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Zywa Sep 2024
Wonderful, no sound,

the carpet is thick, I walk --


back and forth again.
Novel "De vergaderzaal" ("The conference room", 1974, Albert Alberts)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Zywa Sep 2024
Darling, you can die

peacefully, you'll stay with me --


cradled in my heart.
Play "Peer Gynt" (1867, Henrik Ibsen; music Edvard Grieg, 1876), fifth act, "Solveigs vuggevise" ("Solveig's cradle song")

Collection "VacantVoid"
Zywa Sep 2024
Heerlijk, geen geluid,

het tapijt is dik, ik loop --


nog eens heen en weer.
Roman "De vergaderzaal" (1974, Albert Alberts)

Bundel "ZielZinZon"
Zywa Sep 2024
It would be so nice,

in winter and in summer:


coming home to you.
Song "You'd be so nice to come home to" (1942, Cole Porter, for the film "Something to shout about"), sung in 1960 by Nina Simone on the album "Nina Simone at Newport"

Collection "Home sea"
Zywa Sep 2024
The tear in her eye

gives me enough certainty:


she does long for me!
Opera "L'elisir d'amore" ("The Love Potion", 1832, Gaetano Donizetti, libretto Felice Romani, based on Eugène Scribe's libretto of the opera "Le philtre" [The magic potion] from 1831), second act, romance (air) "Una furtiva lagrima" ("A furtive tear" - Nemorino)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Sep 2024
I was trying to

pull my hand loose, but my will --


then got stuck somewhere.
Comical novel "The Black Prince" (1973, Iris Murdoch), A Celebration of Love, part Two

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Sep 2024
With the wedding ring

he promises his body --


to her, to serve her.
The "Book of Common Prayer" (second version, 1552) prescribes that at a marriage the groom puts the wedding ring upon the fourth finger of the woman's left hand and thereby says: With this ring I thee wedde; with my body I thee worship; and with all my worldly goodes I thee endow

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
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