Zywa

People pity you,

but you laugh at it yourself --

You are so cheerful.



Mensen beklagen	Die Leute bemit-
jou, maar jijzelf lacht daarom --	leiden dich, aber du lachst --

zo vrolijk ben je.	So fröhlich bist du.

Poem H5712
Amsterdam, 2025-07-19
The little portrait of you with the big hat (Frida Vogels) - 1994
Verse "Het portretje van je met de grote hoed", published in the collection "De harde kern 3" ("The hard core 3", part V [Mother]), and in "Diary 1962-1963" - April 19th, 1962, Bologna (Condolence letter from Ennio's mother about Frida's mother, who died on March 6th, 1957)
Collection: ThereFrom
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida

Safe in the rock of

father's arm, floating along --

with all life on earth.



Veilig in de rots	Sicher im Felsen
van vaders arm meedeinen --	von Vaters Arm zu treiben --

met alles wat leeft.	mit allem, was lebt.

Poem H5685
Amsterdam, 2025-07-14
Rock (Esther Kin) - 2025
Ink drawing "Rots"
Collection: The Big Secret
Tribute to: Kin, Esther

Today I'm going

with the flow and if I bump --

I'll do it gently.



Vandaag ga ik mee	Heute schwimme ich
met de stroom en als ik bots --	mit dem Strom und wenn ich mal --

dan doe ik dat zacht.	anstoße, dann sanft.

Poem H5588
Amsterdam, 2025-06-04
A gentle day (Eva Gouda) - 2022
Poem "Een zachte dag"
Collection: Stream
Tribute to: Gouda, Eva
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk, Yuk Lin M

Are we not allowed

to sleep with the parasites --

who are good to us?



Mogen we soms niet	Dürfen wir denn nicht
naar bed met de klaplopers --	mit den Schmarotzern schlafen --

die goed voor ons zijn?	die gut zu uns sind?

Poem S2625
Amsterdam, 2025-04-03
Odyssey (Homer) - -800
Epic poem, book 22: Odysseus and Telemachus hang the servants who had a relationship with the squandering men who wanted to marry Penelope
Collection: After the festivities
Tribute to: Homerus

Among each other

no more fighting, just going --

with the flow, the flood.



Onderling geen strijd	Untereinander
meer voeren, meebewegen --	kein Streit, einfach mitgehen --

met de stroom, de vloed.	mit dem Strom, der Flut.

Poem H5154
Amsterdam, 2025-01-02
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis) - 2024
Animated film
Collection: Summer birds
Tribute to: Zilbalodis, Gints

I must go with it,

and so do you, the stream pulls --

everyone along.



Spartelen helpt niet,	Zappeln hilft uns nicht,
ik moet mee, jij ook, de stroom --	ich muss mit, du auch, der Strom --

trekt iedereen mee.	reißt uns alle mit.

Poem H4188
Amsterdam, 2023-09-30
Sequence (Jan Welmers) - 1979
Composition "Sequens", for organ, performed by Jan Hage in the Organpark on September 30^th, 2023
Collection: org ANP ark
Composer: Welmers, Jan

Zywa The Great Falls in Paterson (NJ)

The fall draws me
         as the view drew me
                   along many landscapes
                            and what I experienced
                                      and learned along the way
                                               opened up many avenues
to new plans
         new places, and
                   new people
                            new opportunities with
                                      new insights
                                               and new acceptance
I remember everything
         even more intense than it was
                   brighter than in the full sun
                            purer is my love
                                      purer are my choices
                                               purer my desires
in the final fall
                   with less pleasure
                                      and less expectation

and what I did not achieve
         did not get and
                   could not prevent
                            dissolves in the sea
                                      of eternity
                                               fall after fall

Poem 5084
Amsterdam, 2023-02-27
The Descent (William Carlos Williams) - 1948
Poem "The Descent" in: "Paterson", Book Two, Section 3 (1948, William Carlos Williams)
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2000-2009
Tribute to: Williams, William Carlos

Zywa Sea above the sea

There's a thin sea drifting
above the sea, I float
everywhere, infinitely
between ancestors
and unborn

