He is curious.

Even when laughing, he still --


looks a little sad.


Hij is bijzonder.Er ist besonders.
Ook wanneer hij lacht, kijkt hij --Auch wenn er lacht, sieht er noch --

nog een beetje triest.etwas traurig aus.

Poem H6167
Amsterdam, 2026-03-17
Out of the world (Karl Ove Knausgård) - 1998
Novel "Ute av verden" (translated in 2023), part 2, chapter 1
Collection: Leaving
Tribute to: Knausgård, Karl Ove 
 

Just go, seduce men,

you have not satisfied me --


you don't long for me!


Ga, verleid mannen,Geh, verführ Männer,
mij heb je niet bevredigd --mich hast du nicht befriedigt --

mij begeer je niet!mich begehrst du nicht!

Poem S2890
Amsterdam, 2025-08-16
Casual (Chappell Roan) - 2022
Song, album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" - Siren
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2020-2029
Tribute to: Roan, Chappell 
 

I look at her so

closely that I can always --


visualise her.


Ik wil haar zo goedIch schau sie an, so
bekijken dat ik altijd --genau, dass ich sie immer --

haar voor me kan zien.mir vorstellen kann.

Poem H5264
Amsterdam, 2025-02-20
Under the bushel (Maarten 't Hart) - 1991
Novel "Onder de korenmaat", chapter 5
Collection: The Note Tree
Tribute to: T Hart, Maarten 
 

Her glance has wounded

me deeply, it pierced my heart --


oh, arrow of love!


Haar oogopslag heeftIhr Blick verletzte
me diep verwond, in mijn hart --mich zutiefst, in dem Herzen --

als een liefdespijl.wie ein Liebespfeil.

Poem H5142
Amsterdam, 2024-12-24
At the caress of a face (Antonio Lucchini / Antonio Vivaldi) - 1727
Air "Al vezzeggiar d'un volto", from the opera "Farnace" ("Pharnaces II of Pontus", Antonio Lucchini, music Antonio Vivaldi, RV 711), 1st act, 9th scene - Selinda
Collection: Love Mind and Death
Tribute to: Lucchini, Antonio 
Composer: Vivaldi, Antonio 
 

Take it or leave it,

she demands. He is in love --


and takes it.. for love.


Zeg ja of zeg nee,Sag ja oder nein,
eist ze. En hij is verliefd --verlangt sie. Er ist verliebt --

hij zegt Ja.. ik wil.und sagt Ja.. ich will.

Poem S2425
Amsterdam, 2024-10-20
the ground beneath her feet (Salman Rushdie) - 1999
Novel, chapter 11 Higher Love
Collection: Sludge
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman 
 

She radiates, young

in the old landscape, I look --


and kneel before her.


Ik zie haar stralen,Ich sehe, sie strahlt,
jong in het oude landschap --jung in der alten Landschaft --

en ik kniel voor haar.Ich knie vor ihr.

Poem H4959
Amsterdam, 2024-10-05
Conversion (Nick Cave) - 2024
Song, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, album "Wild God"
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2020-2029
Tribute to: Cave, Nick 
 

People look at her,

and confused they keep looking --


And she.. she loves me!


De mensen kijkenDie Leute schauen
naar haar en raken van slag --sie an, und sie sind verwirrt --

En zij.. houdt van mij!Sie aber.. liebt mich!

Poem H4961
Amsterdam, 2024-10-05
O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is) (Nick Cave) - 2024
Song, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, album "Wild God"
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2020-2029
Tribute to: Cave, Nick 
 

There's a mystery

in him that I like to know --


don't, do, like to know.


Er is een raadselDas Rätsel in ihm
in hem dat ik wil kennen --möchte ich kennen, gerne --

niet, wel, wil kennen.kennen, nicht kennen.

Poem H4634
Amsterdam, 2024-05-23
Quichotte (Salman Rushdie) - 2019
Novel, part 1, chapter 6
Collection: Wind
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman 
 

Enticed by the scent

near her moving hand, a bee --


seeks for her flower.


Gelokt door de geurIhre Hand bewegt
bij haar bewegende hand --sich und riecht, die Biene sucht --

zoekt een bij haar bloem.nach ihrer Blume.

Poem H4369
Amsterdam, 2023-12-16
Punani (Hawaiian Puanani = splendid flower, vagina)
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début
 

Zywa Beds in my dreams

Boys look past
my shyness
I don't understand

So beautiful I see my feelings
in my face, my forms
in the mirror

Why doesn't anyone
want to enjoy me?
The beauty of a boy

discovered inside and out
by my skin
my curious body

In other people's houses
I capture the beds
in my dreams

None of them invite me
Can they see in me
how critical I am?

