One day, when I was about 16 years old, I wrote a poem out of the blue. This came as a surprise to me, as I had never thought I could write poety. And it was in English, too, which I didn't even know all that well yet at the time.

I've written many poems since. Some I have published on my website, some I have kept private. Writing poetry has helped me deal with a lot of the things that have happened in my life, both good and bad, and in particular with the emotions I've felt. I found that if I put my emotions into a poem, even if the words do not actually describe my situation at the time, they become easier to handle - I no longer need to keep the feelings inside me, but at the same time, I can always go back to the poems I've written to find the feelings back again.

It sometimes seems to me that my poems are like crystals formed from my emotions. The metre and rhyme in a poem make up its crystal structure. And in this crystalline form, my emotions are preserved for the future.

See also the vampire poetry page, which contains vampire-themed poems written by some friends and me.