Zywa - Hello Poetry

Zywa Jun 2024

You'll live long enough

to celebrate successes --

and suffer failures.

Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"

#courseoflife #life #temporality #success #failure

Zywa Jun 2024

Characters, even

lifelike, are only alive --

within the story.

End of the novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 3, chapter 21

Collection "Low gear"

#reality #fellowmen

Zywa Jun 2024

Farewell, time to go.

Walking to their home, she cries --

and keeps looking back.

Epic "Ilias" ("Troy", 750 BC, Homerus), book 6, line 494-496 - Andromache and Hector

Collection "Moist glow"

#goodbye #farewell

Zywa Jun 2024

He gave me a book

with an x in it, well, can --

an x be trusted?

Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango V

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"

#teenager #trust #confidence

Zywa Jun 2024

The monk is thinking

about the numerous forms --

of lack of knowledge.

Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"

#monk #thinking #meditation #ignorance

Zywa Jun 2024

The grey langurs screech

in the main city temple --

and bang the clappers.

Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 2

Collection "Low gear"

#religion #belief #monkeys #temple #hanuman

Zywa Jun 2024

I get up, the day

blows towards me, letting me --

converge with myself.

Poem "Samen" ("Converging" [with ourselves], 2023, Astrid Arns)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"

#harmony #awaking #newday