Zywa After you

At home, no clothes on
brushing my hair
putting on makeup
laughing in the mirror

Toasting myself:
I love me
after you

At home, no clothes on
the curtains open
free, free in sight
of the dark

In the night I am free
in the night I love me
after you

Let the streets see me
let the night see me
I'm not going to hide
after you

Everyone may see me
I love me
after you

Poem 5313
Amsterdam, 2023-09-30
I Love Me After You (Mitski) - 2023
Song (album "The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We")
Collection: Reaching out
Tribute to: Mitski (Miyawaki, Mitski) 
 

We like each other,

we are the same, are in love --


with ourselves maybe.


We zijn hetzelfde,Wir sind gleich, mögen
houden van elkaar, verliefd --uns gegenseitig, verliebt --

op onszelf misschien.in uns selbst vielleicht.

Poem H3471
Amsterdam, 2022-09-26
A year like (no) other (Kristien Hemmerechts) - 2003
Diary "Een jaar als (g)een ander"
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2000-2009
Tribute to: Hemmerechts, Kristien 
 

Zywa Cherish, cherish me

Depilated from inside
opened and closed around
the navel, the core
of the beauty of the body
and the pearl in my scar

Cherish me, cherish me
let me feel and feel
that you are there, you are there

It is not my skin that I soften
in the bath, it is my muscles
and my soul, warm and supple
they must be to myself
to keep myself together

Cherish me, cherish me
let me feel and feel
that you are there, you are there

How much inner, how much
internal fight do I yet have
ahead, how much injury
to suffer before I can't
don't want to, will not go on?

Cherish me, cherish me
let me feel and feel
that you are there, you are there

Poem 4576
Amsterdam, 2022-07-08
Collection: Dearme
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

To love myself is

to care and help me to be --


a worthy person.


Van mezelf houdenMich selbst zu lieben
is zorgzaam mezelf helpen --ist sorgsam sein, mir helfen --

een goed mens te zijn.tugendhaft zu sein.

Poem H3362
Amsterdam, 2022-07-07
Collection: Dearme
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa Dearme [2]

I awake with a start, from the heat
as if you were lying heavy on me

I don't make a sound, sleepily I turn
the duvet down. You are not here

The door is locked
it's quiet in the house

I think of Missy in the other room
see her eyes light up in the basket

pricked up at the slightest sound
I make, a sigh

turning my pillow over
the thought of a caress

Being in love may be enough
care and company, I can organise

I shouldn't want everything
and yet I must, I want to

give myself everything
as much as possible

Poem 4573
Amsterdam, 2022-07-06
Collection: Dearme
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa Landsailor

Loving Apart Together, each
his own music, his own habits
I'm willing to change mine

for something more pleasant
but not just for you
not just anchor

in the rippling water
of a harbour, no longer breaking
the waves with the ship at my feet

my breasts untouchably
coveted, no longer being the bow
that steers the hands of the steersman

You give a sniff at the musky smell
of the rutting squirters
in my breaking charms

You mock them with envious eyes
you lay down sweet smiles
and hawsers of homeliness

You hit the quays full of bollards
you're so handy, unhandy
in love like landsailors

Poem 3852
Amsterdam, 2021-06-28
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début
 

Not to know myself,

to keep surprising myself --


yes, that's what I love!


Mezelf niet kennen,Mich nicht zu kennen,
mezelf blijven verrassen --mich noch zu überraschen --

ja, daar houd ik van!ja, das liebe ich!

Poem H2847
Amsterdam, 2020-12-10
Vanishing point (Wytske Versteeg) - 2020
Story "Verdwijnpunt"
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2020-2029
Tribute to: Versteeg, Wytske 
 

They are not in love

anymore, but luckily --


they did conceive me.


Ze houden niet meerSie lieben sich nicht
van elkaar, maar gelukkig --mehr, haben aber zum Glück --

verwekten ze mij.zuerst mich gezeugt.

Poem H2762
Amsterdam, 2020-08-03
I Go Back to May 1937 (Sharon Olds) - 1987
Collection "The Gold Cell"
Collection: Em Brace
Tribute to: Olds, Sharon 
 

I do love myself,

and I do love you, I say --


to my reflection.


Ik hou van mezelf,Ich liebe mich, und
en ik hou van jou, zeg ik --ich liebe dich, sage ich --

tot mijn spiegelbeeld.meinem Spiegelbild.

Poem H2738
Amsterdam, 2020-06-19
I love me (Harrie Jekkers) - 1997
Song "Ik hou van mij" (album "Mijn ikken")
Collection: Em Brace
Tribute to: Jekkers, Harrie 
 

Zywa Into myself

The rippling sings
for me, only I
am here, it plays
with itself and it sings

so beautifully and clearly
for me, everything
caresses me with colours
and is loving me

it exults and dances
charms
above and below
disappear

I exist, I can no longer
think, satisfied I am
sinking into the scent
of my seed

dressed in the spotty light
of rocking water
I am merging with you
and you sing, you sing!

