Some prose and Skywatch Friday

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It's been a while (nine years?) and I miss the Skywatch community. In the meantime I started weekly posting a short story or a poem. "So why not do both?" I asked myself. And here I am.

How 're all you lovelies doing in your parts of the world?

Since these days I'm working and living in Belgium, I didn't take any pictures of my hometown of Amsterdam, the Netherlands to show you. Hope you can forgive me and take solace in these pictures of Mechelen.

Beautiful centuries old buildings, right? Make that singular (e.i. 'century') because these buildings are basically replicas, built when the city centre of Mechelen got reconstructed after bombs in The Great War (at the time World War I was not called World War I yet) ended their actually old predecessors.

One of the 'real' old pieces that withstood the tests of time, is this statue of Neptune. Once part of a fountain (in 1718) it is also known as 'Vadderik', local slang for 'lazy fat man':

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The little moments (a circle #poem)

The little moments 

he missed most. 

Like the way she ate.

He had never witnessed anyone 

eat so beautifully

and more than once 

wished to be her dinner 

Or at least the sunset 

that was allowed to watch

her through the window 

that might have been older 

than the beach side restaurant 

where they once met

and agreed to always remember 

the little moments 

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