Zywa Awaiting the clearing

The lanes to the rusty gate
overshadowed by the white
marble stairs where has been sky

have disappeared
under a maze of roads
Now the clearing is awaited

of the New Cemetery
behind the city wall
beyond the Elysian Fields

     where sparrows feast
     on chunks of bread and the pigeons
     do not dare with a crow
     hidden in their midst
     capturing a sparrow

The grave covers are dark
here begins the night
in the middle of the day

here you leave the city
life, in the shade
of the triumphal arch

Poem 2100
Amsterdam, 2019-02-16
Grande Arche de la Défense (Great Arch of the Défense)
Cimetière nouveau de Neuilly (New Cemetery of Neuilly, 1993)
Collection: New Ago
 

Zywa Public art property

Public art property:
the firefighters are training
in the Seine, in the gallant park
forty sparrows play

with Sunday's children, and
oil and sand sail steadily
through the dense grid
of swarming people

At the new bridge, a ship squeezes
out two decks of pupils:

a long ribbon of orange caps
waves over the bridge railings
to the other side and paints there
a line through the streets

moving from the thick tail
that is pushing at the bottom
of the stairs in the garden --
spied by a cat

on a hot tin roof

Poem 2044
Amsterdam, 2019-01-21
Paris, August 2000
Collection: New Ago
 

Zywa Paris l'amour

In the evening, the river is a theatre
the water carries the music
to our ears, the romance

of a saxophone, sunset
twinkling in the wine and the church
rosy, completely gentle grace

Tourists pretend click clack
that not they, but we, are the extras
and the city were a cardboard set:

theme park Paris l'amour
young people on the quays around
a pillar candle and kissing

couples as it should be
in the sunthrowers of the tourist vessels
gleam the spots in the corners

that you can smell

Poem 1514
Amsterdam, 2017-08-17
Collection: Take a picture, now
 

Zywa Abracadabar

Again I come to taste you
in the buzz of the evening

at the Abracadabar, it does
not smell like then, but like you

blossoming above everything
the senses are singing around

they nest in me
until the two of us will remain
and go home together

Eyes, lips, chest, and belly
tears at tough self-mockery
I put everything in the dish

for my company, a man
you could have been

Tonight, the remaining question is
who will join who

in the magic
of his thoughts

Poem 1246
Amsterdam, 2017-03-29
Abracadabar: Café artistique in the Avenue Jean Jaurès in Paris (September 3rd, 2006)
Collection: Heart's Delight
 

Zywa La vie

In the museum, we look
at the attendants: a gangster
a beach girl with sleepy eyes
and a man who's almost falling
but he startles and hobbles away
to the hall with glass tombstones

We see people wait
gloomily, enjoy
a cigar at the end
suppress the disaster at the piano
with a smile, scream to win
their case with their husbands

or cry and jump in
the lifeboats sauve qui peut
(la vie)

Poem 1129
Amsterdam, 2017-03-05
Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Friday, August 25, 2000
"Tombeaux" by Jan Vercruysse (glass tombstones)
"The sinking of the Titanic" (1912, directed by Mime Misu), film, screened in three parallel projections
Collection: Greeting from before
 

The frogs are croaking,

safe under a cloud of blood-


thirsty mosquitoes.


De kikkers kwakenDie Frösche quaken
veilig onder een wolk bloed-unter einer Wolke blut-

dorstige muggen.rünstiger Mücken.

Poem H0350
Amsterdam, 2012-09-12
The forest behind the cemetery of La Ferté Saint Cyr (on May 31st, 2012)
Collection: Local traffic
 

 

 
Houses (bird's eye view)
Le Tréport, 2012-05-25
Normandy
Collection: Photo's 2012
 

 

 
Harbour (entrance)
Le Tréport, 2012-05-25
Normandy
Collection: Photo's 2012
 

 

 
Coast (steep)
Le Tréport, 2012-05-25
Normandy
Collection: Photo's 2012
 

 

 
Coast (lighthouse)
Le Tréport, 2012-05-25
Normandy
Collection: Photo's 2012
 

 

 
Flower
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2010-05-06
Palm tree
Collection: Photo's 2010
 

 

 
Dog
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2010-05-06
Tom
Collection: Photo's 2010
 

 

 
Cat
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2010-04-29
Lilly
Collection: Photo's 2010
 

