Zywa Get your hands dirty

Fantasies are wonderful
to read and to imagine
as an exploration

of yourself and the world
After that, you have to go out
and open doors

to your desires, so as not to
get stuck in beautiful dreams
and not to keep postponing

because you don't dare yet
and convince yourself
that you should know more first

If you want to live, you have to
get your hands dirty, otherwise
you will remain a dream yourself

Poem 5835
Amsterdam, 2026-01-18
Within the skin (Han Voskuil) - 2009
Autobiographical novel "Binnen de huid" (written 1964-1967), i. a. chapter 21 - Amsterdam, Saturday night November 13th, 1954 (discussion about writing)
Collection: Elude
Tribute to: Voskuil, Han 
 

I know what it is

to believe: unceasingly --


longing and hoping.


Ik weet wat het isIch weiß, was es heißt
om te geloven: alsmaar --zu glauben: die ganze Zeit --

verlangen, hopen.sich sehnen, hoffen.

Poem H5328
Amsterdam, 2025-03-18
is there hope (Renate Dorrestein) - 2009
Novel "is er hoop", part 1, chapter '150 grams almonds, ground'
Collection: Elude
Tribute to: Dorrestein, Renate 
 

Looking at myself

in the mirror I wonder --


what I do not see.


Kijkend naar mezelfIch betrachte mich
in de spiegel vraag ik me --im Spiegel und frage mich --

af wat ik niet zie.was ich nicht sehe.

Poem S2393
Amsterdam, 2024-10-03
Mirrors (Gerry van der Linden) - 2017
Poem "Spiegels" (collection "Verse helden")
Collection: Glimpsed
Tribute to: Van Der Linden, Gerry 
 

You only need to

understand yourself, really --


no one needs to know.


Je hoeft slechts jezelfDu musst nur dich selbst
te begrijpen, en niemand --verstehen, ohne dass es --

hoeft het te weten.jemand wissen muss.

Poem H3697
Amsterdam, 2023-02-01
Edith Wengler (Jens Christian Grøndahl) - 2020
Story, § 4
Collection: Home sea
Tribute to: Grøndahl, Jens Christian 
 

Do I know myself,

now that I believe I see --


that you look like me?


Ken ik mezelf, nuKenn ich mich selbst, jetzt
ik jou zie en denk te zien --wo ich denke, ich sehe --

dat je op mij lijkt?dass du wie ich bist?

Poem S1436
Amsterdam, 2022-06-22
Never (Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Ellen ten Damme) - 2009
Poem/Song "Nog nooit" (album "Durf jij"), sung by Ellen ten Damme
Collection: Palace of the night
Tribute to: Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard; Ten Damme, Ellen 
 

In cities you may

get to know your real self as --


a species-member.


In de stad kun jeIn der Stadt kannst du
jezelf goed leren kennen --dich sehr gut kennenlernen --

als lid van de soort.als Mitglied der Art.

Poem H3126
Amsterdam, 2021-11-13
Collection: I am
 

Zywa Nixa (MO)

Oh, you noble knights
and wise old women
I couldn't care less

about advice and pity
what do you know

about this nix city
or the commotion in my heart
you can't see the blood

flow to my face, my lips
twitching, my smile telling

what I won't say or write
you can't hear the charm
of my voice, I know

my problems
better than you do

Poem 2142
Amsterdam, 2019-03-09
Nixa (MO) = Nothing but a crossroads
Collection: Inflictions
Dedicated to: Siera Mayhew 
 

I know my grandad

from pictures, old stories, and --


from my own genes too.


Ik ken mijn opaIch kenne Opa
van foto's, verhalen en --von Fotos, Geschichten und --

mijn eigen genen.von meinen Genen.

Poem H1884
Amsterdam, 2017-12-03
On the death of Herman H
Collection: Life line 
Dedicated to: Ineke J, Mark H, Christel H, Ellen H, Marianne H 
 

Such beautiful eyes

my teacher has, I use them --


to look at myself.


Zo'n mooie ogenSo schöne Augen
heeft mijn leraar, ik leen ze --mein Lehrer hat, ich leih sie --

om mijzelf te zien.um mich zu sehen.

Poem H0188
De Cocksdorp, 2012-01-31
Collection: The Big Secret
Dedicated to: Kristien vR 
 

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