The Sorbonne does

a quick body-check before --


I can study there.


De Sorbonne keurtParis: ärztliche
eerst mijn lichaam voordat ik --Untersuchung, bevor ich --

er mag studeren.dort studieren darf.

Poem H5653
Amsterdam, 2025-06-30
In foreign parts - Chronicles (Frida Vogels) - 2024
Autobiography "In den vreemde - Kronieken", chapter 'Een oefening in weldadigheid' (An exercise in charity) - Paris, 1952
Collection: ThereFrom
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 

Later you see in

the childhood photo that he --


is as you know him.


Op de jeugdfotoSpäter siehst du auf
zie je later dat hij is --dem Kinderfoto, er ist --

zoals je hem kent.so, wie du ihn kennst.

Poem H5652
Amsterdam, 2025-06-29
With a photo of Pieter, 13 years old (1975, Beek [Berg en Dal])

Pieter

Collection: The Yellow House Museum
Dedicated to: Lotte W 
 

I didn't feel any

pain, but now I see some blood --


on my upper leg.


Ik heb er niets vanIch hab nichts gespürt,
gevoeld, maar zie nu wel bloed --aber jetzt sehe ich Blut --

op mijn bovenbeen.an meinen Beinen.

Poem S2730
Amsterdam, 2025-06-22
Underland (Alma Mathijsen) - 2024
Novel "Onderland", second chapter
Collection: Truder
Tribute to: Mathijsen, Alma 
 

My body isn't mine

anymore since he took it --


Not of importance.


Sinds hij mijn lichaamEr nahm mich, meinen
nam is het niet meer van mij --Körper gehört mir nicht mehr --

Niet meer van belang.Er ist unwichtig.

Poem S2731
Amsterdam, 2025-06-22
Underland (Alma Mathijsen) - 2024
Novel "Onderland", chapter John
Collection: Truder
Tribute to: Mathijsen, Alma 
 

She keeps repeating

her instruction: you must say --


it's not real. Not real!


Ze instrueert mijSie weist mich immer
keer op keer: je moet zeggen --wieder an: du musst sagen --

dat het niet echt is.dass es nicht echt ist.

Poem S2735
Amsterdam, 2025-06-22
Underland (Alma Mathijsen) - 2024
Novel "Onderland", chapter Mandy
Collection: Truder
Tribute to: Mathijsen, Alma 
 

Love and passion die

with my body: who then is --


my eternal soul?


Liefde en hartstochtLiebe, Leidenschaft,
sterven met mijn lichaam: wie --stirbt mit meinem Körper: wer --

ben ik dan als ziel?bin ich als Seele?

Poem S2718
Amsterdam, 2025-06-14
Life goes by (Iacopo Cassetti / Antonio Vivaldi) - 1716
Air "Transit aetas" from the oratorio "Juditha triumphans" ("Judith triumphant", RV 644), 2nd part - Judith
Collection: Unseen
Tribute to: Cassetti, Iacopo 
Composer: Vivaldi, Antonio 
 

Both my inner sides

are filling up: tumour cells --


and thoughts full of life.


Mijn binnenkantenMein Inneres füllt
vullen zich: woekercellen --sich doppelt: Geschwulstzellen,

en leefgedachten.Lebensgedanken.

Poem H5333
Amsterdam, 2025-03-20
Collection: On living on [1]
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Curfew, everyone

must live in their own capsule --


away from the earth.


Spertijd, iedereenSperrzeit, jeder in
in een eigen capsule --seiner eigenen Kapsel --

los van de aarde.weg von der Erde.

Poem S2599
Amsterdam, 2025-03-15
Lockdown measures due to Covid-19, 5 years ago
Collection: Blown sand
 

In the space station

I am weightless, almost all --


I am is my brain.


In het ruimteschipIn der Raumstation
ben ik gewichtloos, bijna --bin ich schwerelos, bin ich --

alleen nog mijn brein.fast nur mein Gehirn.

