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Words to warm you when life gets cold This isn't just a book. Not just poetry. It's medicine. Love filled medicine.

Beautiful heartfelt poetry about loss and love that touches your soul, warms your heart and lifts your spirit.

‘Breathe every sentence…’

'If words could glue broken hearts back together, then breathe every sentence of these bundles.'

Bestselling writer of e.g. 'Vrouwenpower', 'De maagd is terug' and 'Trauma, je bent gek als je het niet hebt'.

Christine Pannebakker

Bestselling writer of e.g. ‘Vrouwenpower’, ‘De maagd is terug’ and ‘Trauma, je bent gek als je het niet hebt’.

Feel this poetry while it holds space for you in times of grief.
Embrace you like a warm blanket when life feels cold.
Comfort you when you really need a hug.
Keep you safe, lift you up and help you grow selflove.

Are you ready to heal your heart with golden light? Order ‘Dark love’ now.

This isn’t just a book. Not just poetry.

It’s medicine. Love filled medicine.

‘The best gift I could give my heart’

Dear reader,

American writer, publisher and poet Carl Sandberg once said: Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

An intruiging way of saying poetry invites feelings that make you want to hide under a blanket.

Many shadows were asked to dance in the thirty years that fill this book. Starting with the early loss of my mom.

I just had to take pen to paper and start writing to keep deep, dark and overwhelming feelings from swallowing my heart and sending my soul to oblivion. As I wrote, starting off in utter darkness, words turned into liquid gold filling up the cracks in my heart.

It was the best gift I could give my heart.

Turning restlessness into relief, grief into gratitude and loss into love.

Tears of dispair changed to tears of profound gratitude and selflove. 

The words I wrote, were healing words. Are healing words.

They’re meant to help. Meant to heal. 

They helped me dance with my shadows. 

And I trust they help you dance with yours. 

Especially on days that life gets cold.

With love, Diane

Diane van den Heuvel is a wordsmith, lover of life and writer of two published bundles of poetry: 'Als alles leeft' and 'Dark love'.
Diane van den Heuvel is a wordsmith, lover of life and writer of two published bundles of poetry: ‘Als alles leeft’ and ‘Dark love’.
Dark love
Dark love
Dark love

€22,50

‘Tears were filling my eyes’

In the world of poetry words help releive pain, heal grief and grow selflove.

‘…So what feels like shadow
Is not a bad thing
It’s an invitation to go
And let our soul sing’

Dark love takes you on a personal journey, that will fill your heart with love.

Dorien de Vos, retired English teacher, experienced it firsthand: ‘I received Dark love at a dinnerparty and started peeking right away. When I got to the third page, I had to stop. Tears were filling my eyes.’ 

Experience the gift of love

‘A spot on reflection of the feeling’

'Sometimes you read something so good you think: this is exactly the right order of words. A reflection of the feeling. Did I read this before? It is spot on.'

Accountant and writer of 'Voor onze dochters'

Monika Bankert

Accountant and writer of ‘Voor onze dochters’

Dive into this unique collection of literary pearls. Every poem telling a story.

Prepare to cry, laugh, heal.

Feel the words embracing you, embracing life.

Connect to the essence of what it means to be human.

Embrace Dark love.

Dark love

€22,50