Poem H6393 Amsterdam, 2026-08-25 Then Mother came with a knife (Nicolien Mizee) - 1911 Poem with the lines "Homesickness seised him / for travelling, for morning / arrivals in ports which you, with what joy, enter for the first time", later adapted by Kaváfis into poem #31 "Ithaka" (1911 CE), in the collection "Als straks de schimmen komen" (2026, "When the Shadows Come") translated by Hero Holwerda - About Odysseus Collection: On the fly Tribute to: Kaváfis, Konstantínos
At a station, there
are departures, a novel --
often starts there too.
Mensen vertrekken
Von einem Bahnhof
op stations, en daar begint --
reist man ab, auch Romane --
een roman vaak ook.
beginnen oft dort.
Poem H6242 Amsterdam, 2026-05-11 A day at Mellie's (Nicolien Mizee) - 2023 Short story "Een dagje naar Mellie", from the collection "Paradise" - Referring to Kurt Tucholsky Collections: In the light, A profession Tribute to: Mizee, Nicolien
The compass goes hay-
wire, the sea throws me ashore:
destination reached.
Het kompas draait dol,
Der Kompass über-
de zee smijt mij op de kust:
dreht, das Meer wirft mich an Land:
bestemming bereikt.
Reiseziel erreicht.
Poem H5756 Amsterdam, 2025-07-30 I'm approaching you: compasses are spinning madly (Frida Vogels) - 1994 Verse "Ik nader je: dol draaien de kompassen", published in the collection "De harde kern 3" ("The hard core 3", part VI [Kees], and in "Diary 1964-1965" (2008) - January 7th, 1965, Bologna Collection: Self-portraits Tribute to: Vogels, Frida
Zywa
Viaduct over the railway
Among the children
on their toes, leaning
forward on the wall
(never a daredevil
to climb on top of it)
I am shaking again
from a freight train
At first my parents sent
someone with me when
I, straight after school
and at the weekend
(far too often, they thought)
spend hours looking
from this bridge near the station
I recognise the old and new
models blindly, by their sound
the vibration of the viaduct
the Doppler effect, and their smell
no matter how hard the wind blows
From here you can go out
into the wide world
Poem 4793 Amsterdam, 2022-11-09 Small Town Station (Edward Hopper) - 1920 Painting Collection: NightWatch Tribute to: Hopper, Edward
Zywa
Songless Song
Was I waked
by rattling buckets
like ticking rain
against the roar
the whistling inhalation
and the musing sighs
of the organ monster?
Curved pipes blow me
into space, everything shifts
until I no longer have a hold
and my body dissolves in trance
between wringing sounds
Compact like a saucer
I swing increasingly heavy
through octaves of space debris
with withheld breath
looking forward to the redeeming
light of the eternally distant
gravity, which will
melt and burn me
if I ever arrive
A false siren song lures me
with harmonies in which
the dashboard lights up
my thoughts clear again
to chart a course
and go away
from this depression
as if there are destinations
Hope and desire
tumble through the stardust
like the splashing water
from the sources of the Moldau
The monster roars again -
Maddening at the risk
of bursting asunder
and dispersing
in debris, ticking
against the silence
like the end of a downpour
But after the calm masses roll
towering over it, ever
I float
between dream and deed
Sleeplessly
I babble a bit
wading in acquiescence
Songless
Poem 4297 Amsterdam, 2022-02-06 Songlessness (Maxim Shalygin) - 2022 Performed by the Amstel Quartet (saxophones) and Una Cintina (organ), on February 5th, 2022 in the Organpark Curved pipes: saxophones "Vltava" ("The Moldau", 1874, Bed?ich Smetana) Collection: ORG anp ark Composer: Shalygin, Maxim
Zywa
Travelling / Travelling
Flight fantasies, vacation Mind your step
Security procedures, waiting at the gate
I close my eyes
my thoughts take the autowalk
to destinations with a runway
The lock of the jetway fails
one meter before the cabin door Mind your step
Flight fantasies, security Tomorrow I'll get there
Security procedures, waiting at the fence
I close my eyes
my thoughts take a high flight
to a future on the other side
I land in a camp again
at a higher fence, a closed gate Tomorrow I'll get there
Poem 1295 Amsterdam, 2017-04-23 Collection: On living on [2]