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1.3k · Oct 2023
I want to go to the moon
Zywa Oct 2023
My tent has a hole
at the top, that's the moon
which always shines
Before me, after me

Moon, you have room, right?
Tell me, do you have a place
for my heart?
Then, I'll come

to you
when I die, I will
to let my love shine
together with you

..One day I'll have to leave
..everything behind
..and none of it is mine
..except my love
..which is mine, all mine

for my loved one here on earth
That's why I hope
I can shine on him
with you later

..Nothing is mine
..except my love
..which is mine
..all mine
..all mine
Song "My Love Mine All Mine" (2023, Mitski, album "The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We")

Collection "Reaching out"
1.3k · Oct 2023
[ In bed I listen ]
Zywa Oct 2023
In bed I listen

to the piano playing --


somewhere down the road.
Novel "De koperen tuin" ("The garden where the brass band played" / "The copper garden", 1949, Simon Vestdijk), published 1950, chapter 4

Collection "Inmost [2]"
1.3k · Mar 2023
[ She is a goddess ]
Zywa Mar 2023
She is a goddess,

wearing a long train of boys --


like a Golden Goose.
"Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie)

Collection "Low gear"
1.3k · Mar 2022
[ The buzz of the guests ]
Zywa Mar 2022
The buzz of the guests

on the patio lets me --


snoop around freely.
"Vissoep" ("Fish-soup", 2016, Mustafa Kör)

Collection "Shelter"
1.3k · Jul 2019
Dagobert McDuck's strongroom
Zywa Jul 2019
I had the most marbles
kept them in a bucket in the attic
Whoppers in all metallic colours
and rare marble ones
Nobody liked to lose from me
so I just played alone

A classmate had an ivory marble
but ivory is forbidden, and I obey
the rules, that's the best game

People have no idea
how it works and what they waste
They say that I'm parsimonious
even with the foreign cents
which I cannot spend, the truth
is I work hard

and lead a sober life, the good example
that would benefit them more
than the inflation of a luxury life
Collection “Mosaic virus”
1.3k · Dec 2022
Deep pause
Zywa Dec 2022
I am that woman
who takes a few steps and then
stands still in the wind
on her face, my skin

feels the world
new, the cherry trees
this walk to the store
on the corner around the corner

cars parked next to the sidewalk
are so much more than the view
of the windows all around, the gardens
chimneys and clouds, the wind

on my face, my heart
touched, pounding
in my throat, three times
I take a deep breath, only then

do I walk along the traffic
away from the cherry trees
to the store on the corner
around the corner
For Maria Godschalk (January 12th, 2021)
1.3k · Jul 2022
[ The vase with flowers ]
Zywa Jul 2022
The vase with flowers,

which I just put outside, look:


full of butterflies.
Collection "Metamorphic body"
1.2k · Feb 2023
[ Until the Spring Ball ]
Zywa Feb 2023
Until the Spring Ball

the farms in the bog form an --


archipelago.
Emmen (in the raised bog), early 20th century

"Het Bureau - Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut" ("The Office - The A.P. Beerta-Institute", 1998, Han Voskuil), page 590-591

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
1.2k · Dec 2022
On the balcony at Grandma's
Zywa Dec 2022
Grandma is bored, she waits
for my wedding and perhaps
she fantasises that I'm getting pregnant

How would it have been
with grandfather and her in bed?
We don't talk about that

just about the afternoons
in the sun, gaining some
colour for the summer

She would have liked that, but
at that time people thought differently
Anyway, bikinis did not yet exist

So much has changed, she reads it
to me from the magazine
and I laugh at her astonishment

She is old, her hair as white
as the walls in this sun, lovely
Lu does not have to come yet
"Second Story Sunlight" (1960, Edward Hopper)

Collection "NightWatch"
1.2k · Jan 2023
Monument Streets
Zywa Jan 2023
The Knitting Needles Museum
has a prudish name
that frightens the schoolchildren
and obscures the oppression
of desperate and ***** women

The torture museum
and the war museum also
lack the inspiration
from a muse
They are monuments

and should be called that
With the unbuilt museums
of destroyed art and
ancient cultures, they can
fill a street in any city

'Ecce ****', behold man
the noble beast, the master
of things and nothings -
virtual and vanished
worlds that are unlivable
Collection "PumicePieces"
1.2k · Sep 2022
[ It is printed now ]
Zywa Sep 2022
It is printed now,

as pure art: the sorrow, mine --


everyone's, isn't it?
"Art brut" ("Outsider art" / "Raw art" / "Pure art")
"Het verdriet van België" ("The Sorrow of Belgium", 1983, Hugo Claus)

