What is Albert Megens?
{{Infobox person | name = Albert Megens | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|8|23|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Boxtel]], Netherlands | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|1|15|1939|8|23|df=y}} | death_place = | monuments = | nationality = Dutch | occupation = poet | years_active = 1962-2022 | relatives = | awards = }} '''Albert Megens''' (23 August 1939 – 15 January 2023) was a Dutch poet.<ref name=ref1>{{cite web|url=https://www.brabantcultureel.nl/2023/01/16/dichter-albert-megens-83-overleden/ |title=Dichter Albert Megens (83) overleden|work=Brabant Cultureel|date=17 January 2023|access-date=17 January 2023|language=nl}}</ref><ref name=ref3>{{cite web|url=http://www.albertmegens.nl/wp40/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/P1070838.jpg |title=Verhalen en gedichten uit twee dorpen|work=[[Brabants Dagblad]]|via=albertmegens.nl|date=26 November 2016|access-date=17 January 2023|language=nl}}</ref> Megens was born in the Boxtel municipality between [[Boxtel]] and [[Esch]]. His mother died young at the age of 45 when Megens was sixteen years old. His wrote poetry between 1962 and 2022. The main theme in his poems was the earth and the sky and numerous connections between them. In his poetry, his father stood for the earth and his mother represented life after death.<ref name=ref1 /> Megens published his last collection of poems on his eightieth birthday on 23 August 2019. The collection named ''Tachtig bij tachtig'' (translated: eighty at eighty) included eighty poems selected from his oeuvre since 1962.<ref name=ref4>{{cite web|url=https://www.bd.nl/loon-op-zand/bloemlezing-gedichten-van-albert-megens-80-in-tachtig-bij-tachtig~a012f0fe/ |title=Bloemlezing gedichten van Albert Megens (80) in ‘Tachtig bij tachtig’|work=[[Brabants Dagblad]]|date=23 August 2019|access-date=17 January 2023|language=nl}}</ref><ref name=ref1 /> Megens worked as a teachter at [[voorbereidend middelbaar beroepsonderwijs]].<ref name=ref1 /> He was married for over fifty years to Trees. They had three daughte