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Zywa Feb 2023
There's a thin sea drifting
above the sea, I float
everywhere, infinitely
between ancestors
and unborn

The sea kisses and plays
pulls me under water
up in high foams
which splash apart into
my new rainbow wisps

over the sea, from the sea
the bearing sea
engulfing sea
evaporating sea

making depths out
of valleys, creative
darkness, the sea
the full empty sea
Composition "From and To Infinity", for voice and 70 bamboo flutes (2019, BOI AKIH: Niels Brouwer; lyrics Monica Akihary), intro

The version for voice, guitar, kora, percussion, recorder and ***** (2023) was performed in the Organpark on January 29th, 2023, by Monica Akihary (voice, kalimba), Niels Brouwer (guitars), Sekou Dioubate (kora, slit drum), Dodó Kis (recorders), and Nora Mulder (*****)

Collection "org anp ark" #270
Zywa Jan 2023
We danced to a new year
in the utopia of the music
and the Golden Oldie
songs of love, longing
and sorrow that live
in our lungs

and emerge unpredictably
all of a sudden from the depths
of our breath
caressing or storming full
of experiences that make us
feel who we are

and what it's all about, seize
the eternity of our lives
in the stream of our breath
which is also the breath of others
while we are completely
engrossed in our presence
Utopia: the word whose meaning lies midway between "not-existent place/society" and "good place / happy society"

Carpe diem = Seize the day (Horace, 23 BC)

Carpe aeternitatem in momento = Seize eternity in the moment (Ernst Bloch, 1954-1959, in: "Das Prinzip Hoffnung" / "The principle of hope")

Collection "The drama"
Zywa Jan 2023
The hour has struck
Immediately we forget the time
and wish each other all the best
and boredom

that blessed can do everything
with the peaceful ticking
of grandma's clock without the hands
of an agenda that calls Action!

New Year, the realization
that time in ourselves never passes
In one body we are years
of experiences that are not closed

but do themselves well
on new discoveries and occasionally
set us thinking
about how it all comes together
For Maria Godschalk

Collection "Being"
Zywa Nov 2022
After my last word,

the closing point also crossed --


the border with me.
1986, fled from Iran to Sweden

"Dagdrömmeri utan datum" ("Daydreaming without date", 2009, Jila Mossaed)

Collection "Being my own museum"
Zywa Aug 2022
Episode thirteen

thousand and ninety: I play --


my life as a soap.
"The introduction - Faxing to Ger #1", May 11th, 1997 (2017, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
Zywa Aug 2022
I wade through the stream

of lives and organise them --


into storyboards.
"De kennismaking - Faxen aan Ger #1" ("The introduction - Faxing to Ger #1", July 2nd-7th, 1997, published 2017, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
Zywa Jul 2022
Domestic happiness together
a farewell from time to time
and then a child comes in

No men in our arms
no fuss, we say
to the teenager among us

Forgetting the world
forgotten by the world
being free

within the walls
eternal sunshine
in my spotless mind

As a temple, cleansed
with the wind, which takes
away what is not possible

with the water from the holy well
the sacrificial barley cakes of the earth
and the always burning fire in the hearth

the eternal stream
within the walls
of my life
Alexander Pope (London 1688-1744) about the Vestal Virgins in his poem "Eloisa to Abelard" (1717) on Abelard and Héloïse:
207 How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
208 The world forgetting, by the world forgot:
209 Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
210 Each prayer accepted, and each wish resign'd;
211 Labour and rest, that equal periods keep;

Collection "Metamorphic body"
Zywa Jun 2022
What is new is old,

because it does remember --


what has been before.
Collection "From Sacred Scriptures [1]"

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