Collection "Over"
1.2k · Oct 2022
[ The cow looks beyond ]
Zywa Oct 2022
The cow looks beyond,

maybe at the evening light --


mirrored in her eye.
"Koe" - IV ("Cow" - IV, 2008, Rutger Kopland) --- Collection "Moist glow"
1.2k · May 2022
[ The birch watches me ]
Zywa May 2022
The birch watches me

with a purely divine look --


of generous eyes.
The birch is the "watchful tree", with aspen eyes after dropping the branches that don't receive enough sunlight

Collection "Secrets & Believers"
1.2k · Mar 2022
[ Right after the first ]
Zywa Mar 2022
Right after the first

news our ideas start running --


away from ourselves.
Collection "The drama"
1.2k · Apr 2022
[ The girl keeps wriggling ]
Zywa Apr 2022
The girl keeps wriggling,

at her wrists and her ankles --


tossed into the sea.
Collection "Bruises"
1.2k · Mar 2019
[ My monkey mind jumps ]
Zywa Mar 2019
My monkey mind jumps

between superfluities –


unable to sit still.
This senryu goes together with the preceding [ My heart beats action ] and [ If life is boring ].

Collection "Wean Di"
1.2k · Jul 2023
[ Every day I pass ]
Zywa Jul 2023
Every day I pass

the forest, it's hard to see --


that we're transforming.
For Florentin

Collection "Migration"
1.2k · May 2023
Angry Angel
Zywa May 2023
You cannot sleep?
It will come
It's the clock genes

Just come over here
and lie down with me
Close to each other
You are so sweet

It tied knots in me
that are not quite undone yet
I was a saviour, an angel

not yet used
to her body, a child
who does know heaven
but not yet earth

It recurred
Anger grew inside me
Powerless aversion

It recurred
And with others
I lost my wings
A worthless angel
Clock genes: 24-hour rhythm / circadian rhythm (circa-dies = approximately a day)

For Maria Godschalk

Collection "Bruises"
1.2k · Oct 2022
[ The doctor wavers ]
Zywa Oct 2022
The doctor wavers,

he sighs and looks through me, so --


I already know.
"De dokter" ("The doctor", 2008, Rutger Kopland) --- Collection "After the festivities"
1.2k · May 2022
[ When the work is done ]
Zywa May 2022
When the work is done

we sleep, nowhere, timelessly --


lying in our love.
Collection "Freend"
1.2k · Jul 2022
[ Casting fishing lines ]
Zywa Jul 2022
Casting fishing lines

is a slow dance; I'm catching --


peaceful quietness.
"The Ritualists" (1940, William Carlos Williams)

Collection "Actively Passive"
1.2k · Aug 2022
[ Tender is the night ]
Zywa Aug 2022
Tender is the night

in which you ardently love --


what will elude you.
"Zärtliche Nacht" ("Tender night", 1962, Hilde Domin)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
1.2k · Nov 2022
[ Fairy-beautiful ]
Zywa Nov 2022
Fairy-beautiful

is the house under the snow --


No imperfections.
Collection "NightWatch"
1.1k · Jan 2022
[ I apply pressure ]
Zywa Jan 2022
I apply pressure

to the people close to me --


with expectations.
Collection "Freend"
1.1k · Jul 2023
[ A romantic kiss ]
Zywa Jul 2023
A romantic kiss;

her first, so her eyes tell me --


dying passively.
Novel "De laatste kans - De geschiedenis van een liefde" ("The last chance - The history of a love", 1960, Simon Vestdijk), chapter 1-3

Collection "Inmost"
Zywa Mar 2023
A woman with a gun
Driven out. Cast out
by her neighbours

because she was killed internally
and could feel nothing
but pain and disgust

and because they too can
no longer believe who she was
at home, in the paradise

before the arrival of the men
who use you cruelly
until they discard you

and impale the broomstick
grandma's cane, their bayonet
or a bullet in you

The woman with the gun
wants to sleep again, to feel
the warmth of the sun again

She wants to defend
a new paradise, being awake
from the nightmare

of inhumanity
and free herself from the cage
of her broken body
Relief on the grounds of the Soviet War Memorial, Treptower Park, Berlin

"Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: what war does to women" (2020, Christina Lamb)

