Zywa - Hello Poetry

Zywa Feb 1

[ Today, too much is ]

Today, too much is

happening, I must pretend --

it is a story.

Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), § 3

Collection "Truder"

#stories #experience #pressure #hustleandbustle

Zywa Feb 1

[ Afterwards it is ]

Afterwards it is

only vague what it was like:

a passion, a pain.

Novel "Buiten is het maandag" ("Outside, it's Monday", 2003, J. Bernlef), § 8-1

Collection "Over"

#passion #pain #experience #memory

Zywa Jan 31

[ Please be sensible ]

Please be sensible!

If all the girls are gorgeous,

let someone else drive.

Novel "Buiten is het maandag" ("Outside, it's Monday", 2003, J. Bernlef), § 1-4

Collection "Moist glow"

#reason #alcohol #drugs

Zywa Jan 31

[ It has made me sad ]

It has made me sad

that I cannot remember --

my dream about her.

Novel "Buiten is het maandag" ("Outside, it's Monday", 2003, J. Bernlef), § 7-2

Collection "Moist glow"

#sadness #mourning

Zywa Jan 30

[ Suddenly it's gone ]

Suddenly it's gone:

no more house, just a mountain --

of mosquitoes there.

Novel "jl." ("recently" - the title also refers to Juno Linnaarts, 2016, Anjet Daanje), chapter April 28th, 1986

Collection "No wonder"

#mosquitoes #biosphere

Zywa Jan 30

[ My body may seem ]

My body may seem

solid, but it is a cloud --

of floating atoms.

Novel "jl." ("recently" - the title also refers to Juno Linnaarts, 2016, Anjet Daanje), chapter April 28th, 1986

Collection "No wonder"

#body #atoms

Zywa Jan 29

[ Come on, wave your love ]

Come on, wave your love,

overflow me with your tide --

Don't ebb off from me.

Song "Je t'aime... moi non plus" ("I love you... me neither", 1969, Serge Gainsbourg), sung with Jane Birkin; sung in 1967 with Brigitte Bardot (released in 1986)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"

#love #makelove #desire #***