I was born in 1962 in Belgium. I was a teacher for twenty years, a school manager for more than a decade and finally a technical manager of the Ministry of Education. In all these professional activities I have sometimes had the opportunity to spread my passion for poetry that dates back to my adolescence. I hope that I have enthralled some young students and, as a manager, some teachers of this art which helps me even now that I am retired and which, after an immensely happy life, finds me forced to face, the most courageously possible for me, numerous pains.