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1.2k · Dec 2022
[ Just become little ]
Zywa Dec 2022
Just become little

to really get great enough --


for humility.
"The incredible shrinking man" (film 1957, Jack Arnold; novel "The Shrinking Man", 1956, Richard Matheson)

Depletion of the earth by humanity

Collection "Ifless"
1.2k · Jul 2022
[ Any memory ]
Zywa Jul 2022
Any memory

you repeat turns easily --


into a desire.
Column "Het verlangen naar wat je al kent, dat is het sterkst" ("The desire for what you already know is the strongest", 2022, Marjoleine de Vos in NRC)

Collection "Over"
1.2k · Dec 2022
Until the reception calls
Zywa Dec 2022
Out of fashion, out-dated
there's no help for it, so let me be
unattractive, rejected
because I show myself so conspicuously
and attract attention needlessly

That's how I'm seen. I am seen
and the whispering amuses me
although nobody talks to me

And you let me wait again
until the reception calls
that you are there

So I just sit here
looking out the window
I am used to it, there is nothing to see
at the back of the hotel
and it is getting dark

You always were impatient
My make-up took too long for you
and you sat angry in the car

but if I behaved exactly
the way you had conceived
you could really be sweet
"Hotel Window" (1956, Edward Hopper)

Collection "NightWatch"
1.2k · Nov 2021
Art web
Zywa Nov 2021
In the museum, the wind blows
from everywhere to everywhere, like us
visitors from all over the world

We carry a culture web, nourish it
with the collections of the museums
which are larger than their buildings

We carry the art
with us, it is greater than we are
greater than our time and abode

We carry out the art
the history that connects us
and always does continue where it ends
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Collection "The migration"
1.1k · Jun 2022
Five ponds, five nations
Zywa Jun 2022
Peace got clothes to wear
that are called democracy
and are also worn by others

doppelgangers on the stage
of the power that they serve
as an extra or a puppet

It's an easy role
but in real life it is great
self-control and a matter

of patience to understand others
and to convince each other
of a public interest

This is how the Great Law
of Peace works along the Panther Lake
and the Sparkling Water

listening and consulting
without ventriloquism
or indelicate word
In the Mohawk area are the 'Five Ponds Wilderness' and the 'Black River Wild Forest'

The Iroquois are the league of the five tribes (nations) Mohawk, Oneida, Onanondaga, Cayuga and Seneca; this league is called Kaianerekowa = Great Law of Peace

In the council of the league are speakers (sachem) those who bring the position of their group and try to convince the others to agree with it (the Aztecs named these speakers 'tlatoani', with Moctezuma as huey-tlatoami [supreme speaker]); it is honorable to be a speaker, but there is no power attached to it, so that the settlers wrongly treated the speakers as 'chief'

Lake Erie: Erielhonan = Long-tail/Panther
Lake Ontario: Ontario = Sparkling water

Collection "The drama"
1.1k · May 2023
Evil World
Zywa May 2023
The night is safe. Come
Whatever goes wrong
you did what you could do

Come. You want too much
love and appreciation
from others for each other

and fewer regulations
fewer regulators
who interfere

and, like puppets
decide your fate
Mistakes are forbidden

They're in the system
and that's being worked on
Come. Over is the day

in which the seed lies
the seed of your fear
Your gluttonous love
Evil World: Fear (from a gluttonous need for love, comfort and security you fear, thinking you cannot function in the social system)

About gluttony: poem "Evil Child" (see May 23rd)

Collection "Mastress"
1.1k · Jul 2023
[ You're asleep, I know ]
Zywa Jul 2023
You're asleep, I know,

nothing does matter, nothing --


is more important.
Novel "The PowerBook" (2000, Jeanette Winterson), chapter "VIEW"

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 20s and 30s"
1.1k · Dec 2021
[ You know the feeling ]
Zywa Dec 2021
You know the feeling

of not belonging, being --


different, a guest.
"Twee vrouwen" ("Twice a Woman", 1975, Harry Mulisch)

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
1.1k · Apr 1
[ Within every ]
Zywa Apr 1
Within every

story new stories, that's how --


the universe works.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 7 "Within the Chinese Box,"