 

 
Cat
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2010-04-28
Lilly
Collection: Photo's 2010
 

 

 
Observatory
Bourg-en-Bresse, 2010-04-26
Collection: Photo's 2010
 

 

 
Ain valley
Ain, 2010-04-26
Near Daranche
Collection: Photo's 2010
 

 

 
Dog
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2010-01-07
Tom (photo made by Frank W)
Collection: Photo's 2010
 

 

 
Path (forest)
Montségur, 2008-09-07
Access path to the ruin
Collection: Photo's 2008
 

 

 
Moon (village)
Saint Girons, 2008-09-05
Collection: Photo's 2008
 

 

 
Street (disabled person)
Lourdes, 2008-09-05
Collection: Photo's 2008
 

 

 
Ruins (town wall)
Prats de Mollo, 2008-09-03
Collection: Photo's 2008
 

Zywa Tapestry of fields

Pastures, fields and neighbourhoods
along the long serpent -
the river that connects everything

the spine of the patches
Hemed on the other side
with piles of triangles -

bare ridges, scratched
with wide and empty roads
to one another

Mount Wind is rising above
and much, much higher still
a light line limits the tapestry of fields

Spring, and it's still snowing
above the little ant-people
How fast they live

Twice as high: the heavenly
white strip that unassailable
hovers over everything

Only then the ever blue sky
in which I let me fly, safe
beneath eternity

Poem 105
Amsterdam, 2008-05-12
(Mont Ventoux)
Collection: Summer birds
 

 

 
Tree (roots)
Menton, 2007-11-07
Collection: Photo's 2007
 

 

 
Evening red (Nice)
Nice, 2007-11-07
Collection: Photo's 2007
 

 

 
Slate
Barcelonnette, 2004-09-13
Col de Vars
Collection: Photo's 2004
 

 

 
Mountain road
Briançon, 2004-09-13
Col d'Izoard
Collection: Photo's 2004
 

 

 
Sheep
La Grave, 2004-09-13
Col du Galibier (photo by Kees J, September 1989)
Collection: Photo's 2004
 

 

 
Sheep
La Grave, 2004-09-13
Col du Galibier
Collection: Photo's 2004
 

 

 
Mountain
Sisteron, 2004-09-11
Montagne de la Baume
Collection: Photo's 2004
 

 

 
Orchard
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2004-09-10
Villa Montjoie
Collection: Photo's 2004
Dedicated to: Frank W, Richard W 
 

 

 
Veranda
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2004-09-09
Villa Montjoie
Collection: Photo's 2004
 

 

 
Cliff
Lioux, 2004-05-25
Poppies, Dory
Collection: Photo's 2004
 

 

 
Observatory
Mont Ventoux, 2004-05-25
Observatoire
Collection: Photo's 2004
 

 

 
Arcaded sidewalk
Buis-les-Baronnies, 2004-05-23
Arcades
Collection: Photo's 2004
 

 

 
Street
Les Arcs, 2002-04-23
Collection: Photo's 2002
 

 

 
Olive tree
Cogolin, 2002-04-22
Collection: Photo's 2002
 

 

 
Sully bridge
Paris, 2000-08-27
Pont de Sully
Collection: Photo's 2000
 

 

 
Arenas of Lutetia
Paris, 2000-08-27
Arènes de Lutèce
Collection: Photo's 2000
 

 

 
Tribune
Paris, 2000-08-23
Hötel de ville (City hall)
Collection: Photo's 2000
 

 

 
Coast (sculpture)
Saint Malo, 1987-06-01
Rocher sculpté (by Abbé Fourré) in Rothéneuf
Collection: Photo's 1987
 

 

 
Coast (sculpture)
Saint Malo, 1987-06-01
Rochers sculptés (by Abbé Fourré) in Rothéneuf
Collection: Photo's 1987
 

 

 
Beach (algae)
Saint Malo, 1987-06-01
Alga Hantzchia virgata
Collection: Photo's 1987
 

 

 
Fog (calvary)
Plougonven, 1987-05-27
Calvary next to the church
Collection: Photo's 1987
 

 

 
Cave (Loue)
Ouhans, 1982-04-27
Collection: Photo's 1982
 

 

 
Bridge (aqueduct)
Gard, 1982-04-24
Pont du Gard
Collection: Photo's 1982
 

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