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Zywa Jul 13
You are too beautiful
to be touched
by anyone, by me

alone, I hope
if I may, if I dare
to do what someone may one day

I pass your house
There is only a window
between me and your bed

in which I dream myself
when I cannot sleep
and hold my breath

and time stands still
intoxicated by your lips
I feel your hand

on my chest, no
I won't run away
when you open the door
Narrative poem "Leili-o-Majnun" ("Layla's Mad Lover"), 1192, Nizami Ganjavi (from *****)

Film "Une histoire d'amour et de désir" ("A story of love and desire", 2021, Leyla Bouzid)

Song "Layla" (1970, Eric Clapton, album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" by Derek and the Domino's)

Collection "It takes a lot of tries to make a début"
Zywa Jun 22
A car stops, because

I'm standing at the window --


and yes, I can come.
Novel "**** nu mijn stem" ("Hear my voice now", 2017, Franca Treur), chapter 12

Collection "On the fly"
Zywa Jun 5
In bed I think you
close to me, I am -
my shapes in your hands
and can forget for a while

My belly on the inside full
of bruises, right there
I long for you, I want to feel
you and not know an hour

Clean and fragrant from the bath
happily ever after
******* and caressing
horsing around immortally

Do what I can do, dream
Take my mind off, change
my horizon until you are here
and eat something in between
For Maria Godschalk

Collection "More"
Zywa Mar 15
Don't dream, only then

will you see the light, won't you --


be blinded by it.
Film "Prabhayay Ninachathellam" ("All we imagine as light", 2024, Payal Kapadia)

Allegory of the cave (375 BC, Plato, dialogue "Politeia" ["Republic"], VII 514a-520a)

Collection "Changing Times"
Zywa Aug 2024
Wake up, don't marry

him if you are not yearning --


for him in sweet dreams.
Play "The Servants and the Snow" (1970, Iris Murdoch), Act One

Collection "Unspoken"
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 May 2024
It's our secret bed,

there in the dark, where we live --


dreaming together.
Poem "Nagmaal" ("Communion" [sacrament], 1979 (2001), Breyten Breytenbach), written in prison

Collection "Within the walls"
Zywa Jan 2024
You change every day,

you don't want me, I miss what --


has not even been.
Song "Ruby Tuesday" (1967, Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones; also sung in 1970 by Melanie [Safka])

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 60s and 70s"
Zywa Nov 2023
Drowning refugees,

sailing to the other side --


of their hope, their dream.
Novel "Munya" (name: "Wish/Desire/ What is longed for permanently even though it is very difficult to get", 2008, Abdelkader Benali), chapter Morocco

Collection "Passage Passion"
Zywa Nov 2023
Just you, all of you,

and my imagination --


and my hankering.
Song "Just (After Song of Songs)" (2014, David Lang), used in 2015 in the film "Youth" by Paolo Sorrentino; performed by Lichtbende in the Organpark on November 17th, 2023

Collection "org anp ark" #321
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