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Zywa Jun 21
The night is over,

I still dance in the café --


on the shards of glass.
Poem "Woensdag" - 4 ("Wednesday" - 4, 2010, Lieke Marsman)
Poem "Universele esthetiek" - 1 ("Universal aesthetics" - 1, 2021, Lieke Marsman)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Zywa Jun 21
I fold you flat, smooth

you and lay you in the days --


as my life anchor.
Poem "Perspectief" ("Perspective", 2017, Karim Schelkens)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Zywa Jun 20
The joyful crowd throws

me into his arms, we laugh --


and then I lose him.
Song "La foule" ("The crowd", 1958, Michel Rivgauche, sung by Édith Piaf, music Ángel Cabral, 1936: the Peruvian waltz "Que nadie sepa mi sufrir" ["Let no one know my suffering"], text Enrique Dizeo)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
Zywa Jun 20
I paid it, I swept

it away and forgot it --


for today's new day!
Song "Non, je ne regrette rien" ("No, I do not regret anything", 1956, Michel Vaucaire, sung by Édith Piaf, music Charles Dumont)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
Zywa Jun 19
Your eyes speak so pure,

in a clear language, your head --


does not need a mouth.
Poem "Zuiver" ("Pure", 2013, Karin Lachmising)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Zywa Jun 19
This missed chance has closed

up my love for you, weighty --


as a grave cover.
Poem "unsent message" (2019, Emily Pavelich)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Zywa Jun 18
He whinges, but I

know he is lying, maybe --


that's rather funny.
Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango IV

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
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