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Jul 2024 · 114
[ God remains unseen ]
Zywa Jul 2024
God remains unseen,

He disguises himself to --


do the things He does.
Story "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" ("Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream" / "The Dream of Poliphilus", 1499, Francesco Colonna), first book, chapter 10 - About queen/goddess Telosia

Collection "Unseen"
Jul 2024 · 167
[ I'm homeless without ]
Zywa Jul 2024
I'm homeless without

your hands, roaming through the fields --


There is snow coming.
Poem "Huset og hendene" ("House and hands", 1985, Rolf Jacobsen)

Collection "VacantVoid"
Jul 2024 · 227
[ I almost stumble ]
Zywa Jul 2024
I almost stumble

over the tangles of web --


of loose thoughts I spun.
Play "Peer Gynt" (1867, Henrik Ibsen; music Edvard Grieg, 1876), fifth act, "Nattscene" ("Night scene") - The dying Peer Gynt looks back on his life

Collection "VacantVoid"
Jul 2024 · 283
[ How then could I say ]
Zywa Jul 2024
How then could I say

where the shoe is pinching if --


I'm not wearing it?
Play "Peer Gynt" (1867, Henrik Ibsen), fifth act, "Nattscene" ("Night scene") - The dying Peer Gynt looks back on his life

Collection "VacantVoid"
Jul 2024 · 387
[ Am I in hell now ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Am I in hell now?

I don't think it is heaven! --


There is no one here!
Play "Peer Gynt" (1867, Henrik Ibsen), fifth act, "Nattscene" ("Night scene") - The dying Peer Gynt looks back on his life

Collection "VacantVoid"
Jul 2024 · 599
[ Beware, he kisses ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Beware, he kisses

beside my cheek nowadays --


as if I am air.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1992, Frida Vogels), and "Diary 1966-1967" (2009) - July 2ND, 1967 in Bologna

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 690
[ I'm searching the book ]
Zywa Jul 2024
I'm searching the book

you gave: you are everywhere --


you're so deceptive!
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1992, Frida Vogels) - Summer 1968 in Cupra Marittima (below Ascona)

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 439
[ By chance found again ]
Zywa Jul 2024
By chance found again:

the butterfly box, the pins --


in circles of dust.
"Dagboek 1954-1957" ("Diary 1954-1957", 2005, Frida Vogels) - January 19th, 1955 in Milan

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 123
[ There is no escape ]
Zywa Jul 2024
There is no escape:

the whole world is entangled --


in the snares of love.
"Dagboek 1954-1957" ("Diary 1954-1957", 2005, Frida Vogels), based on an old Chinese poem - March 25th, 1955 in Luxemburg

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 1.0k
[ They keep arguing ]
Zywa Jul 2024
They keep arguing

in my presence, obviously --


I need to know this.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1992, Frida Vogels) and "Diary 1966-1967" (2009) - April 1st, 1967 in Amsterdam

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 163
[ Resiliently hanged ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Resiliently hanged:

the instrument is restless --


In search of balance.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1992, Frida Vogels) and "Diary 1966-1967" (2009) - April 4th, 1967 in Amsterdam

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 336
[ A tree uprooted ]
Zywa Jul 2024
A tree uprooted,

mud, a crack in the rock-ledge –


and clear spring water!
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1992, Frida Vogels) - Summer 1966 in Bologna

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 176
[ In music you sense ]
Zywa Jul 2024
In music you sense

Order, wow, it just happens –


A perfect world now!
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1992, Frida Vogels) - Summer 1966 in Bologna

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 753
[ Trying to find an ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Trying to find an

attitude, as attitude --


staying on the side.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1992, Frida Vogels) en "Diary 1966-1967" (2009) - April 24th, 1966 in Amsterdam

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Jul 2024
I try words, watch them

fall and caress them until --


they become solid.
Poem "mijn mond is al open" ("my mouth is already open", 2013, Erik Jan Harmens)

