Batt, Mike

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Broussolle, Jean

I sing Love Yes, that's love: A stranger passes by the earth stops turning so that I meet you Yes, that's love! It is nothing bringing me in heaven A glance, a shudder stopping the rain, because love has finally come A glance, a flash, a kiss making the sun shine so that we can cry from joy and happiness and certainly would die if it stops Yes, both of us may die from happiness, or keep on singing to each other for hours you for me and I for you just for you:      I love you, I love, I love      you, forever, ever      will I love you      So kiss me, kiss me      forever ever! Love, love that passes as amorous love always does so that I soon, just one day or two later, want to start anew to sing:      I love you, I love, I love      you, forever, ever      will I love you      So kiss me, kiss me      forever ever!

Poem 4273
Amsterdam, 2021-12-30
That is Love (Jean Broussolle) - 1959
Translation of the song "C'est ça l'amore" ("That is Love"), 1959, Jean Broussolle, which is a free translation of the song "I sing Ammore" ("I sing Love"), 1959, Giorgio Calabrese
Keyword: In love:  

Browning, Robert

I'm just telling you I now pull back the curtain to show you this painting as a very special exception - my wife, she died young Since her death she only smiles at me, you can see it So sweet, passionately, she looks Her eyes seem to be thirsty also for the painter that is quite clear She was always very happy to see others Everything and everyone charmed her and received her gratitude What difference could I make? And it got worse and worse I had to restrain her and then all smiles stopped Now only in this painting Only as a painting

Poem 5631
Amsterdam, 2025-03-16
My Last Duchess (Robert Browning) - 1842
Poem (/"Italy", collection "Dramatic Lyrics")
Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, is a widower. His wife Lucrezia di Cosimo de' Medici died three years ago. He married her in 1558, when she was thirteen, and abandoned her in 1559. In 1564 he negotiates with Nikolaus Madruz, the envoy of the Count of Tyrol, for the marriage of Barbara, the eighth daughter of Emperor Ferdinand I.
Keyword: Disfavour / Jealousy / Envy 

Calabrese, Giorgio

I sing Love Yes, that's love: A stranger passes by the earth stops turning so that I meet you Yes, that's love! It is nothing bringing me in heaven A glance, a shudder stopping the rain, because love has finally come A glance, a flash, a kiss making the sun shine so that we can cry from joy and happiness and certainly would die if it stops Yes, both of us may die from happiness, or keep on singing to each other for hours you for me and I for you just for you:      I love you, I love, I love      you, forever, ever      will I love you      So kiss me, kiss me      forever ever! Love, love that passes as amorous love always does so that I soon, just one day or two later, want to start anew to sing:      I love you, I love, I love      you, forever, ever      will I love you      So kiss me, kiss me      forever ever!

Poem 4273
Amsterdam, 2021-12-30
That is Love (Jean Broussolle) - 1959
Translation of the song "C'est ça l'amore" ("That is Love"), 1959, Jean Broussolle, which is a free translation of the song "I sing Ammore" ("I sing Love"), 1959, Giorgio Calabrese
Keyword: In love:  

Cisneros, Sandra

Shoes The publication of this poem has not yet been authorised by the owner of the copyright on the original text

Poem 4735
Amsterdam, 2022-10-18
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros) - 1984
Book, chapter "The Family of Little Feet"
Keyword: Teenager (growing up) 

Hips The publication of this poem has not yet been authorised by the owner of the copyright on the original text

Poem 4740
Amsterdam, 2022-10-20
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros) - 1984
Book, chapter "Hips"
Keyword: Pregnancy 

Beautiful and cruel The publication of this poem has not yet been authorised by the owner of the copyright on the original text

Poem 4742
Amsterdam, 2022-10-20
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros) - 1984
Book, chapter "Beautiful & Cruel"
Keyword: Womanly 

Red Clowns The publication of this poem has not yet been authorised by the owner of the copyright on the original text

Poem 4744
Amsterdam, 2022-10-20
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros) - 1984
Book, chapter "Red Clowns"
Keyword: Abuse (group / war) 

Free-spirited The publication of this poem has not yet been authorised by the owner of the copyright on the original text

Poem 4747
Amsterdam, 2022-10-22
Loose woman (Sandra Cisneros) - 1994
Poem, recording 1995
Keyword: Womanly 

Cohen, Leonard

Dance me Dance with me, dance me into your life, out of the night whisper, many dreams I waited for this day, please stay with me in love and sorrow, in the dark and in the light: dance me where your love makes way Dance me to your body when the witnesses have gone let's make love behind a curtain of togetherness overload my arms with the attention that I miss: dance me where your love goes on Dance me to your skin until I know it blindly dance through my panic and my madness, be my safety give a broader meaning to my day: dance me where our love may play Dance me to new feelings that I never shall forget dance me to the children who are not existing yet make the common days fascinating life events: dance me where your love makes friends Dance with me, dance me into your life, out of the night whisper, many dreams I waited for this day, please stay with me in love and sorrow, in the dark and in the light: dance me where your love makes way

