Zywa - Hello Poetry

Zywa May 2024

What keeps me awake

is something I want to know --

and have forgotten.

Poem "De linkse is de droefste" ("The leftist is the saddest", 2008, Lies Van Gasse)

Collection "MistI"

#dementia

Zywa May 2024

Everyone expects

to win and bets money on --

a castle in air.

Novel "Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie), chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"

#greed #castleinair #future

Zywa May 2024

Still to be set up:

the Merry Celebration --

of Counting Blessings.

Novel "Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie), chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"

#gratitude #blessings

Zywa May 2024

The guests run away,

the staff is left with the feast --

left with the rumours.

Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter Boonyi, § 1

Collection "Low gear"

#rumours #thinkingahead #selfcare #danger

Zywa May 2024

It is night, I walk

across the metropolis --

which denies the night.

Novel "Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie), chapter 4

Collection "Low gear"

#city #night #2424

Zywa May 2024

India is much

more than chaos: through and through --

logical chaos.

Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India - 'India is chaos making sense'

#bharat #india #order #chaos #reason

Zywa May 2024

Walking in silence,

listening attentively --

to what the world says.

Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India

#attention #surroundings