Welcome to this poetry site.
On this site you can find a selection of the poems of Hans Gerlach, written under the pseudonym Hans van Egmond..
The poems here were originally written in Dutch under the title “Vloedlijnen”( Engl.: Tide lines ) referring to the lines of particles of stuff floating in the water, little animals, shells, salt, etc. that the deminishing high tide leaves on a sandy beach.
Here the sea is an allegory of the life of the author, that left marks in the form of poems: “Marks of kisses and tears”, as the author calls them in his first poem of the bundle.
The author has a special memories at Egmond aan Zee, a coast-place in the province Noord Holland of the Netherlands. He lived there, as he said, during “the luckiest and most careless years” of his life.
‘Flood lines’ was my first bundle of poetry containing 75 poems. The complete bundle, I am going to publish it later on. Hereunder a selection of the poems from the bundle is published, translated in english. The bundle was followed by “Grenzenloos” ( Without borders ), which file you can find here under.
Some of the poems are given here, others are published in the form of links of PDF files, that can be opened here and/or downloaded to your computer.
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