Poem 1820
Amsterdam, 2018-08-27
Dance me to the end of love (Leonard Cohen) - 1984
Song (album "Various positions")
Keyword: Desire (craving, lust) 

Dickinson, Emily

Hazy thought [1] Today a thought occurred to me that I've had before - once but I did not finish it then (I can't figure out the year) Why it was there again what exactly it meant then and where it went I still don't know My soul only realizes that I met it before She reminded me that is all It didn't come any closer

Poem 2519
Amsterdam, 2019-11-29
A thought went up my mind today (Emily Dickinson) - 1863
Poem
Keyword: Memory: of one's life 

García Lorca, Federico

Little waltz in Vienna There are ten of those girls in Vienna a shoulder on which you see Death have his cry there's a shred of the morning emitting a sigh in a cornerstone of the museum of frost and a park where stuffed pigeons get lost           oh, oh, oh, oh! cherish this taciturn waltz in your arms Little waltz, little waltz, little waltz of itself, of our death, and of cognac in its own pace it moistens the back of its tail in the sea I want you, I want you, I want you the armchair, the Book of the Dead and go through the discouraging hallway to tumble and bolt quickly up to the loft with its lilies of gold in our bed of the moon's shrouded beam and the dance of which tortoises only can dream           oh, oh, oh, oh! keep whirling this waltz with its ruptured intestines There are four halls of mirrors to see in Vienna where your voice and the echoes can play and a death for piano with brushes is stroking blue paint on the boys on the roof tiles the beggars are warming themselves at tears fresh from the garlands of mercy           oh, oh, oh, oh! keep whirling this waltz that dies out in my arms For I want you, I want you, my love in the attic where children are knights I keep dreaming of classic Hungarian lights in the sultry excitement at the end of the day I am looking at snowy white lilies and sheep that so quietly lie on your forehead to sleep           oh, oh, oh, oh! keep whirling this waltz, I'll embrace you forever With you I will dance, I will dance in Vienna a river wells up from my mask of mascara: its banks are grown over with hyacinths! There I will leave my sweet mouth with your thighs and my soul in the photos and flowery labyrinths darling, my darling, it's time, I give in so I'll leave in the darkness of rollers emerging your footprints the grave of the waltz with the ribbons and my violin

Poem 870
Amsterdam, 2016-12-05
Little Viennese waltz (Federico García Lorca) - 1930
Poem "Pequeño vals Vienés"
Keyword: Goodbye: ritual 

Garfunkel, Art

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Glück, Louise

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Herzog, Werner

Stomping disquiet Unrest. Lotte is ill I grab my backpack my compass and some clothes put on my boots, a jacket and I'm out of doors On my way to Lotte Being alone with myself As long as I'm on the road she will live she will not die She's not going to die, it mustn't be She's not going to die, she's not going to die No, no, not now, not yet It's not the time yet She mustn't, she won't My steps stomp The earth shakes Where I go, a bison rumbles Where I rest, a mountain rests When I'm there, she'll be alive

Poem 5079
Amsterdam, 2023-02-02
Walking in Ice (Werner Herzog) - 1978
Journey book "Vom Gehen im Eis", walking from München to Lotte Eisner in Paris, November 23^rd to December 14^th, 1974
Keyword: Body: and mind 

Holmes, Jake

So, goodbye then There is no good ending The sun goes down without colouring heaven No birds, no music I don't even cry just say: so, goodbye then It sounds so easy but I look away and wait until it's over When did you slip away from me? When did we stop talking about what we don't understand and gradually didn't know about each other anymore not each other's anymore?

Poem 4553
Amsterdam, 2022-06-24
(Album) Watertown (Jake Holmes, Frank Sinatra) - 1970
Songs "Goodbye (She Quietly Says)" and "The Train" (album "Watertown", lyrics Jake Holmes, sung by Frank Sinatra)
Keyword: Goodbye: discomfort 

Where you have been It takes a while before it will be over with room for someone else For now it is too empty where you have always been People soon forget that when we have a chat and laugh at something small Your mother is great She does what she can do so without a man You know the drill the neighbour mows the lawn He's really old time and again he asks where you have gone But if I had known it beforehand I would just as well have been in love just as well be that woman still in love with you

Poem 4555
Amsterdam, 2022-06-24
(Album) Watertown (Jake Holmes, Frank Sinatra) - 1970
Songs "For a While", "Michael & Peter" and "I Would Be in Love (Anyway)" (album "Watertown", lyrics Jake Holmes, sung by Frank Sinatra)
Keyword: Goodbye: gradual 

