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A modest debut, this collection gathers a handful of intimate verses the author offered to friends, family and the memory of a vanished childhood home. The poems shift between original reflections on loss, longing and the passage of seasons, and tender translations of well‑known European poets, giving the book a quiet, multilingual texture. Written in a gentle, slightly archaic Dutch, the language conveys a personal voice that feels both earnest and unpretentious, inviting listeners into the writer’s early attempts at shaping feeling into rhyme.

Throughout the work the speaker addresses parents, siblings, a brother, a close companion and even a “father’s roof,” each address a vignette of affection tinged with melancholy. The recurring motifs of departing from familiar places, the ache of separation, and the hope for reunion create an atmosphere of wistful remembrance. Listeners will hear a youthful heart wrestling with memory, love and the inevitable march of time, all rendered in simple yet resonant lyricism.