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Falling Awake Oct 2024
If I could transcribe behind your eyes,
I’d see the times they’ve sunk and cried,
The shadows of pain you’ve held inside,
And all the needs you’ve been denied.

You don't speak much on heartache,
Or insecurities you can’t shake,
Breaches of trust, being treated unjust,
Are there fears left concealed, undiscussed?

If I could dive inside your lovely mind,
Swim through your veins, us intertwined,
I’d find exactly how your heart perceives,
Study the language your love receives.

Maybe it's the 'I love you's throughout the day,
Or these poems, though limited in what I can say,
Even a warm meal after work on a cold day,
Or perhaps it's those weekends we spent away.

Mapping responses to our conversations
And how you react to my love demonstrations
I’m looking for clues, all sorts of indications,
Fine tuning the way I love with my observations.

I’ll narrow in, long as you continue to share
Your reception of love–please make me aware,
For, finding your love language is all that I care,
I’ll express my love, I solemnly swear!
silvervi Sep 2024
T-rust lost.
I-ronically hopeful.
R-espectfully alone.
E-ndlessly worried.
D-irty promises.
10/2023
Zywa Aug 2024
Eccentric people

give you freedom, the courage --


to be different.
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Five

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Aug 2024
My signature then:

who I was, sixteen years old --


with a line through it.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 2 ("The *******" - 2, 1993, Frida Vogels), 1946 in Amsterdam

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Jun 2024
What a theatre!

Would he have any idea --


who he is today?
Melodrama "Imaginations - II" (1985/2023, Robert Nasveld), by Tobias Greenhalgh (baritone), Chris Buckman (piano) and a doll performed in the Organpark on May 31st, 2024

Collection "org anp ARK" #18
Zywa Feb 2024
The chicks are dancing

around drolly in their shells --


their thick diapers.
Composition "Pictures at an Exhibition", part "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" (1874, Modest Mussorgski), in an arrangement (2023) by Marc Kaptijn performed in the Organpark by the Amsterdam Wind Quintet and Maarten van der Bijl (*****) on January 21st, 2024

Collection "org anp ark" #344
Zywa Feb 2024
To reconcile us

I sing appropriate words --


the old well-known song.
Novel "The Golden House" (2017, Salman Rushdie), chapter (3-) 34

Song "Bird on the Wire" (1968, Leonard Cohen, about Marianne Jensen, 1969 album "Songs from a Room", 1968 release by Judy Collins)

Collection "Low gear [2]"
Zywa Feb 2024
Interiors are

also the exteriors --


of the residents.
Novel "Buiten is het maandag" ("Outside, it's Monday", 2003, J. Bernlef), §  6-7

Collection "Being my own museum"
Zywa Jan 2024
You should be yourself,

but don't bother anyone --


that's the condition.
Novel "Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), § 23

Collection "Wean Di"
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