Collection "Low gear"
1.1k · Jun 2023
[ People in the street ]
Zywa Jun 2023
People in the street

are making jokes with a laugh --


that they give to me.
Collection "Bruises"
1.1k · Dec 2020
[ Between the farmlands ]
Zywa Dec 2020
Between the farmlands

there is a low walled green field –


with the peasant graves.
Letter 507 (June 9th, 1885, Vincent van Gogh)

Collection "Home sea"
1.1k · Jul 2021
[ Twilight is filling ]
Zywa Jul 2021
Twilight is filling

the silence between the rocks --


The pool is turned black.
"Nuns and Soldiers" (1980, Irish Murdoch)

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa Feb 9
Dawn: the world takes on

colours, becomes lifelike, but --


remains elusive.
Personal transmission-composition "Occam ocean" for orchestra (2015, Éliane Radigue), performed in the Organpark on February 3rd, 2024, by ensemble ONCEIM (L'Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations, et Improvisations Musicales) and others - @orchestra

Collection "org anp ark" #359
1.1k · Apr 17
[ The evening twilight ]
Zywa Apr 17
The evening twilight.

Tipping up, I see the white --


scuts of the rabbits.
Novel "Buiten is het maandag" ("Outside, it's Monday", 2003, J. Bernlef), part 6, chapter 2 --- Collection "SoulSenseSun"
1.1k · Aug 2022
[ Step by step I walk ]
Zywa Aug 2022
Step by step I walk

through the landscape, more and more --


it penetrates me.
"Marcher, une philosophie" ("A philosophy of walking", 2010, Frédéric Gros)

Collection "Inmost"
1.1k · Sep 2022
[ Today I shall do ]
Zywa Sep 2022
Today I shall do

nothing, not like yesterday --


no, differently.
"- Wat ga je vandaag eens doen? - Niets" ("- What are you going to do today? - Nothing", 1993, Herman de Coninck)

Collection "Shortages"
1.1k · May 19
[ The dense cloud cover ]
Zywa May 19
The dense cloud cover

hangs still, lowering itself --


and taking a rest.
Composition "Modes of Being", part "Rest" (2024, Elizabete Beate Rudzinska), performed in the Organpark on May 17th, 2024 by Elizabete Beate Rudzinska (*****) and Luka Schuurman (performance)

Collection "org ANP ark" #188
1.1k · Jun 2023
[ Decaying leaves, wet ]
Zywa Jun 2023
Decaying leaves, wet,

cold, and *****, but a bed --


for shiny chestnuts.
Collection "Different times"
1.1k · Jun 2023
[ There is a pond in ]
Zywa Jun 2023
There is a pond in

the forest lake: beautiful --


black ice around it.
Series of poems "De vijver in het meer" ("The pond in the lake", 1983, Hans Faverey)

Collection "Held/True"
1.1k · Jul 2023
[ With all their long toes ]
Zywa Jul 2023
With all their long toes,

the trees stand in the floodlight --


of the poppy field.
Poem "Gli eucalipti" ("The eucalyptus trees", 1933, Antonia Pozzi) - "Alti gli eucalipti lungo l'argine effusi al piede in uno sgorgo acceso di papaveri"

Collection "No wonder"
1.1k · Jun 2023
Wake up
Zywa Jun 2023
Live! Not dying
like all the sad-eyed people
but like the dog
that dances in the window

Wake up and look
There's sun, there's stars
there's daisies
and it swirls
in your ***

Wake up to a poem
Your blood flows
Spring comes and
there's bread in the oven

I'm not saying anything new
My words are clear
as water, as your soul
The sea falls and rises
but man is cruel
Poem "Cruelty" (Namdea Dhasal [Born near Pune, India, 1949], collection "Golpitha", 1973)

Collection "Different times"
1.1k · Apr 2023
[ Being so concerned ]
Zywa Apr 2023
Being so concerned

with the oppressed everywhere --


just not with colleagues...
"Het Bureau - De dood van Maarten Koning" ("The Office - The Death of Maarten Koning", 2000, Han Voskuil), page 191, Maarten Koning and Eef Batteljee (1989)

