Words are behaviour,

not strictly true; read them just --


like body language.


Woorden zijn gedrag,Worte: lese sie
niet letterlijk waar; lees ze --als Verhalten, genauso --

net als lichaamstaal.wie Körpersprache.

Poem H6104
Amsterdam, 2026-02-15
The arrogant ape (Christine Webb) - 2025
Primatological Study
Collection: On the fly
Tribute to: Webb, Christine 
 

Would a personal

message without emoji --


be without feelings?


Zou een persoonlijkWären Nachrichten
bericht zonder emoji --ohne Emoji einfach --

zonder gevoel zijn?ohne Gefühle?

Poem S2973
Amsterdam, 2025-09-19
Hey good morning, how are you? (Martina Hefter) - 2024
Novel "Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir?", chapter Four
Collection: Glimpsed
Tribute to: Hefter, Martina 
 

My brother. These two

precious words contain eddies --


of connectedness!


Mijn broer. Deze tweeMein Bruder. Diese
woorden bevatten kolken --Worte enthalten Wirbel --

van verbondenheid!der Verbundenheit!

Poem H5748
Amsterdam, 2025-07-27
My brother (Frida Vogels) - 1994
Verse "Mijn broer", published in the collection "De harde kern 3" ("The hard core 3", part VI [Kees]), and in "Diary 1962-1963" (2007) - December 12th, 1963, Bologna
Collection: Beyond the Cape
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 

He is just joking

in his language, he's in love --


and has a choice-ache.


Hij maakt een grapjeEr scherzt in seiner
in zijn taal, zijn verliefdheid --Sprache, seine Verliebtheit --

geeft hem 'kiespijn'.gibt ihm Wahlschmerzen.

Poem H5350
Amsterdam, 2025-03-30
Gala (Ronald Giphart) - 2003
Novella, chapters 'Met allen dwaas' ('Foolish with all of us') and 'Worstelen en ontzwemmen' ('Wrestling and unswimming')
Kiespijn = [1] toothache, [2] choice-ache
Collection: Em Brace
Tribute to: Giphart, Ronald 
 

Breakers, in just this

one word: living water foam --


rumbling and bubbling.


In dat ene woordIn dem Wort Brandung:
branding: levend waterschuim --lebendiger Wasserschaum --

rommelend, bruisend.grollend und tosend.

Poem H4939
De Koog, 2024-09-26
Collection: Silent walk
 

Language forms concepts,

and those forge all kinds of chains --


and you perceive that.


Taal vormt begrippen,Die Sprache bildet
en die smeden ketenen --Konzepte, schmiedet Ketten --

en je beseft dat.und man erkennt das.

Poem H4789
Amsterdam, 2024-07-20
Grimus (Salman Rushdie) - 1975
Novel
(A Simurg(h) ['Thirty birds'] is a Persian legendary creature, an omniscient bird, symbol for someone's world of thought), part 1 Times Present, chapter 1
Collection: Shadows
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman 
 

She deceives me, says

that her words are intended --


for the word-people.


Ze misleidt mij, zegtSie täuscht mich und sagt,
dat haar woorden bedoeld zijn --ihre Worte seien nur --

voor de woordmensen.für die Wort-Menschen.

Poem S2217
Amsterdam, 2024-06-11
Victory City (Salman Rushdie) - 2023
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga, based on Fatehpur Sikri ('Victory City', near Agra), the capital of Emperor Abdul-Fath Jalaluddin 'Akbar' (= 'the Great' >> 'Akbar the Great')], part 1 Birth, chapter 4
Collections: Wind, WriteWiser signage 
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman 
 

Zywa At the top of language

Politicians are at the top
of language, salesperson
and lawyer in one they
compress the voters' words
with lobbyists and preachers
along the line, it's all

about bluff and the art
of getting stuck every now and then
so that a competitor has to come
and help and inconspicuously
pushed on previous promises
crashes, chokes on them

or at least tears
himself inside
on their blade
You too, Brutus?
It is a full moon
The people are cheering

Poem 5446
Amsterdam, 2024-03-05
Rhetoric, Lies, Doublespeak, Doubletalk/Forked tongue
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC)
Collection: PumicePieces
 

Ship's horn, the Morse

signals are getting closer --


vibrating in me.