Poem S2600
Amsterdam, 2025-03-15
Lockdown measures due to Covid-19, 5 years ago
Astronauts as prototypes of the virtual human

Collection: Blown sand
 

Zywa Rocking in the wonder

By itself I was
myself, the souled
body with my name

Mirrors helped me
as a teenager to see myself
my hair, my nose, my shape

A life later
I split my body
off, more and more

I distance myself
from the defects of
old age and illness

to continue to recognise
myself as who I want
to have become

spiritually safe and free
rocking in the wonder
until I am no more

Poem 5619
Amsterdam, 2025-03-03
The emergence of dualism, the separation of the body and the (supposedly immaterial) mind
Collection: Metamorphic body
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

I'm a little light-

headed, that's not good, although --


floating is lovely.


Al is het niet goedMir ist schwindelig,
dat ik licht in het hoofd ben --was nicht gut ist, obwohl das --

het zweven is fijn.Schweben herrlich ist.

Poem H5213
Amsterdam, 2025-02-03
Collection: Local traffic
 

It is arduous

to carry him, he's heavy --


with his phantom limb.


We dragen hem weg,Wir tragen ihn weg,
het gaat moeizaam, hij is zwaar --es ist mühsam, er ist schwer --

met zijn fantoombeen.mit dem Phantombein.

Poem H5063
Amsterdam, 2024-11-11
The reading club (Renate Dorrestein) - 2010
Roman "De leesclub", chapter Ten
Collection: Local traffic
Tribute to: Dorrestein, Renate 
 

I look at my hand,

indeed, that is my left hand --


very real.. my hand.


Ik bekijk mijn hand,Schau, das ist meine
ja, dat is mijn linkerhand --Hand, ja, meine linke Hand --

dat is echt.. mijn hand.wirklich.. meine Hand.

Poem H4993
Amsterdam, 2024-10-20
Collection: I am
 

Ladies, you know it,

so tell me, are cold and heat --


the symptoms of Love?


Jullie weten het,Ihr wisst es, sag mir,
zeg mij, zijn kou en hitte --sind Kälte und Hitze das --

wat de Liefde is?was die Liebe ist?

Poem H4909
Amsterdam, 2024-09-10
You who know (what love is) (Lorenzo da Ponte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) - 1786
Air "Voi che sapete", opera "Le nozze di Figaro" ("Figaro's wedding"), based on the comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais - Act 2
Collection: Love Mind and Death
Tribute to: Da Ponte, Lorenzo 
Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 
 

Relaxed by the gin

I get up and see the yard --


rotating round me.


Tot rust gekomenEntspannt vom Whiskey
door de whiskey sta ik op --stehe ich auf und sehe:

De tuin gaat draaien.der Garten dreht sich.

Poem S2315
Amsterdam, 2024-08-19
The Sandcastle (Iris Murdoch) - 1957
Novel, chapter Twelve
Collection: Dreams of love
Tribute to: Murdoch, Iris 
 

The pleasant strangeness

of your body, that body --


going its own way.


Het fijne vreemdeDie liebe Fremdheit
van jouw lichaam, dat lichaam --deines Körpers! Er geht ja --

dat maar zijn gang gaat.einfach seinen Weg.

Poem H4199
Amsterdam, 2023-10-09
Collection: Without reserve
 

The fat man, rubbing

his hands, tossing and turning --


odd leaps inside him.


De dikke man wrijftDer dicke Mann reibt
zijn handen, in hem woelen --sich die Hände, da wühlen --

er bokkensprongen.Bocksprünge in ihm.

Poem H4089
Amsterdam, 2023-08-29
The waiter and the living (Simon Vestdijk) - 1949
Novel "De kellner en de levenden", chapter VI. The adventure of Richard Haack
Collection: Inmost [2]
Tribute to: Vestdijk, Simon 
 

My mother exclaimed:

It's a boy, I didn't know that --


until much later.


Mama riep ontroerd:Mama rief berührt:
Het is een jongen, ikzelf --Es ist ein Junge, ich selbst --

wist dat later pas.wusste das noch nicht.

Poem H4082
Amsterdam, 2023-08-27
The spectacles case (Freek de Jonge) - 1990
Book "De brillenkoker"
Collection: Home sea
Tribute to: De Jonge, Freek 
 

I just kept going,

until I fell, exhausted --


lovely exhausted!


Ik bleef maar doorgaan,Ich machte weiter,
tot ik uitgeput omviel --bis ich vor Erschöpfung fiel --

Heerlijk uitgeput!Tolle Erschöpfung!