Poem 2732
Amsterdam, 2020-02-29
Pipe dreams (Mary Jane Leach) - 1989
Narcissus
Gerrie Meijers plays "Pipe dreams"
Collection: ORG anp ark 
Composer: Leach, Mary Jane 
 

Zywa Fleaing myself

I look sideways at the flowers
I picked in the woods this morning
they stretch in the warmth
of my bedroom

outside, the rain rustles
over the traffic, the city
hidden behind the soft wall
of the curtains

the light from the clouds
shines broadly around
the candles on the plates
on the floor next to my bed

my skin is showered smooth
I brush the downy hair
this is me, to be loved
and coddled

I stroke my heart
it is not arousing
to whisper to myself
I love you

I stretch and pile pillows
under my buttocks, what shall I
fantasize, here I lie
as a queen

Poem 2527
Amsterdam, 2019-12-03
Fleaing is not: defleaing, but: removing skin flakes from the fur
Collection: Dearme
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa I feel my cuts

They say I live in a fantasy
they say I need to see my doctor
they say I am troubled

    Some of them don't like me
and I don't like me
being that girl

who hates to look in the mirror
but dresses up to catch your eye
who is never afraid

to make statements
to be stubborn, just
to be frank, longing

to be submissive
and to gain the carnal
pleasure of my body

Yet I'm drowning
while waiting for help --
it is arranged for next year

They say I lie to myself
they say I am different
than I feel, and I feel

my cuts

Poem 2245
Amsterdam, 2019-05-18
Collection: Inflictions
Dedicated to: Siera Mayhew 
 

Zywa Intimate work of art

My body becomes a wreck
if I don't take care of it
and am dissatisfied

if it's not all that beautiful
as it seems, and so much
should change what can't be done

I see shiny people everywhere
they devote their bodies
as temples

of flesh, bones, and blood
to plastic beauty
or something higher

but my temple is for myself
a work of art
of my mind

that listens
when my body calls
for recognition and tenderness

to give and to receive
I am not an avatar
but intimately myself

Poem 2176
Amsterdam, 2019-03-23
Intimacy - 2019
Book "Intimiteit"
Collection: Inflictions
Tribute to: Verhaeghe, Paul 
Dedicated to: Siera Mayhew 
 

Incense, myrrh, and gold:

gifts for the love of the child --


inside each of us!


Wierook, mirre, goud:Weihrauch, Myrrhe, Gold:
voor de liefde van het kind --für die Liebe des Kindes --

in ieder van ons!in jedem von uns!

Poem H2334
Amsterdam, 2018-12-12
Collection: Without reserve
 

Zywa Glowing blood

Good day, darling in the mirror
I love you, all day

I will take care of you and as strongly
as my wishful thoughts think

that they will grow from my hands
into my life, rooted

in smiling health
as hungry am I

for lightheartedness
my fears anchored

in glowing blood
my body anchored

in the great soul
of friends everywhere

as hungry am I
for my best self

Poem 1742
Amsterdam, 2018-05-01
Collection: Lilith's Powers
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa Twilight

All the little shutters opened up
feeling what is going on
in the twilight
within me

not fantasizing
feeling what is going on
outside, over there, a farewell
their arms around each other

and all the way long
my legs are tired
from the runner who smiles
at the happy woman

tears in my eyes
over the baby in her pram
it is getting dark
my window a mirror

in which my preliminary self
asks for love
for my marriage
under construction

and for my body
oh mirror image
I love you
I do what I can

Poem 1697
Amsterdam, 2018-02-28
Collection: Dearme
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa Sweet I

The dragon is hungry, biting
away my resistance, eating
my powers, sweet-I

is falling apart –
it just happens
and it hurts

I fight it with dragon-
killers, they do their best
my love runs back and forth

between other fronts
he doesn't tempt me
to what I need

what we could
draw a banning circle
so I just

retreat, observe where
in my battered inside
the dragon is roaring

for attention and love
for my best self
to be exposed

Poem 1644
Amsterdam, 2018-01-15
Collection: Dearme
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa Love yourself

Darling, maybe you are an angel
and I for you

someone who believes in you
someone who dares

as if it were forever
someone who decides so

and confirms with a clasp of hands
in the silence of not knowing

and exactly knowing
that love is too big

and cannot help
but disguise itself

in half work and failures
to love yourself

Poem 1515
Amsterdam, 2017-08-17
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début
 

Zywa Cradle

Along the curtain, the caress
of the wind that embraces me

in the middle of the sun window
of the floor of the room

my feet on the carpet
reach deep into the earth

my heat salutes the heat
my breath kisses the wind

I pull the bed into the sunlight
and cradle me in well-being

stretched out and opened wide
I glide into the world

Poem 1177
Amsterdam, 2017-03-10
A woman in the sun (Edward Hopper) - 1961
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)
Collection: NightWatch
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 

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