Quito Nicolaas Featured World Poet From Aruba & the Netherlands!

Featured Poet

Quito Nicolaas was born in Aruba. He studied political science and law in The Netherlands. He started writing poems at an early age. In the 90’s he published his first volume of poetry in the Netherlands, where currently he still resides. Up to now he had published 9 books of poetry, novels and short stories. His poetic works had appeared in eight different anthologies. Nicolaas is also known for his lectures, essays and articles in Europe and abroad about Caribbean literature. For the e-zine Caribe magazine he reviews novels by Caribbean authors and his columns appeared in Caribisch uitzicht. His major publications of its poems were in the Albanian Haiku magazine of September 2008. A selection of his poems was published in The Dictionary of International Contemporary Poets, China 2009. But also in the Sons Museum in Kruishoutem, Belgium you can find one of his poems. Recently he’s dedicating himself as a play writer and wrote two plays: Rhythm of change (2008) and Heaven doors for the Courtesan (2009).

Desire

Cry of despair, surrounds
rocks as a fortress
between heaven and earth.

Where the sea floods into the coast
blocked by a concrete body
at a distance, however small.

Fear, anxious, exasperation
find no more shelter
as joy blows on all sides.

A child with sparkling eyes is born,
self-confident, longing past
that never stands at the roadside.

An historic event
told on each page
the troubled defying old creed.

If the message ruptures
the body of meaning changes
forgotten as memory.

© Quito Nicolaas, Bos pa planta/Constructing voices, 2011.