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Zywa Aug 2024
Count your fingers, count

the little raindrops and wait --


if love is coming?
Song "Little girl blue" (1935, Lorenz Hart, music Richard Rodgers, for the musical "Jumbo"), sung in 1958 by Nina Simone

Collection "Break"
Zywa Aug 2024
I came for support,

but he doesn't know what to say --


He is at a loss.
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Twelve

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Aug 2024
Amorousness runs

dry and all your happiness --


slips through your fingers.
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Nineteen --- Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Aug 2024
I was floating in

the sea of your eyes, they led --


me into your port.
Air "Sol da te, mio dolce amore" ("Solely through you, my sweet love") from the opera "Orlando furioso" (1727, RV 728), Antonio Vivaldi, libretto Grazio Braccioli, based on the epic "Orlando furioso" (1516, Ludovico Ariosto)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Aug 2024
Singing a mantra

together, sounds full of life --


in - out of ourselves.
Song "Flo flo flo me la" (1960, Nina Simone), album "Nina Simone at Newport"

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Zywa Aug 2024
I'm very relieved,

yesterday I was ready:


I have decided!
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Five

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Aug 2024
The work is hard, but

every night we sing away --


all our tiredness.
Song "In the evening by the moonlight" (1960, Nina Simone), album "Nina Simone at Newport"

Collection "Home sea"
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