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Zywa Jun 13
My toes on the ledge,

thinking how scary it is --


before I do it.
For Madelief dK and Lotte W, with a photo of a diver in the Jacob van Lennep Canal, on the Jean Dulieu Bridge (July 26th, 2013, Amsterdam) - Jean Dulieu is the author of 'Paulus de boskabouter' ('Paulus the woodgnome')
Jun 13 · 75
The other man
Zywa Jun 13
What year are we living in?
Is that song banned?
Shunned? Forgotten?
Is it that time yet?

Do men have better judgement?
Are they less fickle?
So women won't have to
be any more?

Don't they play
king and duke
like boys anymore?
Don't they brag

about conquests anymore
laughing at the jester
who says it's not funny?
La donna è mobile?
Play "Le roi s'amuse" ("The king has fun", 1832, Victor Hugo)

Opera "Rigoletto" (1851, Giuseppe Verdi
- "Rigolo" = funny-man, funny, amusing)
- Air "La donna è mobile" ("Woman is fickle") - Duca (the duke)

Collection "Froend"
Jun 13 · 78
[ Does a girl really ]
Zywa Jun 13
Does a girl really

need to learn to see herself --


as their *** object?
Collection "Froend"
Zywa Jun 12
Neighbours: first a fence

needs to be installed, and then --


net curtains as well.
Collection "Truder"
Zywa Jun 12
The house creaks, little

brother leans over me, says:


I'll never collapse!
Collection "Death on Cast"
Zywa Jun 12
The stars live
seen from my bed
very deep
inside the window frame

Nice and cool you lie next to me
sleeping satisfied
my skin burns
where I miss you

in this longhouse, where we
only dared to make love
restrainedly, not used
to hear it from others

The rain rustles
that warm pleasure
of the children and for us
if there had been no neighbours

who would be ashamed
so we did it quietly
like the lash mites
when they mate
Collection "More"
Jun 12 · 113
[ To care about facts ]
Zywa Jun 12
To care about facts

and the actuality --


of a person’s mood.
Collection "More"
Jun 11 · 135
[ Recovery can ]
Zywa Jun 11
Recovery can

take a long time, like waiting --


for what is over.
Collection "Local tardiness"
Zywa Jun 11
Stand still where you are,

don't pass by cursorily --


as if in a set.
Collection "Local tardiness"
Jun 11 · 135
Panoramic view
Zywa Jun 11
Under the green splendor
of duckweed, the sun turns
away, fish disappear

natural
wonderful balance
of the night

the bed-warm water filter
of silver and silky
black feelings

the parasite flowers
on the waves of ebb and flow
under the large autumn moon

and my love is rolling
back and forth between friends
and lost
Collection "More"
Jun 11 · 75
[ I am in love, what ]
Zywa Jun 11
I am in love, what

a wonderful rush, a trip --


Peace and harmony.
Air "Dei colli nostri" ("Of our hills") from the pastoral drama "Il trionfo dell'amicizia e dell'amore" ("The triumph of friendship and love", 1711, Francesco Bartolomeo Conti), libretto Francesco Ballerini

Collection "More"
Jun 10 · 123
In the dark at my window
Zywa Jun 10
Light dances out from the club
It colours the wind
in my net curtain

The rain rustles and splashes
in the greasy gleam of the wet film
over the mud road through the village

A woman and a man appear
and play in their underwear
They push and slide

Mud on their skin, I watch
and undress in the dark
Where is my darling?
Collection "More"
Jun 10 · 115
[ Attention is nice ]
Zywa Jun 10
Attention is nice

even from a distance, but --


I miss our embrace.
Collection "More"
Jun 9 · 100
Wagtails in the garden
Zywa Jun 9
Through the shadowy grey
of who what when
the mornings are fuzzy

green of visitors that will dance
and laugh, tell stories
with many gestures

and always find a reason
to touch me and embrace
me intimately

It's all, but not enough
I don't want to crawl
away in my hole yet

Could I only hide
like the sun
and appear again

with wagtails in the garden
and playing children
outside
For Maria Godschalk (October 2021)

Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 9
Just like yesterday,

they arise from my branches:


lots of dayflowers.
For Maria Godschalk (August 2021)

Dayflower: Virginia spiderwort, Tradescantia virginiana

Collection "More"
Jun 8
Again
Zywa Jun 8
The click of the key
the shoes in the cabinet
the slight rustle in the toilet

and intimately the gleam
under the bathroom door, his smell
entering at my feet

I already know how
he slides towards me
carefully warming his hands

under his armpits
to caress me
from sleep to wonderful

and to make me stretch out
in a sea of time
where the wind rises

and hands and mouths
rush unstoppably
till the sky clears

And then
again
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 8
Colourful birthday!

