Writing is the art

of promise, the refined art --


of keeping hungry.


Schrijven is de kunstSchreiben ist die Kunst
van de belofte, van het --des Versprechens, die Kunst um --

hongerig houden.hungrig zu halten.

Poem H5172
Amsterdam, 2025-01-17
The Saint of the Impossible (Arnon Grunberg) - 1998
Novella "De heilige Antonio", chapter 9
Collection: A profession
Tribute to: Grunberg, Arnon 
 

Please mourn with us thrice,

and then forgive us the vows --


we repudiate.


Treur driemaal met ons,Trauere dreimal,
vergeef ons de geloftes --vergib uns die Gelübde --

die we verzaken.die wir aufgeben.

Poem H4217
Amsterdam, 2023-10-13
Prayer "All vows" (Anon. [Palestina] / Max Bruch) - -550
Prayer "Kol Nidre", nowadays sung three times at the beginning of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement); arranged in 1880 by Max Bruch
Collection: Love Mind and Death
Tribute to: Anon. [Palestina] 
Composer: Bruch, Max 
 

You saw it happen:

your future would be with me --


You would be honest.


Jij zag het voor je:Deine Voraussicht:
jouw toekomst zou met mij zijn --du würdest bei mir bleiben --

Jij zou eerlijk zijn.würdest ehrlich sein.

Poem H4064
Amsterdam, 2023-08-21
All Too Well (Taylor Swift) - 2012
Song (created with Liz Rose, album "Red")
Collection: After the festivities
Tribute to: Swift, Taylor 
 

I promised again,

in the meantime already --


crossing the threshold.


Ik beloofde hetIch verspreche es,
keer op keer, maar dan stond ik --aber derweil stehe ich --

al op de drempel.schon an der Schwelle.

Poem S1760
Amsterdam, 2023-05-12
Surrogates for Murk Tuinstra - The history of a friendship (Simon Vestdijk) - 1948
Novel "Surrogaten voor Murk Tuinstra - De geschiedenis van een vriendschap", chapter 3-5 (AD 1911)
Collection: Inmost [1]
Tribute to: Vestdijk, Simon 
 

I am dangerous,

I know: you want so badly --


to believe my words!


Ik ben gevaarlijk,Ich bin gefährlich,
ik weet het: jullie willen --ich weiß: meinen Worten wollt --

mij graag geloven!ihr gerne glauben!

Poem S1578
Amsterdam, 2022-11-27
Collection: The Praised One
 

I penetrate her,

digging for her promises --


my soul roves about.


Ik dring diep in haar,Ich dringe tief ein,
delvend naar haar beloften --grabe ihr Versprechen aus --

mijn ziel snuffelt rond.meine Seele schweift.

Poem H3181
Amsterdam, 2022-01-26
Genk love (Mustafa Kör) - 2017
Poem "Genker liefde" (collection "Ben jij liefde")
Collection: Truder
Tribute to: Kör, Mustafa 
 

Zywa Our promise

The morning sunlight
on our face, our house
of brownstones, the promise
of the future that we chose

It is really starting now, we will
walk along the channeled stream
and the children will play
under the pines on the hill

Here we want to root
broadly and deeply
until the sun sets

We have unpacked our stuff
the cards with congratulations
next to the vase with tulips

the bed open
the house inaugurated

Poem 1683
Amsterdam, 2018-02-17
Sunlight on brownstones (Edward Hopper) - 1956
Painting
Film "Shirley: visions of reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)

Collection: NightWatch
Tribute to: Hopper, Edward; Deutsch, Gustav 
 

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