They are free, the birds

upon the gown of the state --


free to fly around.


Vrij zijn de vogelsFrei sind die Vögel
op het gewaad van de staat --auf der Robe des Staates --

vrij om te vliegen.zum Umherfliegen.

Poem H4701
Amsterdam, 2024-06-15
Statue of Baruch Spinoza (Nicolas Dings) - 2008
Statue with the quote "Het doel van de staat is vrijheid" ("The purpose of the state is freedom") from Spinoza's "Tractatus theologico-politicus" / "Theologico-Political Treatise" (1670)
Collection: Summer birds
Tribute to: Dings, Nicolas; Spinoza, Baruch 
 

Zywa Critical

Today is like yesterday
I turn around again
If only I could live
the way I want

You can do it
without any trouble
but about my wishes
there is a hassle
Leave me alone, stop
with these rules
and learned opinions
I don't feel like
defending myself all the time
and thinking
about other people's problems

Enough thinking has been done
I don't need to
redo it, why
should I torment myself?

Poem 1316
Amsterdam, 2017-04-28
Collection: The drama
 

Zywa All squares of Europe

The moon will not flap here
not wax by eating us
no, we are Free Brethren

we do know better
     what the value is
     of the long arm

     of a strong man
     under the blood-red flag
     of the people
                            that follow

     what earthly and heavenly laws
     decree by the grace of judges
     who want to keep their jobs

we eat the waxing moon
fresh every day and on the twelfth of September
in all the squares of Europe:

those who don't participate must leave
we don't want infiltrators
who refuse
                   to feign

Poem 1027
Amsterdam, 2017-02-16
Free Brethern: Franks and Germans
Waxing moon: croissant
From July 14th to September 12th, 1683, the Ottoman Empire besieged Vienna

Collection: BloodTrunk 
 

Zywa Not a guest like a slave

I'm back, on my guard
in the streets of my youth
and the crying embrace

of amma and my sisters
on the banks where I've played
I won't leave here again

even if I have to fight for it
It is not in my hand
to die or to kill

No longer can I be an exile
a polite guest conforming
like a slave

I'm back, on my guard
in my own house, and you, brother
the oldest, you must be wiser

No king
can crown himself
at most he can be a servant

Poem 896
Amsterdam, 2016-12-16
600 BCE
"Seven against Thebes" (Aeschylus, 467 BCE)
"Phoenician Women" (Euripides, 410 BCE)
1200 BCE
"Mahabharata" ("The Great World")

Collection: PumicePieces
Tribute to: Euripides; Aischylos 
 

Towers
are opened
Towers
I too open myself

I set myself free:
I dare to be vulnerable
I am equal to other people
Other people are equal to me
 

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