I bought it for 5 Euro in De Bijenkorf,
this Rijmhandboek: practical guide
for the writing of poems and small songs
page 73 gives us the thirty most poetic
words in the Dutch language dreaming / dreams
heads up the list which ends with lost
silent pain singing wind moon sea grass
fire roads night dog blood poem song
forgotten / forget sun longing trees dream face dying
sorrow with lap down light past death
the statisticians of language did a simple
calculation life / live is six times more frequent
in poetry than in prose death fourteen times
dood is a great deal more poetic than leven
Fokkina McDonnell (20th century) The Netherlands (lived in England for several years)
Source: Harana Poetry issue 7, Spring 2021
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