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Aug 2024 · 357
[ Art is a shadow ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Art is a shadow

play of life, both cannot be --


understood deeply.
Play "[Acastos -] Art and Eros", a Platonic dialogue (1980, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 215
[ Our conversations ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Our conversations

are familiar like talking --


in each other's dreams.
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Twelve

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 309
[ I want to be as ]
Zywa Aug 2024
I want to be as

glad, as free and as loving --


as she makes me be!
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Fifteen

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 416
[ Spiritual life ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Spiritual life

is empty, you'll find nothing --


Everything is there!
Play "The Three Arrows" (1972, Iris Murdoch), Act Two, scene Two

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 269
[ Power is maintained ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Power is maintained

with traps, purity exists --


in a prison cell.
Play "The Three Arrows" (1972, Iris Murdoch), Act Two, scene Five

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 1.1k
[ Awkwardly he holds ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Awkwardly he holds

my hand, just like in photos --


from the olden times.
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Twelve

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 262
[ For your life partner ]
Zywa Aug 2024
For your life partner,

everything you write is picked --


from the life you share.
Comical novel "The Black Prince" (1973, Iris Murdoch), A Celebration of Love, part One

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 519
[ Relaxed by the gin ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Relaxed by the gin

I get up and see the yard --


rotating round me.
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Twelve

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Aug 2024
Pleasures take their toll,

at the doctor, the dentist --


and the tax office.
Comical novel "The Black Prince" (1973, Iris Murdoch), Bradley Pearson's foreword

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 184
[ My world falls apart ]
Zywa Aug 2024
My world falls apart,

but everything just goes on --


despite of my pain.
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Twelve

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Aug 2024
Count your fingers, count

the little raindrops and wait --


if love is coming?
Song "Little girl blue" (1935, Lorenz Hart, music Richard Rodgers, for the musical "Jumbo"), sung in 1958 by Nina Simone

Collection "Break"
Aug 2024 · 534
[ I came for support ]
Zywa Aug 2024
I came for support,

but he doesn't know what to say --


He is at a loss.
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Twelve

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 361
[ Amorousness runs ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Amorousness runs

dry and all your happiness --


slips through your fingers.
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Nineteen --- Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 396
[ I was floating in ]
Zywa Aug 2024
I was floating in

the sea of your eyes, they led --


me into your port.
Air "Sol da te, mio dolce amore" ("Solely through you, my sweet love") from the opera "Orlando furioso" (1727, RV 728), Antonio Vivaldi, libretto Grazio Braccioli, based on the epic "Orlando furioso" (1516, Ludovico Ariosto)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
Aug 2024 · 373
[ Singing a mantra ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Singing a mantra

together, sounds full of life --


in - out of ourselves.
Song "Flo flo flo me la" (1960, Nina Simone), album "Nina Simone at Newport"

Collection "SoulSenseSun"
Aug 2024 · 285
[ I'm very relieved ]
Zywa Aug 2024
I'm very relieved,

yesterday I was ready:


I have decided!
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Five

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 223
[ The work is hard, but ]
Zywa Aug 2024
The work is hard, but

every night we sing away --


all our tiredness.
Song "In the evening by the moonlight" (1960, Nina Simone), album "Nina Simone at Newport"

Collection "Home sea"
Aug 2024 · 117
[ Eccentric people ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Eccentric people

give you freedom, the courage --


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

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 519
[ Kiss as often as ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Kiss as often as

you desire and kiss more, still --


you'll kiss too little.
Novel "The Sandcastle" (1957, Iris Murdoch), chapter Three

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 385
[ I am motionless ]
Zywa Aug 2024
I am motionless,

my will is like a goshawk --


exalted and still.
Play "The Three Arrows" (1972, Iris Murdoch), Act Two, scene Two

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 470
[ A streak of perfume ]
Zywa Aug 2024
A streak of perfume

across the floor, I am scared --


by the intense smell.
Play "The Three Arrows" (1972, Iris Murdoch), Act Two, scene Ten

