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Zywa Jul 2023
Don't go anywhere,

there is a Way, you just walk --


That's living your life.
Tao

"The Book and the Brotherhood" (1987, Iris Murdoch), § 1

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Jul 2023
From the river, forest everywhere
with yellow knights, turkey tails
and white-bearded trees

Sometimes there is a silence
and I hear the treecreeper
here and there a stone

which is described
on the map of this area
a map that is not a map

but a summary
of intersections, bridges
and solitary trees

Tonight I will rest
in an easy chair
that important invention

after the folding chair, the tilting chair
the swivel chair and the wheelchair
luckily I'm whole inside

not shaken in a coach
with suspension
fit for a rest day

for considerations
about my journey and the world
accepts the outcome
- White-bearded trees: beard lichen (usnea)
- Folding chair: [1] folding stool (2000 BC, Egypt), [2] Roman folding chair (sella curulis, curule seat) for dignitaries, [3] folding chair with armrests
- Tilting chair (reclining chair): 1900 BC in Egypt
- Swivel chair: AD 1505, Martin Löffelholz
- Wheelchair: for disabled persons (6th century BC, China and Greece), rolling office chair (AD 1840, Charles Darwin)
- Coach with suspension: reinvented in the Middle Ages

Collection "Migration"
Zywa Jan 2023
I am lost, so what

can I say? Nothing other --


than that I don't mind.
Electro Symphonic Orchestra / Colin Benders (June 23rd, 2018 at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam), part 1 of block 2

Collection "Summer birds"
Zywa Dec 2022
Night sky, trees above

silent watering places --


on the motorway.
At the photo of petrol station Hendriksbos on the A28 (near Nunspeet), made by Sander van Wettum

Collection "NightWatch"
Zywa May 2022
We're walking along,

I see what you see, and I --


point out what I see.
Collection "Without reserve"
Zywa Nov 2021
Inexperienced travellers get lost
so soon in unknown regions
They are tempted
by alleys and signals
and go down the stairs

to the inside
ignorant where they are, somewhere
for real or just romping around a little
in their heads, turned crazy
crazier craziest by their senses

which surround them with walls
that they want to touch
to know if they are hard
or that they can float
right through them at a gallop

They are looking for a hand, a body
They want to talk, fight if necessary
with someone who will grab their axis
to stop the monologue
that shrills into their ears
"Moriana" (2017, Aspasia Nasopoulou), for cello

"Four Scenes: Monologue" (2021, Aspasia Nasopoulou), for voice and *****

"Le città invisibili" ("The invisible cities", 1972, Italo Calvino)

Collection "org anp ark" #183
Zywa Oct 2021
A brief break on the road
too tired for a nap
or to really eat here, something
that they don't even have

It's no use
to take my coat off
I just keep that one
glove on as well

I wish I was at home, in bed
not those bright lights, not that
endless dark night
still to go
"Automat" (1927, Edward Hopper)

For Maria Godschalk #141

Collection "NightWatch"
Zywa Sep 2021
We're walking along,

I see what you see, and I --


point out what I see.
Collection "Without reserve"
Zywa Feb 2021
I am on my way,

with views, that's what it's about –


goals are 'side' issues.
“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” (1974, Robert Pirsig)

Collection "Chance"
Zywa Feb 2021
I am on my way,

ignorant where to, that's how –


I get the farthest.
“No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going” (1651, Oliver Cromwell)

Collection "Chance"
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