Collection "Bruises"
1.1k · Jul 2022
[ Any memory ]
Zywa Jul 2022
Any memory

you repeat turns easily --


into a desire.
Column "Het verlangen naar wat je al kent, dat is het sterkst" ("The desire for what you already know is the strongest", 2022, Marjoleine de Vos in NRC)

Collection "Over"
1.1k · Mar 2023
[ A trail in the snow ]
Zywa Mar 2023
A trail in the snow:

the fresh footprints of a fox --


along red spatters.
Collection "Bruises"
1.1k · Sep 2022
The past is for everyone
Zywa Sep 2022
I have a store full
of old things, it is difficult
to ensure

that they are not sold
to snobs with no idea
of their real value

without the slightest idea
that it cannot be expressed
in their money

only in tax money, annually
to be collected for maintenance
and everything that comes with it

to have the works viewed
by those who are interested
and that can be anyone

which is hard to accept
for barbarians who get rich
from constant replacement
Collection "Lilith's Powers" #74
1.1k · Dec 2022
Beach House
Zywa Dec 2022
Your cloths are already dry
but I just let them flap
so at least something is happening
in this deserted place

You just sit there watching
taking a dip every now and then
Afterwards you carefully dab
the short hairs on your skull

I liked you better in the bar
although you were bragging
about your house and the beach
all to yourself

You showed your brown chest
I wanted to lie on it
and work on my tan a little
so nice by the sea

No, you are not social
the day is still long
and there is nothing here
to cook a good meal
"Sea Watchers" (1952, Edward Hopper)

Collection "NightWatch"
1.1k · Feb 2023
[ Mist, with some shadows ]
Zywa Feb 2023
Mist, with some shadows

of animals in the side --


of the road, hit, dead.
"Het Bureau - Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut" ("The Office - The A.P. Beerta-Institute", 1998, Han Voskuil), page 870

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
1.1k · Sep 2023
[ Our souls are not whole ]
Zywa Sep 2023
Our souls are not whole,

they are split, in other words --


they're schizophrenic.
The imperfection of the individual souls in which the human soul manifests itself, in feeling quite little connected to each other

According to the ancient Greeks, the (separating, splitting) diaphragm was the seat of the soul

Novel "De redding van Fré Bolderhey" ("The rescue of Fré Bolderhey", 1946, Simon Vestdijk), published in 1948, chapter 10

Collection "Inmost [2]"
1.1k · May 2023
Evil World
Zywa May 2023
The night is safe. Come
Whatever goes wrong
you did what you could do

Come. You want too much
love and appreciation
from others for each other

and fewer regulations
fewer regulators
who interfere

and, like puppets
decide your fate
Mistakes are forbidden

They're in the system
and that's being worked on
Come. Over is the day

in which the seed lies
the seed of your fear
Your gluttonous love
Evil World: Fear (from a gluttonous need for love, comfort and security you fear, thinking you cannot function in the social system)

About gluttony: poem "Evil Child" (see May 23rd)

Collection "Mastress"
1.1k · Jun 2023
Haarlem Smileys
Zywa Jun 2023
My hand wants to know
what I, what they
want, do, and to
understand what is happening

to my body, and what
it has to do with me

My soul also wants to
know in order to know
and to laugh about it
when I think I know something

Laugh relievingly
Think about why

others do what they do
and then, what hold
my hand has
to help

I think ahead
behind my clouds
the sun shines
the sun smiles
Tarot 19. Sun
Prometheus thinks ahead
I too work according to plan
I think

For Maria Godschalk

Collection "Bruises"
1.1k · Dec 2022
Until the reception calls
Zywa Dec 2022
Out of fashion, out-dated
there's no help for it, so let me be
unattractive, rejected
because I show myself so conspicuously
and attract attention needlessly

That's how I'm seen. I am seen
and the whispering amuses me
although nobody talks to me

And you let me wait again
until the reception calls
that you are there

So I just sit here
looking out the window
I am used to it, there is nothing to see
at the back of the hotel
and it is getting dark

You always were impatient
My make-up took too long for you
and you sat angry in the car

but if I behaved exactly
the way you had conceived
you could really be sweet
"Hotel Window" (1956, Edward Hopper)

Collection "NightWatch"
1.1k · Dec 2021
[ You know the feeling ]
Zywa Dec 2021
You know the feeling

of not belonging, being --


different, a guest.
"Twee vrouwen" ("Twice a Woman", 1975, Harry Mulisch)

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
1.1k · Aug 2023
[ A kiss, naked I ]
Zywa Aug 2023
A kiss, naked I

stand before you, I'm not me --


I am your lover.
Novel "The PowerBook" (2000, Jeanette Winterson), chapter "SEARCH"

