Is a saint being

himself, without bothering --


anyone at all?


Is een heiligeIst ein Heiliger
zichzelf, zonder anderen --sich selbst, ohne andere --

lastig te vallen?zu belästigen?

Poem H5000
Amsterdam, 2024-10-24
For God and Social Services (Nicolien Mizee) - 2000
Novel "Voor God en de Sociale Dienst", October 4th, 1999
Collection: In the shadow
Tribute to: Mizee, Nicolien 
 

Can't you let me dance

in the street, to the music --


I like to dream of?


Laat mij toch dansen,Lass mich tanzen, auf
op de straat, op de muziek --der Straße, zu der Musik --

waarvan ik graag droom.von der ich träume.

Poem S2388
De Koog, 2024-09-28
The perpetual motion machine of love (Renate Dorrestein) - 1988
Novel "Het perpetuum mobile van de liefde", chapters 1 Zet eens een kroon op uw liehiefde (Crown your lo-ove), and 2 Haar kop eraf! (Off with her head!)
Collection: Lack
Tribute to: Dorrestein, Renate 
 

He makes theatre!

Would he have any idea --


who he is today?


Hij maakt theater!Er macht Theater!
Zou hij een idee hebben --Hätte er eine Ahnung --

wie hij vandaag is?wer er heute ist?

Poem S2209
Amsterdam, 2024-05-31
Imaginations - II (Robert Nasveld) - 1985
Melodrama (1985/2023), performed by Tobias Greenhalgh (baritone), Chris Buckman (piano) and a doll, in the Organpark on May 31st, 2024
Collection: org anp ARK 
Composer: Nasveld, Robert 
 

Interiors are

also the exteriors --


of the residents.


Een interieurEin Interieur
is ook het exterieur --ist auch das Exterieur --

van de bewoner.seines Bewohners.

Poem H4478
Amsterdam, 2024-01-29
Outside, it's Monday (J. Bernlef) - 2003
Novel "Buiten is het maandag", § 6-7
Collection: Being my own museum
Tribute to: Bernlef, J. 
 

There, dancing sisters

of Calimero, yet big --


is their loud cackling.


Dansende zusjesTanzende Schwestern
van Calimero, maar groot --von Calimero: wie groß --

is hun gekakel.ist ihr Gegacker.

Poem H4453
Amsterdam, 2024-01-21
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Modest Mussorgski) - 1874
Composition "Pictures at an Exhibition", in an arrangement (2023) by Marc Kaptijn performed in the Organpark by the Amsterdam Wind Quintet and Maarten van der Bijl (organ) on January 21st, 2024 - Toni Pagot drew Calimero in 1963 ("They are big and I is small")
Collection: org ANP ark 
Composer: Mussorgski, Modest 
 

The chicks are dancing

around drolly in their shells --


their thick diapers.


De kuikens dansenDie Küken tanzen
koddig rondjes in hun dop --ulkig in ihren Schalen --

hun dikke luier.in ihren Windeln.

Poem H4454
Amsterdam, 2024-01-21
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Modest Mussorgski) - 1874
Composition "Pictures at an Exhibition", in an arrangement (2023) by Marc Kaptijn performed in the Organpark by the Amsterdam Wind Quintet and Maarten van der Bijl (organ) on January 21st, 2024
Collection: org ANP ark 
Composer: Mussorgski, Modest 
 

The great hairstylist

conjures up my character --


with pin, wire, and foam.


De kapper tovertDer Friseur zaubert
mijn karakter te voorschijn --meinen Charakter herbei --

met speld, draad en schuim.mit Klammer, Draht, Schaum.

Poem H4210
Amsterdam, 2023-10-11
Collection: I am
 

She flows out, her sea

of words is not a story --


no, it is herself.


Ze stroomt uit, haar zeeIhr Meer aus Worten
van woorden is geen verhaal --ist nicht eine Geschichte --

nee, zij is het zelf.nein, es ist sie selbst.

Poem H4156
Amsterdam, 2023-09-15
The GP and the light girl (Simon Vestdijk) - 1952
Novel "De dokter en het lichte meisje", chapter "I'm getting myself into something"
Collection: Inmost [2]
Tribute to: Vestdijk, Simon 
 

I surrender and

dance, at home, across the room --


singing with my arms.


