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Marília Galvão Nov 2023
Light thrives in the dark
by finding its way through the brenches
of a dense forest

Light thrives in the dark
by passing through the windows
of a wintered house

Light only strikes you
when you finally get to know
projected on the path you've always walked
your long buried shadow
Zywa Sep 2023
It has to be done!

Let's go: into the mirror --


without a blindfold!
Novel "Meneer Visser's hellevaart" ("Mr. Visser's harrowing of hell", 1934, Simon Vestdijk), published in 1936, chapter (2 and) 4

Collection "Inmost [2]"
Zywa Sep 2023
Get to know yourself:

listen to what's being said --


listen and translate.
Tale "A Change of tongue" (2003, Antjie Krog)

Collection "Home sea"
Zywa Mar 2023
We are the winners,

all we don't know is listed --


in our manual.
"Een handleiding voor mijn opvolger" ("A manual for my successor", 2008, Erik Solvanger)

Collection "Specialities"
Zywa Feb 2023
You only need to

understand yourself, really --


no one needs to know.
Story "Edith Wengler" (2020, Jens Christian Grøndahl)

Collection "Home sea"
Zywa Jan 2023
Can people be smart

enough to truly judge --


whether they believe?
Piety
"Dage som græs" ("Days like grass", 2020, Jens Christian Grøndahl)

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa Dec 2022
You know my life and

with all your experience --


you show it to me.
For Ineke J --- Collection "NightWatch"
Zywa Jul 2022
Do I know myself,

now that I believe I see --


that you look like me?
"Nog nooit" ("Never", 2009, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer)

Collection "Palace of the Night"
Zywa Apr 2022
Your child, it reflects

your faults, you must look through them --


to see who it is.
"Circe" (2018, Madeline Miller)

Collection "Inmost"
Zywa Dec 2021
I overheard friends

laughing, talking about me --


I disappoint me.
Collection "PumicePieces"
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