Since there are no more

poets to hold up the sky --


the state gets shattered.


Er zijn geen dichtersKeine Dichter mehr,
meer die de hemel dragen --die den Himmel hochhalten --

De staat wordt geplet.Der Staat wird zerquetscht.

Poem S2224
Amsterdam, 2024-06-16
Victory City (Salman Rushdie) - 2023
Novel "Victory City" [Vijayanagar >> Bisnaga, based on Fatehpur Sikri ('Victory City', near Agra), the capital of Emperor Abdul-Fath Jalaluddin 'Akbar' (= 'the Great' >> 'Akbar the Great')], part 4 Fall, chapter 21
Collection: Wind
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman 
 

The fire is blazing,

so are the stories we tell --


setting us aglow.


Het vuur laait hoog op,Die Flammen lodern,
en onze verhalen ook --unsere Geschichten auch --

We gloeien ervan.Wir glühen im Kreis.

Poem H3176
Amsterdam, 2022-01-16
Higher physics #1 (Ellen Deckwitz) - 2019
Poem (collection "Hogere natuurkunde"), pages 13-14, 16
Collection: Death on Cast
Tribute to: Deckwitz, Ellen 
 

Making up stories

together, that is the core --


of relationships.


Samen een verhaalDeine Geschichte
verzinnen, dat is de kern --erfinden, das ist der Kern --

van een liefdesband.der Liebesbindung.

Poem H2525
Amsterdam, 2019-07-12
Grand Hotel Europa (Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer) - 2018
Novel
Collection: Palace of the night
Tribute to: Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard 
 

Zywa With stories we build a nation

With stories we build a nation
out of separate villages, we clench the years
together to a proof of divine power:

the crossing of the border river
the access town with trumpet blasts
destroyed forever, the country cleaned
from high to low, in one sweep
like a dinner plate

With stories I justify
myself and the past afterwards
plans for the future included

Daily, words bind us
together to a nation state
If we were silent, that would be the end
also if we would dare
to tell the truth

of the people who lived here before us

Poem 2349
Amsterdam, 2019-07-07
Entry into Palestine under Joshua ("JHWH is Salvation")
13
Israel since 1947

Collection: The King
 

Zywa Waiting for a story

The past in depot:
warehouses full of treasures
air-conditioned
rarely viewed
waiting

for a story
that makes you curious
sheds new light
on the artist's life
or a drama or or

something under oppression
something that makes the strange familiar
in short, the waiting
for chemistry with later
through an appealing story

(sell pebbles from the Kidron Valley
  as cornerstones of the temple:
  God's nearness in your hand
  with the wisdom of Solomon
  and his wealth with it)

Custom-made
with a story
the past may be
worth something
to us

Poem 1918
Amsterdam, 2018-11-12
Collection: The Yellow House Museum
 

Zywa Listening to rigid men

They are rigid men who believe
that the past is important
They get little gifts
to sacrifice at the feasts
and to tell stories

which they dress up
for the people who pay
That's how it goes

What is common, must be special
what is powerful, almighty
what is good or bad luck, providence
They don't like unpredictable hazards
so they bundle the forces

of fate to one great Force
so incomprehensibly great
that there is no name for it

A name is just a name
too small, and too tempting
to call it
and to believe in a callable Force
instead of listening

In an inverted world
people boldly give names
to the Nameless

Poem 1789
Amsterdam, 2018-06-18
God is nameless and the names of Joshua and Jesus are not known anymore; they are referred to with their title: Salvation
Collection: The King
 

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