Poem H4010
Amsterdam, 2023-08-02
The Queen of the Tambourine (Jane Gardam) - 1991
Novel, § March 10th (1990)
Collection: Rasping ants
Tribute to: Gardam, Jane 
 

One day you will learn

everything you pursued was --


never possible.


Later ontdek jeSpäter entdeckt man
alles wat je nastreefde --alles, was man verfolgt hat --

was nooit mogelijk.war niemals möglich.

Poem S1831
Amsterdam, 2023-07-27
For Sheridan (Robert Lowell) - 1977
Poem (collection "Day by Day")
Collection: Thinkles Lusionless
Tribute to: Lowell, Robert 
 

My body gets old,

my mind thinks to be still young --


thinks it is more me.


Mijn lichaam wordt oud,Mein Körper wird alt,
mijn geest denkt nog jong te zijn --mein Geist denkt, er sei noch jung --

denkt meer mij te zijn.denkt, er sei mehr ich.

Poem S1832
Amsterdam, 2023-07-27
Mind-body dualism
The harmony of accepting your own body as it is

Collection: Metamorphic body
 

To calm myself down,

I retire to the bathroom --


and I comb my hair.


Om te kalmerenZur Beruhigung
ga ik naar de badkamer --setzt ich mich hin, und kämme --

en kam ik mijn haar.ich mir die Haare.

Poem H3944
Amsterdam, 2023-07-12
The Good Apprentice (Iris Murdoch) - 1985
Novel, chapter 3, part 14
Collection: Longing and Loss
Tribute to: Murdoch, Iris 
 

How would it feel like

to be a man? I wonder --


as a poetess.


Hoe zou het voelen,Wie fühlt es sich an,
een man te zijn? vraag ik me --ein Mann zu sein? frage ich --

af als dichteres.mich als Dichterin.

Poem H3915
Amsterdam, 2023-07-02
The wrinkles of Esther Ornstein - The history of a neglect (Simon Vestdijk) - 1959
Novel "De rimpels van Esther Ornstein - De geschiedenis van een verzuim", chapter 3-1 (AD 1922)
Collection: Inmost [1]
Tribute to: Vestdijk, Simon 
 

Zywa Falter

Can people still have a discussion with me?
I can confront you
with my falter
That searching, the slow
which I can hardly bear myself
And what do you think of me?

I'm getting smaller, too small
for everything and everyone
I know, more and more
is falling off my world
Dependent on friends
who need me

So nothing seems to have changed
but it's not like that
not the way it was
not what I was worth
I know too well what it is
to endure the day depressed

It may take a long time
that I'm not there for a while
Lost in unreachable thoughts
until I sound again like
I'm doing better
than I'm telling you

Poem 5164
Amsterdam, 2023-05-07
Collection: Greeting from before
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa Scent of wisteria

You say: attention
is the most loving thing
you can give

I answer: carefreeness
is the most loving thing
you can have

It often eludes me
Then I lie awake
because I can't do anything

as long as there are no certainties
no current measurements and slices
for relief or a new plan

I want to try everything
to gain time
exhaust all my strength

adapt
and save who I am
what I'm worth

my head full of purplish blue fragrance
which turns my feelings blue
Blue Bluish blue

Poem 5160
Amsterdam, 2023-05-06
Collection: On living on [1]
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

He's lying there weird,

his body is not sleeping --


it is left behind.


Hij ligt er raar bij,Er liegt komisch da,
zijn lichaam slaapt niet, het is --sein Körper schläft nicht, er wird --

achtergelaten.zurückgelassen.

Poem S1746
Amsterdam, 2023-04-26
I'm not there (Lize Spit) - 2020
Novel "Ik ben er niet", page 267
Collection: Shelter
Tribute to: Spit, Lize 
 

People in the train,

sleeping, so much travel time --


makes the day too long.


Slapende mensenSchlafende Menschen
in de trein, zoveel reistijd --im Zug, so viel Reisezeit --

maakt de dag te lang.macht den Tag zu lang.