The sea kisses and plays
pulls me under water
up in high foams
which splash apart into
my new rainbow wisps

over the sea, from the sea
the bearing sea
engulfing sea
evaporating sea

making depths out
of valleys, creative
darkness, the sea
the full empty sea

Poem 5073
Amsterdam, 2023-01-30
From and To Infinity, Intro (Niels Brouwer) - 2023
Composition "From and To Infinity", for voice and 70 bamboo flutes (2019, BOI AKIH: Niels Brouwer; lyrics Monica Akihary), intro
The version for voice, guitar, kora, percussion, recorder and organ (2023) was performed in the Organpark on January 29th, 2023, by Monica Akihary (voice, kalimba), Niels Brouwer (guitars), Sekou Dioubate (kora, slit drum), Dodó Kis (recorders), and Nora Mulder (organ)
Collection: org ANP ark
Composer: Brouwer, Niels

No goodbye: we stay

together, cheerful, nothing --

is for the last time.



Geen afscheid: vrolijk	Kein Abschied: fröhlich
samen zijn, nooit voor het laatst --	sind wir, nie zum letzten Mal --

iets zeggen of doen.	was sagen, was tun.

Poem H3025
Amsterdam, 2021-08-21
Collection: Dearme
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk

It is spring again,

every year it will be spring --

every year I bloom.



Het wordt weer lente,	Wieder mal Frühling,
elk jaar wordt het weer lente --	jedes Jahr wird's Frühling sein --

elk jaar bloei ik op.	jedes Jahr blüh ich.

Poem H3013
Amsterdam, 2021-08-16
Collection: On living on [1]

Zywa The Bittersweet Secret

Listen, follow my words
maybe they'll open you
to the Big Secret

and anchor it
in your mind, the gravity
of it in your heart, a sense

of what life is, your
life on planet earth
People in love know it

for a while, while it lasts
It changes everything
you do, everything you see

The world and you adjust
easily and by themselves
Osmoses over and back

free from friction and irritations
of your skin, that flow the bittersweet
out of you and into you

Poem 3900
Amsterdam, 2021-07-18
Bittersweet (solanum dulcamara, active against eczema and witchcraft)
Collection: Dearme
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk

A new issue can

adjust in a new pattern --

as Euréjà vu!



Een nieuwe kwestie	Ein Problem fügt sich
voegt zich in een nieuw patroon --	in eine neuen Struktur --

als euréjà vu!	als Euréjà vu!

Poem H2941
Amsterdam, 2021-04-23
Homecoming: a novel (Bernhard Schlink) - 2006
Novel "Die Heimkehr"
"Die Gedanken sind frei" ("Thoughts are free", 1780, with music in the "Lieder der Brienzer Mädchen" from 1800)
Collection: Em Brace
Tribute to: Schlink, Bernhard

Zywa Harmony / Chaos

I let myself go
in the stream, with the stream
I sense
the bed, the banks

My fingertips brush the rocks
and the crocodiles
feel where they crush
at which angles they cut
I know the tension
of their muscles, legs, jaws

and I let them go
in my stream, with my stream
My bed and receding banks
give them the space
of wasted efforts
and squishy spots on their soul

that seeks salvation
in the stream, the great stream
without a bed, without banks
and without direction

Poem 2253
Amsterdam, 2019-05-29
Collection: Bruises

Zywa Lotus spring

There is a time for everything
that is beautifully said

but it's an ugly prospect
that there will always be violence

and worse, with and without love
the world will continue revolving

     a chaos of actions
     and reactions with traces

     of insights, wishes and
     intentions, the repetition

     of New Years again
     the children shout after the game

          again the time
          of starting and finishing

          time to do my best
          to rest and to be content

          again the lotus spring
          and my arms around you

Poem 2008
Amsterdam, 2019-01-04
Collection: New Ago

Zywa Streamo (Flowing)

I know too many people, seriously
I am very, very busy

calling them and having tea together
it can not be done, my day

is too short and life is sand
leaking out of my hand

Of course, I must not clench
it is only an illusion

hiding that I am lying
in the body of the earth

breathing in her lungs
and eating in her belly

flowing in her existence
with my love, my lover and my friends

together, wherever we are
at the same time fully conscious

that the weeks are running through the years
and the years through our lives

Poem 1945
Amsterdam, 2018-11-29
Collection: Dearme
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk

And then it is time

to get married: you do it --

if someone wants you.