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"
1.1k · Feb 2022
[ Is peace to be free ]
Zywa Feb 2022
Is peace to be free

while a war is raging on --


in other countries?
"oorlogsrappen" ("warraps", 2017, Anne Vegter)

Collection "Human excess"
1.1k · Jul 2022
[ Walk into the night ]
Zywa Jul 2022
Walk into the night

at parties, just a moment --


to see the pleasure.
"Persoonlijke eigenaardigheden" ("Personal peculiarities", 2022, Elly de Waard)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
1.1k · Jun 2022
[ The thundersea foams ]
Zywa Jun 2022
The thundersea foams,

I rest and the sun dries me --


with its softest hand.
"Schuimbekkend graag gezien" ("With foam at the mouth, so willingly seen", 2019, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld)

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
1.1k · Feb 2023
[ You're getting older ]
Zywa Feb 2023
You're getting older,

tomorrow is not at all --


the day that would come.
"Farväl" ("Farewell", 2020, Jens Christian Grøndahl)

Collection "Stream"
1.1k · Nov 2022
[ The treetops shake off ]
Zywa Nov 2022
The treetops shake off

the mist, they're getting colour --


with mass, and a trunk.
"Fuga in C" (2022, Samuel Vriezen) for harmonium, performed by Samuel Vriezen in the Organpark on October 30th, 2022

Collection "org anp ark" #242
1.1k · Mar 2022
[ A human doesn't ]
Zywa Mar 2022
A human doesn't

belong to humanity --


It is not a group.
The concept of humanity is fictitious

Collection "The drama"
1.1k · Mar 2023
[ As a baby, I ]
Zywa Mar 2023
As a baby, I

had a lot of fun falling --


into daddy's hands.
For Madelief dK

Collection "Ifless"
1.1k · Mar 2022
[ I'm out of the bath ]
Zywa Mar 2022
I'm out of the bath,

the night wind dries me, somewhere --


a laughing squirrel.
"bewegingslijnen" - 9 ("motion lines" - 9, 2017, Rozalie Hirs)

Collection "Skin-contact"
1.1k · Oct 2019
[ She judges the men ]
Zywa Oct 2019
She judges the men,

unbuttoning, buttoning –


and she keeps looking.
Collection "Eyes lips chest and belly"
1.1k · Jan 2023
Mirror on the wall
Zywa Jan 2023
The world reflects everything
from everyone, but luckily
we see very little of it

Except, unfortunately, the queen
who gains in beauty every day
But young men don't see it

They shout: the princess
is more beautiful - their fantasy
of daily pleasure, a dream

of effortlessly becoming king
So Helen does not trust herself
She looks in the mirror

that lies a false truth
she walks to the lake
(guards follow her remotely)

Her eyes search the water
her lips talk to the wash of the waves
her hands reach for a golden fish
Ye Xian (Yeh-Shen) and Snow White

Collection "Different times"
1.1k · Dec 2021
[ I overheard friends ]
Zywa Dec 2021
I overheard friends

laughing, talking about me --


I disappoint me.
Collection "PumicePieces"
1.1k · Dec 2018
Paris l'amour
Zywa Dec 2018
In the evening, the river is a theater
the water carries the music
to our ears, the romance

of a saxophone, sunset
twinkling in the wine and the church
rosy, completely gentle grace

Tourists pretend click clack
that not they, but we, are the extras
and the city were a cardboard set:

theme park Paris l'amour
young people on the quays around
a pillar candle and kissing

couples as it should be
in the sunthrowers of the tourist vessels
gleam the spots in the corners

that you can smell
Collection "Take a picture, now"
1.1k · Dec 2022
[ A little flower ]
Zywa Dec 2022
A little flower,

delicate between sharp stones --


that's what life feels like.
"tuimelaar" ("bottlenose dolphin", 2008, Rozalie Hirs)

