When my desire grows

weary and weak, there is hope --


that will nourish it.


Als mijn verlangenWenn mein Verlangen
moe wordt, begint mijn hoop --erlahmt, beginnt die Hoffnung --

het te verzorgen.es zu ernähren.

Poem H5476
Amsterdam, 2025-05-19
You now (Griet Op de Beeck) - 2016
Short stories "Gij nu", story 'misschien was dat wel echte eenzaamheid meer nog dan geen mensen zien eigen gedachten die niet worden tegengesproken' ('maybe that was real loneliness even more than not seeing people one's own thoughts that are not contradicted'), chapter Two
Collection: Stall
Tribute to: Op de Beeck, Griet 
 

Don't dream, only then

will you see the light, won't you --


be blinded by it.


Droom niet, alleen danTräume nicht, nur dann
kun je het licht zien, zul je --wirst du's Licht sehen und nicht --

niet verblind worden.geblendet werden.

Poem H5309
Amsterdam, 2025-03-13
All we imagine as light (Payal Kapadia) - 2024
Film "Prabhayay Ninachathellam"
Collection: Changing Times
Tribute to: Kapadia, Payal 
 

Hiding the old sore.

Sabotage. And hoping --


for final justice.


Oud zeer verbergen.Alten Schmerz tarnen.
Sabotage. En hopen --Sabotage. Und hoffen --

op gerechtigheid.auf Gerechtigkeit.

Poem S2385
De Koog, 2024-09-27
A night to fly a kite (Renate Dorrestein) - 1987
Novel "Een nacht om te vliegeren"
Collection: Lack
Tribute to: Dorrestein, Renate 
 

My fortress of hope

breaks free from the oppression --


of the mountain range.


De burcht van mijn hoopMeine Hoffnungsburg
breekt los uit de beklemming --bricht los aus der Beklemmung --

van het bergmassief.der Gebirgskette.

Poem H4613
Amsterdam, 2024-04-27
The castle of the Pyrenees (René Magritte) - 1959
Paintings "Le château des Pyrénées" (1959 and 1964 versions)
Collection: Untwisted
Tribute to: Magritte, René 
 

Your despair against

my hope, nose to nose, only --


a door in between.


Jouw wanhoop tegenVerzweiflung gegen
mijn hoop, neus tegen neus, slechts --Hoffnung, Nase an Nase --

een deur ertussen.Die Tür dazwischen.

Poem S1775
Amsterdam, 2023-05-23
That afternoon (Nafiss Nia) - 2023
After a rejected asylum application
Film "Die middag"

Collection: Greeting from before
Tribute to: Nia, Nafiss 
 

Zywa Their leader in me

There was no room for me
anymore, in this country
I was a threat

to power, fought for
by the priests and the king
against the priests, I was there

I watched it and I knew
the foreign workers wanted to leave
and the slaves were discontented

They gladly came to my temple
they believed in the Creator-god
and sought their leader in me

Together we might have
a future, the freedom
to follow our belief, to convert

our hope into deeds
and then, just to see
what comes of it

Poem 3803
Amsterdam, 2021-05-10
The calling of Moses
Crown Prince Thut-mosis (Moses) was the high priest in the temple of Ptah (the Creator) at Memphis in the Nile Delta
After the murder of their father, Echn-Aton continues the fight against the Amun priests as Pharaoh, and Moses decides to return to Canaan with the Hebrew guest workers and slaves

Collection: A Home
 

Zywa Seats of fire

Sometimes my hope
for peace on earth is brewing
Then I fear a fire or worse
rotting and the uncertainty
what will grow from it

Then today's life is everything
the only thing that matters
though it is difficult for me
to be unpretentious
in being grateful

for my opportunities
to help those in need
the duty which I do
humbly in the black
armour of my faith

The people who are not chosen
for the afterlife have a hard time
There is no mercy
that can ease their lives
no love that brings hope

Poem 2279
Amsterdam, 2019-06-18
Faith, hope and love
Collection: The King
 

I shout: I'll help you,

grab the rope that I throw up --


from the deep, deep pit.


Ik zal je helpen,Ich helfe: schnapp dir
pak het touw dat ik opgooi --das Seil, das ich hochwerfe --

uit de diepe put.aus dem tiefen Loch.

Poem S0887
Vlissingen, 2019-06-04
Maurits and the facts (Gerrit Krol) - 1986
Novel "Maurits en de feiten", § 19
Collection: Shelter
Tribute to: Krol, Gerrit 
 

Zywa Favourite colours

I believe and I have a dream
are famous words
Obsolete now

that there are so many more beliefs
so many more truths
to dream away

from reality
which no longer can be guessed
but inescapably

is what it is, you have to
deal with it, you should
deal with it

but you prefer to wrap it up
in light-fast favourite colours
and facts thought hard

I know and I have the certainty
are our words in the turmoil
of colliding opinions

Poem 1806
Amsterdam, 2018-08-11
Paul, Martin Luther King, own truths
Collection: The drama
 

Zywa Tenuous hopes

Between ruins, man sings
out hope that rebuilds houses
a song that survives

when the fury has raged again
how thin like hot steaming souls
above the dung heap the voices

may sound between the hills
of toil, elsewhere modest
in holy places with undertones

of severity of rock-solid
brethren in the fury of desires
which drags freedom away

and smears it with blood
and tears or beats it to death
in its chains

Poem 1083
Amsterdam, 2017-02-26
Men's ensemble The Gents sings sacral music in the Organparc
Collection: ORG anp ark 
 

Zywa Morgana, my fay

Between the hard facts I look
for a passage
The sun blinds me
delivers me to the wind

Come, sweet fay of the sea
around misty Avalon, come
then I will be fine
which I never doubt

except at night
when I would like to rest
and sweat fears, tired, so tired
but too vigorous to give up

so I put on nice clothes
to go out and celebrate
to reinvent myself
and connect with the world

Poem 937
Amsterdam, 2017-01-06
Morgana / Morning, from: Mori-gena = sea-born
Fata Morgana = Fay/Fairy Morgana

Collection: On living on [1]
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

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