Scheepshoorn, de morse-Schiffshorn, die Morse-
tekens komen dichterbij --Signale kommen näher --

trillen in mij na.vibrieren in mir.

Poem H4482
Amsterdam, 2024-02-03
Shade/Gradient (Catherine Lamb) - 2023
Composition, performed in the Organpark on February 3rd, 2024, by Elisabeth Smalt (violin and voice) and Lucie Nezri (electronics with organ)
Collection: org ANP ark 
Composer: Lamb, Catherine 
 

We say goodbye, short

- long - stop, the signalling code --


of I think of you.


We nemen afscheid,Wir sagen Tschüss, Kurz
kort - lang - uit, de seincode --- Lang - Aus, der Signalcode --

van Ik denk aan jou.Ich denke an dich.

Poem H4448
Amsterdam, 2024-01-19
recently (Anjet Daanje) - 2016
Novel "jl." (the title also refers to Juno Linnaarts), chapters December 23rd, 1973 and December 9th, 1980
Collection: Finethreads
Tribute to: Daanje, Anjet 
 

Zywa Icon of our time

More and more, we speak picture
language with digital icons of Home
Heart (in the colour of the moment)
Envelope, Clock, Arrow and Bin

but icons of paint and blood travel
with us in their world of gold leaf
as portraits of the life
we like to live

thoughtful and attentive
like a busty bird
showing its feathers

and not camouflaging itself
in the attire of its neighbours
colleagues or pictograms

Poem 4899
Amsterdam, 2022-12-27
With acrylic paintings on canvas, by Ada Breedveld (Dordrecht 1944)
Also for Carla B, Jeanette vdZ, Harry S and Philip L
Collection: The Yellow House Museum
Dedicated to: Ineke J, Hans J, Ruud J, Lucy J, Yuk Lin M 
 

High poetry rhymes

everything: meaning, graphic --


characters and sounds.


De hoogste dichtkunstHohe Poesie
rijmt alles: betekenis --reimt alles: Bedeutung, Schrift-

letters en klanken.zeichen und Klänge.

Poem H3606
Amsterdam, 2022-12-09
Words become Worlds (Ellen van Wolde) - 1994
Study, with previously published work
The book "Bereshit" ("In the beginning" / "Genesis"), written in Lashon Hakodesh ("the holy tongue"), i.e. the classical Hebrew
Collection: No wonder
Tribute to: Van Wolde, Ellen 
 

Zywa The revolution

We should have educated the immigrants
have taught them our language
and forbidden theirs

Since the new Queen
it was dangerous, her relatives
at the court were creative

They wrote
in the language they have always spoken
as a lesson to their children
that this is not their country

They wrote their language in new characters
as an alphabet of independence
and they recorded their own stories
their desire for freedom

They could not be trusted
but we feared an uprising
if we would arrest the leaders

Aaron and Miriam, and Moses the traitor
and then the violence of their words
overthrew the order

Poem 3768
Amsterdam, 2021-04-30
The fatherhood of Manasseh and Ephraim is attributed at the Hebrew Yuya (Joseph) to disconnect his Egyptian position as the father of Tiye and Ay
Queen Tiye, 1398-1338 BCE, was married to Amen-hotep III (Pharaoh 1388-1351 BCE), who introduced the Aton-cult; their oldest son was (crown) prince and high priest Thut-mose (abbreviated: Moses)
Her brother Ay, the royal writer in the temple of Karnak, was undoubtedly one of the Hebrew members of the elite, who simplified the Egyptian hieroglyphs to be able to write in their own language; these new characters were the beginning of the alphabet; he became the last pharaoh of the 18th dynasty
Collection: A Home
 

