Grandpa: a giant.

At his house, things are smaller --


than at our house. Why?


Opa is een reus.Opa: ein Riese.
Waarom is bij hem alles --Warum ist bei ihm alles --

kleiner dan bij ons?kleiner als bei uns?

Poem H5522
Amsterdam, 2025-05-28
With a photo of Pieter with his grandfather Frans dK (1964, Oirschot)

Pieter and his granddad

Collection: The climbing house
Dedicated to: Lotte W, Madelief dK, Pieter W 
 

We have a cat, that's

more meat than a canary --


if there'll be war here.


Wij hebben een kat:Unsere Katze
meer vlees dan een kanarie --gibt mehr Fleisch als ein Girlitz --

als er oorlog komt.wenn es zum Krieg kommt.

Poem H5341
Amsterdam, 2025-03-24
Nightfather (Carl Friedman) - 1991
Novella "Tralievader" (translation 1994), chapter 'Greuelmärchen' (Atrocity story)
Collection: Thinkles Lusionless
Tribute to: Friedman, Carl 
 

Children wonder what

it would be like to be dead --


but not: to be old.


Een kind fantaseertEin Kind fantasiert,
wel hoe dood zijn zou zijn, maar --wie wäre es, tot zu sein --

niet hoe oud zijn is.nicht wie: alt zu sein.

Poem H5198
Amsterdam, 2025-01-24
Don't leave me alone (Renate Dorrestein) - 2008
Essay "Laat me niet alleen", chapter "Step Six: Let's face our fears"
Collection: Thinkles Lusionless
Tribute to: Dorrestein, Renate 
 

Zywa Our fathers

If you are a bad child
in the eyes of your parents
they sigh
oh, what shall

become of you?
Others are harder, they scold
you and demand respect
for the authority

of faith and customs
They think you are a nihilist
because they don't understand you
and because you do understand

you cannot argue with them
But you try
to explain -- no matter how nil
the rules are, there is one anyway:

do the others justice

Poem 2368
Amsterdam, 2019-07-24
Fathers and children (Ivan Turgenev) - 1862
"Nihilist" is a term of abuse during the French Revolution (1789-1799)
Novel "Otcy i deti"

Collection: Changing Times
Tribute to: Turgenev, Ivan 
 

Zywa Love palace

It's another neighbourhood
no longer a theater in the backyard
but homework

with term results and world-
literature in the wall cabinet
There, I live many lives

inside, in the stories
music rooms and museum halls
that expand on subscription

in the palace of my brain
I want to discover all secrets
know the ever singing woods

through and through
receive the gift of discretion
and be happy with it

experience how to live with everything
I know, because I know
well that love is everything

Poem 1337
Amsterdam, 2017-05-09
Collection: Life line 
 

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