Collection "WriteWiser signage"
Jul 2024 · 208
[ Even gentlemen ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Even gentlemen

wish to live with dignity --


well, common, sometimes.
Comic strip "Tom Poes en de klonters" ("Tom **** and the lumps", 1955, Marten Toonder), strip 2654
Jul 2024 · 361
[ Requesting poet's ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Requesting poet's

muse with good references --


Generous respect.
Comic strip "Heer Bommel en de muzenis" ("Sir Bumble and the muse-web", 1955-1956, Marten Toonder), strip 2693
Jul 2024 · 265
[ In the room, silence ]
Zywa Jul 2024
In the room, silence

rustles, as if creation --


is now beginning.
Poem "The big inner room is as dark" (1985, Zelda Schneurson)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Jul 2024 · 233
[ It's quiet inside ]
Zywa Jul 2024
It's quiet inside,

mother is in the palace --


of her devotions.
Poem "The big inner room is as dark" (1985, Zelda Schneurson)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Jul 2024 · 180
[ Not the way it is ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Not the way it is,

only the way it happens –


my life is okay.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1966, Frida Vogels) and "Diary 1966-1967" (2009) - May 15th, 1966 in Blaricum

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 144
[ Read my family ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Read my family

story, it is a portrait --


how I see myself.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 1 ("The *******" - 1, 1992, Frida Vogels) - April-May 1966 in Amsterdam

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 375
[ The clouds heavily ]
Zywa Jul 2024
The clouds heavily

sail through the lake of my eyes --


Swans are flying up.
Poem "Léda plus vive possédée que la nature" ("Leda, more lively posessed than nature" (1949, Paul Éluard)

Collection "Break"
Jul 2024 · 175
[ I'm getting so cold ]
Zywa Jul 2024
I'm getting so cold

without you, because it snows --


It snows white despair.
Song "Tombe la neige" ("Snow is falling", 1964, Salvatore Adamo)

Collection "Blankets of snow"
Jul 2024 · 191
[ Remembered, the facts ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Remembered, the facts

are not sharp, fallen apart --


into a vague mood.
Diary (2005, Frida Vogels) - August 23rd, 1957 in Rome

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 182
[ Only now am I ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Only now am I

wearing the yellow blouse, that --


belonged to mother.
Diary (2005, Frida Vogels) - July 29th, 1957 in Amsterdam

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Jul 2024
Wild waves, the shore comes

close, it narrows more and more --


Then, calm, the strait.
Poem "Het naderen van een beslissing" ("Approaching a decision", 1957, Frida Vogels)

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 182
[ My feelings, I write ]
Zywa Jul 2024
My feelings, I write

poems about them, although --


that does not help me.
Diary (2005, Frida Vogels) - December 9th, 1956

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 266
[ A passer-by asks ]
Zywa Jul 2024
A passer-by asks:

Where from? Where to? I walk on --


with him, in silence.
Poem "Langs 't pad liepen veel vreemden" ("Many strangers walked along the path", 1955, Frida Vogels)

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 369
[ I'm happy and look ]
Zywa Jul 2024
I'm happy and look

around with astonishment --


Is there any hold?
Poem "Gelukkig zijn; en niet weten waarom" ("To be happy; and not knowing why", 1954, Frida Vogels)

Collection "Trench Walking"
Jul 2024 · 307
[ I cannot hear you ]
Zywa Jul 2024
I cannot hear you,

only the waves, wind sometimes --


but nowhere your voice.
Documentary "Louder! So I can hear you" (2022, Laura Bokhoven)

Collection "Stall"
Jul 2024 · 305
[ Before I can take ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Before I can take

off my hat, I have to wait --


for a good moment.
Play "Happy Days" (1961, Samuel Beckett), played by Antoinette Jelgersma on April 18th, 2023, in Frascati (director Erik Whien)

Collection "Stall"
Jul 2024 · 829
[ The past heroes rest ]
Zywa Jul 2024
The past heroes rest

in the dilapidated --


inn that the world is.
Collection "Rubáiyat" ("Quatrains", 1100, Omar Khayyam), quatrain "This worn caravanserai", in the 1898 version by Edward  Heron-Allen

