Everything turns wrong

tantalisingly slowly --


as if it goes well.


Alles gaat tergendSo quälend langsam
langzaam verkeerd, alsof er --läuft alles schief, als wäre --

niets aan de hand is.überhaupt nichts los.

Poem S2527
Amsterdam, 2025-01-19
From the seven days (Karlheinz Stockhausen) - 1968
Improvisation-composition "Aus den sieben Tagen" - 15 Textkompositionen für Intuitive Musik (15 text compositions for Intuitive Music), for ensemble; selection of 160 minutes, performed by Robin Rimbaud (electronics), Jakob Lekkerkerker (organ) and Gareth Davis (bass clarinet), Roland Dahinden (trombone), Dario Calderone (double bass), Pau Sola Masafrets (cello), Joao Brito (percussion), and Marketa Scaffartzek (voice) on January 19th, 2025 in the Organpark; this passage: cello and trombone
Collection: org anp ARK 
Composer: Stockhausen, Karlheinz 
 

We are the winners,

all we don't know is listed --


in our manual.


In de handleidingDas Handbuch von uns
van ons winnaars staat alles --Gewinnern, führt alles auf --

wat we niet weten.was wir nicht wissen.

Poem H3745
Amsterdam, 2023-03-01
A manual for my successor (Erik Solvanger) - 2008
Poem "Een handleiding voor mijn opvolger" (collection "Slijp het sternum")
Collection: Specialities
Tribute to: Solvanger, Erik 
 

It's in vain, my book,

but it is comforting me --


that I record it.


Alles is vergeefs,Vergeblich, auch mein
ook mijn boek, maar het troost me --Buch, aber es tröstet mich --

dat ik dat vastleg.das aufzuzeichnen.

Poem H3372
Amsterdam, 2022-07-11
Like it or not - Faxing to Ger #4 (Nicolien Mizee) - 2021
Diary-novel "Hoog en laag springen - Faxen aan Ger #4"
Collection: In the shadow
Tribute to: Mizee, Nicolien 
 

Don't go to sleep, you

long to love, dare to do it --


and don't go to sleep!


Ga niet slapen, jijGeh nicht schlafen, du
wilt graag liefhebben, durf het --möchtest lieben, wage es --

en ga niet slapen!und geh nicht schlafen!

Poem H3187
Amsterdam, 2022-01-28
Quatrains "The breeze at dawn" (Muhammad Rumi) - 1250
Ghazal 171 "A great wagon" part 4
Collection: Love Mind and Death
Tribute to: Rumi, Mohamed 
 

God never responds

when I pray, let's say, maybe --


He doesn't exist yet.


God reageert nooitGott antwortet nie,
als ik bid, nou ja, misschien --wenn ich bete, na, vielleicht --

bestaat Hij nog niet.ist Er noch nicht da.

Poem S0955
Amsterdam, 2019-10-24
Endgame (Samuel Beckett) - 1957
Theater Rotterdam with Hans Croiset
Collection: Unseen
Tribute to: Beckett, Samuel 
 

Thinking that thinking

really exists, is a thought --


of a stupid mind.


Denken dat denkenSchon der Gedanke,
bestaat, is een gedachte --dass man denken kann, ist ein --

van een dom verstand.dummer Gedanke.

Poem S0791
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2018-09-17
Atlas shrugged (Ayn Rand) - 1957
Novel, part 2 'Either - Or', chapter 1 'The man who belonged on earth'
Collection: Willegos
Tribute to: Rand, Ayn 
 

Zywa Is it

It is this ordinary Tuesday
that has slid by today

over familiar activities, normal
routine

it is the talk about the weather
before I quickly get on again

it is the way it goes, life
Here I am, without a sash

realizing in homeliness
how pale my skin is

under the cotton black
that has no depth and

no gold-stitched thoughts
I'm just sitting, in the evening

and nothing has happened today
Did I live? Do I miss something?

Or is it this, this silence
before I go to sleep?

Poem 1391
Amsterdam, 2017-06-04
Collection: Lilith's Powers
 

Zywa Shapes do pass

In the evening the dunes are flat
and swampy watergray
bushes darken with dashes
of red and blue

Everything loses solidity
land looks like sea and sea seems to be land
in thin waves of twilight
water coagulates to shades of sand

Clouds resemble a massif
and moonless mountains
seem to be a night-black sky
in which are no stars

Ideas are lifelike
shapes do pass
Know where you attach to
then you are free

Poem 1116
Amsterdam, 2017-03-04
Collection: WoofWoof
 

The facade withdraws

while I'm coming closer and --


have a look inside.


De façade valtDie Fassade fällt,
weg als ik dichterbij kom --wenn ich mich ihr nähere --

en naar binnen kijk.und hinein schaue.

Poem H0114
Julianadorp, 2011-12-25
Collection: NightWatch
 

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