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Zywa 8m
I see her peeping,

she looks back to me and then --


we are both ashamed.
Collection "Take a picture, now"
Zywa 1d
I do feel peaceful,

however, in my longing --


I can't sleep at all.
Composition "Schlaflos (Notenbrief für Mathilde Wesendonck)" for piano ("Sleepless (Letter in notes for Mathilde Wesendonck)", 1856, Richard Wagner), performed by Geerten van de Wetering on ***** in the Organpark on April 14th, 2024

Collection "org ANP ark" #186
Zywa 1d
Loosened from the ropes,

the bells are chiming around --


in their ecstasy.
Composition "Timber" (2009, Michael Gordon) for six wooden semantra (woodblocks), partly performed in the Organpark on March 17th, 2024 by Joao Brito, Bruno Martins, Michal Kram, Ivo Stoyanov, Ferry Mommers, Ivan Boaro

Collection "org ANP ark" #179
Zywa 1d
When waking up
from my sleeplessness
I am tired

of the task
to create
a new past
anyhow

grafted onto
who I have been
with a family
and a mother
who knew me

to create
a second life
under a sun
bright enough

to warm me
and bleach
the shadows
Film "Trois couleurs: Bleu" - Liberté ("Three Colours: Blue" - Liberty, 1993, Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Collection "New Ago"
Zywa 1d
Destruction, and then

the dust settles, the wind blows --


Of a new era?
Decay, demolition and war

Collection "New Ago"
Zywa 2d
He sniffs, grazing
he comes closer
Only the birds watch

Warm breath explores
the skin of my desire
I smell what it does to him

Carefully he licks me
I let go of the world
My body trembles

in my consciousness, nameless
in his eyes, this is real
Not romance
Collection "Without reserve"
Zywa 2d
The pleasant strangeness

of your body, that body --


going its own way.
Collection "Without reserve"
Zywa 2d
More bicycles here

than houses, that makes sense, but --


where are the people?
For Lotte W and Madelief dK, with a photo of parked bicycles (August 12th, 2022, Amsterdam) - Singel, near the Raadhuisstraat

Collection "Local tardiness"
Zywa 2d
Empty waiting rooms

in the hospital, no one --


will become ill here.
Collection "Local tardiness"
Zywa 3d
Ouch, I fall down the

mountain, getting up hurts, I --


feel like a winner.
Autobiographical book "Heden ik" ("Today for me", 1993, Renate Dorrestein), about ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome), chapter 'First act' - Hodie mihi, cras tibi (today for me, tomorrow for thee)

Collection "Old sore"
Zywa 3d
On the train, I rest.

The longer the journey, the --


more rested I am.
Autobiographical book "Heden ik" ("Today for me", 1993, Renate Dorrestein), about ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome), chapter 'Third act' - Hodie mihi, cras tibi (today for me, tomorrow for thee)

Collection "Old sore"
3d · 35
This is real [1]
Zywa 3d
Everything is different, I am
really alive now, my friend laughs
Really, I dream

that the earth stands still
and the roses keep blooming
My nights are full

of expectation
and I will be saved
whenever it storms

No more accounts
of the benefits
of the doubts

about the future
of the world
and myself
Collection "Without reserve"
Zywa 3d
Romance has no

boundaries: everyone and --


everything is love!
For Lotte W and Madelief dK, with a photo of a birdhouse with the name 'Liebesnest' ('Love nest'), at Gasthaus Bürgisweier Bad (June 5th, 2011, Madiswil)

Collection "Without reserve"
3d · 51
Doe
Zywa 3d
Doe
As if I mocked him
or Love, so wounded
he dreams me

on swift legs
a doe-woman
without bow and arrow

graceful, and shy
slender, and modest
wise, but a woman

subject
to his desire
to possess

my desires
sharp in view
as I run, longingly

looking at him, panting
entangled in his hands
until he is satisfied
Ballet "Sylvia ou la nymphe de Diane" ("Sylvia or the nymph of Diane", 1876, music Léo Delibes, libretto Jules Barbier and Jacques de Reinach, after the 1573 poem "Aminta" by Torquato Tassos)

Collection "Froend"
Zywa 3d
I like to be soft,

but hard enough to resist --


the worldly hardness.
Collection "Froend"
Zywa 3d
The sun wakes me right

in my face: impossible!


