I’ve always had a thing for words, but I never really felt the urge to write myself. Until one night I decided to give it a go. As I was reading poetry from different Dutch writers, I noticed words started popping up. And there it was, out of nowhere: my first ever poem “Dromen”. It’s inspired by what my father always told me; “if all the dreams you had have already come true, you must dream bigger”.

Tell us a little bit more about how CMR Rijmpjes got started.

After writing that very first poem, I started to get the hang of it and wanted to write  more. I shared some of my work on my instagram account, and a few weeks later the first request for a custom poem for a birth announcement card came in. It was only then that I realised I could sell my work. I still had a fulltime job at the time, which forced me into taking things very slow. A custom poem turned into more requests, I launched a webshop and also started selling my work in a few small boutiques around the Netherlands. A couple years later and I’ve written over a hundred custom poems, sell my work in twenty retail stores in The Netherlands and Belgium and quit my fulltime job to focus on my business and other freelance projects.