Collection "Unspoken"
Zywa Aug 2024
For the guests there are

flowers, and hidden in them:


fleas waiting to strike.
Play "[Acastos -] Above the gods", a Platonic dialogue (1986, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 302
[ Art misleads you to ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Art misleads you to

think you understand something --


and to stop thinking.
Play "[Acastos -] Art and Eros", a Platonic dialogue (1980, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 260
[ Religiousness is ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Religiousness is

about more than God: the whole --


of what does exist.
Play "[Acastos -] Above the gods", a Platonic dialogue (1986, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 193
[ Philosophers think ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Philosophers think

slowly like a snail, only --


then will they progress.
Play "[Acastos -] Above the gods", a Platonic dialogue (1986, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 110
[ It's easy to know ]
Zywa Aug 2024
It's easy to knów

what deed is simply good, but --


dóing it is not.
Play "[Acastos -] Above the gods", a Platonic dialogue (1986, Iris Murdoch)

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 135
[ Around what centre ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Around what centre,

in ever wider circles --


do I fly, blow, sing?
Poem "Ich lebe mein Leben" ("I live my life", 1899, Rainer Maria Rilke)

Collection "On the fly"
Aug 2024 · 274
[ Father still conjures ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Father still conjures

up gilded vistas for me --


with his old letter.
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 2 ("The *******" - 2, 1993, Frida Vogels), letter from 1938 (Laren)

Collection "Trench Walking"
Aug 2024 · 137
[ I recall little ]
Zywa Aug 2024
I recall little

of that party, it was great --


Unforgettable!
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 2 ("The *******" - 2, 1993, Frida Vogels), 1944 in Laren

Collection "Trench Walking"
Aug 2024 · 701
[ If your ambition ]
Zywa Aug 2024
If your ambition

listens to wise words, then you --


only hear yourself.
Play "The Three Arrows" (1972, Iris Murdoch), Act Two, scene Two

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 267
[ Politics doesn't bring ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Politics doesn't bring

you anything, it's not art --


and it's not science.
Play "The Three Arrows" (1972, Iris Murdoch), Act Two, scene Two

Collection "Unspoken"
Aug 2024 · 557
[ We sit in silence ]
Zywa Aug 2024
We sit in silence,

the silence of our state-room --


echoing silence.
Novel "**** nu mijn stem" ("Hear my voice now", 2017, Franca Treur), chapter 2

Collection "VacantVoid"
Aug 2024 · 469
[ Retirement is nice ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Retirement is nice,

grandad shows it in his chair:


never to get up.
Novel "**** nu mijn stem" ("Hear my voice now", 2017, Franca Treur), chapter 2

Collection "VacantVoid"
Aug 2024 · 180
[ Am I made of glass ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Am I made of glass?

My inner self visible --


and unreachable?
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 2 ("The *******" - 2, 1993, Frida Vogels), June 1951 in Leiden

Collection "Trench Walking"
Aug 2024 · 551
[ My signature then ]
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"
Aug 2024 · 231
[ The words love, sorrow ]
Zywa Aug 2024
The words love, sorrow,

and kiss are so beautiful --


that I dream of them.
"Diary 1960-1961" (2006, Frida Vogels), May 4th, 1961 in Bologna

Collection "Trench Walking"
Aug 2024 · 172
[ Most of all I like ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Most of all I like

to draw things I've never seen:


bridges in the sea.
"Diary 1960-1961" (2006, Frida Vogels), May 13th, 1961 in Bologna

Collection "Trench Walking"
Aug 2024 · 156
[ Looking for the way ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Looking for the way

I come to an open space --


where I now linger.
Poem "Ergens over denkend" ("Thinking about something", 2006, Frida Vogels), published in "Dagboek 1958-1959" ("Diary 1958-1959", 2006), October 16th, 1959 in Amsterdam

