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Zywa Feb 2023
Between a problem

and my actual action --


lies a nowhereland.
Column "Wees geen eikel" ("Don't be a loaf", 2023, Ellen Deckwitz)

Nowhereland: Limbo, after: Limbus puerorum = Antechamber of heaven for unbaptised infants

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Nov 2022
There's always something,

something that is in my way --


even if it's me.
#168 "Sir Bumble makes complete" / "The completion" (1981, Marten Toonder)

Collection "Bearer Toonder"
Zywa Oct 2022
Stop it! Stop your talks!

Or do you want me to think --


and make a mistake?
#114 "Heer Bommel en het nieuwe denken" (#114 "Sir Bumble and the new thinking", 1966, Marten Toonder)

Collection "Bearer Toonder"
Zywa Sep 2022
Today I shall do

nothing, not like yesterday --


no, differently.
"- Wat ga je vandaag eens doen? - Niets" ("- What are you going to do today? - Nothing", 1993, Herman de Coninck)

Collection "Shortages"
Zywa Jul 2022
I never go far

in my yard, I'm too afraid --


that I will get tired.
"The introduction - Faxing to Ger #1", May 2nd, 1997 (2017, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
Zywa Apr 2022
An automatic

contract extension is ease --


instead of reason.
Conservatism

Collection "Half The Work"
Zywa Jun 2021
The winners just wait

quietly in the forefront –


The future will come.
Diary August 29th, 1957 (2005, Frida Vogels)

Collection "Trench Walking"
Tenant Mar 2020
6
Placating that rage
Spirting the way of sage

Object permanence makes the mental sour
Idealists, the opposite dour

Listening to musical notes as they are sang
Battlefields of yin and yang

Yang's lost its credibility
That seas lost its crossability

The middle Way's middle point
The yin is to anoint.
Ndolo Jun 2018
I couldn't live
I'm so passive, the moment my true thoughts escape
I mourned them
For knowing that they didn't matter
anyways, won't be heard

Its a familiar structure
The lines so oft spoken, I finally realized why they're afraid
Suicide really has a pattern
It is human to feel, it is human to be out of control
We are our versions of Vulcan
There is a time for logic to rule and suppress our emotions
For the good of the many

Then I see us slowly dwindling
the identity of Us solely embedded in I
I know I'm not saying anything new
What makes me different?

Knowing that this is just a moment in time
Just some self-reflection on my passiveness and shyness
Colm Apr 2018
A passive mouth
Should not be able to stand
On solid ground

In fact it never will
Know such a foundation

So long as passivity and poison
Anger and predisposition
Line a tiny row of fragile teeth

I will not know
Let alone why it bites
I am not, nor ever have been, nor will be. But this sort of insipid venom that you're attempting to spew is without foundation or reason. Not to mention that it's not becoming of what I suspect is your true character. I pray for you. And all alike.
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