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Feb 5 · 130
[ It is a bizarre ]
Zywa Feb 5
It is a bizarre

story, so amazingly --


recognisable!
Autobiographical account "Het Perpetuum Mobile van de Liefde" ("The perpetual motion machine of love", 1988, Renate Dorrestein), chapter 1 Zet eens een kroon op uw liehiefde (Crown your lo-ove)

Collection "Old sore"
Feb 4 · 110
[ If it is called a ]
Zywa Feb 4
If it is called a

challenge, a virtue is made --


of necessity.
Essay "Laat me niet alleen" ("Don't leave me alone", 2008, Renate Dorrestein), chapter "Step Three: Let's act young"

Collection "Old sore"
Feb 4 · 356
[ She is arranging ]
Zywa Feb 4
She is arranging

the flowers, he likes it, then --


she throws them away.
Novel "Het Hemelse Gerecht" - "Voor alle trouweloze mannen" ("The Heavenly Court / Course" - "For all unfaithful men", 1990, Renate Dorrestein), chapter 1

Collection "Old sore"
Feb 3 · 169
Holy days of attention
Zywa Feb 3
Candlemass, the day
of Mary, the ideal woman
and mother, a sign
for those who then marry
and celebrate their happiness

The evening and morning
are a day together
uncovered, without shame
and without sacrifice that diminishes
their sense of being great

and the evenings and mornings
are a life together
the children grow up
and mark in the year
the days of their parents

with attention, as
a daily effort to be
each other's ideal
attention, the secret
of every relationship
For Dory dK

February 2nd, Candlemass / Festum purgativum (Feast of the Purification), the presentation of Jesus at the temple

Demeter visits her daughter Persephone with burning candles >> Candlemass

Collection "Life line"
Zywa Feb 3
Ice threads are floating,

glittering, out of the void --


emerges matter.
Ice needles

Collection "Life line"
Zywa Feb 2
The blind man answers,

politely, all the questions --


not put to him, though.
Novella "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" ("Chronicle of a Death Foretold", 1981, Gabriel García Márquez)

Collection "Dream flight"
Feb 2 · 45
[ I speak carefully ]
Zywa Feb 2
I speak carefully,

so it doesn't wake her up while --


she listens to me.
Novella "Memoria de mis putas tristes" ("Memories of My Melancholy ******", 2004, Gabriel García Márquez)

Collection "Dream flight"
Feb 1 · 95
[ To love is trying ]
Zywa Feb 1
To love is trying

to fall, to swim and to fly --


while you're standing still.
Poem "Waarom is het" ("Why is it", 1958, Hans Andreus)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
Feb 1 · 117
[ Am I going to ]
Zywa Feb 1
Am I going to

love you or do I think you --


are already mine?
Novel (roman à clef) "L'invitée" ("The Invitee", 1964, Simone de Beauvoir), part 1, chapter 5

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
Jan 31 · 264
[ Who's ready to give ]
Zywa Jan 31
Who's ready to give

his life for you? Your loved one!


who you want to keep.
"Love and what passes for it - The myths of Medea and Jason, Alcestis and Admetus, Psyche and Eros"

Admetos and his wife Alkestis, who sacrificed herself for him

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Jan 31 · 124
[ Accept, narrow or ]
Zywa Jan 31
Accept, narrow or

broad, the way of love, because --


it never will end.
"Ghazal 73" ("Ode 73", 14th century, Hafez)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Jan 30
She's upset: I didn't

look at her for a second --


but at the roses.
Quatrain #1776 "I went strolling with my beloved" (13th century, Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Jan 30 · 101
[ I cannot marry ]
Zywa Jan 30
I cannot marry

you, but forever I will --


love you and be yours.
Air "Ti lascerei, gl'affretti miei" ("I shall soon leave you now" [as one condemned to death by my father, marry him now instead of me], 1719, Matteo Noris, music Antonio Vivaldi, RV 738/778), from the opera "Tito Manlio" ("Titus Manlius"), 3rd act, scene 9 - Tito's son Manlio (soprano in travesti)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Jan 29 · 195
[ Our divorce party ]
Zywa Jan 29
Our divorce party

is great, it definitely --


bonds us together.
Novella "De zomer hou je ook niet tegen" ("You can't stop summer either", 2015, Dimitri Verhulst), page 85

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in 10s"
Zywa Jan 29
Most people trust their

partner, so adultery --


is not difficult.
Novella "De zomer hou je ook niet tegen" ("You can't stop summer either", 2015, Dimitri Verhulst), page 52

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in 10s"
Zywa Jan 28
John's illness is called