Ik geef me overIch ergebe mich,
en dans thuis door de kamer --tanze durch den Raum, singe --

Mijn armen zingen.mit meinen Armen.

Poem H3679
Amsterdam, 2023-01-21
Nebula (Giulio Tosti) - 2023
On January 21st, 2023 Giulio Tosti improvises on the Verschueren organ in the Organpark, under the title "Nebula"
Collection: org ANP ark 
Composer: Tosti, Giulio 
 

It takes me a lot

of time to properly show --


my inner beauty.


Het kost een mens tijdEin Mensch braucht Zeit, um
om innerlijke schoonheid --seine innere Schönheit --

goed te laten zien.richtig zu zeigen.

Poem H3418
Amsterdam, 2022-08-16
Self-expression / No-makeup look
Collection: Changing Times
 

A women's circle,

long hair waving in the wind --


dresses flying up.


Vrouwen in een kring,Ein Kreis von Frauen
lange haren in de wind --mit langen Haaren im Wind --

vliegende rokken.fliegende Kleider.

Poem H2666
Zandvoort aan Zee, 2020-02-02
Collection: Local tardiness
 

You should be yourself,

but don't bother anyone --


that's the condition.


Je moet jezelf zijn,Du musst du selbst sein,
maar je valt niemand lastig --nur, störe niemanden, sonst --

anders mag het niet.ist es nicht erlaubt.

Poem S0889
Vlissingen, 2019-06-04
Maurits and the facts (Gerrit Krol) - 1986
Novel "Maurits en de feiten", § 23
Collection: Wean Di
Tribute to: Krol, Gerrit 
 

Zywa The dancing animal

At most one percent
of the time we live
we dance, and yet

our arms and legs seem to be
made for it: man, the dancing animal
of controlled, free courtship
the high stakes of our life
on the stage of each other's eyes

where we want to exist
in the role we have
obtained and kept up

Deeds not done and worries
fill the days, duties
the mighty spirits
between the scenes
afraid

for the body, for suffering
afraid to be or not to be
a dancing animal

Poem 1920
Amsterdam, 2018-11-12
Collection: Metamorphic body
 

My signature then:

who I was, sixteen years old --


with a line through it.


Mijn handtekening:Meine Unterschrift:
wie ik was, zestien jaar oud --wer ich mit sechzehn mal war --

met een streep erdoor.mit einem Strich durch.

Poem H1823
Amsterdam, 2017-10-09
The hard core - 2 (Frida Vogels) - 1993
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" (2) - 1946, Amsterdam
Collection: ThereFrom
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 

I want to write in

the way that the words fit me --


as a second skin.


Ik wil zo schrijven,Ich will so schreiben,
dat de woorden mij passen --dass die Worte mich passen::

als een tweede huid.eine zweite Haut.

Poem H1781
Ufhusen, 2017-08-25
Diary 1954-1957 (Frida Vogels) - 2005
"Dagboek 1954-1957" - October 14th, 1957, Rome
Collection: ThereFrom
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 

Zywa Unwanted talents

Whether you have many or few talents
life is the same for everyone
and knows only one reward:

you must experience for yourself
what you find meaningful
and when weighing one

against the other, you must
have the discipline, for your own sake
to act according to the outcome

The recognition of your merits
by others is never enough
Your own perspective reaches

beyond short-lasting gratitude and low pay
beyond short-lived results
that are rarely neatly stored away

and are quickly cleared away
with careless ease, so that
you cannot even dust them off

Your own perspective reaches
towards eternity
and towards the fulfilment

of all your talents
even those that no one
in your environment cares about

Poem 1015
Amsterdam, 2017-02-14
Collection: Blown sand
 

I write what I think,

odd as it is, as I am:


myself, read by me.


Ik schrijf wat ik denk,Ich schreib was ich denk,
vreemd, zoals ik ben: mijzelf --seltsam, wie ich bin: ich selbst --

door mij gelezen.von mir gelesen.

Poem H1581
Amsterdam, 2016-10-31
I am a stern narrator (Ricardo Reis) - 1932
Poem "Severo narro" (Fernando Pessoa)
Collection: Look at me 
Tribute to: Reis, Ricardo; Pessoa, Fernando 
 

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