En dan is het tijd	Und dann ist es Zeit
om te trouwen: je doet het --	zu heiraten: du machst es --

als iemand jou wil.	wenn jemand dich will.

Poem S0555
Amsterdam, 2017-11-02
Diary 1962-1963 (Frida Vogels) - 2007
"Dagboek 1962-1963" - June 19th, 1963, Bologna
Collection: Beyond the Cape
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida

Zywa Wavemixtrail

I need a lot more time
to see myself

go over the waves
and in the tunnels

of breaking waves
being one with them

I need a lot more time
to see you

with me, to mix
our colours with love

to something new
being one out of two

I need a lot more time
to see other people

in the stations
which are there

to teach that we are
being one, connected

Poem 1431
Amsterdam, 2017-07-12
Collection: Lilith's Powers
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk

The shop-girl likes to

flirt a bit, live carelessly --

and enjoy her day.



Ze wil een beetje	Sie möchte flirten,
flirten, zorgeloos leven --	möchte unbeschwert leben --

Ervan genieten.	und es genießen.

Poem H1703
Amsterdam, 2017-06-22
On closer inspection (Han Voskuil) - 1963
Autobiographical novel "Bij nader inzien" - January 22nd, 1948
Collection: Elude
Tribute to: Voskuil, Han

Zywa Thirst

Wherever I go, always
will my journey end

on the shore of a sea
into which the land flows
with a view of infinite

amniotic fluid that gives life
makes everyone's blood flow
and carries your seed through

trenches, over mountains and valleys
to the hereafter, it fills
my cells, my breasts

round with joy
quenches my daily thirst
and drowns my worries

I catch it from the sky
and lift it from wells

Poem 1312
Amsterdam, 2017-04-26
Water is the primordial substance (Thales) - 600
Thales of Miletus
Collection: Metamorphic body
Tribute to: Thales

Zywa Born in light

Born in light
tasting what life is
rolling and running
full laughing most of all
and the wheel turns the water

around the earth surrounded by
winds with clouds and
the fire of the sun
the wheel of beauty:
the seasons

bamboo shoots and blossoms
all dying
the fluttering flight of the skylark
the wonders of the forest
beavers reconstructing the brook

a junebug on a journey
over my leg and flying
in my hand which I close
and open again
the smells

of vegetable being cooked
moss and steaming dew
mushrooms in autumn
the village in the winter months
when the stoves burn

the wheel of my life
my kids, my work
the colours of my clothes and
from my hands the healing voice
of seven long strings

Poem 1047
Amsterdam, 2017-02-20
The tale of the princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) - 2013
Traditional stry
Film "Kaguyahime no monogatari"
Collection: web tissue
Tribute to: Takahata, Isao

Well, doing what you

can do, there is quite a lot --

that remains undone.



Ach ja, je doet wat	Na ja, man tut, was
je kunt doen en zodoende --	man tun kann, und vieles bleibt --

blijft er veel liggen.	dann unerledigt.

Poem H1652
Amsterdam, 2017-01-14
Sir Bumble and The Evil Whispers (Marten Toonder) - 1968
Comic strip #121 - "Heer Bommel en De kwade inblazingen", tier 6169
Collection: Puss & Lord
Tribute to: Toonder, Marten

Along the river,

I am cycling and flowing --

Breathing together.



Langs de rivier bocht	Mit dem Rad am Fluss
na bocht fietsen en stromen --	entlang fahren und fließen --

Samen ademen.	Gemeinsam atmen.

Poem H1495
Amsterdam, 2016-09-24
Collection: WoofWoof

Dozing, I vibrate

along with the world outside --

A leaf in the wind.



Doezelend tril ik	Dösend vibriere
mee met de wereld buiten --	ich mit der Welt da draußen --

Een blad in de wind.	Ein Blättchen im Wind.

Poem H0027
Amsterdam, 2011-11-26
Collection: Greeting from before

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