I'm Purple Poetry, a travelbug. My goal is to travel around the world and collect poetry. If you find me, please write a poem in me - in your own language - and put me in the next cache.

Kind regards,

This is how it works:
Once you've written a poem in the PurplePoetry book, please send it also by email to Ettje, so she can publish it on this site. If available, please supply a translation in English or German too, and/or a short description: what is the poem about, and why did it appeal to you?

Kind regards,
Zenz

Once Purple Poetry is stuffed with poetry, it's goal becomes to return to the 'Bolle Cache' in the Netherlands. Once it arrives there, it will be given to Ettje Kole. Purple Poetry was presented to her as a time capsuled gift for her birthday in 2002.

Ik ben Purple Poetry, een travelbug. Mijn doel is de wereld over te reizen en poëzie te verzamelen. Als je me vindt, schrijf dan alsjeblieft een gedicht in mij - in je eigen taal - en plaats me in een volgende cache.

Vriendelijke groet,

Ich bin Purple Poetry, ein Travelbug. Mein Ziel ist, um die Welt zu reisen und Poesie zu sammeln. Wenn Sie mich finden, schreiben Sie bitte ein Gedicht in mich - in Ihrer eigenen Sprache - und setzen Sie mich in den folgenden Cache ein.

Freundlicher Respekt,

Je suis Purple Poetry, un travelbug. Mon but est de voyager autour du monde et de rassembler la poésie. Si vous me trouvez, écrivez svp une poésie dans moi - en votre propre langue - et mettez-moi dans la prochaine cache.

Sincères amitiés,

Sono la Purple Poetry, un travelbug. Il mio obiettivo è di viaggiare intorno al mondo e di raccogliere la poesia. Se lo trovate, scriva prego un poem in me - in vostra propria lingua - e mettalo nel cache seguente.

Riguardi gentili,

Soy Purple Poetry, un travelbug. Mi meta es viajar alrededor del mundo y recoger poesía. Si usted me encuentra, escriba por favor un poema en mí - en su propia lengua - y póngame en el cache siguiente.

Respeto bueno,

Eu sou Purple Poetry, um travelbug. Meu objetivo é viajar em torno do mundo e coletar a poesia. Se você me encontrar, escreva por favor um poema em mim - em sua própria língua - e ponha-me no cache seguinte.

Consideração amável,

Travelbug... cache... What is this all about?!

A Travel Bug is a sort of hitchhiker: you can follow its progress online while it moves around the globe, hopping from cache to cache. A cache is a small waterproof container, placed tastefully within the local terrain. It will contain a logbook and any number of more or less valuable items. These items turn the cache into a true treasure: you never know what the founder or other visitors of the cache may have left there for you to enjoy. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. Others can then use these location coordinates to find the caches with a GPS receiver (Global Positioning System, a satellite navigation system). Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they take something they should try to leave something for the cache. This highly addictive game is called geocaching: you can find more information on geocaching.com (English), geocaching.nl (Dutch) or geocaching.nu (Dutch, with excellent tools).