{"id":5770,"date":"2025-10-12T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afflatuscreations.com\/?page_id=5770"},"modified":"2025-10-12T20:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:31:37","slug":"few-poems-by-germain-droogenbroodt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afflatuscreations.com\/index.php\/few-poems-by-germain-droogenbroodt\/","title":{"rendered":"Few Poems by Germain Droogenbroodt"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5770\" class=\"elementor elementor-5770\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e700cb2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e700cb2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f94a7d6\" data-id=\"f94a7d6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3b7394 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c3b7394\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Few Poems by Germain Droogenbroodt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE<br \/><br \/><\/strong><br \/>Rivers overflow their banks<br \/>houses are demolished<br \/>cars swept away <br \/>by the raging waters:<br \/>man has disrupted nature.<br \/><br \/>In vain <br \/>wisdom\u2019s warning words.<br \/><br \/>Would a chip, implanted in the brain,<br \/>offer more wisdom or even more blindness<br \/>and indoctrination?<br \/><br \/>***<br \/><br \/><strong>WHAT WILL REMAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Everything that ever lived<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">is sooner or later erased by time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What remains<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">is the beauty on earth<br \/>which man created before:<br \/>beautiful constructions, sculptures,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">words and music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But what will remain of us<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014for those who come after us\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">as a trace?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What else<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but tasteless constructions,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">pollution of water and air,<br \/>the greed of the present. <br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><br \/><strong>Petrified<br \/><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At the town square<br \/>stands the statue<br \/>of a war hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He looks ahead<br \/>as if he looks to the future<br \/>as if he looks for a time without wars<br \/>a time of worldwide peace<br \/><br \/>\u2014but his eyes are petrified. <br \/><br \/>***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A few haiku<\/strong> <br \/><br \/>Unconcerned rosy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">announcing upcoming spring<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">apricot blossoms <br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Their wings opened<br \/>heavenward hankering <br \/>birds of paradise<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Its roots in the mud<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">blooms whiter than the whitest white<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the lotus flower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The power of water<br \/>\u00a0imperturbably following<br \/>its very own road<br \/><br \/>***<br \/>A morning fisher<br \/>at the motionless water surface<br \/>wavers red the hope<br \/><br \/>from \u201c<strong><em>Dewdrops<\/em><\/strong>\u201d, 100 haiku by Germain Droogenbroodt, <br \/>published Japanese, English, Spanish, Dutch by JUNPA, Kyoto, Japan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Germain Droogenbroodt<\/strong> is an internationally acclaimed Belgian poet, translator, and publisher. Founder of POINT Editions and the ITHACA Foundation (Spain), he has published 17 poetry collections in over 30 countries. His work, inspired by Eastern philosophy, has been translated into 40+ languages and praised for its meditative depth. He created the \u201cPoetry Without Borders\u201d initiative and has received over two dozen international awards. His poetry has inspired artists and composers worldwide, and he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few Poems by Germain Droogenbroodt \u00a0 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Rivers overflow their bankshouses are demolishedcars swept away by the raging waters:man has disrupted nature. In vain wisdom\u2019s warning words. 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