John, Ella's is called Ella --


mine, well, you know me.
Novella "De zomer hou je ook niet tegen" ("You can't stop summer either", 2015, Dimitri Verhulst), page 8

Collection "Specialities"
Zywa Jan 28
The bus on the ****:

an illuminated room --


through water and night.
Poem "Afsluitdijk" ("Enclosure Dam", 1940, M. Vasalis)

Collection "Specialities"
Jan 27 · 436
[ A man opens up ]
Zywa Jan 27
A man opens up

in the arms of a woman --


He softens and talks.
Novel "Een Fries huilt niet" ("A Frisian does not cry", 1980, Gerrit Krol), chapter 7.1

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Zywa Jan 27
If you don't come now,

how can I endure all night --


with my lips empty?
Poem "À meia-noite, pelo telefone" ("At midnight, on the phone", 1992, Carlos Drummond de Andrade)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Jan 26 · 120
[ Discontent: standing ]
Zywa Jan 26
Discontent: standing

like a cow in driving rain --


your *** to the wind.
Novel "Een Fries huilt niet" ("A Frisian does not cry", 1980, Gerrit Krol), chapter 6.5

--- Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Jan 26 · 106
[ Just care for me, no ]
Zywa Jan 26
Just care for me, no

wishes, you'll have everything:


me and my hopping.
Novella "De heilige Antonio" ("The Saint of the Impossible" / "Saint Antonio", 1998, Arnon Grunberg), chapter 15

--- Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Jan 25 · 363
[ No supermoon nor ]
Zywa Jan 25
No supermoon nor

a field of flowers, true love --


kisses dreary days.
Song "Lieveling" ("Darling", 1996, André Manuel), album "Krang"

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Jan 25 · 177
[ No one can describe ]
Zywa Jan 25
No one can describe

my sweetheart, in any case --


no one who knows her.
Poem "Over de bossen bij Hooghalen" ("About the woods at the Foot of the Highlands", 1970, Gerrit Krol)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 80s and 90s"
Jan 24 · 206
[ Horses are dancing ]
Zywa Jan 24
Horses are dancing

beneath the strawberry moon --


Life is very sweet.
Song "Cinnamon Horses" (2024, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds), album "Wild God"

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Jan 24 · 81
[ I hop, even if ]
Zywa Jan 24
I hop, even if

I've to go to the toilet --


That is how I live.
Novella "De heilige Antonio" ("The Saint of the Impossible" / "Saint Antonio", 1998, Arnon Grunberg), chapter 15

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Jan 23 · 91
[ I'm being flooded ]
Zywa Jan 23
I'm being flooded

and I sink into the depths --


of my own echoes.
Improvisation-composition "Pole" (1970, Karlheinz Stockhausen), for two players/singers with two shortwave receivers, on the occasion of the Expo '70 in Osaka; performed by Robin Rimbaud (electronics), Jakob Lekkerkerker (*****) and Gareth Davis (bass clarinet) on January 18th, 2025 in the Organpark

Collection "org anp ARK" #60
Jan 23 · 402
[ If only there was ]
Zywa Jan 23
If only there was

a sea for my stream of tears --


a chest to cry on.
Air "Se vago rio" ("Wenn a hazy stream", 1708, Vincenzo Grimani, music Georg Friedrich Händel, HWV83), from the opera "Aminta e Fillide" ("Aminta and Fillide") - Aminta

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Zywa Jan 22
I just take my loss

when I have lost a scarf and --


I gain detachment.
Column "Hoed" ("Hat", 2018, Arnon Grunberg), in the VPRO broadcasting-guide no. 23, 2018

Collection "Over"
Zywa Jan 22
I sometimes wish that

my next life would begin now --


I'll be happy then.
Novella "De heilige Antonio" ("The Saint of the Impossible" / "Saint Antonio", 1998, Arnon Grunberg), chapter 14

Collection "Over"
Jan 21 · 393
[ Quiet as a child ]
Zywa Jan 21
Quiet as a child

in his mother's arms, quite so --


even is my soul.
Psalm 131:2

Collection "The sweet curve"
Jan 21 · 155
[ I can already ]
Zywa Jan 21
I can already

scold in this language, now I'm --


learning the sweet words.
Novella "De heilige Antonio" ("The Saint of the Impossible" / "Saint Antonio", 1998, Arnon Grunberg), chapter 1

Collection "The sweet curve"
Zywa Jan 20
She says nothing, there's

just a kind of sigh, a groan --


that makes me happy.
Novel "a word child" (1975, Iris Murdoch), chapter Thursday [5]

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Jan 20
A trap? Then I'll step

into it, wondering what --


will happen to me.
Novel "a word child" (1975, Iris Murdoch), chapter Saturday [5]

