Scifaiku: Campfires

The cave people light campfires
in the sky, one for every year -
their planet is still young


Happy 2009 to everyone!

Poetry in Milan

Poetry appearing in a worldwide joint art project: Project Password opens December 10, Forum Austriaco Di Cultura, Milan, Italy. http://tinyurl.com/5wowl5 (PDF)

Build yourself a universe

optional with each universe -
an extra dimension

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/create-your-own.html

Martian midlife crisis

Hiking sabbatical -
astronaut spacewalks -
from Phobos to Deimos

Higgs boson

Higgs boson -
is hiding again -
elusive sneak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

Lorca Festival, Schouwburg Almere November 20, 2008

Su luna de pergamino
Preciosa tocando viene

Her parchment moon playing
Preciosa comes

(From 'Preciosa y el aire' by Federico García Lorca)

Come listen to poetry: a programme dedicated to the Spanish poet Lorca with performances by the Dutch poetry society 'Aldichter' including Dorine Ratulangie and see the play 'The House of Bernarda Alba' by theatregroup 'Zinspelers' in Schouwburg Almere, the Netherlands. The 'Aldichter' poets will perform on November 20, 2008.

To order tickets, please go to www.zinspelers.nl/kaarten/.

For more information about Schouwburg Almere (address, route description) www.schouwburgalmere.nl/

Large Hadron Collider

we all whirl on the edge -
waltzing -
our last particle dance

http://tinyurl.com/6hgyvq

Poem dedicated to a Chinese fan palm

In May 2008 a poetry path has been revealed in Almere Buiten's Evenaar, a three kilometer green walkway between roads heading towards a natural resort (Oostvaardersplassen). I dedicated a poem to the Chinese fan palm or trachycarpus fortunei.The poem is rendered in steel, lying at the foot of the tree. Click here for the video as broadcasted by Omroep Flevoland (Dutch).

Proceedings of the 5th Unquendor Lustrum Conference in Lembas Extra

The proceedings of the 5th Unquendor Lustrum Conference 2006 are now available, published in a special Lembas Extra issue. The 2006 Lustrum celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Dutch Tolkien Society Unquendor. Ron Pirson PhD and Dorine Ratulangie MA invited several scholars who contributed to studies or art in a Tolkien context: Professor Cor Blok, guest of honour of the Lustrum Conference, Professor Arne Zettersten, Renée Vink MA, Professor Nils Ivar Agøy, and Johan Vanhecke MA. The papers they presented are included in this Lembas Extra.

As a tribute we have included one of the papers Ron Pirson PhD wrote in Dutch on Tolkien. He initiated the organisation of the Lustrum Conference. His illness and his passing in 2006 saddened us all. This Lembas Extra is dedicated to him.

Lembas Extra is available at the Dutch Tolkien Society Unquendor (www.unquendor.nl) and the Tolkienwinkel (www.tolkienwinkel.nl).

The poem 0559

She flares with loneliness but tends to her roses. Desperate Housewives in Space in Aoife's Kiss.

There will be poetry

Even artificial minds can write poetry. But the experiment failed - or not?

Find out: There will be poetry published in MindFlights.

The poem Shadowsun

In the February issue of Sorcerous Signals my poem 'Shadowsun' is published, accompanied by a wonderful illustration from Marge Simon, created especially for this poem.

Imagine an elf or a nymph, whose destiny is linked to Earth, perhaps living in a forest or a brook, witnessing the Sun reaching the end of its lifetime: first the Sun will turn into a red giant, to finally collapse into a white dwarfstar. This could be her song:

www.sorceroussignals.com/Shadowsun