I want to practise,

it is fun to learn a lot --


it's fun to crack codes.


Ik wil oefenen,Ich möchte üben,
het is leuk om te leren --es macht Spaß, viel zu lernen --
codes te kraken.Codes zu knacken.

Poem H5543
Amsterdam, 2025-05-31
With a photo of Pieter and Lotte playing chess (October 30th, 2019, Grossdietwil)

Pieter and Lotte

Collection: The climbing house
Dedicated to: Lotte W 
 

Is it easier

to acquire knowledge than to --


do away with it?


Verwerf je kennisIst es einfacher,
gemakkelijker dan dat --Wissen zu erlangen als --
je er vanaf komt?es loszuwerden?

Poem S2436
Amsterdam, 2024-10-28
Winarta (Basuki Gunawan) - 1954
Novella, part 4, chapter 3
Collection: Specialities
Tribute to: Gunawan, Basuki 
 

Informing people

means measuring carefully --


concealing a lot.


Een onwetendeDie Unwissenden
voorlichten is voorzichtig --aufklären ist vorsichtig --
zijn, veel verbergen.sein, viel verbergen.

Poem H4254
Amsterdam, 2023-10-27
Collection: Secrets & Believers
 

Children know there is

a lot they don't understand --


adults however...


Kinderen wetenEin Kind weiß, es gibt
dat ze veel niet begrijpen --vieles Unverständliches --
maar volwassenen...aber erwachsen...

Poem H3824
Amsterdam, 2023-05-19
A lightly inhabited island - Faxing to Ger #5 (Nicolien Mizee) - 2022
Diary novel "Een licht bewoond eiland - Faxen aan Ger #5", May 26th, 2000
Collection: Out of place
Tribute to: Mizee, Nicolien 
 

As a reader I

would like to buy with each book --


reading time as well.


Ik lees graag romansAls Leser möchte
en bij elk boek zou ik graag --ich mir mit jedem Buch auch --
ook leestijd kopen.Lesezeit kaufen.

Poem H3811
Amsterdam, 2023-05-05
Appendices and Omissions - Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life (Arthur Schopenhauer) - 1851
"Parerga und Paralipomena - Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit":
"Buying books would be a fine thing, if you could buy the time to read them as well, but buying books is often confused with acquiring their content."

Collection: Out of place
Tribute to: Schopenhauer, Arthur 
 

Zywa Young and old

After my education is the party
Everyone at table, now
we are going into the world
solve the problems
There's nothing better

We can do it
We are entitled to it
Everything is possible
Who does what?
Who has a plan?

     We didn't agree
     and that was against us
     The deal is off
     No happiness for all people
     Mission Failed

     A hard lesson
     to be more or all the less
     realistic
     or both, if you can be young
     and old at the same time

Poem 4656
Amsterdam, 2022-09-09
"Si la jeunesse savait, si la vieillesse pouvait" ("If youth knew, if old age could")
Collection: Lilith's Powers
Dedicated to: Florentin dK 
 

Zywa What I feel

I learn to see
what is important by imitating
the way you look

I feel what you feel
by imitating what you feel
Like a babbling child

my knowledge follows
my body that follows
your movements

The closer the better
my mirror imaging is
but never exactly the same

even if the water is smooth
and that is gone
as soon as I dive into it

Poem 1982
Amsterdam, 2018-12-13
Collection: New Ago
 

Knowledge is bounded

by an abyss, so watch out --


don't crash into it.


Kennis wordt begrensdWissen wird begrenzt
door een afgrond, pas dus op --durch einen Abgrund, Vorsicht --
of je valt erin.sonst fällst du herein.

Poem H2297
Amsterdam, 2018-09-28
A happy smile (Andreas Burnier) - 1965
Novel "Een tevreden lach", chapter 'De Pijp' (The Pipe [neighbourhood])
Collection: Unseen
Tribute to: Burnier, Andreas 
 

When you start, you know

nothing about anything --


Well, that's just the job.


Wanneer je begintWenn man anfängt, weiß
weet je nergens iets vanaf --man von gar nichts etwas, das --
Dat is juist de baan.ist genau der Job.

Poem H1693
Amsterdam, 2017-06-11
The Office - Dirty hands (Han Voskuil) - 1996
Novel "Het Bureau - Vuile handen" - 1967
Collection: Elude
Tribute to: Voskuil, Han 
 

Zywa In the time I have

Sometimes I go crazy with all the life
I want to live, but that does not fit
in the time I have

Emotions get in my way
they proliferate and fill
the time I have

I must shed them with love
because the hard way fails
in the time I have

to break myself open
and shift my attention
to the sun

in the life nearby
to which I can connect
in the time I have

Poem 1369
Amsterdam, 2017-05-21
Collection: Lilith's Powers
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa Paradise Children

Young people are poor thinkers
You must first feed them

on the fruits of that one
special tree of knowledge

of what is useful and detrimental
before they know anything

and once they get that
they understand

that it is the way it has to be
if one doesn't want to remain a paradise child

for whom everything must be ready
in a world without dangers

What is detrimental to that, is good
for humanity, although it is a pity

that many adults do not continue to eat
the fruits of that tree

Poem 1225
Amsterdam, 2017-03-15
Genesis 2:9,17
Tree of the knowledge of good (useful) and bad (detrimental - a practical qualification, not the ethical notion of 'evil')

Collection: A Home
 

Heads with a minus

toppl learn nothing in a school --


but small parrottalk.


Hoofden met een minKöpfe mit minus
kukel leren op een school --Purzl lernen in der Schule --
alleen napraatsels.nur Nachgeplapper.

Poem H1597
Amsterdam, 2016-11-19
Tom Puss and The Toppl (Marten Toonder) - 1963
Comic strip #102 - Tom Poes en Het kukel (tiers 4819-4888), tier 4835 - Toppl: 'kukel', the Groningen word for: magic, original and creative way of thinking
Collection: Puss & Lord
Tribute to: Toonder, Marten 
 

Children ask questions,

and they learn a lot from that --


Just like adults do.


Kinderen vragen,Kinder fragen viel,
daar worden ze wijzer van --dadurch werden sie klüger --
Volwassenen ook.Auch Erwachsene.

Poem H0897
Amsterdam, 2014-04-05
Collection: I am
 

The little girl tells

her grandmother everything --


about conception.


Het meisje legt uitDas Mädchen erklärt
aan haar oma, hoe het zit --ihrer Oma, wie es ist --
met de voortplanting.mit der Fortpflanzung.

Poem H0214
Train Amsterdam-Basel, 2012-02-17
Collection: A Home
 

Starlings
imitate other birds
Starlings
I too werk aan mijn repertoire

I gain knowledge:
I like to learn
I make an effort to learn
I learn to be critical
 

 

 
Study
Beek (Berg en Dal), 1965-10-15
Paul J, atlas
Collection: Photo's 1965
Dedicated to: Paul J 
 

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