I like to be home,

thinking of a long journey --


And the homecoming.


Het liefst ben ik thuis,Herrlich, zu Hause,
denkend aan een lange reis --denkend an eine Reise --

En dan de thuiskomst.Und dann die Heimkehr.

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 vertrekkenVon 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]
 

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