Zywa Drawings with a D

Grandma Dory enjoys a
100 Drawings
with a D by
Lotte Dematons, and grand-
pa Paul Declares them:
 
Diary – Dagger – Damaged roof – Darts – Star of David – Decor – Devil fish – Diamond – Dice – Discus – Discus fish – Discus thrower – Diving board – Doctor – Dolmen – Dormer – Dossier – Dovecote – Dracula - Draughts – Dried flowers – Driftwood – Dynamite
 
It is Dark under the bellies
of the Dinosaur
and the Dragon while clouds
of hot Damp
hide the Dolphin
with the Diving goggles, and inside
out a Dwarf is lost
but not Disappearing in the round re-
volving Door, that boring maze:
it's one Dead end!
 
In the Dune
at the Douglas firs
and the Daffodils
with a Dahlia
a thief Doubts whether to
eat the Donut, behind
him the Deer barks
at the Didgeridoo
like a Dingo
at the Droning
of the Dutch street organ
trembling Down
all the Dominoes
The great Dalmatian plays the bagpipes
and the Danish Dane
beats the Drum Kit, with the squirrel monkey
on the Djembe, next
to the Dude who
blows a Ditty on his flute, luring
the three Dromedaries of which Fattie
Fat is Dreaming
 
Near the Devil
are three Dinky toddlers
sitting Docilely in front of the
music Director who strikes
glowing Dust particles
in a Duple metre, yet
in his Donald Duck
shirt, the DJ swishes his records
on the Dresser
and the Dompteur swishes his whip
 
On a Deltoid
rug the Dodo and the badger
are still Dancing
for the Domestic help
and the Dame
on the Divan
with her Decolletage
and a Diadem
but the Dove flies away

Poem 3179
Amsterdam, 2020-09-21
To the Charlotte Dematons alphabet (2020)
Collection: The light of words
Tribute to: Dematons, Charlotte 
Dedicated to: Lotte W 
 

Zywa 00 LU

I can talk to men, and laugh
with my girlfriends
they are playful, like kids
and you are both
you write me t+

You don't have much time
TM I understand
IMO it is also healthier
for your thumbs

You will see, UNK
&NBD how it works out
HF& you'll always have LOL
with a second and a third choice
to be happy, NP4U

You know that
somehow better
than my friends
00 LU

Poem 2317
Amsterdam, 2019-06-29
Collection: The light of words
 

Zywa New shorthand

Why use old language
if a new one hits shorter and more
powerful into heads and hearts?

Letters are out of time, long, slow
and so privy they wrap reality
in nice words of imagination

The facts are difficult enough
to understand, just keep
to the news of your choice

That's why we uncover the core
cut away the nuances
and speak in plain language

popular Diets Duits Dutch, because
that way ordinary people have
become more worldly-wise

Poem 2099
Amsterdam, 2019-02-16
SMS (Short Message Service) since December 3rd, 1992
Insecurity and populism
Collection: The light of words
 

Zywa Treasuries of words

Poems are not word-
but life-processing

in thought-out feelings
and pain

treasuries of words
from our Language Mother

passed on
to teach

how we live and die
in the open institution

for talking animals
which is our world, and language

developed from hearing to reading
developed from ears to eyes

developed from letter- to image-
pixels, writings on the wall

on side-filling screens
where once were books
waiting for cleaning

Poem 2098
Amsterdam, 2019-02-16
Collection: The light of words
 

A house remains to

be a house if you draw it --


and erase the walls.


Een huis blijft een huisEin Haus bleibt ein Haus,
als je het tekent en al --auch wenn man es zeichnet und --

de muren uitgumt.die Wände wegwischt.

Poem H2260
Amsterdam, 2018-08-03
The house on the square again (Moya De Feyter) - 2018
Poem "Weer het huis op het plein" (collection "Tot iemand eindelijk")
Collection: Over
Tribute to: De Feyter, Moya 
 

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