It is a bizarre

story, so amazingly --


recognisable!


Het is een bizarEine bizarre
verhaal, verbazingwekkend --Geschichte, so erstaunlich --

herkenbaar is het!wiedererkennbar!

Poem H4946
De Koog, 2024-09-28
The perpetual motion machine of love (Renate Dorrestein) - 1988
Novel "Het perpetuum mobile van de liefde", chapter 1 Zet eens een kroon op uw liehiefde (Crown your lo-ove)
Collection: Lack
Tribute to: Dorrestein, Renate 
 

For your life partner,

everything you write is picked --


from the life you share.


Voor jouw partner isFür deinen Partner
alles wat jij schrijft geplukt --ist das, was du schreibst, gepflückt --

uit jullie leven.aus euren Leben.

Poem S2317
Amsterdam, 2024-08-22
The Black Prince (Iris Murdoch) - 1973
Comical novel, A Celebration of Love, part One
Collections: Dreams of love, WriteWiser signage 
Tribute to: Murdoch, Iris 
 

Come visit, they say

invitingly with their mouths --


full of adventures.


Kom toch op bezoek,Besuche uns mal,
zeggen ze met hun mond vol --sagen sie mit dem Mund voll --

van avonturen.von Abenteuern.

Poem H4828
Amsterdam, 2024-08-04
[Week] 4 (Gerda Blees) - 2022
Poem from the collection "Week"
Collection: Passage Passion
Tribute to: Blees, Gerda 
 

Today, too much is

happening, I must pretend --


it is a story.


Er gebeurt te veelEs passiert zu viel,
vandaag, ik moet doen alsof --ich tu so, als wäre es --

het een verhaal is.eine Geschichte.

Poem H4456
Amsterdam, 2024-01-23
Outsiders (Renate Dorrestein) - 1983
Novel "Buitenstaanders", § 3
Collection: Lack
Tribute to: Dorrestein, Renate 
 

End of the story,

because she says the sentence:


But I did not cry.


Het verhaal is uit,Ende Geschichte,
want oma zegt nu de zin:denn Oma sagt jetzt den Satz:

Maar ik huilde niet.Ohne zu weinen.

Poem H4438
Amsterdam, 2024-01-11
The upper world (Arthur Japin) - 2006
Novella "De grote wereld", § 9
Collection: Being my own museum
Tribute to: Japin, Arthur 
 

I learn the stories

while I'm listening to them --


While I'm telling them.


Ik leer verhalenGeschichten lerne
terwijl ik ernaar luister --ich einfach beim Zuhören --

Terwijl ik vertel.Beim selbst Erzählen.

Poem H4259
Amsterdam, 2023-10-28
Lighthousekeeping (Jeanette Winterson) - 2004
Novel, chapter Known point in the darkness
Collection: Held True
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

My story and me

are an interwoven whole --


Inextricably.


Mijn verhaal en ikMeine Geschichte
maken deel uit van elkaar --und ich: untrennbar inein-

Onlosmakelijk.ander verwoben.

Poem H4006
Amsterdam, 2023-07-31
The PowerBook (Jeanette Winterson) - 2000
Novel, chapter "QUIT"
Collection: WriteWiser signage
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

People read stories,

the travel maps of the world --


travel maps of lives.


Ik lees verhalen,Lese Geschichten,
reiskaarten van de wereld --die Reisekarten der Welt --

kaarten van levens.Karten des Lebens.

Poem H3990
Amsterdam, 2023-07-29
The PowerBook (Jeanette Winterson) - 2000
Novel, chapter "NEW DOCUMENT"
Collection: WriteWiser signage
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

Zywa Travelogue

I saw a circle of light
soundlessly pierce a wall
A hole to get lost in

Everything changes there
The earth doesn't stand still
and the sky is chasing, fleeing

from me, I start a new notebook, quick
quick, before things are gone
and I no longer know if
they were ever there
and then will wander

in my memories
Your fantasy is proof
of the truth of my stories

You know the language I speak
I describe to you where I was
as if you were there yourself

Poem 4124
Amsterdam, 2021-11-21
[1] Four Scenes: Dialogue Two, [2] Andria (Aspasia Nasopoulou) - 2021
Composition "Four Scenes: Dialogue Two" (2021), for voice and organ
Composition "Andria" (2012), for piano four hands
Prose poems "Le città invisibili" ("The invisible cities", 1972, Italo Calvino)

Collection: ORG anp ark 
Tribute to: Calvino, Italo 
Composer: Nasopoulou, Aspasia 
 

From a sperm whale's mouth

one can escape, which is why --


it is a story.


Uit een potvismuilEinem Pottwalmaul
kun je ontsnappen, daarom --kann man entkommen, deshalb --

is het een verhaal.gibt's die Geschichte.

Poem H2776
De Koog, 2020-09-05
The thigmophile - The longing for comfort (Midas Dekkers) - 2015
Jonah
Book "De thigmofiel - Het verlangen naar geborgenheid"

Collection: Specialities
Tribute to: Dekkers, Midas 
 

A myth is cut off

from lives actually lived --


still drifting in time.


Mythen: losgeraaktMythen: losgelöst
van de geleefde levens --von den gelebten Leben --

drijvend in de tijd.schwebend in der Zeit.

Poem S0980
Amsterdam, 2019-12-25
Love for Father (P.F. Thomése) - 2019
Family story "Vaderliefde", chapter 1
Collection: Moist glow
Tribute to: Thomése, Pieter Frans 
 

Zywa It starts with magic

The children ask why
we live where we live
how you got

the antique lamp, and why
I don't know all the answers
With magic

I make stories out of it
life stories
of pain, sorrow and success

smeared up smooth
with a little boasting, shiny
with enough meaning

to make them survive
to let them give support and comfort
hope in anxious days -

anecdotes, whipped up sturdy
and thickened till they are firm enough
for others to preserve them

and robust enough to remember them
and to pass them on
stories to pass on

Poem 1049
Amsterdam, 2017-02-20
Collection: Secrets & Believers
 

A travel story

without an experience


is just air -- bad breath.


Zonder belevenisOhne Erlebnis
zijn reisverhalen maar lucht --ist eine Geschichte Luft --

stinkende adem.stinkender Atem.

Poem H1599
Amsterdam, 2016-11-20
Tom Puss and The Wild Wagon (Marten Toonder) - 1963
Comic strip #103 - Heer Bommel en De wilde wagen (tiers 4889-4954), tier 4893
Collection: Puss & Lord
Tribute to: Toonder, Marten 
 

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