Those who don't know don't know you --


Unfortunately!
For Michi W (in July 2024)

Collection "More"
Jun 7 · 160
Presents with a bow
Zywa Jun 7
To be touched
I have to
be seen and heard

speak sweet words
with a smile
Ever sweeter words

But you
give me perfume, a fishnet dress
and black-red lingerie

You like to explore
me as new
with pinches and kisses

the hard in the weak
curious about my cuddliness
and the little sounds I will sigh

You have so little patience
and pay me little
attention
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 7
Please hurry, help me,

I'm craving for attention --


Tell me a secret!
Collection "More"
Jun 6 · 126
Fading in the light
Zywa Jun 6
We do cartwheels
the bystanders call
for more, but my stomach
turns and the ceiling
turns too

Her face turns pale
I embrace her from behind
we dive into the depths
I feel dizzy, with a thud
I feel that there is a bottom

and then she swims away
Why are you going now?
For no reason, she smiles
at me with a sad look
Isn't it obvious?

I close my eyes
and watch her go, forever
a ****** to me, forever
her transparent face
fading in the light
Song "A whiter shade of pale" (1967 USA, Keith Reid, album "Procul Harum" van Procul Harum)

Collection "More"
Jun 6 · 100
[ My wish is growing ]
Zywa Jun 6
My wish is growing,

I'm breathing life into it --


until it will pop.
Collection "More"
Jun 5 · 80
In bed I think you
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 Jun 5
No goodbye: we stay

together, cheerful, nothing --


is for the last time.
For Maria Godschalk

Collection "More"
Jun 4 · 476
Sensitive love
Zywa Jun 4
There is a lot I can no longer
do spontaneously
I touch myself with caution
and rather let you look

than act, but sometimes
the tingling of your
caress arouses unfulfillable needs
deeper and deeper in me

They are sleeping
in my cells, still
desiring to jump you
but your hands ward me off

as a precaution, so sensitive
are our skin and our bones
so painful it can be
to wish to be young
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 4
Even when we're not

together, I feel your love --


and I'm one with you.
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 3
The calm in your eyes
on me opens me
You lie in me
like a long l
of love

The light has licked you clean
it sings of you the glorious song
of our years, which bridge
everything that separates us
and clothes us in differences

For us, love is
still a thick word
of desire, the l
that erects
when I undress
Painting "The Particularity of Nakedness" (1987, Marlene Dumas)

Poems "7. The Particularity of Nakedness", "liefdeswoord" ("word of love") and "skryfode" ("writing ode"), (2000, Antjie Krog, bundel "Kleur kom nooit alleen nie" ("Colour never comes alone"

Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 3
The broom is scenting

into my house this evening --


Falls asleep with me.
Collection "More"
Zywa Jun 2
Because you like to watch
I tie you
to your desire

We are not at home
others peek with you
along the pillars

I know it unseen
blind because of the towel
with which I dry my hair

on the terrace for beautiful people
in the middle of the town, where beauty
gathers in the theatres for everything

that people are capable of
on the edge of reality
and their unbridled imagination

captured like you, your eyes
and hands, by almost
touchable perfection
[Beauty and justice are the two halves of happiness and peace]

Collection "More"
Jun 2 · 108
[ My love wishes for ]
Zywa Jun 2
My love wishes for

one more day and one more day --


that you stay alive.
Collection "More"
Jun 1 · 168
[ Certainly, AI ]
Zywa Jun 1
Certainly, AI

isn't the future, it does not --


escape from what is.
Article "AI maakt eenheidsworst van onze cultuur" ("AI is making our culture uniform") by Jonasz Dekkers in the NRC of May 31st, 2025 - Artificial intelligence

Collection "Truder"
Zywa Jun 1
So you think something

of me, my body, my clothes --


but do you know me?
Text "Not My Responsibility" (2020, Billie Eilish)

Collection "Truder"
May 31 · 219
[ The shaman welcomes ]
Zywa May 31
The shaman welcomes

the spirits, their wisdom is --


sweating from his pores.
Part 1 of the composition "Resolve" (2025, Arnold Dreyblatt, renewal of the microtonal composition "Nodal Excitation" from 1982), performed in the Organpark by Arnold Dreyblatt (excited string bass), Joachim Schutz (electric guitar) and Joerg Hille (percussion and computer-controlled electric guitar) on February 7th, 2025

Collection "org anp ARK" #83
May 31 · 222
[ A cold winter moon ]
Zywa May 31
A cold winter moon

high above the rolling snow --


My heart starts pounding.
Composition "Moon Viewing Music" (2018, Peter Garland), for three gongs, part 1 "Living alone in the woods / few visitors cast shadows / How clean the moon / gleaming in the sky" (haiku by Ryokan Taigu, 1758-1831), performed in the Organpark on four gongs by Pepe Garcia on February 8th, 2025

