Zywa

The more you enjoy

yourself in bed, the more it --

is a fantasy.



Hoe meer je geniet	Je mehr Spaß man im
in bed, hoe meer dat gevoel --	Bett hat, desto mehr ist das --

een fantasie is.	eine Fantasie.

Poem H6362
Amsterdam, 2026-07-21
The lost daughter (Elena Ferrante) - 2006
Novel "La figlia oscura" (translated in 2008), chapter 19
Collection: Dream flight
Tribute to: Ferrante, Elena

Children wonder what

it would be like to be dead --

but not: to be old.



Een kind fantaseert	Ein 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: Dream flight
Tribute to: Dorrestein, Renate

He thinks he knows who

he is, indulging himself --

in his fantasy.



Hij denkt te weten	Er glaubt, er weiß, wer
wie hij is en leeft zich uit --	er ist und gibt sich seinen --

in zijn fantasie.	Fantasien hin.

Poem H4671
Amsterdam, 2024-05-31
Imaginations - I (Robert Nasveld) - 1978
Opera scene (1978/2022), performed by Tobias Greenhalgh (baritone) and Chris Buckman (piano), in the Organpark on May 31st, 2024
Collection: org anp ARK
Composer: Nasveld, Robert

In the garden pond

I float around in my blood --

as an offering.



In de tuinvijver	Im Teich schwebe ich
drijf ik in mijn eigen bloed --	in meinem eigenen Blut --

als een zoenoffer.	als Sühneopfer.

Poem H4121
Amsterdam, 2023-09-08
A Change of tongue (Antjie Krog) - 2003
(1970)
Tale, part 1 § 6, "Chapter seven"
Collection: Skin-contact
Tribute to: Krog, Antjie

Zywa Dream hotel

The lights are always on in the villa
with the black awnings and in
the rooms of the rear building
where you never see anyone

The tourists coming here, must be
a cover, it is a quiet hotel
Sometimes someone plays the piano -
a clear tension in the night

The whole situation makes me think
of acts that I know from films
and wish to experience
only that way:

a beautiful man who desires me
with whom I can do everything, veiled
in the middle, surrounded by lust
and pleasure as a second skin

Poem 4799
Amsterdam, 2022-11-10
Rooms for Tourists (Edward Hopper) - 1926
Painting
Book "Traumnovelle" ("Rhapsody: A Dream Novel" / "Dream Story", 1925, Arthur Schnitzler)
Film "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
Collection: NightWatch
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Schnitzler, Arthur

Zywa Our game

You restrain your desire
for other women with wigs

and clothes that you give me
at home to unpack before dinner

restlessly pleased
with my hesitation

to pick up the game
that you have in your head

and to discover
who else I am

apart from your first love
that I still know well

from a past life full
of expectations and the happiness

to be with you, sure
to sleep safely with you

and I would like to know
if I am still her

and you the man I wanted
to marry, your eagerness

and sweet nice words
that have to come to sound like deceit

Poem 2517
Amsterdam, 2019-11-21
Collection: More

The herbs are dancing

on their bare roots, still playing --

are not planted yet.



De kruiden dansen	Die Kräuter tanzen
op hun wortels, ze spelen --	auf ihren Wurzeln, spielen --

zijn nog niet gepoot.	sind noch nicht gepflanzt.

Poem S0946
Amsterdam, 2019-10-11
Seven (Hansjörg Fink en Elmar Lehnen) - 2018
"Sieben" ("Seven", 2018, Hansjörg Fink & Elmar Lehnen), composition about the creation
Collection: ORG anp ark
Composers: Fink, Hansjörg; Lehnen, Elmar

Zywa I am I and you...