Poem S1726
Amsterdam, 2023-04-07
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami) - 2006
Collection of short stories (2006, Haruki Murakami
Animated film (2022, Pierre Földes)

Collection: Local traffic
Tribute to: Murakami, Haruki; Foldes, Pierre 
 

Zywa 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 23rd to December 14th, 1974
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2000-2009 
Tribute to: Herzog, Werner 
 

Zywa My belly

Are you looking at the curve
below my navel, do you want
to expose me there?

     You're reserved
     and won't come any closer
     to my breath, my question

Is something burning inside you
is it blazing, is it smouldering
or should I light it?

     I don't smell you, no scent
     that excites a woman
     in her belly, in her heart

Don't you know what you want
with me, after today?
Can't you be honest

with yourself
and live relaxed
according to your ideals?

Poem 4762
Amsterdam, 2022-10-27
Collection: Eyes lips chest and belly
 

Goose bumps all around

likes to take me, my body --


on my search for you.


Kippenvel rondomEine Gänsehaut
mijn tepels, tandindrukken --rund um meine Brustwarzen --

terwijl ik jou zoek.wie Zahneindrücke.

Poem H3331
Amsterdam, 2022-06-12
Tree N (Peter Verhelst) - 1994
Poem #5 (collection "De boom N")
Collection: After the festivities
Tribute to: Verhelst, Peter 
 

He doesn't want to die,

he's fighting, it is a fight --


of body and mind.


Hij wil niet sterven,Er will nicht sterben,
hij vecht, het is een gevecht --er kämpft, ja, es ist ein Kampf --

van lichaam en geest.von Körper und Geist.

Poem H3038
Overberg, 2021-09-06
Bruno's Dream (Iris Murdoch) - 1969
Novel
Collection: Dreams of love
Tribute to: Murdoch, Iris 
 

Well, I learned a lot,

also from the library --


that my body is.


Ik heb veel geleerd,Ich hab viel gelernt,
ook uit de bibliotheek --auch aus der Bibliothek --

die mijn lichaam is.die mein Körper ist.

Poem H3006
Amsterdam, 2021-08-11
The immaculate (Erwin Mortier) - 2020
Novel "De onbevlekte"
Collection: VacantVoid
Tribute to: Mortier, Erwin 
 

I read your poems

until the lamplight went out --


now I feel the wind.


Ik las gedichtenIch las Gedichte,
totdat het te donker werd --bis es zu dunkel wurde --

nu voel ik de wind.jetzt spür' ich den Wind.

Poem H2795
Amsterdam, 2020-10-08
I had read your scroll of poems by the light of the lamp (Juyi Bai) - 815
After reading poems by Yuan Zhen on a boat trip
Collection: Em Brace
Tribute to: Bai, Juyi 
 

In all my fibres,

completely, to the extreme --


I do feel Zywa.


In al mijn vezels,Bis zum Äußersten,
totaal, tot het uiterste --in jeder meiner Fasern --

voel ik me Zywa.bin ich jetzt Zywa.

Poem H2502
Train Vlissingen-Amsterdam, 2019-06-07
Zywa = alive, vivid
Orgasm

Collection: Take a picture, now
 

Awake, from the cold

next to me, my warmth absorbed --


by the free pillow.


Wakker, van de kouWach, von der Kälte
naast me, het lege kussen --neben mir: dein Kissen, es --

neemt mijn warmte weg.nimmt mir die Wärme.

Poem H2337
Amsterdam, 2018-12-21
Niniveh (Jamaica) is active on PoemHunter.com
Collection: Greeting from before
Dedicated to: Niniveh 
 

Zywa Sanctified body

There must be a sanctuary here
so clear are the bells inviting
me, then here, then there

the ordinary recedes, opening
pieces of heaven, commm commm
commm tolls a big bell

Children dance me in
where the organ exults in light light
A breaker puts down weights

they are also sacred here
He rolls out his voice and builds
ever heavier walls

without the blood in the darkness
of his veins knowing what is happening
and not being able to imagine it

Over there people are dancing arm in arm
closer by the noise ebbs away
in repeated syllable cries

Rumbling in the distance
In the thin atmosphere I whistle
myself a body

Poem 1715
Amsterdam, 2018-04-13
Sanctuary (David Dramm) - 2018
Composition
Collection: ORG anp ark 
Composer: Dramm, David 
 

Life is smelling, it's

tasting, seeing, and being --


able to respond.


