The knighthood gives me

the assignment: go now, and --


choose a route yourself.


De ridderslag geeftDer Ritterschlag gibt
me de opdracht: ga op weg --mir den Auftrag: gehe und --

kies zelf een route.wähle einen Weg.

Poem H5902
Amsterdam, 2025-08-29
It was a mission: I had to go on alone (Frida Vogels) - 1994
Poem "Het was een opdracht: alleen moest ik verder gaan", published in "Diary 1974-1976" (2013) - April 28th, 1974, Amsterdam
Collection: Overwritten
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 

Zywa A new past

When waking up
from my sleeplessness
I am tired

of the task
to create
a new past
anyhow

grafted onto
who I have been
with a family
and a mother
who knew me

to create
a second life
under a sun
bright enough

to warm me
and bleach
the shadows

Poem 5647
Amsterdam, 2025-06-16
Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski) - 1993
Film "Trois couleurs: Bleu" - Liberté (Liberty)
Collection: New Ago
 

Great alternatives

to get off to a good start --


better ones than me.


AlternatievenAlternativen
genoeg voor een goed begin --für einen guten Anfang --

betere dan ik.bessere als ich.

Poem H3907
Amsterdam, 2023-06-30
The good start (Jan Baeke) - 2013
Poem "Het goede begin" (collection "Het tankstation op de route")
Collection: Over
Tribute to: Baeke, Jan 
 

First I got the last

sentence: And then it began --


to snow all the time.


De laatste zin hadDen letzten Satz hab
ik al: En toen begon het --ich schon: Und dann fing es an --

zachtjes te sneeuwen.ganz leicht zu schneien.

Poem H3809
Amsterdam, 2023-05-05
My Adventures by V.Swchwrm (Toon Tellegen) - 1998
Children's book "Mijn avonturen door V.Swchwrm", page 7
Collection: Perhaps / Some day / Occasionally / Almost
Tribute to: Tellegen, Toon 
 

When it's the first time,

skating, dating, comforting --


Too bad! You are stiff!


Iets voor het eerst doen,Jedes erste Mal,
schaatsen, uitgaan, of troosten --eislaufen, ein Date, trösten --

Jammer! Je bent stijf!Schade! Du bist steif!

Poem H3160
Amsterdam, 2021-12-27
Tension
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début
Dedicated to: Ellen H 
 

Zywa Deep pause

I am that woman
who takes a few steps and then
stands still in the wind
on her face, my skin

feels the world
new, the cherry trees
this walk to the store
on the corner around the corner

cars parked next to the sidewalk
are so much more than the view
of the windows all around, the gardens
chimneys and clouds, the wind

on my face, my heart
touched, pounding
in my throat, three times
I take a deep breath, only then

do I walk along the traffic
away from the cherry trees
to the store on the corner
around the corner

Poem 3361
Amsterdam, 2021-01-13
Collection: New Ago
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

My first steps outside,

a wide footway, in my head --


festoons everywhere!


Mijn eerste stappen,Ich gehe wieder
een brede stoep, in mijn hoofd --nach draußen, in meinem Kopf --

overal slingers!gibt es Girlanden!

Poem H2879
Amsterdam, 2020-12-31
Rehabilitation
Collection: New Ago
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

I've nothing to lose,

everything can still be fine:


isn't that a good start!


Niets te verliezen,Nichts zu verlieren,
alles valt nog te redden:es kann noch zurecht kommen:

wat een goed begin!so ein guter Start!

Poem H2671
Amsterdam, 2020-02-17
a good start (Bernd Ebbo Visser) - 2007
Poem "een goed begin" (collection "Overvloed blaakt")
Collection: Germ Substance
Tribute to: Visser, Bernd Ebbo 
 

I'm starting anew,

taking shoots of my life: green --


that I'll pass around.


Ik begin opnieuwIch fange neu an,
mijn leven te stekken: groen --gewinne Stecklinge: Grün --

om uit te delen.das ich verteile.

Poem H2562
Amsterdam, 2019-09-01
Health Care Centre of Our Lady, location East, ward B8
Collection: On living on [2]
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa I have finished my work

I have finished my work
Of course it was not ready
but I'm going

to start something new
Bye colleagues, bye rooms
I had a dream last night

The spruces loosened lightly
from their roots, green cones
rose in the stirred up dust

They did not fly away
but tilted and stayed
hanging upside down

a row of tree corpses
Their waving branches
darken the light

Nobody knew what to do
The same as before?
Or eat something

something tasty, maybe
it will be the last time
The sky darkens

The fish do not bite
Shall we take off our clothes?
There is no time left

to get to know each other
I have finished my work
It would never be ready anyway

Poem 1832
Amsterdam, 2018-09-03
300 el x 50 el x 30 el (FC Bergman) - 2011
Staging of the theatre piece, performed today in the Amsterdam Municipal Theatre
Collection: Migration
Tribute to: FC Bergman 
 

Resigned: cut off,

I plant myself in the soil --


to flower once more.


Ontslag: afgekniptKündigung, mich auf
poot ik me bloot in de grond --anderem Boden pflanzen --

voor een nieuwe bloei.für neue Blüte.

Poem H2203
Scheveningen, 2018-06-19
A Frisian does not cry (Gerrit Krol) - 1980
Novel "Een Fries huilt niet", chapter 11.1 and 11.2
Collection: Germ Substance
Tribute to: Krol, Gerrit 
 

Zywa Reborn

The boxes
the room with the boxes
the stuff and papers
from before, I avoid them

I don't tolerate the dust myself
and to others I give no access
hopefully it will ever be burned
unseen with appropriate respect

I don't want to know
if I still would know
the names of my boyfriends
I have a husband

we sleep in two houses
three if I had wished so
and I just leave it that way
one shouldn't exaggerate romance

it's important to bite through
not repeat old mistakes
be mature enough
for a new life

Poem 1170
Amsterdam, 2017-03-09
Collection: Heart's Delight
 

Nevermore any

old language slime, nevermore --


speechless silence. Start!


Nooit meer oud taalslijm,Nie wieder alter
geen lege stilte, nooit meer --Sprachschleim, nie wieder leere --

sprakeloos. Begin!Stille. Beginne!

Poem S0460
Amsterdam, 2017-01-13
Speechless (Tom Lanoye) - 2009
Novel "Sprakeloos" - The ending of de novel
Collection: WriteWiser signage
Tribute to: Lanoye, Tom 
 

Only in the stench

of each other there's a chance --


to make a new start.


Alleen in elkaar,Nur im Gestank des
in elkaars stank, kunnen we --anderen können wir noch-

opnieuw beginnen.mal neu anfangen.

Poem H1483
Amsterdam, 2016-08-27
Land of grace and sadness - 9 (Antjie Krog) - 2000
Poem "Land van genade en verdriet" (collection "Kleur kom nooit alleen nie")
Collection: WriteWiser signage
Tribute to: Krog, Antjie 
 

Judgements
are a transition
Judgements
I too am making a new beginning

I have been reborn:
I come into a next stage of life
I'm changing in relation to my environment
I do not want to remain the same
 

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