Collection "org anp ARK" #85
May 30 · 117
[ You are beautiful ]
Zywa May 30
You are beautiful,

don't let anyone fool you --


he says rather wrong.
Short story "Tot de orde" ("To order", 2024, Gerda Blees, in the VPRO broadcasting-guide no. 28-29, 2024)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in de 20s"
May 30 · 147
[ Like a dancer she ]
Zywa May 30
Like a dancer she

floated into the applause --


and she looked at me.
Song "Attat ilaya" ("[That's how] She came to me", 2023, Ali Al Gaeth), sung by Ali Al Gaeth in the Meervaart Theatre in Amsterdam on November 25th, 2023, accompanied by Orchestre Partout and the Cello Octet in an arrangement by Oene van Geel

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in de 20s"
Zywa May 29
It's with petting soft

boxing gloves and a sweet smile --


that I bare my teeth.
For Madelief dK and Lotte W, with a photo of a woman's boxing class next to a wall shadow of shark teeth (May 4th, 2013, Geuzenkade near the Jan van Galenstraat, Amsterdam) - In the Netherlands and Switzerland, shark teeth are triangles painted on the road surface as a warning that one must give way

Collection "Dearme"
Zywa May 29
I have two friends, my

intellect during the day,


the Sandman at night.
For Madelief dK, with a photo of her (3 years old) and the Little Sandman (November 2002) - Madelief also had an imaginaryfriend named Nukelei

Collection "Dearme"
May 28 · 19
[ Finding each other ]
Zywa May 28
Finding each other

after every goodbye, that's --


the best thing of all.
Short stories "Gij nu" ("You now", 2016, Griet Op de Beeck), story 'wat niet meer wordt verwacht telt dubbel had zij ontdekt' ('what is no longer expected counts double she had discovered'), chapter One

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
May 28 · 110
[ Expressing your love ]
Zywa May 28
Expressing your love

works best if you see people --


as body angels.
Column "Engelen" ("Angels", 2019, Arnon Grunberg, in the VPRO broadcasting-guide, December 14-20th, 2019)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 10s"
Zywa May 27
His proposal jumps

like a frog into the pond:


only a ripple.
Short story "Il nido" ("The nest", 1895, Luigi Pirandello)

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa May 27
Lightning, dad keeps watch,

I must be silent, I won't --


make it more angry.
Novel "De vlucht van Gilles Speksneijder" ("The escape of Gilles Whalecutter", 2019, M.M. Schoenmakers), page 142

Collection "Actively Passive"
May 26 · 158
[ When my desire grows ]
Zywa May 26
When my desire grows

weary and weak, there is hope --


that will nourish it.
Short stories "Gij nu" ("You now", 2016, Griet Op de Beeck), story 'misschien was dat wel echte eenzaamheid meer nog dan geen mensen zien eigen gedachten die niet worden tegengesproken' ('maybe that was real loneliness even more than not seeing people one's own thoughts that are not contradicted'), chapter Two

Collection "Stall"
May 26 · 124
[ We're waiting, sadly ]
Zywa May 26
We're waiting, sadly

the angels hang there, over --


our iniquity.
Poem "die sigbaarmaking van allerlei strooptogte" ("the making visible of all kinds of raids", 2022, Antjie Krog)

Collection "Stall"
Zywa May 25
Traces and socks, the

treasure somewhere in the field:


softly disappeared.
Poem "Lemen stilte" ("Clay silence", 2025, Juliën Holtrigter), final poem of the collection "De weg naar huis" ("The road home")

Collection "Stream"
May 25 · 107
[ His hands hovering ]
Zywa May 25
His hands hovering

above me like birds of prey --


Lamps in his glasses.
Surgery

Poem "The Egg" - 2 (1967, Louise Glück)

Collection "Stream"
May 24 · 109
[ Awake all night long ]
Zywa May 24
Awake all night long

since I heard the door bell ring --


Anyone in need?
Poem "Visitors from Abroad" - 4 (2013, Louise Glück)

Collection "Stream"
Zywa May 24
We're sailing through time,

just we and the two people --


we have been before.
Poem "Sonnet 152" (2008, Ingmar Heytze)

Collection "Stream"
May 23 · 161
[ All my space travels ]
Zywa May 23
All my space travels

are tragic, going so far --


and getting nowhere.
Poem "Testpiloot" ("Test pilot", 2012, Ingmar Heytze)

Collection "Stream"
Zywa May 23
It's hailing thick ice

bullets and the clouds beat tens --


of thousands of drums.
Novella "De heilige Antonio" ("The Saint of the Impossible" / "Saint Antonio", 1998, Arnon Grunberg), chapter 15

Collection "Stream"
May 22 · 98
[ We're very busy ]
Zywa May 22
We're very busy,

so we miss you extra now --


by not missing you.
Arjan Berkhuysen and Anemoon Elzinga about missing their son Mees who died in an accident (interview by Kim Bos in the NRC of May 20th, 2025)

Collection "Being my own museum"
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