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M. Vasalis

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MORNING

Calm, as if on a raft of clarity
and stillness, lying on my back,
I drifted into morning, into morning light
where water, land, and sky were one, and even so
as much themselves as ever – not a thing was lost.

© Translation: 2017, David McKay

OCHTEND

OCHTEND

Zo kalm als op een vlot van helderheid
en rust, gelegen op mijn rug
dreef ik de ochtend in, het ochtendlicht,
land, lucht en water waren één en zonder dat
er van hun eigenheid maar iets verloren ging.

© 2015, M. Vasalis, Roden
From: Verzamelde gedichten
Publisher: Van Oorschot, Amsterdam

M. Vasalis

M. Vasalis

(The Netherlands, 1909 - 1998)

M. Vasalis is the pen name of Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans, a poet who studied medicine, married a neurologist and had four children, one of whom died very young during the Second World War. She worked as a child psychiatrist until her seventieth birthday. Between 1940 and 1954, three collections of poetry were published that gained her the highest literary awards and that were immen...

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MORNING

Calm, as if on a raft of clarity
and stillness, lying on my back,
I drifted into morning, into morning light
where water, land, and sky were one, and even so
as much themselves as ever – not a thing was lost.

© 2017, David McKay
From: Verzamelde gedichten

MORNING

Calm, as if on a raft of clarity
and stillness, lying on my back,
I drifted into morning, into morning light
where water, land, and sky were one, and even so
as much themselves as ever – not a thing was lost.

© 2017, David McKay

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