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Jan 19
The sprinkles may crawl

into the roll, the yellow --


ones especially.
"Psychiatrisch dagboek" ("Psychiatric diary", 1994, Bert Weijde), July 20th, 1962 in Wolfheze

Collection "Unseen"
Jan 19 · 526
[ He admires my shoes ]
Zywa Jan 19
He admires my shoes,

unaware of the beauty --


of my tempting toes.
Novella "De heilige Antonio" ("The Saint of the Impossible" / "Saint Antonio", 1998, Arnon Grunberg), chapter 14

Collection "Unseen"
Zywa Jan 18
He's unsure and can't

do magic, yet he can do --


magical thinking.
Poem "[Week] 9" (2022, Gerda Blees)

Collection "Specialities"
Jan 18 · 64
[ Salvaging the ship ]
Zywa Jan 18
Salvaging the ship

full of dead sheep with a big --


load of ping-pong *****.
Comic strip "The sunken yacht" (Carl Barks, in Donald Duck #104, May 1949)

Karl Kroyer obtained a patent on the idea of ​​the ping-pong ***** in 1964 >> Salvage of the Al-Kuwait in December 1964

Collection "Specialities"
Jan 17 · 113
[ All the white angels ]
Zywa Jan 17
All the white angels

sway, they are singing of us:


of our division.
Song "Plus rien ne m'étonne" ("Nothing surprises me anymore", 2004, Tiken Jah Fakoly), album "Coup de gueule" ("Rant")

Collection "May the Might"

See Le Grand Choral 2024 on YouTube
Jan 17 · 118
[ This is politics ]
Zywa Jan 17
This is politics:

take whatever you can get --


Who's surprised by that?
Song "Plus rien ne m'étonne" ("Nothing surprises me anymore", 2004, Tiken Jah Fakoly), album "Coup de gueule" ("Rant")

Collection "May the Might"

See Le Grand Choral 2024 on YouTube
Jan 16 · 209
[ Happy are you when- ]
Zywa Jan 16
Happy are you when-

ever you see the beauty --


of your beloved.
"Ghazal 79" ("Ode 79", 14th century, Hafez)

Collection "No wonder"
Jan 16 · 108
[ Let our goblets glow ]
Zywa Jan 16
Let our goblets glow

up with the light of the wine --


that will make us shine.
"Ghazal 11" ("Ode 11", 14th century, Hafez)

Collection "No wonder"
Jan 15 · 64
[ Only now I do ]
Zywa Jan 15
Only now I do

realise how sweet your look --


was when I left you.
Song "Mille regretz" ("A thousand regrets", 1500, Josquin des Prez)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Jan 15 · 447
[ Nobody is as ]
Zywa Jan 15
Nobody is as

good as the landlord, always --


he's pouring out love.
"Ghazal 72" ("Ode 72", 14th century, Hafez)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Jan 14 · 132
[ The little donkey ]
Zywa Jan 14
The little donkey:

proudly young eyes on high legs.


Once, I was like that.
Collection "Inwardings"
Zywa Jan 14
Dripping shirts, back then,

on the lines in the attic --


and bits of your face.
Song "In a play (Das Mädchen im Pelz)" ("In a play (The girl in the fur)", 1987, Nits - Henk Hofstede)

Collection "Inwardings"
Zywa Jan 13
You must leave the nest,

even if you can't fly yet --


then you'll have to hop.
Novel "Gitte" (2010, Kristien Hemmerechts), chapter 1

Collection "On the fly"
Jan 13 · 107
[ Lovely is the fall ]
Zywa Jan 13
Lovely is the fall

from the ivory tower --


of grave piety.
"Ghazal 78" ("Ode 78", 14th century, Hafez)

Collection "On the fly"
Zywa Jan 12
Home, I'm almost there

and I run to the front door --


My bunch of keys falls.
Novel "The Message to the Planet" (1989, Iris Murdoch), part Six

Collection "Unspoken"
Jan 12 · 78
[ I can't be meta ]
Zywa Jan 12
I can't be meta

myself, so impossible --


is: 'metaphysics'.
Philosophical study "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" ("Logical-Philosophical Treatise", 1922, Ludwig Wittgenstein), paragraphs 6.45, 6.5 (The riddle does not exist)

Collection "Unspoken"
Jan 11 · 60
[ Who and what am I ]
Zywa Jan 11
Who and what am I?

In my own eyes, in your eyes?


And in spider eyes?
Novel "a word child" (1975, Iris Murdoch), chapter Saturday [1]

Collection "Unspoken"
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