Knef, Hildegard

Smelling how it was Dear old apple tree tender snow-white dream precious memory spring is sweet tonight being brought to me in the fading light the world was young      The earth turns day by day      life is going fast      another April, another May      I walk the ancient track      and everything comes back      so it's already over      and that may set us free Dear old apple tree snow-white blossom sea with the swing that sighs and the butterflies lying in the grass smelling how it was when the blackbird sang the world was young

Poem 1695
Amsterdam, 2018-02-27
The world was young / The apple tree (Hildegard Knef) - 1964
Song "Die Welt war jung" / "Der Apfelbaum" (1964, Max Colpet), redrafting of "Le chevalier de Paris" (1950, Angèle Marie Thérèse Vannier), sung by Hildegard Knef
Keyword: Melancholy (nostalgia) 

Lorde, Audre

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Marsman, Lieke

Europa 2022 Fear without thoughts, the mind goes like a pack-mule into the scorched earth -- there's nothing to cogitate on now. Irreversible facts around us. Hope is an alchemist: the densest stone unseals it. As out of an egg: a small feather pack, still bloodied, frail. The first resistance becomes the loudest protest. A new world is possible.

Poem 4590
Amsterdam, 2022-07-19
Europa 2022 (Lieke Marsman) - 2022
Poem by Lieke Marsman (February 24th, 2022, Russia invades Ukraine)
Translation competition "Nederland vertaalt" ("The Netherlands translates") in the context of the "European Day of Languages" (September 26th, 2022)
Keyword: War: fight/resistance/guerrilla 

Mistinguett

Poem 
Amsterdam, 2025-03-23
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Mitchell, Joni

Poem 
Amsterdam, 2022-09-16
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Hawai'i Paradise is paved, everywhere you can park in front of the door now Pink walls and plastic flowers: places where people like to be Isn't it a shame that only afterwards you open your eyes for what you had? Paradise is paved, everywhere you can park in front of the door now All trees are saved, come, have a look in the greenhouses of the museum! It is not expensive to see them all and you get bees and butterflies too! There are greenhouses everywhere, no spots on the apples, they won't even get brown But last night the door slammed shut and my beloved left in a big taxi

Poem 4662
Amsterdam, 2022-09-12
Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) - 1970
Song (album "Ladies of the Canyon")
Keyword: Paradise 

Back in the garden I met someone and asked Where are you going? Something special? There's a large field over there where I will sing to free my soul People are golden, star dust in the large, large field - finally back in the garden Oh, can I come with you? Out of the smog! We just spin around in mists without a view but very perhaps something changes in time, or in me The army no longer throws bombs but food and drinks on all the hungry people without money, devilish money - finally back in the garden

Poem 4664
Amsterdam, 2022-09-12
Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) - 1970
Song (album "Ladies of the Canyon")
Keyword: Peace: wish 

Oliver, Mary

Cold shivers in the morning The publication of this poem has not yet been authorised by the owner of the copyright on the original text

Poem 5102
Amsterdam, 2023-03-17
Every Morning (Mary Oliver) - 1986
Poem (in Poetry Magazine, March 1986, and in the collection "Dream Work")
Keyword: War: death / victims 

Pravi, Barbara

Here I am Listen to me, as half as I am Talk to me, talk about me to your loved ones, to your friends Talk! about my big eyes, my crazy dreams And I, what I want, is lots of things to tell you, to touch you Yeah, that's it      Here, this is who I am      Here I stand, naked in front of you, yes      I am afraid      Here I stand, silent in the fuss Look at me, look at least to what's left of me Look at me, before I hate myself What can I tell you that no one else would tell you? Just a few things, but it's me, who I am, I offer you all I have, here you go      Here, this is who I am      as naked as I stand here      there is nothing more      This is my mouth, my cry      okay, this is me      Here, here, here I am I      my dreams, my desires      the way I expose myself, the way I smile      Here I stand, silent in the fuss Don't leave, please, stay for a long time even if it won't save me, no but without you I don't know how Love me like you love a friend who is leaving forever I want you to love me because I don't know that well how I should love my half me      Here, this is who I am      as naked as I stand here      there is nothing more      Here I stand in the fuss and in the storm      Please look at me      to my eyes and my hands      This is all I have to offer      my mouth, my cry      Here I am, here I am, here      here, here      here, here

Poem 4276
Amsterdam, 2021-12-31
Here I am (Barbara Pravi) - 2021
Free translation of the song "Voilà" ("Here I am", 2021, Barbara Pravi)
Keyword: Attention: exist 
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 

Rea, Chris

Exit to hell There's a woman in the verge of the highway, I know her She looks like me, like the face next to me in the side window She comes closer and bends forward to my indicator I break a sweat in the dark behind my steering wheel My boy, what are you doing here? I turn over in my grave of all my worries about you Mama, I'm going to work hard and then I'll get rich Oh boy, don't you know? This is the road to hell On your journey through barren poverty from the desert to the source you got lost, you turned off to hell

