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
 

The body's dying

process may be realised --


by the fading brain.


Het stervensprocesDer Sterbeprozess
van het lichaam wordt misschien --des Körpers wird vielleicht wohl --

beseft door het brein.vom Gehirn erkannt.

Poem S2289
Amsterdam, 2024-07-28
Frankissstein: a love story (Jeanette Winterson) - 2019
Novel, What terrified me will terrify others
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2010-2019
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

Oh dear, the mother

of all earworms completely --


took over his brain.


Helaas, de moederAuwei, die Mutter
aller oorwurmen nam zijn --aller Ohrwürmer hat sein --

hersenen over.Gehirn annektiert.

Poem S2211
Amsterdam, 2024-06-05
The Ultimate Melody (Arthur C. Clarke) - 1957
Short story
Collection: Human excess
Tribute to: Clarke, Arthur C 
 

We are talking, then

she suddenly sinks into --


a deep thinking hole.


We zijn in gesprekWir reden und dann
en dan zakt ze ineens weg --versinkt sie plötzlich ganz tief --

in een diep denkgat.in einem Denkloch.

Poem H4665
Amsterdam, 2024-05-30
Descent (Lidy van Marissing) - 2008
Poem "Afdaling" (collection "Zoek de lege gebieden")
Collection: Within the walls
Tribute to: Van Marissing, Lidy 
 

Who is a brain boss?

Who balances his thinkles --


and does really know?


Wie is een breinbaas?Wer ist ein Hirnboss?
Wie balanceert zijn denksels --Wer gleicht seine Denkels aus --

en weet werkelijk?und weiß tatsächlich?

Poem H3512
Amsterdam, 2022-10-21
#171 - Sir Bumble and the antiliar (Marten Toonder) - 1982
Comic strip Heer Bommel en de antiloog (tiers 01145-01238), tier 01149
Collection: Puss & Lord
Tribute to: Toonder, Marten 
 

Zywa The first humans

Men are cautious
they rather spurn their chances

than to rely on their noses, but
they can be seduced to take a little bite

if you insist and
have not gotten sick from it yourself

Indeed, it started
with the famous apple, a fig

After the first one he too wanted more
We learned

to look through the foliage
to remember where the trees are

and how to get there, to smell
where the fruit is ripe

We got up earlier than the others
and left in the moonlight

to be the first just a little further away
and get the prize

We grew in our head
and became human

Poem 4519
Amsterdam, 2022-06-11
Inaugural lecture by Karline Janmaat on June 10th, 2022 in Leiden: with the emerging of angiospermous (seed-containing) plants, primates evolved into human beings
The tree of the knowledge of good (useful) and bad (detrimental)

Collection: A Home
 

Zywa Brain waves

Doing a lot gives a lot
It does not matter

whether you use muscles
or just smell or listen

Doing a lot gives a lot
to think about,it bounces

thoughts around between
should, want and can

or it crawls from image to image
until your worn body rests

and your mind stands still, at most
making an inventory of old information

where the indexes are still legible
and ruminating what has been stored there

Poem 2523
Amsterdam, 2019-12-01
Collection: web tissue
 

Zywa Popping and plucking

Seemingly out of nothing
small sounds of a beginning
are popping and plucking

in the pool of my thoughts

atoms of observation
in the infinite void
of my mind

my universe in the multiverse

intersecting image-
particles that connect
to coherent thoughts

I knead, mix and bend them

until they smile
or I let them burst
for a new beginning

Poem 1402
Amsterdam, 2017-06-09
Collection: New Ago
 

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