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 verhaal
Deine 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