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selfknowledge poems
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Zywa
Nov 2
[ As a child I felt ]
As a child I felt:
there is a secret in me --
big, for the whole world.
Novel "Voor God en de Sociale Dienst" ("For God and Social Services", 2000, Nicolien Mizee), fax dated September 30th, 1999 about (January 8th) 1978
Collection "Out of place"
#childhood
#secret
#selfknowledge
#selfdiscovery
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Zywa
Nov 2
[ Suddenly I know ]
Suddenly I know
the secret hidden in me --
and I speak it out.
Novel "Voor God en de Sociale Dienst" ("For God and Social Services", 2000, Nicolien Mizee), fax dated September 30th, 1999 about (March) 1978
Collection "Out of place"
#secret
#selfknowledge
#selfdiscovery
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Zywa
May 14
[ I talk in my sleep ]
I talk in my sleep,
I recorded it and then --
quickly erased it.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India
Collection "Low gear"
#sleep
#selfknowledge
#research
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Zywa
Mar 29
[ My foe shows no light ]
My foe shows no light,
but I do sense some little --
dark within myself.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 8 "In Which the Tide Begins to Turn"
Collection "Low gear"
#selfknowledge
#honesty
#ethics
#goodandevil
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Zywa
Feb 25
[ The world is too tight ]
The world is too tight,
would I be too big for it --
or can it still grow?
Poem "De wens" ("The wish", 2019, Bart Moeyaert)
Collection "Skin-contact"
#selfknowledge
#world
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Zywa
Feb 20
[ You cry in your sleep ]
You cry in your sleep,
that is a side of yourself --
that you don't know yet.
Novel "The Golden House" (2017, Salman Rushdie), chapter (1-) 12
Collection "Low gear [2]"
#selfknowledge
#sleep
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Zywa
Jan 24
[ At most I myself ]
At most I myself
catch what I mean, with you it's --
misunderstandings.
Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), ยง 1
Collection "Wean Di"
#selfknowledge
#communication
#understanding
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Zywa
Jan 15
[ Interrogators ]
Interrogators
give you a magnifier --
to observe yourself.
Novel "Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), Prologue
Collection "Specialities"
#selfknowledge
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Zywa
Jan 1
[ Living to the full ]
Living to the full,
always searching for balance --
and finding myself.
For Maria Godschalk
Collection "On living on [1]"
#life
#balance
#selfknowledge
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Zywa
Jan 1
[ You don't live to get ]
You don't live to get
to know yourself, nonetheless --
it is part of it.
Novel "Perfecte stilte" ("Perfect silence", 2011, Thomas Verbogt), chapter Ritual
Collection "Inmost [1]"
#life
#selfknowledge
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