Leven is ruiken,Leben ist riechen,
proeven en zien, en weten --und schmecken, und sehen, und --

antwoord te geven.antworten können.

Poem H1967
Amsterdam, 2018-01-10
Collection: web tissue
 

I lie close to him,

my body is a disguise --


I'm a dormant stone.


Vermomd als lichaam.Als Körper getarnt
lig ik dicht tegen hem aan --liege ich ganz dicht an ihm --

een slapende steen.ein schlafender Stein.

Poem S0649
Amsterdam, 2018-01-07
Diary 1968-1969 (Frida Vogels) - 2010
"Dagboek 1968-1969" - February 3rd, 1969, Bologna
Collection: Between us
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 

Our bodies seal it:

to each other, we still have --


remained strangers.


Onze lichamenUnsere Körper
bezegelen het: we zijn --besiegeln: immer noch sind --

vreemden voor elkaar.wir einander fremd.

Poem S0641
Amsterdam, 2018-01-03
Diary 1970-1971 (Frida Vogels) - 2011
"Dagboek 1970-1971" - May 16th, 1970, Urbino [and "Diary 1977-1978" (2014) - May 29th, 1977, Bologna]
Collection: Lookout
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 

Intoxicating,

the tea with rose petals, the --


scent in which I float.


Bedwelmend, de theeBerauschend, der Tee
met rozenblaadjes, de geur --mit Rosenblättern, der Duft --

waarin ik rondzweef.in dem ich schwebe.

Poem H1938
Amsterdam, 2017-12-29
Diary 1977-1978 (Frida Vogels) - 2014
"Dagboek 1977-1978" - December 1st, 1977, Bologna
Collection: Helices
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 

Zywa High eyes

I am a giant, with
superior looks, walking
on high, numb legs

I will not bend my stilts
to reality, I prefer
to let my eyes wander

over digital platforms
rather than barefoot
through reality

There I am safe
floating visibly hidden
above reality

There I am at home
I know the beaten tracks
to my favourite places

I would not want to be small
without overview, getting lost
in reality

Poem 1035
Amsterdam, 2017-02-18
Collection: Changing Times
 

Not one map guides you

to Hopperland Happiness:


in your own body.


Niet één kaart wijst jeKeine Karte zeigt
naar het Hopsaland Geluk:dir das Hopfenland des Glücks:

thuis, in je lichaam.in deinem Körper.

Poem H1584
Amsterdam, 2016-11-01
Tom Puss and The Hoppers (Marten Toonder) - 1974
Comic strip #147 - Tom Poes en De Hopsa's (tiers 8052-8129), tier 8082
Collection: Puss & Lord
Tribute to: Toonder, Marten 
 

Be no burden, dear,

body, let me die calmly --


because I won't die.


Lichaam, wees geen last,Leib, sei keine Last,
laat me rustig sterven, want --lass mich doch ruhig sterben --

sterven zal ik niet.denn ich sterbe nicht.

Poem S0256
Amsterdam, 2014-11-12
I live without living in me (Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada) - 1582
Poem "Vivo sin vivir en mí"
Also expressed in the "Coplas del alma que pena por ver a Dios" ("Verses of the soul that desires God") by Juan de Yepes ('Juan de la Cruz')

Collection: Unseen
Tribute to: Sanchez dCyA, Teresa 
 

Unrest and patience

in my belly, my centre:


brotherly abreast.


Midden in mijn buikUnruh und Geduld
wonen onrust en geduld --sind mitten in meinem Bauch --

broederlijk samen.brüderlich zu zweit.

Poem H0835
Amsterdam, 2014-03-05
The center of the body (Hans Andreus) - 1958
Poem "Het midden van het lichaam" (collection "Zoon van Eros")
Collection: Eyes lips chest and belly
Tribute to: Andreus, Hans 
 

The velvety wind

blows the dust out of my head --


My blood drinks the sun.


De fluwelen windDer samtene Wind
blaast het stof weg uit mijn hoofd --bläst mir den Staub aus dem Kopf --

Mijn bloed drinkt de zon.Die Sonne wärmt mich.

Poem H0325
Texel, 2012-07-20
Collection: WoofWoof
 

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