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Zywa 11h
To love is trying

to fall, to swim and to fly --


while you're standing still.
Poem "Waarom is het" ("Why is it", 1958, Hans Andreus)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
Zywa 1d
Accept, narrow or

broad, the way of love, because --


it never will end.
"Ghazal 73" ("Ode 73", 14th century, Hafez)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa 6d
Just care for me, no

wishes, you'll have everything:


me and my hopping.
Novella "De heilige Antonio" ("The Saint of the Impossible" / "Saint Antonio", 1998, Arnon Grunberg), chapter 15

--- Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Zywa 7d
No supermoon nor

a field of flowers, true love --


kisses dreary days.
Song "Lieveling" ("Darling", 1996, André Manuel), album "Krang"

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Zywa Aug 2024
Drawn night, summer night
the sky above Montpellier
Venus, breath over hills
Nothing less than spring

Silver needles, delusion-less
and windless awake
right next to the waterfall

The springs steam with love
enraptured with love
atoms of love
Expressions, fragments

of we, elementary particles
mystical body, secret body
of this second
19 titles of poems from the collection "dagtekening van liefdesvormen" ("date stamp of love forms", 2024, Rozalie Hirs)

extracted landscape 2015, drawn night 1975, summer night 1982, the sky above montpellier 1983, venus 2010, breath over hills 1994, nothing less than spring 1969, silver needles 1981, delusion-less and windless awake 1986, right next to the waterfall 2008, the springs 2017, steam with love 1974, enraptured with love 1999, atoms of love 1974, expressions 1972, fragments of we 1978, elementary particles 2013, mystical body 2002, secret body of this second 2016
Zywa Dec 2023
The blue butterflies live
on honey from the magic world
of changes -

the rain and shine
and the wing beats
of all the bodies

with more or less happiness
suffered injuries and tears
for unwelcome outcomes

I massage my aching belly
full of vampire moths
As long as I live

blue butterflies will
fly up from the womb
of my affection
"Butterfly effect" (enlarged reaction)
Vampire moth (Calyptra thalictri)
For Maria Godschalk

Collection "On living on [1]"
Zywa Dec 2023
The ecstatic heart-

brake in that opera song --


while we're having ***.
Poem "The Balcony" (2000, Louise Glück)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Zywa Jul 2022
Watch out, love wants all

your attention and to go --


to bed in good time.
"Idyllen" #12 ("Idylls" #12, 2015, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer)

Collection "Palace of the Night"
Zywa Dec 2021
Love wants to explore

the whole world together, and --


likes to live at home.
Collection "The migration"
Amal Backer Feb 2021
You know where to, all those rivers run to?
To the oceans my love, to the oceans of love.
Ever thought of the waves?
What fortunes they seek?
It is to come home to you
Least For a sight of your shores
To reach and touch on your laps
Even if I vanish away,
Dear I'll be whole.
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