birds stay

So they took her to the other forest
They had built a cage around
And they kept guard
Because under no condition
the sane should get mixed up
with the insane

And there she was: locked up
She desperately needed some love
But instead they gave her pills, coldness and distance

As they told her all day long:
‘You are crazy, you are crazy’
She started it to believe it herself
And started to behave as a crazy bird

But there was a wise owl
Who had watched and heard it all
And he said to her:
‘Oh precious bird, this is not who you
truly are
You don’t belong here
You with your love and your light
in your heart
You are the one that is sane
And all the others
who treat you like this
have gone crazy
You need to go out
You need to break free
Continue to sing your own song
Fly your own way
And then it will all work out.’

So she plucked up her courage
And although they didn’t want to let her go
She spread her wings
and flew through the bars

And sometimes it was hard
as she could still fear what others
would think of her
And if they would judge her
as crazy

But more and more
She saw the value
of her own heart
She shined her light into the world
And grew confident
in singing her own song
And indeed,
one day she met her counterpart
She found the love
Then she knew
She had never been crazy

©RoseGirl2018

The Fear Of Losing Control

I sail my boat
on open water
The waves are big
And the ocean seems
deep and dark
Emotions roll my way
And I try to control
the raging water
Not let it take my boat
and pull me
into the depths of the sea
Where you can get lost
And never return no more

And there are vultures
of thoughts in the threatening sky
Circling around
Waiting for their chance
to catch me

But then I hear
the voice of
Poseidon,
the God of the sea:

Let the waters rage
Let the vultures take the sky
Just sail your heart
into calm waters
By anchoring it
into itself and
trusting its compass

©RoseGirl2018