Is the earth tilted?
Collection "Local inconveniences"
Zywa 3d
The movie actress

sits on horsehair, you see it --


because she feels it.
Film "The Phoenician Scheme" (2025, Wes Anderson) - Liesl sits on a horsehair mattress

Collection "Local inconveniences"
Zywa 4d
My toes on the ledge,

thinking how scary it is --


before I do it.
For Madelief dK and Lotte W, with a photo of a diver in the Jacob van Lennep Canal, on the Jean Dulieu Bridge (July 26th, 2013, Amsterdam) - Jean Dulieu is the author of 'Paulus de boskabouter' ('Paulus the woodgnome')
Zywa 4d
What year are we living in?
Is that song banned?
Shunned? Forgotten?
Is it that time yet?

Do men have better judgement?
Are they less fickle?
So women won't have to
be any more?

Don't they play
king and duke
like boys anymore?
Don't they brag

about conquests anymore
laughing at the jester
who says it's not funny?
La donna è mobile?
Play "Le roi s'amuse" ("The king has fun", 1832, Victor Hugo)

Opera "Rigoletto" (1851, Giuseppe Verdi
- "Rigolo" = funny-man, funny, amusing)
- Air "La donna è mobile" ("Woman is fickle") - Duca (the duke)

Collection "Froend"
Zywa 4d
Does a girl really

need to learn to see herself --


as their *** object?
Collection "Froend"
Zywa 6d
Neighbours: first a fence

needs to be installed, and then --


net curtains as well.
Collection "Truder"
Zywa 6d
The house creaks, little

brother leans over me, says:


I'll never collapse!
Collection "Death on Cast"
Zywa 6d
The stars live
seen from my bed
very deep
inside the window frame

Nice and cool you lie next to me
sleeping satisfied
my skin burns
where I miss you

in this longhouse, where we
only dared to make love
restrainedly, not used
to hear it from others

The rain rustles
that warm pleasure
of the children and for us
if there had been no neighbours

who would be ashamed
so we did it quietly
like the lash mites
when they mate
Collection "More"
Zywa 6d
To care about facts

and the actuality --


of a person’s mood.
Collection "More"
7d · 20
[ Recovery can ]
Zywa 7d
Recovery can

take a long time, like waiting --


for what is over.
Collection "Local tardiness"
Zywa 7d
Stand still where you are,

don't pass by cursorily --


as if in a set.
Collection "Local tardiness"
7d · 28
Panoramic view
Zywa 7d
Under the green splendor
of duckweed, the sun turns
away, fish disappear

natural
wonderful balance
of the night

the bed-warm water filter
of silver and silky
black feelings

the parasite flowers
on the waves of ebb and flow
under the large autumn moon

and my love is rolling
back and forth between friends
and lost
Collection "More"
Zywa 7d
I am in love, what

a wonderful rush, a trip --


Peace and harmony.
Air "Dei colli nostri" ("Of our hills") from the pastoral drama "Il trionfo dell'amicizia e dell'amore" ("The triumph of friendship and love", 1711, Francesco Bartolomeo Conti), libretto Francesco Ballerini

Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 10
Light dances out from the club
It colours the wind
in my net curtain

The rain rustles and splashes
in the greasy gleam of the wet film
over the mud road through the village

A woman and a man appear
and play in their underwear
They push and slide

Mud on their skin, I watch
and undress in the dark
Where is my darling?
Collection "More"
Jun 10 · 55
[ Attention is nice ]
Zywa Jun 10
Attention is nice

even from a distance, but --


I miss our embrace.
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 9
Through the shadowy grey
of who what when
the mornings are fuzzy

green of visitors that will dance
and laugh, tell stories
with many gestures

and always find a reason
to touch me and embrace
me intimately

It's all, but not enough
I don't want to crawl
away in my hole yet

Could I only hide
like the sun
and appear again

with wagtails in the garden
and playing children
outside
For Maria Godschalk (October 2021)

Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 9
Just like yesterday,

they arise from my branches:


lots of dayflowers.
For Maria Godschalk (August 2021)

Dayflower: Virginia spiderwort, Tradescantia virginiana

Collection "More"
Jun 8
Again
Zywa Jun 8
The click of the key
the shoes in the cabinet
the slight rustle in the toilet

and intimately the gleam
under the bathroom door, his smell
entering at my feet

I already know how
he slides towards me
carefully warming his hands

under his armpits
to caress me
from sleep to wonderful

and to make me stretch out
in a sea of time
where the wind rises

and hands and mouths
rush unstoppably
till the sky clears

And then
again
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 8
Colourful birthday!

