Zywa - Hello Poetry

Zywa Aug 2024

Philosophers think

slowly like a snail, only --

then will they progress.

Play "[Acastos -] Above the gods", a Platonic dialogue (1986, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"

#philosophy #thinking

Zywa Aug 2024

It's easy to knów

what deed is simply good, but --

dóing it is not.

Play "[Acastos -] Above the gods", a Platonic dialogue (1986, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"

#ethics

Zywa Aug 2024

Around what centre,

in ever wider circles --

do I fly, blow, sing?

Poem "Ich lebe mein Leben" ("I live my life", 1899, Rainer Maria Rilke)

Collection "On the fly"

#mystery #life

Zywa Aug 2024

Father still conjures

up gilded vistas for me --

with his old letter.

Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 2 ("The *******" - 2, 1993, Frida Vogels), letter from 1938 (Laren)

Collection "Trench Walking"

#father #letter

Zywa Aug 2024

I recall little

of that party, it was great --

Unforgettable!

Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 2 ("The *******" - 2, 1993, Frida Vogels), 1944 in Laren

Collection "Trench Walking"

#memory #party

Zywa Aug 2024

If your ambition

listens to wise words, then you --

only hear yourself.

Play "The Three Arrows" (1972, Iris Murdoch), Act Two, scene Two

Collection "Unspoken"

#ambition #egocentrism

Zywa Aug 2024

Politics doesn't bring

you anything, it's not art --

and it's not science.

Play "The Three Arrows" (1972, Iris Murdoch), Act Two, scene Two

Collection "Unspoken"

#politics #art #science