Zywa Metamorphosis

Those who haven't seen me in years
have missed the gradual transition
like mad people have forgotten their past
and continue to live as someone else

Plenty of witnesses, all
with different explanations
of who I was, what I did then
and how that was possible

What do you think, do I still
have the cheeks of a young god
and am I also the faces I pull
and the man you don't see?

Do you have to be a Vanessa - a
butterfly who knows transformation -
to have an eye for life-
long-lasting metamorphoses?

Gedicht 5607
Amsterdam, 2025-02-17
Metamorphosis One/Two/Three/Four/Five (Philip Glass) - 1988
Metamorphosis = shapeshifting, transformation
Compositions "Metamorphosis One/Two/Three/Four/Five" for piano (1988, Philip Glass)
Vanessa is the name of a genus of butterflies
(In advance) For Florentin W's birthday

Collection: The Yellow House Museum
Keyword: Change: process 
Composer: Glass, Philip 
Dedicated to: Florentin dK 

The alarm lights beep,

and we see: our turbo lives --


are falling apart.


De lampjes piepen,Die Lichter piepen,
we zien ons turboleven --unser Turbo-Leben fällt --
uit elkaar vallen.schon auseinander.

Gedicht S1976
Amsterdam, 2023-10-24
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio /Philip Glass) - 1982
Film, edited to the music composed for it by Philip Glass
Ko Yaa Nis Qatsi = Crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance, a state of life that calls for another way of living

Collection: Mosaic virus
Keyword: Decay 
Tribute to: Reggio, Godfrey 
Composer: Glass, Philip 

Busy people have

to watch at high and slow speed --


to see who they are.


De drukke mens moetDer Mensch muss schneller
versneld en vertraagd kijken --und langsamer schauen, um --
om zichzelf te zien.sich selbst zu sehen.

Gedicht S1975
Amsterdam, 2023-10-24
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio /Philip Glass) - 1982
Film, edited to the music composed for it by Philip Glass
Collection: Mosaic virus
Keyword: Awareness: volatile / fragments 
Tribute to: Reggio, Godfrey 
Composer: Glass, Philip 

Zywa Evenings are obligatory

Evenings are obligatory

if possible with love
to push the bustle out
of our day head

Like couples at the weekend
in the evening in the park
leaning against each other

folding their hands
in the hands of the other
in the light of the moon

There's nothing to add to their hearts
although she eventually asks him
kiss me

Gedicht 807
Amsterdam, 2016-10-17
Two lovers on a park bench (Samuel Johnson /Philip Glass) - 1976
After: "Two lovers on a park bench" (1976, Samuel Johnson) - from: "Einstein on the beach" (1976, Philip Glass)
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début
Keyword: In love:  
Tribute to: Johnson, Samuel 
Composer: Glass, Philip 

Zywa Train

Holiday on sandals
counting my steps
in the soft sand
along the bay

one two three four
one two three four
one two three four five six
seven eight

from fingers to abacus and further
to formulas and then their simplification
E = mc2
two three four one

two three four
one two
one two three
one two three three

the shifting sound
of voices and waves
crystal clear on the beach
34 years later

Gedicht 798
Amsterdam, 2016-09-30
Einstein on the beach (Philip Glass)
Dual Synthesis (Tristan Perich)
- 1976

Albert Einstein, Long Island Sound 1939

Dual Synthesis (2009/2011, Tristan Perich, for harpsichord and electronica, performed in the Organparc on September 30th, 2016)
Einstein on the beach (1976, Philip Glass, in part performed by the Attacca Ensemble in the Organparc on October 11th, 2009)

Collection: ORG anp ark 
Keyword: Music: dance, rhythm 
Composers: Glass, Philip; Perich, Tristan 

Zywa Chill winter mist

I walk alone through the country
where they murdered my mother
incited by the political valets
of big business, our country

     which shapes my thoughts
     and hides my longing body
     and your longing body
     under collective fear

          which is still held hostage
          by the many-headed dragon of
          the arrogant screamers who drive
          us into war in their interests

               which leaves me standing alone
               next to the barracks and the new
               golf course of the businessmen, I call
               upon all the wise men, saints and angels

                    in the midst of the whirlwind
                    of suffering that does not exist
                    in the mouths of the spokesmen -
                    made invisible by their breath

Gedicht 5613
Amsterdam, 2025-02-24
Wichita Vortex Sutra (Allen Ginsberg) - 1966
Poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra" (collection "Planet News", 1968)
Philip Glass composed accompanying piano music in 1988

Collection: PumicePieces
Keyword: War: protest 
Tribute to: Ginsberg, Allen 
Composer: Glass, Philip 

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