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Zywa Sep 2024
Whoever never

had that night-black feelings can --


not know my sadness.
Song "Mood Indigo" (1930, Irving Mills, music Duke Ellington), sung in 1955 by Frank Sinatra (album "In the Wee Small Hours") and in 1957 by Nina Simone (album "Little Girl Blue", 1959) --- Collection "VacantVoid"
Zywa Sep 2024
No, I won't borrow

your love from anyone else --


Give all or nothing!
Song "Love me or leave me" (1928, Gus Kahn, music Walter Donaldson, for the musical "Whoopee!"), sung in 1957 by Nina Simone (album "Little Girl Blue", 1959) --- Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Sep 2024
In the dressing room

I have seen smooth-shaven girls --


I've seen what you want.
Poem "Ik weet niet *** je me graag ziet" ("I don't know how you like me", 2008, Wineke de Boer)
Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Zywa Sep 2024
Mama's big rainbow

umbrella keeps me nice and --


dry in the shower.
Poem "In het huis van je vader" ("In your father's house", 2009, Krijn Peter Hesselink)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Zywa Sep 2024
It's beautiful stuff,

this pale yellow braided rope --


I smell retsina.
Novel "The sea, the sea" (1978, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Sep 2024
People's fame only

lasts a short time, that I learned --


from theatre plays.
Novel "The sea, the sea" (1978, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Sep 2024
Music in the night:

a prayer that lifts me up --


high into heaven.
Air "Tacea la notte placida" ("Silent is the night, peaceful"), 1853, opera "Il trovatore" ("The troubadour", Salvatore Cammarano / Giuseppe Verdi) - Leonora, act 1

Collection "Held/True"
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