A couple of weeks ago, on my way to university, I encountered an old man on the tram who was asking for directions to Roeterseiland…
Laura SpringerMarch 21, 2023
This issue of the Spiegeloog is dedicated to Pride which automatically makes me think of the queer community. While looking for poems about pride, I…
Laura SpringerJanuary 11, 2023
Persepolis is an autobiographical series by Marjane Satrapi, depicting her childhood and adolescence in Iran and Austria, during and after the Islamic Revolution. The following…
Laura SpringerNovember 15, 2022
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I…
Anushka SabhanamOctober 12, 2022
I’d done it before (and doubtless I’ll do it again, sooner or later) woke up with a head on the pillow beside me – whose?…
Spiegeloog EditorsSeptember 7, 2022
Smiling is not the mark of happy wonders, not when for each smile I had to pay. So, with every suckled failure, I throw these…
Berenike SimonMay 9, 2022
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me And I shall spend…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloMarch 30, 2022
I had heard the story before about the two prisoners, alone in the same cell, and one gives the other lessons in a language. Day…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloJanuary 10, 2022
Letter of War Poet and Officer Wilfred Owen to His Mother Dearest Mother, I will call the place from which I’m now writing “The…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloNovember 15, 2021
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloOctober 11, 2021
How good to lie a little while And look up through the tree! The Sky is like a kind big smile Bent sweetly over me.…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloSeptember 6, 2021
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloMay 17, 2021