Collection "Trench Walking"
Aug 2024 · 232
[ Yet this anecdote ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Yet this anecdote

about father says little --


about who he is.
"Diary 1958-1959" (2006, Frida Vogels), Oktober 11th, 1959 in Amsterdam

Collection "Trench Walking"
Aug 2024 · 445
Because of
Zywa Aug 2024
Because HelloPoetry requires a CSRF cookie I leave

Best wishes to all my readers
Aug 2024 · 182
Extracted landscape
Zywa Aug 2024
Drawn night, summer night
the sky above Montpellier
Venus, breath over hills
Nothing less than spring

Silver needles, delusion-less
and windless awake
right next to the waterfall

The springs steam with love
enraptured with love
atoms of love
Expressions, fragments

of we, elementary particles
mystical body, secret body
of this second
19 titles of poems from the collection "dagtekening van liefdesvormen" ("date stamp of love forms", 2024, Rozalie Hirs)

extracted landscape 2015, drawn night 1975, summer night 1982, the sky above montpellier 1983, venus 2010, breath over hills 1994, nothing less than spring 1969, silver needles 1981, delusion-less and windless awake 1986, right next to the waterfall 2008, the springs 2017, steam with love 1974, enraptured with love 1999, atoms of love 1974, expressions 1972, fragments of we 1978, elementary particles 2013, mystical body 2002, secret body of this second 2016
Aug 2024 · 170
[ Codes cutpaste poems ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Codes cutpaste poems

and lyrically they call --


themselves Rozalie.
The poems in the collection "dagtekening van liefdesvormen" ("date stamp of love forms", 2024, Rozalie Hirs) could have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI)

Collection "Mosaic virus"
Aug 2024 · 56
[ Dividing people ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Dividing people

into friends and enemies --


that's just indolence.
Diary 1958-1959 (2006, Frida Vogels), July 2nd, 1959 in Milan
Aug 2024 · 129
[ It's shallow here, with ]
Zywa Aug 2024
It's shallow here, with

an undertow, I'm falling --


The buoy starts spinning.
Poem "Where there was a little buoy", 2006, Frida Vogels), Published in "Diary 1958-1959", December 23rd, 1958 in Milan
Aug 2024 · 366
[ I stay at home, warm ]
Zywa Aug 2024
I stay at home, warm

inside myself, not working --


in a cold office.
"Psychiatrie diary" (1994, Bert Weijde), February 1st and 2nd, 1962 in Amsterdam
Aug 2024 · 141
[ I am not gloomy ]
Zywa Aug 2024
I am not gloomy,

just the same everyone asks --


How are you today?
"Psychiatrisch dagboek" ("Psychiatric diary", 1994, Bert Weijde), May 16th, 1961 in Amsterdam

Collection "Em Brace"
Aug 2024 · 147
[ It's only a part ]
Zywa Aug 2024
It's only a part

of me that decides, that's it --


for my whole being.
"Diary 1958-1959" (2006, Frida Vogels), October 24th, 1958 in the train

Collection "Trench Walking"
Aug 2024 · 358
[ The more concretely ]
Zywa Aug 2024
The more concretely

you tell a story, the less --


you'll be understood.
"Diary 1958-1959" (2006, Frida Vogels), February 12th, 1958 in Amsterdam

Collections "Trench Walking" and "WriteWiser signage"
Aug 2024 · 2.6k
[ Once again we walk ]
Zywa Aug 2024
Once again we walk

in the old track, we're absent --


There is no meeting.
Poem "Ik loop weer naast je" ("I walk next to you again", 2006, Frida Vogels), published in "Dagboek 1958-1959" ("Diary 1958-1959", 2006), May 19th, 1958 in Luxemburg, about a walk on the beach near Bergen on May 17th, 1958

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Aug 2024
My friend goes, gives me

a rose from the bush, alas --


still in the bud, picked.
Ballad "Au bord d'une fontaine" ("By the edge of a fountain", 1500), set to music by Mozart in 1781 (K360, "Hélas, j'ai perdu mon amant")

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
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