Collection "Willegos"
1.1k · Nov 2022
[ The bride: a present ]
Zywa Nov 2022
The bride: a present

in tulle, the veil that reveals --


her love all the more.
Collection "NightWatch"
1.0k · Jan 2023
[ Our heels in the sand ]
Zywa Jan 2023
Our heels in the sand

at kite-flying by the sea --


Not to fly ourselves.
Collection "Blown sand"
1.0k · Oct 2023
[ You don't care about ]
Zywa Oct 2023
You don't care about

me, so I hope you have fun --


I am doing well.
Song "Fred Astaire" (2002, Dayna Kurtz)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
1.0k · Aug 2022
[ I exist, I do ]
Zywa Aug 2022
I exist, I do

want to be noticed by friends --


truly, as I am.
"De porseleinkast - Faxen aan Ger #2" ("The china shop - Faxing to Ger #2", Dec. 12th, 1997, published 2018, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
1.0k · Jul 2022
[ A nice canoe trip ]
Zywa Jul 2022
A nice canoe trip,

downstream, without worrying --


about getting lost.
"Hoog en laag springen - Faxen aan Ger #4" ("Like it or not - Faxing Ger #4", 2021, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
1.0k · Sep 2023
[ I fly in the blue ]
Zywa Sep 2023
I fly in the blue,

look, my whole body is blue, --


Fly and sing with me!
Song "Nel blu dipinto di blu" ("In the blue painted blue" / "Volare", 1958, text Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci, music and singing Domenico Modugno)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
1.0k · Apr 2023
[ It is attention ]
Zywa Apr 2023
It is attention

that licks children into shape --


It's love. Or hatred.
Novel "The time of the angels" (1966, Iris Murdoch), § 3

Collection "Unspoken"
1.0k · Oct 2022
[ It's better to be ]
Zywa Oct 2022
It's better to be


dead serious than to be --



seriously dead.
"Pap" ("Serious", 1970, Jules Deelder) --- Collection "Rasping ants"
1.0k · Oct 2022
[ Like a precious stone ]
Zywa Oct 2022
Like a precious stone

in the landscape of her skin:


the eye of the cow.
"Koe" - III ("Cow" - III, 2008, Rutger Kopland)

Collection "Moist glow"
1.0k · Nov 2022
[ I can see myself ]
Zywa Nov 2022
I can see myself

dancing on fast and light feet --


all without stumbling.
"1/38" (2022, Kevan en Bijan Chemirani, performed on October 26th, 2022 in the Music Building on IJ, by Sokratis Sinopoulos [lyra], Jean-Guihen Queyras [cello], and Bijan Chemirani [zarb and daf])

Collection "I am"
1.0k · Aug 2023
[ On the high mountain ]
Zywa Aug 2023
On the high mountain,

there is no time, the watches --


tick on uselessly.
Novel "The PowerBook" (2000, Jeanette Winterson), chapter "SPECIAL"

Collection "Stream"
1.0k · Jul 2019
The envoys of Athens
Zywa Jul 2019
The envoys of Athens
in their comfortable carriages
democratically stripped of finery

are dignified by the inability
to make a decision, divided
by all the nuances of reason

They'll have to wait
because we don't have any news
from our informants yet

We sprinkle the goat
with lukewarm water, it does not shiver
so the god will not speak

until the stars are right again
and we are informed
about the politics of the monarchs

We save expenses nor pains
We are the dedicated priests
of a notable consulting business
The impotence of democracy

The priests of the Oracle of Delphi

Collection “Secrets & Believers”
1.0k · Sep 2022
[ A culpable hand ]
Zywa Sep 2022
A culpable hand

can clean itself by washing --


someone else's hand.
"Grand Hotel Europa" (2018, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer)

Collection "Palace of the Night"
1.0k · Jan 2023
[ The wind lashes rain ]
Zywa Jan 2023
The wind lashes rain

on the windowpane, so nice --


that I am inside.
Collection "Foghorn"
1.0k · Oct 2023
[ Only if you know ]
Zywa Oct 2023
Only if you know

yearning, can you understand --


my suffering, me.
"Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" ("Only he who knows yearning", 1796, Johann W. von Goethe)

Collection "Inmost [1]"
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