Zywa

I fold you flat, smooth

you and lay you in the days --

as my life anchor.



Vouw jou, strijk jou glad	Ich falte dich flach,
en leg jou in de dagen --	lege dich in die Tage --

als mijn leefwijzer.	als Lebemarke.

Poem S2229
Amsterdam, 2024-06-20
Perspective (Karim Schelkens) - 2017
Poem "Perspectief" (collection "enkel tegen enkel")
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2010-2019
Tribute to: Schelkens, Karim

After making love

we say nothing, without words --

there can be no lies.



Na het vrijen niets	Sag nichts nach dem Sex,
zeggen, zonder woorden zijn --	denn ohne Worte gibt es --

er ook geen leugens.	auch keine Lügen.

Poem S1524
Noordwijkerhout, 2022-10-03
A time outside time (Susan Smit) - 2016
Story "Een tijd buiten de tijd"
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2010-2019
Tribute to: Smit, Susan

We want each other,

but not like two birds in rut --

desiring to nest.



Wij willen elkaar,	Einander wollen,
maar niet als broedse vogels --	ohne Brunst, nicht wie Vögel --

een nest gaan bouwen.	die ein Nest bauen.

Poem S1021
Amsterdam, 2020-06-09
Text fragment (Anonymous) - 1100
Homosexuality
"Habent omnes volucres / nidos inceptos / nisi ego et tu / Quid expectamus nunc?"
"Hebban olla uogala / nestas hagunnan // hinase hic anda thu / uuat unbidan uue nu?"
Anonymous Old Dutch (West Flemish) and Old English (Kentish) text fragment ("All birds have begun nests, except me and you. What are we waiting for now?")
Collection: Love Mind and Death
Tribute to: Anon. [Vlaanderen]

Zywa In control

I can do anything to myself
get me stuck in dilemmas
ponder myself sick, activate me
or do nothing and wait
alternately on the couch, my bed
or hanging in the garden
between oak and lime

I can worry
about my health
and you, endlessly
make considerations
and decisions

     At least, if that is true
     because thinking is re-
     flecting, chasing after
     the events, telling myself

     that I have control over myself
     that I can make plans
     about my work and my life
     with you, now that everything changes

     and yet later will turn out
     to have stayed almost the same
     but then without this job
     and without you, only

     the transition is uneasy

Poem 2357
Amsterdam, 2019-07-08
Collection: Dearme
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk

Zywa Do it, blame me

Do it, blame me
that you get little attention
It's true

I am
occupied with myself
I'm very well aware

that my life is too short
to postpone

what is important
not only you

also my peculiarities
pleasures, habits
and responsibilities

for my health, at home
with the neighbours and at work
I am proud of it

whatever you think of it
so do it, blame me

that I love myself

Poem 2035
Amsterdam, 2019-01-18
Collection: The drama

Zywa Hurling waves

My darling is a mermaid
drifting ashore with the tide
from the hurling waves
in which she braces herself

I let her lie down quietly
until she extends her arms
and forces her hands
to work precisely

as long as the light burns, setting
out signs, water hours, moon phases
and weather forecasts
a map

of her love
I count the series
draw links with a ruler
determine her position

on the ticking coordinates
of the greedy time
Mistakes are not allowed
in the danger zone

Poem 1284
Amsterdam, 2017-04-21
Collection: On living on [1]
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk, T D

Zywa Do you have a little time?

Are we still we?
Please take a break
from being busy for
more and more
Do you have some time
do you have some time for me?

You are so good
in what you do
and what you want
not wasting a day
Do you have some time
do you have some time for me?

I hope I'm not intruding
because: I belong with you
I want to be close, I do
because my love is true
Do you have some time
do you have some time for that?

You thought of me
waiting in a queue
writing soon I'll see
you, love you too
Do make some time
do make some time for me

Don't run around
please, feel the ground
on which you stand
life is passing
so quickly
so quickly

Poem 709
Amsterdam, 2016-06-30
Do you have a little time? (Dido) - 2003
Song (Dido Armstrong, Rick Nowels en Mark Bates, album "Life for rent")
Collection: Untwisted
Tribute to: Dido (Armstrong, Dido)

Isn't two too many?

Shall I do it alone then? --

That will be faster.



Is twee niet teveel?	Sind zwei nicht zu viel?
Zal ik het maar alleen doen? --	Soll ich's alleine machen? --

Dan gaat het vlugger.	Dann geht es schneller.

Poem H1369
Amsterdam, 2015-12-25
The neighbour (Han Voskuil) - 2012
Novel "De buurman"
1. About thanking neighbours
2. About permanent relationships
Collection: Frustration
Tribute to: Voskuil, Han

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