Poem 5173
Amsterdam, 2023-05-09
Collection: Life line 
 

She is a goddess,

wearing a long train of boys --


like a Golden Goose.


Ze is een godinSie ist göttlich, trägt
en draagt een sleep van jongens --eine Schleppe aus Jungen --

als een zwaan-kleef-aan.wie ein Schwan-kleb-an.

Poem S1708
Amsterdam, 2023-03-15
Fury (Salman Rushdie) - 2001
Novel, § 11, fairy tale "The Golden Goose"
Collection: Sludge
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman 
 

Zywa My belly

Are you looking at the curve
below my navel, do you want
to expose me there?

     You're reserved
     and won't come any closer
     to my breath, my question

Is something burning inside you
is it blazing, is it smouldering
or should I light it?

     I don't smell you, no scent
     that excites a woman
     in her belly, in her heart

Don't you know what you want
with me, after today?
Can't you be honest

with yourself
and live relaxed
according to your ideals?

Poem 4762
Amsterdam, 2022-10-27
Collection: Eyes lips chest and belly
 

She doesn't want to smell

like she does smell now, unwashed --


It's turning men on.


Ze wil niet ruikenSie riecht nicht gern, wie
zoals nu, ongewassen --sie jetzt riecht, ungewaschen --

Het windt mannen op.Es reizt Männer auf.

Poem H3483
Noordwijkerhout, 2022-10-04
Farah Mills (Ivo Victoria) - 2017
Story
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2010-2019
Tribute to: Victoria, Ivo 
 

Your leg on my thigh

provokes me, then you ask me:


This is fun, isn't it?


Jouw been op mijn dijDein Bein auf meinem
daagt me uit en je vraagt me:provoziert mich und du fragst:

Vermaak je je wel?Amüsierst du dich?

Poem S1440
Amsterdam, 2022-06-23
Francisca Porto (Paul Janssen) - 2004
Poem (collection "Instructies voor een ober")
Collection: May the Might
Tribute to: Janssen, Paul 
 

Red is the blossom

of my body, come in me --


impregnate beauty!


Rood is de bloesemRot ist die Blüte
van mijn lichaam, kom in mij --meines Körpers, komm in mir --

en bevrucht schoonheid!befruchte Schönheit!

Poem H3287
Amsterdam, 2022-05-09
Collection: The Big Secret
 

I like to do it

in the spotlight. Do you think --


I'm looking at you?


Ja, ik doe het graagIch tu es gerne
in de spotlights. Wat denk jij?im Rampenlicht. Was denkst du?

Dat ik naar jou kijk?Ich sehe dich an?

Poem H3266
Amsterdam, 2022-04-08
Crew Slut (Frank Zappa) - 1979
Song (album "Joe's Garage")
Valentina Bruno in the Frank Zappa Tribute band "2000 Motels" (Q-Factory in Amsterdam, April 8th, 2022)

Collection: The climbing house
Tribute to: Zappa, Frank 
Composer: Zappa, Frank 
Dedicated to: Valentina Bruno 
 

My darling, your eyes,

put up above the sofa --


in a frame of kohl.


Liefste, jouw ogen,Ach, deine Augen
hangend boven het bankstel --in einem Rahmen von Kohl --

in een lijst van kohl.über dem Sofa.

Poem S0991
Amsterdam, 2020-02-09
Her eyes (De Romein) - 2010
Poem "Haar ogen" (collection "Ode - modelgedichten")
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2010-2019
Tribute to: De Romein 
 

He's handsome and strong,

he's a giant, with wild hair --


and a black backside.


Hij is knap en sterk,Er ist schön und stark,
een reus met wilde haren --ein Riese mit wildem Haar --

en zwarte billen.und schwarzem Gesäß.

Poem H2515
Amsterdam, 2019-06-30
Hero of the twelve tasks - The myth of Heracles (Imme Dros) - 2000
The hairy buttocks of Heracles
Story "Held van de twaalf taken - De mythe van Herakles"

Collection: Love Mind and Death
Tribute to: Dros, Imme 
 

You're desirable,

a fridge, ajar and steaming --


The fire leaking out.


Jij bent begeerlijk,Du: begehrenswert,
een ijskast die kiert en dampt --ein Kühlschrank, der zieht und dampft --

Het vuur lekt eruit.Das Feuer läuft aus.

Poem H2442
Amsterdam, 2019-04-28
The introduction - Faxing to Ger #1 (Nicolien Mizee) - 2017
Diary-novel "De kennismaking - Faxen aan Ger"
Collection: In the shadow
Tribute to: Mizee, Nicolien 
 

In sex you reveal

your naked truth: exactly --


what you think you're worth.


