voices – Scriptorium '77

One Thousand Years and Counting

The winds and smells and noises from the distant wars are blowing. Someone looks up; another one looks down. There are no warriors anymore. They are just children.

© Dominik Alexander / 2023

Loitering Without Intent

Standing still
Drawn into a picture
That wouldn’t move
But I was moved

© Dominik Alexander / 2022

Monday Night On Tuesday Morning

There is a darker sense
Far beyond midnight without any { offence / essence / evidence }

© Dominik Alexander / 2022

VOICES QUIET NOISES

at midnight are the voices quiet noises
through the open door of my balcony
comes streaming in not just clear air

© Dominik Alexander / 2022

Pond in the Wilderness

I’d like to enjoy the frogs quack in the pond, making love perhaps or just enjoying being frogs.

© Dominik Alexander / 2021

follow me

The sound of sand and dust
Walking
Not talking
Because

© Dominik Alexander / 2021

Trier

This life is one of the hardest
My brother used to say
Yesterday you had a past to remember
Today your future was taken away

© Dominik Alexander / 2020

Lamento Mori

Oh, magnitude of liberty
Cruel imagined safety
In our hearts:

© Dominik Alexander / 2017

Long Ago

Long ago
Through westward times

© Dominik Alexander / 2016

WRITING Creative writing is my personal way to deal with the world we live in. I try to figure what’s going on and how to make sense of it. Creative writing is also giving something from me to you to enjoy, to think about or just share some time together online.

POEMS On this page I started with poems because it’s an easy way for me to write something off my chest. Poems are about one tiny aspect in life, about a special feeling or a combination of both. Poems have the power to connect people in a special way. You can think about a poem for far longer than it lasted reading it. You can sing poems; you can think about poems; you can recite them out loud. Tell me what you think about my poetry. Or suggest a collaboration.

ART I already told you that I started with poems in here. But that’s just the beginning. I also write sonnets, short shories, novels, odes, haikus and more. I design my own books, do letterpress from time to time and like to make more collages. Some of it I put on here. Some of it I’m still working on. Most of it is still in my mind.

COLLABORATION I’d like to work together with other creative people. Do you like one of my poems and would like to make a song from it? Contact me! Do you have an idea but not the right words? Contact me! Do you like one subject I have written about and want to learn more? Contact me! Are you a writer but stuck in procrastination? Contact me!

FUN Sometimes I write about dark subjects. Sometimes I write about light subjects. Most of times I write because of the fun of writing. Because it’s healthy to do. Writing clears the mind. And, yeah, writing is fun. Do you like to learn more? Contact me!