What's happening? Come

on, let us go, it's creepy --


that star, that angel.


Wat gebeurt er? Kom,Was ist los? Lass uns
we gaan, het is griezelig --gehen, es ist unheimlich --

die ster, die engel.der Stern, der Engel.

Poem H5967
Amsterdam, 2025-10-10
He whom the shepherds praised (Henk Badings) - 1967
Composition "Quempas", performed in the Organpark by Amerentia van der Kooij (viola) and Arno van Wijk (organ), on October 10th, 2025
Collection: org anp ARK 
Composer: Badings, Henk 
 

The revelation

wakes me: 'I speak to you, and --


thereby you exist'.


De openbaringDie Offenbarung
wekt mij: 'Ik spreek tot je, en --weckt mich: 'Ich spreche zu dir --

daarmee besta je'.also bist du da'.

Poem S2933
Amsterdam, 2025-08-29
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) - 1985
Novel
Collection: May the Might
Tribute to: Atwood, Margaret 
 

God doesn't ask people

for their love, but only for --


their obedience.


God vraagt de mensenNur, von den Menschen
niet om hun liefde, maar om --verlangt Gott keine Liebe --

hun gehoorzaamheid.sondern Gehorsam.

Poem S2192
Amsterdam, 2024-05-18
Shalimar the Clown (Salman Rushdie) - 2005
Novel, chapter Shalimar the Clown, § 2
Collection: Sludge
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman 
 

Zywa It was a revelation

Hoping for a good life
we are willing to endure
the hardships, we persevere

in the face of eternity
in which we will be
respected and enjoy life

It was an ancient revelation
given to the merchant
from our midst, right here

in this holy place
where the despised eldest son
rebuilt the cube with his father

Just like him, we submit ourselves
to the holy promise
of many chosen ones

Poem 4912
Amsterdam, 2023-01-03
Trader: Muhammad in the year 610
Eldest son: of Abraham, namely Ishmael
Cube: (dice): al-Ka'bah
Submission: al-islam
Many chosen ones: Genesis 17:20 (Ishmael was 13 years old, and Isaac was not yet conceived)

Collection: The Praised One
 

The leaders avoid

the prophetess. It doesn't help --


because she has sown.


De leiders mijdenDie Führer meiden
de profetes. Het helpt niet --die Prophetin. Es hilft nicht --

Ze heeft al gezaaid.Sie hat schon gesät.

Poem H3562
Amsterdam, 2022-11-03
Nothing compares 2 U (Sinéad O'Connor) - 1990
Documentary "Nothing compares" (2022, Kathryn Ferguson) about Sinéad O'Connor
Collection: Actively Passive
Tribute to: O'Connor, Sinéad 
 

Zywa Arrival?

He jumped up
made a somersault with twist
and is back in the circle again

as if nothing happened
in those four seconds
(I guess)

How was it?
A flash of beauty
to meditate on now

falling into place myself
from the space of possibilities
and ignorance

Maybe I stay there
Maybe it will shift
Maybe it stays

Poem 3916
Amsterdam, 2021-08-04
Collection: Lilith's Powers
 

Zywa So

Afterwards everything can be
clearly seen in the sky, so
an invisible hand directs
the stars, the sun and the moon
even the kings on earth

as they say themselves, depending
of their own show, in the end
no army is strong enough
to save them, so
it is wise to kneel

urges the teacher with the ointment
who perfectly draws free-hand
circles on the board, so
he sits on the left hand
of the mayor on duty

who receives the golden threads
for the baldachin of power
which he serves or thinks to control
holy holy holy, intoxicated
by incense and blood, so

he continues to weave
his invisible hand

Poem 2321
Amsterdam, 2019-06-30
Myrrh (for ointment, the gift for prophets and healers), gold (the gift for kings), and incense (the gift for gods)
Baldachin = fabric from Baldac (Baghdad)

Collection: The Praised One
 

Zywa If they want a god of thunder and fire, they can have one

We left at the right time
the future was open
relatives welcomed us

They shared the loot
and everyone knew for sure
who led them: the Destroyer
from their smarting past

So I go up the mountain
and I stay away for a long time
to make something tangible
as a gift from their god

I tell them
that He has shown Himself to me
as a light, brighter than the sun
blinding to anyone who would look

the Supreme Being
of which I am the high priest
with a half-name in the service
of the half-believers whom I lead

because better to endure
than an open wound
is a half-truth

Poem 2310
Amsterdam, 2019-06-27
Under the leadership of Moses (Thut-mosis), the remigrants travel in Hejaz and Edom
They: Moses has a Hebrew grandmother, but he was Egyptian, the eldest son of the Pharaoh, who was succeeded by Moses' brother Echn-Aton
God appears on the Horeb, in Tabuk, the northern region of Hejaz, in a burning thornbush (Exodus 3: 2), and on the Sinai in light flashes (Exodus 19:16, 20:18) and a blazing fire (Exodus 19:18, 24:17)
El Shaddai = God Destroyer

Collection: A Home
 

Zywa The crow

The crow is invisible
black in the thin sky
rarefying, connecting
worlds, revealing

messages that I do not understand
until they penetrate me
sharp, deep and indelible
overwhelming, everything

changes and I don't remember
who I was before it turned black
and the beady eyes with their beak
started hacking on me

Poem 2405
Amsterdam, 2019-04-15
The Crow (Kate Moore) - 2019
Performance of "The Crow" (2019, Kate Moore) in the Organparc, by Geerten van de Wetering (organ) and Matthijs Koene (pan-pipes)
Collection: ORG anp ark 
Composer: Moore, Kate 
 

Zywa The hand

Confidently, I hunted down
mentally ill people
It was an epidemic
of credulity

in the empty promise
of a place in heaven
and a heaven on earth
I placed them in quarantine

but they were stubborn
and that gnawed at my zeal
It darkened the light
in my head, so that I fell

The sun spun, clenched
in the hand that pointed at me

to go and risk my life
with my nicest words

Poem 1758
Amsterdam, 2018-05-15
The conversion of Saul, who, with his knowledge as a scripturalist, was a know-it-all
Collection: The King
 

Zywa The Blessed Night

Mary was pregnant
with God, a story
can't be stronger
and I think of myself

as the saint or the prophet
I would like to be, so fulfilled
of pure inspiration I am
in this silent, holy night
of the birth star

Let angels descend
to praise God
and sing peace
I am awake
under the palm tree

which bends its branches
and gives everything: fruit
and a source welling up
between its roots

Poem 1732
Amsterdam, 2018-04-26
Epiphany
Recitation 97. The star (Surah 97. al-Qadr)

Collection: Short Sermons
 

Zywa After the fall

After my fall
I no longer knew the truth
of my book learning

After that fall
I fled forward blindly
to find light
in my ignorance

After the fall
of my convictions
I am now convinced
that I am small

with the great commission
to proclaim the great revelation
to everyone

Poem 1677
Amsterdam, 2018-02-14
Paul experiences God's presence during an epileptic seizure (in the year 38 CE)
Later, the name Paul was incorrectly related to the Greek word paulos (= small)

Collection: The King
 

Pegasus
reveals what really is and true
Pegasus
I too speak out

I honestly tell what I know:
I don't fear the lightning of truth
I don't fear the unfathomableness of truth
I don't fear the consequences of truth
 

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