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Zywa Jun 2023
He talks about her

all the time, so there's a chance --


it's almost over.
Novel "de vrije vogel en zijn kooien - De geschiedenis van een domicilie" ("the free bird and its cages - The history of a donicile", 1957, Simon Vestdijk), chapter 3-2

Collection "Inmost"
Zywa Jun 2023
You don't have to say a thing
not even my name
we walk a bit

from embrace to embrace
securing all the preceding
deep in our belly

Maybe there is too much
to discuss, but soon
half words will be enough

and we will kiss each other
with poetic sentences
full of love in their gaps

like our whole life is
an agenda full of gaps
filled with friends

care and roses
experiences kept deep
in our belly without words
Collection "Lilith's Powers" #90
Zywa Apr 2023
Unconditional

is my love and exhausted --


you will go away.
"Not her" (2021, HoneyLove [Siera Mayhew] on AllPoetry.com)

Collection "Bruises"
Zywa Apr 2023
Be careful, my love

is heavy, you will get tired --


and then you'll leave me.
"Not her" (2021, Siera Mayhew on AllPoetry.com)
For Siera Mayhew
Collection "Bruises"
Zywa Feb 2023
'Love you too', you say.

It sounds like an echo, like --


something from the past.
"Villa Ada" (2020, Jens Christian Grøndahl)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 20s and 30s"
Zywa Jan 2023
After a few years,

his love is dull, his smell not --


pleasant anymore.
"Verwachtingen" ("Expectations", 2022, Thomas Heerma van Voss)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 20s and 30s"
Zywa Dec 2022
He is late, as usual
It's his car, he decides
when we go home
At least, if he does come

And after the party he will say: 'Come
it was a nice evening, wasn't it?'
but if he absolutely needs to
I'll let him, I'll let him

come until he screams
for mercy - nobody can hear it
The wind will blow, the grass will wave
and I will turn around to sleep

I love him, I know why
and he should be able to do better
I am worth it, and he too
If I only could teach him
"South Carolina Morning" (1955, Edward Hopper)

Collection "NightWatch"
Zywa Nov 2022
It's still early, no customers
nobody on the way to work
everything like yesterday
the fire hydrant always ready
and night rounds against theft

Here you do your shopping
here you go to the barber
here your friends live
this is your view, your street
your neighborhood, your home

where you can sleep quietly
without scary dreams
life is very good
in order here, with neighbours
who know you all

I would die here
or go crazy, unless
I was living with you -
nothing else to do
than being with you every night
"Early Sunday Morning" (1930, Edward Hopper)

Collection "NightWatch"
Zywa Oct 2022
After making love

we say nothing, without words --


there can be no lies.
"Een tijd buiten de tijd" ("A time outside time", 2016, Susan Smit)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s and 10s"
Zywa Oct 2022
I finally have

reached my ideal love, right now --


the loss can begin.
"Philip en de anderen" ("Philip and the others", 1954, Cees Nooteboom)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 40s and 50s"
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