Marie Derley, Belgium

Introducing  : Marie Derley,  Belgian author, short story writer and poet, with a particular passion for short poetry forms such as haiku, tanka, pantun, quatrain, and for short and micro-stories.

She works on the 25th floor of a tower in Brussels. Marie likes gentle humour, lightness, harmony of words, music of syllables, colour of ideas, arts, travelling and earrings.

a secret box
made from a tax code
bulbs dormancy

December 1st 2024 

past love
hydrangea flowers wither
but don't fall

May 19th 2025 

their country

under the rubble

falling chestnuts

November 16th 2025