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Zywa Sep 2024
I have packed my things

and I am very surprised --


that they are so few.
Novel "The Message to the Planet" (1989, Iris Murdoch), part Six

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Sep 2024
Little are their high

expectations - if you fall


you're hardly noticed.
Column "Alleen maar opwaarts" ("Only up", 2024, Ellen Deckwitz), in the NRC of September 10th, 2024

About the painting "[Landschap met] De val van Icarus" ("Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", 1565, Pieter Brueghel de Oude)

Collection "Glimpsed"
Zywa Sep 2024
The further I am

travelling, the less I know --


actually know.
"Tao Te Ching" #47 (ca. 300 BC)

Song "The Inner Light" (1968, George Harrison & The Beatles)

Collection "Glimpsed"
Zywa Sep 2024
Hold me, hold our love,

which is already slipping --


away from our hearts.
Song "Hou me vast" ("Hold me", 2023, Wende Snijders)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 20s"
Zywa Sep 2024
We were here before;

then, like blind people, we didn't --


notice each other.
Short story "September in the Rain" (2024, Marijke Schermer), in the NRC of September 5th, 2024

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 20s"
Zywa Sep 2024
Ladies, you know it,

so tell me, are cold and heat --


the symptoms of Love?
Air "Voi che sapete" ("You who know (what love is)"), 1786, opera "Le nozze di Figaro" ("Figaro's wedding", Lorenzo da Ponte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), based on the comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais - Act 2

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Sep 2024
There are no limits

to culture, kitsch flourishes --


and it overgrows.
Novel "The Message to the Planet" (1989, Iris Murdoch), part Seven

Collection "Unspoken"
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