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Zywa Jun 2024
The gigantic wheels

of light emerge from the sea --


like super spaceships.
Column "For Your Information" by ***** Ley in Galaxy magazine, published in August 1962, included in the collection "***** Ley's For Your Information: On Earth and in the Sky" (1967), about the 'Wheels of Poseidon', plankton-patterns of acoustic pressure waves in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf

Story "A Meeting with Medusa" - § 5. The Wheels of Poseidon (1971, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Held/True"
Zywa Jun 2024
I am curious

and break the glass, it turns out --


to be an alarm.
Short story "The Sentinel" (1951, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Human excess"
Zywa Jun 2024
There the waxing Earth

is low in the sky, lying --


in its starry crib.
Short story "The Sentinel" (1951, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Human excess"
Zywa Jun 2024
Oh dear, the mother

of all earworms completely --


took over his brain.
Short story "The Ultimate Melody" (1957, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Human excess"
Zywa Jun 2024
Well, is man still in

the cradle of Earth? Would it --


predict anything?
Comment in a letter from Konstantin Tsiolkovsky from 1911: "Planyeta yest' kolybyel razuma, no nyelzya vyechno zhit' v kolybyeli" ("The planet is the cradle of the mind, but you cannot live in the cradle forever" >> "Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever [The solar system becomes our kindergarten]")

**** sapiens has been around for 300,000 years

Collection "Human excess"
Zywa Jun 2024
We don't say much, we

already understood each --


other in our dreams.
Composition "Dreamleaves" / "Traumblätter" (2007, Robert Nasveld), for one piano four hands, performed by Corien van den Berg and Niek de Vente, in the Organpark on May 31st, 2024 - 6. "Dé-jà-entendu dream"

Collection "org anp ARK" #13
Zywa Jun 2024
Restless little dreams

keep spinning head over heels --


splashing all the time.
Composition "Dreamleaves" / "Traumblätter" (2007, Robert Nasveld), for one piano four hands, performed by Corien van den Berg and Niek de Vente, in the Organpark on May 31st, 2024 - 1. "Falling asleep restlessly", 3. "Dream of the girl at the spinning wheel"

Collection "org anp ARK" #12
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