In seks onthul jeBeim Sex enthüllst du
jouw naakte waarheid: wat je --deine nackte Wahrheit: was --

vindt dat je waard bent.du meinst wert zu sein.

Poem H2286
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2018-09-18
Atlas shrugged (Ayn Rand) - 1957
Novel, part 2 'Either - Or', chapter 4 'The sanction of the victim'
Collection: Willegos
Tribute to: Rand, Ayn 
 

Don't pay attention

to the dimple in her chin!


You'd fall into it.


Pas op, let niet opAchte nicht auf das
het lachkuiltje in haar kin --Lachgrübchen in ihrem Kinn --

of je valt erin.sonst fällst du hinein.

Poem S0784
Amsterdam, 2018-09-12
Where is the rectitude of work? (Hafez) - 1350
Ghazal (Ode) 2
Collection: Love Mind and Death
Tribute to: Hafez 
 

Zywa Foundling

Miss Ting wants to go into the world
house and balcony are too small
bird watching is frustratingly pleasant
and playing and twirling with us
isn't ít, we know, so small
are our leaps and vocabulary

Miss Ting sings My Man
She mews the world upside down
for Maurice Chevalier, the king
of Spain and the princes
of India and England, laughing
she plays with their crowns

Her Man, she cannot live without
He is in her skin, on her knees
she would come back if she went

because he growls and claws at her
and secretly attends his darlings
Oh, his strength keeps vibrating
in every hair she loses
glowing in her, on the edge
of every cell of bliss

Poem 1560
Amsterrdam, 2017-09-25
Cat "Misty", named after a cocktail named after singer Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois), known from the song "Mon homme" ("My man", lyrics Albert Willemetz and Jacques Charles, translation by Channing Pollock, music Maurice Yvain)
Collection: Dearme
Tribute to: Willemetz, Albert; Charles, Jacques 
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa Undressed by beauty

Along the Lost Cost Quay
the cargo ships are almost drowning
while we party

in Oslo and Ghent, you dance
sparks from the floor, you dance
the delicate velvet petals

up, let them float
and return to the flower
Your shirt falls open

just enough to wish
for more, for no reason
just to experience

the lovely wonder of feeling
what I feel, myself, as if
your beauty is undressing me

Poem 1494
Amsterdam, 2017-08-08
Kyakura, the returned flower
Cafés "Oslo" and "Ghent" at the Kostverlorenkade ("Lost Cost Quay") in Amsterdam

Collection: The Big Secret
 

Zywa Jass

The houses stacked, the trams moving
aquariums, still lives lighted
for each other in the fore-night and in between

are police officers, waiting and juggling
with batons since there is a fair in town

heroes and goddesses ogle in underwear
in lighted billboards at the stops to desires
that don't need a name

it jazzes in town
the tram glides by

the rooms of little leisure
hours: a woman in bathrobe
is combed, at a table

two mouths are kissing
over full glasses

romantic music around the corner
and the rest you can guess
it jazzes in town

the tram glides by, house after house
the room fish swim along

in the big glass tank of my eyes
an orgy of waving tails
and restless kissing mouths

Poem 1155
Amsterdam, 2017-03-07
Jass = Sex
Collection: Heart's Delight
 

Zywa Reserved

I want his face
nicely towards me

I don't want to tear it open
because he chooses
me this weekend

I want his stubble
his fabric softener

he is so different
from the men of my friends
with their itchy sperm

I want his words
his withheld love

reserved
for me under clothes
of inaccessibility

Poem 975
Amsterdam, 2017-01-23
Collection: Without reserve
Dedicated to: Sheree P 
 

In between the ships

I'm swimming over to you:


your side becomes mine.


Tussen de schepenZwischen den Schiffen
door zwem ik over naar jou:schwimme ich zu dir: deine --

jouw kant wordt mijn kant.Seite wird meine.

Poem H0869
Amsterdam, 2014-03-13
Collection: NightWatch
 

Every now and then

you look, and long enough to --


see me long for you.


Af en toe kijk jij,Du schaust oft genug
lang genoeg om mij te zien --hin, um zu sehen, dass ich --

verlangen naar jou.mich nach dir sehne.

Poem H0451
Amsterdam, 2013-05-19
Collection: Eyes lips chest and belly
 

The man whom I like

to kiss has beautiful lips --


but, they keep talking.


Die daar, die ik wilDer, den ich küssen
kussen heeft mooie lippen --möchte, hat schöne Lippen --

maar, ze praten steeds.aber, sie reden.

Poem H0260
Amsterdam, 2012-04-18
Collection: Heart's Delight
 

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