Rotterdam CityPoem, photo dimormar
Rotterdam CityPoem: It is not much, Henk Houthoff
It is not much what I have gained
Only this view is my possession
and what has been lost without noticing
Is now being said by the other each day
About the author
Henk Houthoff (1941) is a poet from Rotterdam. In 1996 and 1997 he was poetry editor of the Dutch literary magazine Passionate. He has published poems in several magazines.
Text in Dutch
Het is niet veel wat ik verworven heb
slechts dit uitzicht vormt mijn bezit
en wat ongemerkt verloren ging
wordt door de ander nu dagelijks gezegd
- Rotterdam (1) - mirroring the water of the Singel
- Rotterdam (2) - Surinam's national poem
- Rotterdam (3) - on waste disposal trucks
- Rotterdam (4) - Lucebert's neon poem
- Rotterdam (5) - Rotterdam's night mayer Deelder
- Rotterdam (6) - for the visitors of Blaak market
- Rotterdam (7) - on a children's hospital
- Rotterdam (8) - by Leopold
- Rotterdam (9) - haikus on the pavement
- Rotterdam (10) - boomp boomp
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