A high whistle, the banging
in my throat, I look
at the monster with one eye

it rages
towards me
I look
with my other eye

who dares to press
his thumb the longest
on the rails, in sight
of the express train

The train driver is startled
but not Pooh, Edward Bear
living under the name of Sanders

He likes his new name
(maybe Winnie is a girl)
and he does not know
the swan of long ago

I am Christopher
I love stories and I live
behind a green door

Poem 2323
Amsterdam, 2019-06-30
Winnie-the-Pooh (Alan Milne) - 1926
Stories
Quote: "I am me, and you are you, as you can see; but when you do the things that you can do, you will find the Way, and the Way will follow you.
Collection: The light of words
Tribute to: Milne, Alan

Zywa Pop-up

The train driver is startled, and I
am not myself, my thumb
presses upon the rails

It's one of the trillions
of temporary states
of my consciousness

in which everything is allowed
and possible, in the childhood
of the universe

No you or me
how real is that?
A green door

is just art, made
from a piece of tree, exhibited
in pop-up museum earth

Poem 2324
Amsterdam, 2019-06-30
Continuation of poem 2323. I am I and you... (June 30th, 2019)
Collection: The light of words

At one fell swoop all

right again: a slapstick film --

spinning in reverse.



Alles in één klap	Alles auf einmal
in orde: een slapstickfilm --	in Ordnung: ein Slapstick-Film --

teruguit gedraaid.	umgekehrt gedreht.

Poem H2495
Vlissingen, 2019-06-06
Spinning the film in reverse (Willem van Toorn) - 1977
Poem "Draai je de film terug" (collection "Herhaalde wandeling. Gedichten 1960-1975")
Collection: Specialities
Tribute to: Van Toorn, Willem

Zywa Sealing love

Cheerfully we play our future
we choose from the disguise box

the tulle Empress
the folly Knight with glasses
the black robe Judge
reading in the thickest book
and for me the starry
dress with the pointed hat

: : : : :Today I want to be a Fairy
: : : : :and do magic with love

Regarding our husbands we lay cards
Order, order in the hall please
this is serious, the Judge passes sentence
and the Knight shows the weak spots
in our castles, the holes
in the gauze garb of our love

: : : : :to be sealed with an enchantment
: : : : :that protects our bodies and our souls

We'll attack each other
until we are safe

Poem 1963
Amsterdam, 2018-12-05
Collection: The light of words

Zywa Glueing

The publication of this poem has not yet been authorised by the owner of the copyright on the original text

Poem 1803
Amsterdam, 2018-08-06
Glueing (Joke van Leeuwen) - 2000
Poem "Lijmen" (collection "Ozo heppie en andere versjes")
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2000-2009
Tribute to: Van Leeuwen, Joke
Dedicated to: Lotte W

Zywa Alternating animal

Grandpa is sitting straight
against post 8,5
his feet in the hole

I am a horse
in the empty place
facing him

dust clouds behind me
and splashing water
I am a flying fish

my fins grow
wings with feathers whizz whoom
I already am on the other side

and back with eagle eyes
beware, I claw you away
before you see my shadow

I do the mole crawl and
with mill sails, I rain
a moat around our fortress

Poem 1011
Amsterdam, 2017-02-13
With grandpa at the beach
Collection: BloodTrunk

Zywa Giantess

As a child I crawled invisibly
away in the lower house
under the veranda
to see the rats
potter among woodlice

I felt big and strong
I pressed my lips together
against the little weak creepy cushions
and let their hard tails
whip my Gulliver body

I liked being their Atlas
under the adult world
upon my shoulders
which I separated from the earth
to keep it as it is

Poem 907
Amsterdam, 2016-12-21
Collection: Metamorphic body

You choose what you do,

that's why tales are so funny:

read an almanac!



Je kiest wat je doet,	Man wählt, was man macht,
dat maakt verzinsels zo leuk:	und lacht um Erfindungen:

lees een almanak!	wie im Almanach!

Poem H1605
Amsterdam, 2016-11-28
Sir Bumble and The Amnac (Marten Toonder) - 1982
Comic strip #169 - Heer Bommel en De Aamnaak (tiers 0952-1052), tier 0954
Collection: Puss & Lord
Tribute to: Toonder, Marten

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