Those who don't know don't know you --


Unfortunately!
For Michi W (in July 2024)

Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 7
To be touched
I have to
be seen and heard

speak sweet words
with a smile
Ever sweeter words

But you
give me perfume, a fishnet dress
and black-red lingerie

You like to explore
me as new
with pinches and kisses

the hard in the weak
curious about my cuddliness
and the little sounds I will sigh

You have so little patience
and pay me little
attention
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 7
Please hurry, help me,

I'm craving for attention --


Tell me a secret!
Collection "More"
Jun 6 · 34
Fading in the light
Zywa Jun 6
We do cartwheels
the bystanders call
for more, but my stomach
turns and the ceiling
turns too

Her face turns pale
I embrace her from behind
we dive into the depths
I feel dizzy, with a thud
I feel that there is a bottom

and then she swims away
Why are you going now?
For no reason, she smiles
at me with a sad look
Isn't it obvious?

I close my eyes
and watch her go, forever
a ****** to me, forever
her transparent face
fading in the light
Song "A whiter shade of pale" (1967 USA, Keith Reid, album "Procul Harum" van Procul Harum)

Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 6
My wish is growing,

I'm breathing life into it --


until it will pop.
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 5
In bed I think you
close to me, I am -
my shapes in your hands
and can forget for a while

My belly on the inside full
of bruises, right there
I long for you, I want to feel
you and not know an hour

Clean and fragrant from the bath
happily ever after
******* and caressing
horsing around immortally

Do what I can do, dream
Take my mind off, change
my horizon until you are here
and eat something in between
For Maria Godschalk

Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 5
No goodbye: we stay

together, cheerful, nothing --


is for the last time.
For Maria Godschalk

Collection "More"
Jun 4 · 328
Sensitive love
Zywa Jun 4
There is a lot I can no longer
do spontaneously
I touch myself with caution
and rather let you look

than act, but sometimes
the tingling of your
caress arouses unfulfillable needs
deeper and deeper in me

They are sleeping
in my cells, still
desiring to jump you
but your hands ward me off

as a precaution, so sensitive
are our skin and our bones
so painful it can be
to wish to be young
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 4
Even when we're not

together, I feel your love --


and I'm one with you.
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 3
The calm in your eyes
on me opens me
You lie in me
like a long l
of love

The light has licked you clean
it sings of you the glorious song
of our years, which bridge
everything that separates us
and clothes us in differences

For us, love is
still a thick word
of desire, the l
that erects
when I undress
Painting "The Particularity of Nakedness" (1987, Marlene Dumas)

Poems "7. The Particularity of Nakedness", "liefdeswoord" ("word of love") and "skryfode" ("writing ode"), (2000, Antjie Krog, bundel "Kleur kom nooit alleen nie" ("Colour never comes alone"

Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 3
The broom is scenting

into my house this evening --


Falls asleep with me.
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 2
Because you like to watch
I tie you
to your desire

We are not at home
others peek with you
along the pillars

I know it unseen
blind because of the towel
with which I dry my hair

on the terrace for beautiful people
in the middle of the town, where beauty
gathers in the theatres for everything

that people are capable of
on the edge of reality
and their unbridled imagination

captured like you, your eyes
and hands, by almost
touchable perfection
[Beauty and justice are the two halves of happiness and peace]

Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 2
My love wishes for

one more day and one more day --


that you stay alive.
Collection "More"
Jun 1 · 41
[ Certainly, AI ]
Zywa Jun 1
Certainly, AI

isn't the future, it does not --


escape from what is.
Article "AI maakt eenheidsworst van onze cultuur" ("AI is making our culture uniform") by Jonasz Dekkers in the NRC of May 31st, 2025 - Artificial intelligence

Collection "Truder"
Zywa Jun 1
So you think something

of me, my body, my clothes --


but do you know me?
Text "Not My Responsibility" (2020, Billie Eilish)

Collection "Truder"
Zywa May 31
The shaman welcomes

the spirits, their wisdom is --


sweating from his pores.
Part 1 of the composition "Resolve" (2025, Arnold Dreyblatt, renewal of the microtonal composition "Nodal Excitation" from 1982), performed in the Organpark by Arnold Dreyblatt (excited string bass), Joachim Schutz (electric guitar) and Joerg Hille (percussion and computer-controlled electric guitar) on February 7th, 2025

Collection "org anp ARK" #83
Zywa May 31
A cold winter moon

high above the rolling snow --


My heart starts pounding.
Composition "Moon Viewing Music" (2018, Peter Garland), for three gongs, part 1 "Living alone in the woods / few visitors cast shadows / How clean the moon / gleaming in the sky" (haiku by Ryokan Taigu, 1758-1831), performed in the Organpark on four gongs by Pepe Garcia on February 8th, 2025

Collection "org anp ARK" #85
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