Cultuur Historische Vereniging
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Taalroute Schiermonnikoog


  




7. Noderstraun

The beach lies empty and wide
With low tide, in the neap of tides
Wind, the cry of a bird
I only notice the great silence
A couple of shells and wood and seaweed,
The small measure of the large, the wide,
Even smaller thing is here:
A human being, lost and numbed.
Pita Grilk


Pita Grilk
Schiermonnikoog 1905 - Leeuwarden 1980

Pita Louise Grilk was a daughter of the island merchant captain Lou Grilk. After her education at the conservatory she settled with her sister as a piano and organ teacher in Leeuwarden.