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Tantalising uncertainty,

Begoochelende onzekerheid,

Begoochelende onzekerheid,
broedplaats van sprookjesachtig
misverstand, oogverblindend
onkruid van de twijfel
waaraan de hoop zich vastklampt
tot de dood erop volgt.

© 1996, Hanny Michaelis
From: Verzamelde Gedichten
Publisher: Uitgeverij G.A Van Oorschot, Amsterdam

Hanny Michaelis

Hanny Michaelis

(The Netherlands, 1922 - 2007)

Hanny Michaelis was born in 1922 in Amsterdam, and her small but distinctive oeuvre has been awarded numerous literary prizes. Michaelis established a reputation as a poet of contained lyricism, and her work is characteristically tempered by an almost wry awareness of limitation. While her poems are often marked by an epigrammatic conciseness and an element of detached and analytical reflection...

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Tantalising uncertainty,

Begoochelende onzekerheid,
broedplaats van sprookjesachtig
misverstand, oogverblindend
onkruid van de twijfel
waaraan de hoop zich vastklampt
tot de dood erop volgt.

From: Verzamelde Gedichten

Tantalising uncertainty,

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