Zywa - Hello Poetry

Zywa Mar 26

[ Dilated pupils ]

Dilated pupils

in a swollen, white face, that's --

what sadness looks like.

Novel "De opdracht" ("The Mission", 1995, Wessel te Gussinklo), chapter (4-) 44

Collection "VacantVoid"

#sadness

Zywa Mar 25

[ Characteristic ]

Characteristic

of old people's buildings is --

their name: Home of Loss.

Novel "Spertyd" ("Deadline", 2017, Elsa Joubert)

Collection "After the festivities"

#oldage #aging

Zywa Mar 25

[ The shadows are long ]

The shadows are long,

I'm waiting, it's getting dark --

it's coming closer.

Song "Not Dark Yet" (1997, Bob Dylan, album "Time Out of Mind")

Collection "Great Stream"

#life #courseoflife #oldage

Zywa Mar 24

[ A new appointment ]

A new appointment,

and today my first grey hair:

what many changes!

Poem "My first grey hair appeared", 806, Bai Juyi) - "Just ten days after starting this new job, I looked in the mirror and noticed I had sprung two new gray hairs."

Collection "Stream"

#oldage #34yearsold #newjob #aging

Zywa Mar 24

[ The lunar orbit ]

The lunar orbit,

the decline of my body:

it all goes slowly.

Poem "The full moon climbs slowly, slowly higher" (1610, Yuan Hongdao)

Collection "Stream"

#moon #body #decline #slowly

Zywa Mar 23

[ Something shiny there ]

Something shiny there,

I stop and kick it away --

pff, just a dead star.

Story "How I picked up a star" (1923, Taruho Inagaki)

Collection "Held/True"

#boredom #disinterest

Zywa Mar 23

[ The fairy tales are ]

The fairy tales are

over, since then they just tell --

how it really is.

Novella "De grote wereld" ("The upper world", 2006, Arthur Japin), chapter 2

Collection "Held/True"

#education #reality #fairytales