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Zywa Jul 22
I took flute lessons,

I wanted to understand --


what 'out of tune' is.
Autobiography "In den vreemde - Kronieken" ("In foreign parts - Chronicles", 2024, Frida Vogels), chapter 'Herbert' - May 23rd, 1976, Bologna (about Frida's visit to Herbert Cohen [1931-2016] in Capelle aan den IJssel on Sunday, May 16th, 1976, with a look back at 1945)

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Jul 22
With a kisby ring

I am floating in the pond --


Among the lilies.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 2 ("The *******" - 2, 1993, Frida Vogels) – 1937, Bloemendaal

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Jul 21
Living the good life,

ruminating lush grasses --


in the shade of trees.
For Madelief dK and Lotte W, with a photo of Swiss cows (August 22nd, 2017, Steinern, Ufhusen) - 'Swiss' are brown cattle

Collection "Local tardiness"
Zywa Jul 6
At night I enchant

you with a kiss, then we'll both --


sing for happiness.
Song "Bluebird" (1973, Paul McCartney & Wings), album "Band on the run" - The bluebird is a blue thrush

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
summer? i love summer.

summer for me, is not the scorching heat,
it's the light that makes things shine.

it's the time when my inner gloominess is overshadowed by summer's joy,

and the time when the stoic leaves start to giggle because of summer's charm.

not even the dark nights of summer will leave you feeling lonely,

because its loo envelops you in its warmth.

but writing this when just yesterday I was about to faint from the heat of summer, feels symbolic.

like the light of summer hypnotizes you into believing everything's going to be alright,

but hold that thought too long, and you risk losing sight.

and maybe that's why summer ends, to make way for winter.

which leads me to the conclusion that I love summer, because winter exists.

that is nature's way, it's beauty is in its harmony.

and that is why I love winters, as much as I love summers.
this was messy; a journal entry turned poem. people looking for structure might not like it, but these are my thoughts, and I feel people's simple thoughts in itself are poetry.
Zywa Jun 3
The calm in your eyes
on me opens me
You lie in me
like a long l
of love

The light has licked you clean
it sings of you the glorious song
of our years, which bridge
everything that separates us
and clothes us in differences

For us, love is
still a thick word
of desire, the l
that erects
when I undress
Painting "The Particularity of Nakedness" (1987, Marlene Dumas)

Poems "7. The Particularity of Nakedness", "liefdeswoord" ("word of love") and "skryfode" ("writing ode"), (2000, Antjie Krog, bundel "Kleur kom nooit alleen nie" ("Colour never comes alone"

Collection "More"
Let me hold you between my two hands.
You have schmutz on your face and
Fleas in your fur, Poor baby.

Your head sags between your shoulders.
Your tail retreats beneath you
Don’t be scared, sweet baby.

I have something nourishing for you to eat.
Let me love you, you deserve it.
Please don’t bite, Honey baby.

For forever I will reach out to rescue you.
Knowing you will fight me for it.
Always will I wait, my love.
Zywa May 10
While withy branches

tap tick tack in the puddles -


the bells are ringing.
Poem "Bristol" (1945, John Betjeman)

Change-ringing:
1  2  2  4  4  5  5  3  3  1  1
2  1  4  2  5  4  3  5  1  3  2
3  4  1  5  2  3  4  1  5  2  3
4  3  5  1  3  2  1  4  2  5  4
5  5  3  3  1  1  2  2  4  4  5

Collection "Moist glow"
A hush descends before the heavens weep,
a gentle murmur stirs the leaves to set the stage.
The wind whispers, a breath in slumber deep,
like the delicate rustle of a turning page.

It rises slowly, from whisper to roar,
gales surge with desperate fervor, a wild refrain,
like a restless sea thrown upon the shore,
a swelling harmony of wind and leaf and rain.

Teardrops slip and curve where bending boughs lean,
gliding down a trembling blade in quiet sigh,
a fleeting dance upon the emerald green,
before the waiting puddle claims the weeping sky.
Carlo C Gomez Apr 20
~
I like the number 2,
so much in fact
I like it twice,
as in 22.

Now 2+2 equals 4,
but some say 2+2 equals 5,
It's quite the moral conundrum.

Still 5 is a cardinal, a prime,
why the Pythagoreans
thought of 5
as the marriage
between heaven and earth.

I empathize with 5 though,
for that's a lot of pressure
to put on a single solitary digit.

But I think I like him too,
he's a friend of 10,
which reminds me of
fingers, toes and Bo Derek.

But let's get back to 2,
which supposedly is company,
and 3, you see, is a crowd,
yet odd first and foremost
--Mersenne knew best, I guess.

Which brings me to 1,
small, but positive,
coveted, but united,
a face of multiple identities.

And should any other number
devise against it,
they would have no
success at all
--none, zero.

To be honest,
I think 1 likes 2,
and vice versa,
they're a complimentary couple
--both highly dutiful
and attracted to each other.

After all, it's said, "Someone may overpower
one alone, but two together can take a stand against him."

~
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