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s and 10s"
1.1k · Dec 2022
[ Just become little ]
Zywa Dec 2022
Just become little

to really get great enough --


for humility.
"The incredible shrinking man" (film 1957, Jack Arnold; novel "The Shrinking Man", 1956, Richard Matheson)

Depletion of the earth by humanity

Collection "Ifless"
1.1k · Feb 2022
[ Is peace to be free ]
Zywa Feb 2022
Is peace to be free

while a war is raging on --


in other countries?
"oorlogsrappen" ("warraps", 2017, Anne Vegter)

Collection "Human excess"
1.1k · Jul 2021
[ Twilight is filling ]
Zywa Jul 2021
Twilight is filling

the silence between the rocks --


The pool is turned black.
"Nuns and Soldiers" (1980, Irish Murdoch)

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
1.1k · Jul 2022
[ Your leg on my thigh ]
Zywa Jul 2022
Your leg on my thigh

provokes me, then you ask me:


This is fun, isn't it?
"Francisca Porto" (2004, Paul Janssen)

Collection "May the Might"
1.1k · Jul 2022
[ Walk into the night ]
Zywa Jul 2022
Walk into the night

at parties, just a moment --


to see the pleasure.
"Persoonlijke eigenaardigheden" ("Personal peculiarities", 2022, Elly de Waard)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
1.1k · Apr 2023
[ At last there's a flag ]
Zywa Apr 2023
At last there's a flag,

flapping next to a café --


like a crackling fire.
Collection "On living on [1]"
1.0k · Aug 2022
[ Step by step I walk ]
Zywa Aug 2022
Step by step I walk

through the landscape, more and more --


it penetrates me.
"Marcher, une philosophie" ("A philosophy of walking", 2010, Frédéric Gros)

Collection "Inmost"
1.0k · Feb 2023
[ You're getting older ]
Zywa Feb 2023
You're getting older,

tomorrow is not at all --


the day that would come.
"Farväl" ("Farewell", 2020, Jens Christian Grøndahl)

Collection "Stream"
1.0k · Dec 2021
[ I overheard friends ]
Zywa Dec 2021
I overheard friends

laughing, talking about me --


I disappoint me.
Collection "PumicePieces"
1.0k · Jun 2023
Wake up
Zywa Jun 2023
Live! Not dying
like all the sad-eyed people
but like the dog
that dances in the window

Wake up and look
There's sun, there's stars
there's daisies
and it swirls
in your ***

Wake up to a poem
Your blood flows
Spring comes and
there's bread in the oven

I'm not saying anything new
My words are clear
as water, as your soul
The sea falls and rises
but man is cruel
Poem "Cruelty" (Namdea Dhasal [Born near Pune, India, 1949], collection "Golpitha", 1973)

Collection "Different times"
1.0k · Jun 2022
Five ponds, five nations
Zywa Jun 2022
Peace got clothes to wear
that are called democracy
and are also worn by others

doppelgangers on the stage
of the power that they serve
as an extra or a puppet

It's an easy role
but in real life it is great
self-control and a matter

of patience to understand others
and to convince each other
of a public interest

This is how the Great Law
of Peace works along the Panther Lake
and the Sparkling Water

listening and consulting
without ventriloquism
or indelicate word
In the Mohawk area are the 'Five Ponds Wilderness' and the 'Black River Wild Forest'

The Iroquois are the league of the five tribes (nations) Mohawk, Oneida, Onanondaga, Cayuga and Seneca; this league is called Kaianerekowa = Great Law of Peace

In the council of the league are speakers (sachem) those who bring the position of their group and try to convince the others to agree with it (the Aztecs named these speakers 'tlatoani', with Moctezuma as huey-tlatoami [supreme speaker]); it is honorable to be a speaker, but there is no power attached to it, so that the settlers wrongly treated the speakers as 'chief'

Lake Erie: Erielhonan = Long-tail/Panther
Lake Ontario: Ontario = Sparkling water

Collection "The drama"
1.0k · Apr 2022
[ I never played Hamlet ]
Zywa Apr 2022
I never played Hamlet,

I was just the performer --


who was playing him.
"Het theater, de brief en de waarheid" ("The theatre, the letter and the truth", 2000, Harry Mulisch)

Collection "Held True"
1.0k · Mar 2022
[ A human doesn't ]
Zywa Mar 2022
A human doesn't

belong to humanity --


It is not a group.
The concept of humanity is fictitious

Collection "The drama"
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