Mr.Cools' Planet - Welkom! Welcome!

Traveling and Writing
This website is about traveling and writing. Being on the move and being emotionally moved. Two different but interconnected things. Spotting places and losing your heart. Temples, pyramids, cities and ruins, forests and mountains, valleys and rivers, volcanoes and lakes, daily life in the streets, the world as habitat for writing.
Read on: In the year 2000

The Author
Derk Cools was born in 1939 in Den Haag / The Haque, the Netherlands. He got his degree in social geography and economics at the University of Utrecht(1958). As a civil servant with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, he developed expertise in regional (economic) planning at home and abroad. In 1994, he retired and moved to the Netherlands Antilles, the island of Curacao. Read on: Since 1995, he traveled

25 oktober 2015

Venetië


 Venetie en de bedelnap





Venetië

gekromd voorover
in rechte hoek  en
zwarte regenjas
de hand met nap

is zij daar waarschijnlijk
neergezet voor de uitgang
van een kathedraal

niet eigener beweging
maar door criminelen
in de ochtend vroeg -

gedropt

in de regen munt
stukken in tranen
om de uitbuiting

glimmend als zwartlak
een cataract van bedrog
vrouw misschien een man






Coolsplanet.com: Roman over Mystiek Curacao - Charlie Bloem

Coolsplanet.com: Roman over Mystiek Curacao - Charlie Bloem: In 2015, the novel Charlie Bloem, Vandalsky Papers is published at lulu.com It is the story of an apparition of the Blac...

19 oktober 2015

Coolsplanet.com: Roman over Mystiek Curacao - Charlie Bloem

Coolsplanet.com: Roman over Mystiek Curacao - Charlie Bloem: In 2015, the novel Charlie Bloem, Vandalsky Papers is published at lulu.com It is the story of an apparition of the Blac...

 http://www.lulu.com/shop/derk-cools/charlie-bloem/paperback/product-21901486.html

12 oktober 2015

Roman over Mystiek Curacao - Charlie Bloem










Charlie Bloem by Derk Cools (Paperback) - Lulu



In 2015, the novel Charlie Bloem, Vandalsky Papers is published at lulu.com It is the story of an apparition of the Black Madonna on the Caribbean island of Curaçao.  In a small circle of a journalist, a priest, a lawyer and a judge, the Madonna becomes the core of a struggle between reason and magic (brua), love and jealousy, identity and imagination, fear and courage. The style and structure of the novel are experimental and innovative. It's based upon the well known ko-an of the Japanese Zen master Ryo-kan about the moon and the finger, that shows how to look at reality. All persons have an alter ego, a shadow that penetrates in a world escaping daily routine. Front and backside of reality become the same when the mind opens itself. The landscape of the island shows itself as a still life in which all objects - houses, plants and trees, rocks and beaches - are happenings. The harsh landscape opens its eternal moment of becoming the world.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/derk-cools/charlie-bloem/paperback/product-21901486.html

geur






                                                                 grond


                                           schroeilucht
                                           regen over droge grond
                                           ijzer sist

11 oktober 2015

carpe diem



Carpe Diem


Nog niet wakker ontvouwt
Zich mijn mind en verbindt
Los en vast, open en dicht
Gesponnen en gestold
Buisjes bloed en aspirientjes
Wortels en naden en keitjes
Vakjes en vleugels en vis-
Been zonder lijm of spuug
Een grazig ontwaken dat
Nacht en dag sputterend
Van elkaar scheidt, carpe
Diem karpers en ander
Gebroed in de ochtend


open en dicht