Zywa - Hello Poetry

Zywa May 15

Walking in silence,

listening attentively --

to what the world says.

Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India

#attention #surroundings

Zywa May 14

On a tightrope, you

walk best thinking of it as --

air that carries you.

Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter Boonyi, § 1

Collection "Low gear"

#attention #focus #tightrope

Zywa May 14

I talk in my sleep,

I recorded it and then --

quickly erased it.

Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India

Collection "Low gear"

#sleep #selfknowledge #research

Zywa May 13

I'm expectant and

I'm ready to write it down:

the northern lights, there!

Poem "Mevrouw Despina ziet noorderlicht" ("Mrs. Despina sees northern lights", 2008, Marjoleine de Vos)

Collection "Unseen"

#distance #attention #expectation #detachment

Zywa May 13

The statues destroyed,

temples without a roof, gods --

that are still alive.

Poem 29. "Ionikón" ("Ionic", 1911, Konstantinos Kaváfis)

Collection "Held/True"

#tradition #religion #gods

Zywa May 12

I seclude myself

in two rooms: one made of stone --

and one made of time.

Column "Derde leg" ("Third laying", 2021, Ellen Deckwitz, in the NRC on May 4th, 2021)

Collections "Death on Cast" and "WriteWiser signage"

#authorship #writing

Zywa May 12

Well, I think a lot

is wrong, very unhealthy --

they are: opinions.

Column "Niet vervelend" ("Not annoying", 2023, Ellen Deckwitz, in the NRC on June 15th, 2023)

Collection "Death on Cast"

#thinking #fret #opinions