Collection "Stream"
Jul 2024 · 147
[ My tears cannot wash ]
Zywa Jul 2024
My tears cannot wash

away what has happened, and --


everything goes on.
Collection "Rubáiyat" ("Quatrains", 1100, Omar Khayyam), quatrain "The Moving Finger writes", in the 1859 version by Edward FitzGerald

Collection "Stream"
Jul 2024 · 775
[ She just watches it ]
Zywa Jul 2024
She just watches it

with indifference, smiling --


irritatingly.
Novel "De stille kracht" ("The Hidden Force", 1900, Louis Couperus), chapter 3, § 2

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Jul 2024 · 351
[ Do pretend it is ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Do pretend it is

normal, yes, very normal --


it ís, all of it.
Poem "De mensen" ("People", 2019, Pieter de Bruijn Kops)

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Jul 2024 · 272
[ Submissive people ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Submissive people

often hide a hidden force --


An underground fire.
Novel "De stille kracht" ("The Hidden Force", 1900, Louis Couperus), chapter 4, § 2

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Jul 2024 · 177
[ There is a chance to ]
Zywa Jul 2024
There is a chance to

establish untruths, but truth --


is unprovable.
Treatise "De docta ignorantia" ("On learned ignorance", 1440, Nicholas of Cusa)

Study "Logik der Forschung" ("Logic of research", 1935, Karl Popper >>  "The logic of scientific discovery", 1959), about falsifiability

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Jul 2024 · 753
[ Disillusionment ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Disillusionment:

seeing the ridiculous --


ignoring beauty.
Novel "De stille kracht" ("The Hidden Force", 1900, Louis Couperus), chapter 2, § 1

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Jul 2024 · 174
[ You don't talk about ]
Zywa Jul 2024
You don't talk about

a patient, at most you say:


it is a headache.
Novel "De stille kracht" ("The Hidden Force", 1900, Louis Couperus), chapter 2, § 3

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Jul 2024 · 249
[ Faith is guidable ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Faith is guidable,

while superstition hardly --


can be influenced.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 3, chapter 19

Collection "Low gear"
Jul 2024 · 289
[ Please help him, holy ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Please help him, holy

woman we don't see, help us --


You are one of us.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 3, chapter 19

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Jul 2024
The woods are chopped down,

too bad, I'm going to save --


the tree in the square.
Column "Boeren zijn de baas" ("Farmers are boss", 2024, Marcel van Roosmalen), in the NRC of July 1st, 2024

Collection "Actively Passive"
Jul 2024 · 218
[ He's unconsciously ]
Zywa Jul 2024
He's unconsciously

incompetent, but he's nice --


when he has a beer.
Column "Boeren zijn de baas" ("Farmers are boss", 2024, Marcel van Roosmalen), in the NRC of July 1st, 2024 (about local politicians)

Collections "Specialities"
Jul 2024 · 341
[ Two people travel ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Two people travel

and they discover the world --


A journey called Love.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 3, chapter 19

Collection "Low gear"
Jul 2024 · 276
[ The jinns: a man looks ]
Zywa Jul 2024
The jinns: a man looks

in the mirror and he sees --


the back of his head.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 4 "The Strangenessses"

Painting "La réproduction interdite" ("Not to be reproduced", 1937, René Magritte)

Collection "Low gear"
Jul 2024 · 510
[ There is no wisdom ]
Zywa Jul 2024
There is no wisdom

in the East, no, everywhere --


people are foolish.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 3, chapter 18

Collection "Low gear"
Jul 2024 · 157
[ Tabriz: fine carpets ]
Zywa Jul 2024
Tabriz: fine carpets,

all over on the hillsides --


drying in the sun.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 2, chapter 15

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 275
[ Water is royal ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Water is royal:

a king without water falls --


apart into dust.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 1, and part 3, chapter 19

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 382
[ He is not a spy ]
Zywa Jun 2024
He is not a spy

and not a child, just silly --


with his secrecy.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 554
[ A sorcerer doesn't ]
Zywa Jun 2024
A sorcerer doesn't

need a wand or other stuff --


Words are sufficient.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 5

Collection "Low gear"
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