Zywa

Zywa Via Via

Via Via I do approximately know who I am
someone among all the people

who keep the city alive
and show me my soul
We feed each other, therefore eat
each other as one body
mankind, hungry to live
approximately knowing who we are
among each other and the rest
on our long way
up, down
and around

The goals I had, lost
and not missed, lost
in ubuntu

Poem 1744
Amsterdam, 2018-05-02
I went the long way (Hildegard Knef) - 1974
A Via Via café
Bantu = people; munu/muntu = man
Ubuntu = becoming and being human through others, being one, I am because we are
Song "Ich bin den weiten Weg gegangen" (Hildegard Knef)
Collection: The drama
Keyword: Together: connected
Tribute to: Knef, Hildegard

Zywa Lying in you

Lie in you
let me lie in you
lie in your body
as long as we wish, as long
as we want to

Not loose, not apart
when I think of that
I fall
to pieces
in my own arms, afraid

to reach out my hand
in bed in the middle of the night
and wake up forever
without you, without your
eyes and mouth

Poem 1693
Amsterdam, 2018-02-26
Hold me / In my sleep I reach out my hand (Hildegard Knef) - 1970
Songs "Halt mich fest" (1967, lyrics and vocals Hildegard Knef, music Hans Hammerschmid) and "Im Schlaf strecke ich meine Hand aus" (1970, lyrics and vocals Hildegard Knef, music Hermann Thieme)
Collection: More
Keyword: Love: intimacy (physical)
Tribute to: Knef, Hildegard

Zywa 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
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2000-2009
Keyword: Melancholy (nostalgia)
Tribute to: Knef, Hildegard

I cannot conceive

the years of killing at all --

Is that a good thing?



Ik begrijp het niet,	Ich fasse es nicht,
de jaren van het moorden --	die Jahre der Ermordung --

Is dat maar goed ook?	Ist das gut für mich?

Poem S2634
Amsterdam, 2025-04-11
The murderers are among us (Wolfgang Staudte) - 1946
Film "Die Mörder sind unter uns" - Hildegard Knef as Susanne Wallner
Novel "An Artist of the Floating World" (1986, Kazuo Ishiguro), chapter 'October 1948' - "Brave young men die for stupid causes, and the real culprits are still with us"
Collection: May the Might
Keyword: Power: murder / annihilation
Tribute to: Staudte, Wolfgang; Knef, Hildegard

Hildegard Knef
Beek (Berg en Dal), 1970-03-10
Gloss paint on cardboard
Collection:
Keywords: , Sleeve
Tribute to: Knef, Hildegard

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