Description
Blank page,
calm void,
saccharine savour,
in the prospect,
of woolly daylight.
Fly-by-night,
I tickle the child in me,
to surrender,
to burst out,
to play, to engage,
with innocence, with bounce,
with allure, to dare,
all the while…
being prude.
And then, when,
my reason,
my treason,
arises,
for a while, I part,
I roam, I seek,
only to find,
my reason,
my treason,
is my betrayal.
In circles I think,
I come to the brink,
as I laps moments,
I torture my being.
I will no more,
as I have come forth,
a new, a phew, acute.
– “Come-forth”
Hekkers prefers to refer to her work as free verses as opposed to poems, as the definition of free verses suggests that they refrain from the “steady, abstract rhythm of traditional poetry. Its rhythms are based on patterned elements such as sounds, words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs, rather than on the traditional prosodic units of metrical feet per line”.
As Hekkers explains, this enables her to ‘play’ with images and external factors that provoke the verses she explores and gives her the freedom to experiment with rhythm as well as with connotations and meanings.
Looking deeper into the work, her verses are based on a balance of ten poems/verses which explore humanistic themes through feelings Hekkers believes “everyone experiences”. This coincides with the author’s notion that poetry is a must for everybody, especially if you consider that words are used to express the psyche and that poetry is a play on words, poetry writing or reading is a real attempt to express the inner being without the need of framing, cohesion or structure.
The verses are a selection of works which Hekkers has been writing since 2003, and which are seemingly transcendent in time. Reminiscent of a diary/sketchpad, the book proposes to emit a diary or journal essence. Drawings, also by the author, accompany the poems in an aim to join this format, as a sketchbook would replace a diary in a visual form.
