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Jeremy Betts Jan 3
...the melting ice shifts and strikes a familiar tone against the glass tumbler, abruptly snapping me back to my actuality
It pains me to call it reality but I'm forced to do so untill I change what I see or my surroundings change me
Both options frighten me...

©2024
Zywa Jun 2023
There is a pond in

the forest lake: beautiful --


black ice around it.
Series of poems "De vijver in het meer" ("The pond in the lake", 1983, Hans Faverey)

Collection "Held/True"
Zywa Feb 2023
The plants will show you

where it is passable here:


the Questioning Bog.
Raised bog near the village of Vragender (Interrogative, Questioning) in the Achterhoek (Rear-corner), near Winterswijk

Sphagnum floats on the meters deep water, and it waves when you walk on it

"Het Bureau - Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut" ("The Office - The A.P. Beerta-Institute", 1998, Han Voskuil), page 931-932

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
Zywa Nov 2022
Fairy-beautiful

is the house under the snow --


No imperfections.
Collection "NightWatch"
Zywa Nov 2022
There's a lot of sun

in the salt on my skin, please --


taste where I come from.
"Kan ingenting om svampar" ("Know nothing about mushrooms", 2009, Jila Mossaed)

Collection "Skin-contact"
Zywa Oct 2022
The ordinary

is in slow motion simply --


nothing but beauty.
"Cashapona" (2022, Germaine Sijstermans) for bass clarinet, cello and *****, performed on October 30th, 2022 in the Organpark, by Germaine Sijstermans (bass clarinet), Marcus Kaiser (cello), and Dante Boon (*****)

Collection "org anp ark" #244
Zywa Aug 2022
Step by step I walk

through the landscape, more and more --


it penetrates me.
"Marcher, une philosophie" ("A philosophy of walking", 2010, Frédéric Gros)

Collection "Inmost"
Zywa May 2022
Something sings beneath

reality, there's the beat --


of a heart, loudly.
"Underneath" (2022, Jasna Velickovic), composition for hyperorgan, part 1 of a chain composition by ten composers, performed by her in the Organpark on May 20th, 2022

Collection "org anp ark" #208
Zywa Mar 2022
Glimmering beauty,

clear and upside down, doubled --


in the little pond.
Old Chinese poem about friends in a porcelain pavillon in a pond: "Of youth", 1908, Gustav Mahler, based on the free version "Der Pavillon aus Porzellan" by Hans Bethge from 1907, after "Yan tao jia tingzi" by Li Bai [701-762])

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Amanda Kay Burke Apr 2020
Death would make a dark valentine
I'll join your hand with mine
Midnight strikes
Our skin will meet
Over a road made with sheets

Together we will take it slow
Step-by-step
Taken by shadows that are forever kept
Water's slowly rising
Instead I'm learning to swim
In our beliefs
Treading with limbs

Splinters thoughts
Negative energy
Scattered about too many places to see
Pressure wracks my consciousness with unuttered questions
Mix of doubt and adoration broken into sections

Ruins moment with cold insecurity
Fights desperation
Winning barely
Aroma of chocolate wafts through the air
Breathe clarity and briefly my senses are thankfully aware

I slowly blend surroundings until it's all a blur
Wandering
Table decked with items you prefer
To show you how much your love means to me
All that shows is the success we'll never be
Written 2-7-20
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