#standstill poems on Hello Poetry

G Vermeulen Aug 29

Here I am
Sitting at a simple desk
With a simple light
And a simple book next to me

The bookmark is sticking out on page 10
And in order to move it further
I will have to read
I will have to work
I will have to put my mind to it

Excuses

But life is the same
I feel like that bookmark
Someone has to move me
But doesn’t put their mind to it

I am next to that person
On their simple desk
Under their simple light
Located in a simple book

Why am I left there
Stranded between words
A complete standstill
Because of someone else’s excuses

#life #bookmark #reading #book #selfdevelopment #standstill #excuses

Zywa Aug 13

[ Retirement is nice ]

Retirement is nice,

grandad shows it in his chair:

never to get up.

Novel "**** nu mijn stem" ("Hear my voice now", 2017, Franca Treur), chapter 2

Collection "VacantVoid"

#calm #standstill #retirement

Zywa May 19

[ The dense cloud cover ]

The dense cloud cover

hangs still, lowering itself --

and taking a rest.

Composition "Modes of Being", part "Rest" (2024, Elizabete Beate Rudzinska), performed in the Organpark on May 17th, 2024 by Elizabete Beate Rudzinska (*****) and Luka Schuurman (performance)

Collection "org ANP ark" #188

#calm #rest #standstill #clouds

Zywa Aug 2023

[ Life used to revolve ]

Life used to revolve

around us when we were young --

Today it still does.

"Het tankstation op de route" - 2 ("The filling station on the route" - 2, 2013, Jan Baeke)

Collection "Stall"

#egocentrism #individuality #standstill

Zywa Dec 2022

[ Splashing, dashing waves ]

Splashing, dashing waves

in the shoaled harbour: a ship --

it is sailing past.

Collection "NightWatch"