In winter I hear

myself too much, it is so --


quiet everywhere.


In de winter hoorIm Winter höre
ik mezelf te veel, zo stil --ich mich selbst zu viel, es ist --

is het overal.überall so still.

Poem H6276
Amsterdam, 2026-05-23
Winter (Karl Ove Knausgård) - 2015
Autobiographical novel "Om vinteren", part 1, chapter 'December', § 'Winter sounds' - Glemmingebro (near Ystad)
Collection: Writing
Tribute to: Knausgård, Karl Ove 
 

I cough a little,

it sounds muffled, like a thump --


on a concrete wall.


Ik hoest in de lift,Stille, ich huste,
het klinkt gedempt, als een bons --es klingt gedämpft, wie ein Bums --

op een stuk beton.auf ein Stück Beton.

Poem H5342
Amsterdam, 2025-03-25
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami) - 1985
Novel "Sekai no owari to Hado-boirudo Wandarando" translation 1991), chapter 1, 'Elevator, silence, overweight'
Collection: Within the walls
Tribute to: Murakami, Haruki 
 

I wake up, well, where

am I? Is this an ocean --


of sleeping silence?


Ik word wakker, waarIch wache auf, wo
ben ik? In een oceaan --denn? In einem Ozean --

van slapend zwijgen?schlafendes Schweigens?

Poem H4485
Amsterdam, 2024-02-03
Occam ocean (Éliane Radigue) - 2015
Personal transmission-composition for orchestra, performed in the Organpark on February 3rd, 2024, by ensemble ONCEIM (L'Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations, et Improvisations Musicales) and others - @cello
Collection: org ANP ark 
Composer: Radigue, Éliane 
 

I'm walking my dog

in the sound of the silence --


with my earplugs in.


In het geluid vanIm Klang der Stille
de stilte wandel ik met --führe ich den Hund aus, mit --

mijn oordopjes in.den Ohrstöpseln drin.

Poem S1706
Amsterdam, 2023-03-14
Fury (Salman Rushdie)
The Sound of silence (Simon & Garfunkel) - 2001

Novel, § 7
Song "The sound of silence" (1964, Simon & Garfunkel)

Collection: Sludge
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman; Simon, Paul 
 

High in the mountains:

the silence, the absence, most --


of all of myself.


Hoog in de bergen:Hoch in den Bergen:
stilte, de afwezigheid --Stille, die Abwesenheit --

vooral van mezelf.zumeist meiner selbst.

Poem H3698
Amsterdam, 2023-02-01
Edith Wengler (Jens Christian Grøndahl) - 2020
Story, § 5
Collection: Finethreads
Tribute to: Grøndahl, Jens Christian 
 

It is eerily

quiet in the house, so I --


keep hearing something.


Het is akeligEs ist unheimlich
stil in huis, zo erg stil dat --still im Haus, immer wieder --

ik aldoor iets hoor.höre ich etwas.

Poem S0604
Amsterdam, 2017-12-20
It's quiet in the house. So quiet that I keep hearing something (Frida Vogels) - 1994
Poem "Het is stil in huis. Zo stil, dat ik aldoor wat hoor", published in the collection "De harde kern 3" ("The hard core 3" [part XI, Deceased]), and in "Diary 1974-1976" (2013) - August 9th, 1974, Bologna
Collection: Overwritten
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 

In the room, silence

rustles, as if creation --


is now beginning.


In de kamer ruistStille rauscht im Raum,
stilte, alsof de schepping --als ob hier nun die Schöpfung --

hier gaat beginnen.beginnen würde.

Poem H1740
Amsterdam, 2017-08-03
The big inner room is as dark (Zelda Schneurson) - 1985
Poem (collection of translations: "The spectacular difference: selected poems of Zelda", 2004) - Shabbat
Collection: SoulSenseSun
Tribute to: Schneurson, Zelda 
 

Low tide, the morning

mist surrounding my senses:


circle of silence.


Het is eb, ochtend-Ebbe, der Morgen-
mist rondom mijn zintuigen --nebel um meine Sinne --

een cirkel stilte.ein Kreis der Stille.

Poem H1046
Zandvoort aan Zee, 2014-11-06
Collection: Metamorphic body
 

Corpse pose: bodyless

I lie and listen, hearing --


the world nothingness.


Lijkhouding: lichaam-Die Leichnam-Haltung:
loos lig ik te luisteren --körperlos höre ich ganz --

naar het wereldniets.still dem Weltnichts zu.

Poem S0024
Julianadorp, 2011-12-30
Collection: NightWatch
 

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