Zywa - Hello Poetry

Zywa Aug 2024

Eccentric people

give you freedom, the courage --

to be different.

Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Five

Collection "Unspoken"

#freedom #selfexpression

Zywa Aug 2024

Kiss as often as

you desire and kiss more, still --

you'll kiss too little.

Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Three

Collection "Unspoken"

#kiss #love #intimacy

Zywa Aug 2024

I am motionless,

my will is like a goshawk --

exalted and still.

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

Collection "Unspoken"

#attention #focus #will #stillness

Zywa Aug 2024

A streak of perfume

across the floor, I am scared --

by the intense smell.

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

Collection "Unspoken"

#sign #fear #scent #threat #perfume

Zywa Aug 2024

For the guests there are

flowers, and hidden in them:

fleas waiting to strike.

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

Collection "Unspoken"

#flowers #party #fleas

Zywa Aug 2024

Art misleads you to

think you understand something --

and to stop thinking.

Play "[Acastos -] Art and Eros", a Platonic dialogue (1980, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"

#art #thinking #insight

Zywa Aug 2024

Religiousness is

about more than God: the whole --

of what does exist.

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

Collection "Unspoken"

#religion #universe