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Jun 2024 · 158
[ Taking a rash risk ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Taking a rash risk

after consideration --


may that be courage?
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 6

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 5.1k
[ She looks at me, puts ]
Zywa Jun 2024
She looks at me, puts

coquettishly in her eyes --


her whole soul again.
Story "De surprise" ("The surprise", 1968, Belcampo)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
Jun 2024 · 344
[ Watch out, everyone ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Watch out, everyone

is looking at us, our love --


must remain secret.
Song "You've got to hide your love away" (1965, John Lennon, The Beatles, album "Help!")

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
Jun 2024 · 224
[ My heart, aimlessly ]
Zywa Jun 2024
My heart, aimlessly

drifting in the foggy gloam --


is dreaming of love.
Poem "The city sneaks through foggy twilight", in the novel "Een tevreden lach" ("A happy smile", 1965, A. Burnier)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
Jun 2024 · 375
[ The city reflects ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The city reflects

my dream of love: weathered grey --


from all the waiting.
Poem "The city sneaks through foggy twilight", in the novel "Een tevreden lach" ("A happy smile", 1965, A. Burnier)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
Jun 2024 · 331
[ Follow love around ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Follow love around,

even though I don't want you --


or you flee from me.
Song "L'Amour s'en va" ("Love runs away", 1963, Françoise Hardy) - Eurovision song contest Grand Prix 1963, as representative of Monaco

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
Jun 2024 · 143
[ Please just let me be ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Please just let me be,

let me be an empty place --


filled with a loved one.
Poem "Een lege plek om te blijven" - XIV ("An empty place to stay" - XIV, 1974, Rutger Kopland)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
Jun 2024 · 239
[ The painting shows the ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The painting shows the

nation that is not yet there --


It's a creation.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 9

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Jun 2024
Strange gods, they worship

over there, but their death will be --


just the same as ours.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 2, chapter 10

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 138
[ Oops, once invented ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Oops, once invented,

a god is inherently --


indestructible.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 6

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 95
[ Would religion be ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Would religion be

a mistake that people pass --


on to their children?
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 6

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 151
[ The city grows on ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The city grows on,

as if there were no workers --


but a magician.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 3

Fatehpur Sikri ('Victory City', near Agra), the capital of Emperor Abdul-Fath Jalaluddin 'Akbar' (= 'the Great' >> 'Akbar the Great')
The magically rapid growth of this city is also told in the novel "Victory City" (2023, Salman Rushdie)

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 172
[ The board of their game ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The board of their game

is the garden, with servants --


being the pieces.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 3 – Pachisi - at the court of Emperor Abdul-Fath Jalaluddin 'Akbar' (= 'the Great' >> 'Akbar the Great')

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 568
[ The highest ruler ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The highest ruler,

the self, is hungry, in need --


of beauty and love.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 2

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 261
[ Ow, my secret hurts ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Ow, my secret hurts,

it eats me, hollows me out --


Alive I am dead.
Novel "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008, Salman Rushdie), part 1, chapter 2 - Covert homosexuality

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 212
[ The night is over ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The night is over,

I still dance in the café --


on the shards of glass.
Poem "Woensdag" - 4 ("Wednesday" - 4, 2010, Lieke Marsman)
Poem "Universele esthetiek" - 1 ("Universal aesthetics" - 1, 2021, Lieke Marsman)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Zywa Jun 2024
I fold you flat, smooth

you and lay you in the days --


as my life anchor.
Poem "Perspectief" ("Perspective", 2017, Karim Schelkens)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Jun 2024 · 208
[ The joyful crowd throws ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The joyful crowd throws

me into his arms, we laugh --


and then I lose him.
Song "La foule" ("The crowd", 1958, Michel Rivgauche, sung by Édith Piaf, music Ángel Cabral, 1936: the Peruvian waltz "Que nadie sepa mi sufrir" ["Let no one know my suffering"], text Enrique Dizeo)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
Jun 2024 · 448
[ I paid it, I swept ]
Zywa Jun 2024
I paid it, I swept

it away and forgot it --


for today's new day!
Song "Non, je ne regrette rien" ("No, I do not regret anything", 1956, Michel Vaucaire, sung by Édith Piaf, music Charles Dumont)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
Jun 2024 · 213
[ Your eyes speak so pure ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Your eyes speak so pure,

in a clear language, your head --


does not need a mouth.
Poem "Zuiver" ("Pure", 2013, Karin Lachmising)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Zywa Jun 2024
This missed chance has closed

up my love for you, weighty --


as a grave cover.
Poem "unsent message" (2019, Emily Pavelich)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Jun 2024 · 204
[ He whinges, but I ]
Zywa Jun 2024
He whinges, but I

know he is lying, maybe --


that's rather funny.
Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango IV

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Jun 2024 · 366
[ Your husband: rotate ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Your husband: rotate

him and look at him closely --


See what he's hiding.
Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango IV

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Jun 2024 · 317
[ My teacher hits me ]
Zywa Jun 2024
My teacher hits me:

remember, blows, time and time --


poor people get hit.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 3: Glory, chapter 14

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 556
[ In the beautiful ]
Zywa Jun 2024
In the beautiful

merging of lovers, love turns --


out to be self-love.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 3: Glory, chapter 15

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 293
[ In his dream he gropes ]
Zywa Jun 2024
In his dream he gropes

for her and the night also --


seeks her hiding-place.
Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango XIII
Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Zywa Jun 2024
Isn't this thought of mine

a line of verse, suddenly --


revealing something?
Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango XXII **** ludens