Poem 4680
Amsterdam, 2022-09-19
The Road to Hell - Part 1 (Chris Rea) - 1989
Song (album "The Road to Hell")
Keyword: Life: environment 

Gateway to hell The river is full, it is not dry although it does not flow, it just boils bubbling of all conceivable poisons It can be seen day and night yet the light of joy is extinguished in darkness People are more afraid than they want to admit and the threat of violence has broken them of laughing Common sense rings the alarm bell: this is not a technological error no, this is the gateway to hell The believe in a happy ending jams the roads, you can't do anything about the piles of paper plans Look out what happens to the world please pay attention to where this goes before it's too late This is not a way forward, no no this is a road, really a road a road to hell

Poem 4682
Amsterdam, 2022-09-19
The Road to Hell - Part 2 (Chris Rea) - 1989
Song (album "The Road to Hell")
Keyword: Life: environment 

Sinatra, Frank

So, goodbye then There is no good ending The sun goes down without colouring heaven No birds, no music I don't even cry just say: so, goodbye then It sounds so easy but I look away and wait until it's over When did you slip away from me? When did we stop talking about what we don't understand and gradually didn't know about each other anymore not each other's anymore?

Poem 4553
Amsterdam, 2022-06-24
(Album) Watertown (Jake Holmes, Frank Sinatra) - 1970
Songs "Goodbye (She Quietly Says)" and "The Train" (album "Watertown", lyrics Jake Holmes, sung by Frank Sinatra)
Keyword: Goodbye: discomfort 

Where you have been It takes a while before it will be over with room for someone else For now it is too empty where you have always been People soon forget that when we have a chat and laugh at something small Your mother is great She does what she can do so without a man You know the drill the neighbour mows the lawn He's really old time and again he asks where you have gone But if I had known it beforehand I would just as well have been in love just as well be that woman still in love with you

Poem 4555
Amsterdam, 2022-06-24
(Album) Watertown (Jake Holmes, Frank Sinatra) - 1970
Songs "For a While", "Michael & Peter" and "I Would Be in Love (Anyway)" (album "Watertown", lyrics Jake Holmes, sung by Frank Sinatra)
Keyword: Goodbye: gradual 

The Mothers of Invention

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Van Leeuwen, Joke

Glueing The publication of this poem has not yet been authorised by the owner of the copyright on the original text

Poem 1803
Amsterdam, 2018-08-06
Glueing (Joke van Leeuwen) - 2000
Poem "Lijmen" (collection "Ozo heppie en andere versjes")
Keyword: Fantasy: playing 
Dedicated to: Lotte W 

Van Ostaijen, Paul

Melic The long river shifts under the moon The moon shifts wearily over the long river On the long river under the moon, the canoe shifts to the sea Past the highreeds past the lowgraze the canoe shifts to the sea the canoe shifts with the shifting moon to the sea So they are companions to the sea the canoe the moon and the man Why are the moon and the man shifting so yieldingly to the sea

Poem 2265
Amsterdam, 2019-06-14
Melic song - 1925
Poem "Melopee" (read for the first time on September 3^rd, 1925 by Paul van Ostaijen, published in the collection "Nagelaten gedichten")
Melos = lyrical song (sung words), ballad
Keyword: Calm: space 

Marc greets things in the morning   Hi boy with the bike on the vase full of bloom ploom ploom hi chair by the table hi bread on the table hi fisherman-fish with the pipe and hi fisherman-fish with the cap cap and pipe of the fisherman-fish hi hi   Hi-i fish hi sweet fish hi little fishy mine

Poem 2266
Amsterdam, 2019-06-14
Marc greets things in the morning (Paul van Ostaijen) - 1928
Poem "Marc groet 's morgens de dingen" (collection "Nagelaten gedichten")
Keyword: Life: lust (enthusiasm) 

Willemetz, Albert

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Amsterdam, 2025-03-23
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Williams, William Carlos

The Great Falls in Paterson (NJ) The fall draws me          as the view drew me                    along many landscapes                             and what I experienced                                       and learned along the way                                                opened up many avenues to new plans          new places, and                    new people                             new opportunities with                                       new insights                                                and new acceptance I remember everything          even more intense than it was                    brighter than in the full sun                             purer is my love                                       purer are my choices                                                purer my desires in the final fall                    with less pleasure                                       and less expectation and what I did not achieve          did not get and                    could not prevent                             dissolves in the sea                                       of eternity                                                fall after fall

Poem 5084
Amsterdam, 2023-02-27
The Descent (William Carlos Williams) - 1948
Poem "The Descent" in: "Paterson", Book Two, Section 3 (1948, William Carlos Williams)
Keywords: Lifestream (follow), Memory: of one's life 

Zappa, Frank

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