Collections "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s" and "A profession"
Jun 2024 · 157
[ What people work on ]
Zywa Jun 2024
What people work on,

but also what they forget --


determines future.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 2: Exile, chapter 11

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 242
[ The pamphlets are blank ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The pamphlets are blank,

that is their message, surely --


it's commonly known.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 2: Exile, chapter 11

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 435
[ There is evidence ]
Zywa Jun 2024
There is evidence

of what I had and did: signs --


of my existence.
Poem "Tussen wolken en aarde de tekens" ("Between clouds and earth the signs", 1997, Willem van Toorn)

Collection "Being my own museum"
Jun 2024 · 332
[ After the defeat ]
Zywa Jun 2024
After the defeat,

his doubts buzz around him like --


a mosquito cloud.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 8

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 623
[ Perfect images ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Perfect images,

captured, just for a moment --


Already passed by.
Film "Les magnétiques" ("The magnetics" / "The audiotapes", 2021, Vincent Maël Cardona)

Collection "On the fly"
Jun 2024 · 475
[ The farewell party ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The farewell party

is especially festive --


for those who can stay.
Film "Les magnétiques" ("The magnetics" / "The audiotapes", 2021, Vincent Maël Cardona)

Collection "Em Brace"
Jun 2024 · 380
[ Divine help is for ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Divine help is for

young people, and then they have --


to do it themselves.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 5

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 273
[ Words are for the word- ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Words are for the word-

people, she says, you are free --


to just do your job.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 4

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 354
[ You'll live long enough ]
Zywa Jun 2024
You'll live long enough

to celebrate successes --


and suffer failures.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 246
[ Characters, even ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Characters, even

lifelike, are only alive --


within the story.
End of the novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 3, chapter 21

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 285
[ Farewell, time to go ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Farewell, time to go.

Walking to their home, she cries --


and keeps looking back.
Epic "Ilias" ("Troy",  750 BC, Homerus), book 6, line 494-496 - Andromache and Hector

Collection "Moist glow"
Jun 2024 · 336
[ He gave me a book ]
Zywa Jun 2024
He gave me a book

with an x in it, well, can --


an x be trusted?
Poetic fictional essay "The beauty of the husband" (2001, Anne Carson), Tango V

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Jun 2024 · 362
[ The monk is thinking ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The monk is thinking

about the numerous forms --


of lack of knowledge.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 1

Collection "Low gear"
Zywa Jun 2024
The grey langurs screech

in the main city temple --


and bang the clappers.
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar] (2023, Salman Rushdie), part 1: Birth, chapter 2

Collection "Low gear"
Jun 2024 · 440
[ I get up, the day ]
Zywa Jun 2024
I get up, the day

blows towards me, letting me --


converge with myself.
Poem "Samen" ("Converging" [with ourselves], 2023, Astrid Arns)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Jun 2024 · 221
[ The gigantic wheels ]
Zywa Jun 2024
The gigantic wheels

of light emerge from the sea --


like super spaceships.
Column "For Your Information" by ***** Ley in Galaxy magazine, published in August 1962, included in the collection "***** Ley's For Your Information: On Earth and in the Sky" (1967), about the 'Wheels of Poseidon', plankton-patterns of acoustic pressure waves in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf

Story "A Meeting with Medusa" - § 5. The Wheels of Poseidon (1971, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Held/True"
Jun 2024 · 178
[ I am curious ]
Zywa Jun 2024
I am curious

and break the glass, it turns out --


to be an alarm.
Short story "The Sentinel" (1951, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Human excess"
Jun 2024 · 490
[ There the waxing Earth ]
Zywa Jun 2024
There the waxing Earth

is low in the sky, lying --


in its starry crib.
Short story "The Sentinel" (1951, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Human excess"
Jun 2024 · 205
[ Oh dear, the mother ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Oh dear, the mother

of all earworms completely --


took over his brain.
Short story "The Ultimate Melody" (1957, Arthur C. Clarke)

Collection "Human excess"
Jun 2024 · 902
[ Well, is man still in ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Well, is man still in

the cradle of Earth? Would it --


predict anything?
Comment in a letter from Konstantin Tsiolkovsky from 1911: "Planyeta yest' kolybyel razuma, no nyelzya vyechno zhit' v kolybyeli" ("The planet is the cradle of the mind, but you cannot live in the cradle forever" >> "Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever [The solar system becomes our kindergarten]")

**** sapiens has been around for 300,000 years

Collection "Human excess"
Jun 2024 · 232
[ We don't say much, we ]
Zywa Jun 2024
We don't say much, we

already understood each --


other in our dreams.
Composition "Dreamleaves" / "Traumblätter" (2007, Robert Nasveld), for one piano four hands, performed by Corien van den Berg and Niek de Vente, in the Organpark on May 31st, 2024 - 6. "Dé-jà-entendu dream"

Collection "org anp ARK" #13
Jun 2024 · 127
[ Restless little dreams ]
Zywa Jun 2024
Restless little dreams

keep spinning head over heels --


splashing all the time.
Composition "Dreamleaves" / "Traumblätter" (2007, Robert Nasveld), for one piano four hands, performed by Corien van den Berg and Niek de Vente, in the Organpark on May 31st, 2024 - 1. "Falling asleep restlessly", 3. "Dream of the girl at the spinning wheel"

Collection "org anp ARK" #12
Jun 2024 · 459
[ In the empty hall ]
Zywa Jun 2024
In the empty hall,

standing next to her suitcase --


mum waits, and she cries.
Retrospective "Autobiografie van een flat" ("Autobiography of an apartment", 2024, Otto de Kat)

Collection "After the festivities"
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