Lying in the grass

I drift away with the clouds --


through eternity.


Ik lig in het grasIch liege im Gras
en drijf met de wolken mee --und treibe mit den Wolken --

door de eeuwigheid.durch die Ewigkeit.

Poem H5271
Amsterdam, 2025-02-24
Alone in the fields (Johannes Brahms) - 1879
Song "Feldeinsamkeit" (opus 86), for a lower singing voice and piano
Collection: Glimpsed
Composer: Brahms, Johannes 
 

The devil glances

at the clock, eternity --


isn't coming along.


De duivel kijkt weerDer Teufel schaut mal
op de klok, de eeuwigheid --auf die Uhr, die Ewigkeit --

schiet nog steeds niet op.kommt noch nicht voran.

Poem H4600
Amsterdam, 2024-04-22
Little poet (Nescio)
Story "Dichtertje", written in 1917, chapter 1
Collection: Rasping ants
Tribute to: Nescio 
 

The animals, we,

present in Becoming-Time --


God is Being-Time.


Mensen en dierenMenschen und Tiere
leven in Wordende Tijd --leben in Werdender Zeit --

God is Zijnde Tijd.Gott ist Alle Zeit.

Poem H4565
Amsterdam, 2024-03-19
Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights (Salman Rushdie) - 2015
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights), chapter 8 "In Which the Tide Begins to Turn"
Collection: Wind
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman 
 

On the high mountain,

there is no time, the watches --


tick on uselessly.


Op de hoge bergAuf dem hohen Berg
bestaat geen tijd, horloges --ist keine Zeit, die Uhren --

tikken nutteloos.ticken ohne Zweck.

Poem H3999
Amsterdam, 2023-07-30
The PowerBook (Jeanette Winterson) - 2000
Novel, chapter "SPECIAL"
Collection: Stream
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

Time is different:

not eternal, it follows --


itself by itself.


Alles is eeuwig,Alles ist ewig,
behalve de tijd, die volgt --außer der Zeit, denn die folgt --

vanzelf op zichzelf.von selbst auf sich selbst.

Poem H3670
Amsterdam, 2023-01-15
Atlas of the apparent path of the sun (John Cage) - 1962
Composition "Atlas Eclipticalis", performed by Ensemble SPECTRA in the Organpark on January 15th, 2023
Collection: org ANP ark 
Composer: Cage, John 
 

Zywa Sun within the walls

Domestic happiness together
a farewell from time to time
and then a child comes in

No men in our arms
no fuss, we say
to the teenager among us

Forgetting the world
forgotten by the world
being free

within the walls
eternal sunshine
in my spotless mind

As a temple, cleansed
with the wind, which takes
away what is not possible

with the water from the holy well
the sacrificial barley cakes of the earth
and the always burning fire in the hearth

the eternal stream
within the walls
of my life

Poem 4568
Amsterdam, 2022-07-04
Alexander Pope (London 1688-1744) about the Vestal Virgins in his poem "Eloisa to Abelard" (1717) on Abelard and Héloïse:
207 How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
208 The world forgetting, by the world forgot:
209 Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
210 Each prayer accepted, and each wish resign'd;
211 Labour and rest, that equal periods keep;

Collection: Metamorphic body
 

Zywa Suns around each other

Your journey takes you further
and further away, maybe
we'll only see each other on a screen
maybe we'll only meet in words

We remain the same
we remain equally strong-
ly connected, but
I rather have you at my

home, at your home --
bodies with our voices
the blonde hairs on our skin
the same scents in our mind

You are always close
when I hear you, when I read you
yet you are there
I know about where

My feelings follow you
they circle with the others
at your side, as suns
around your suns

Poem 3940
Amsterdam, 2021-09-21
Collection: Lilith's Powers
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Until something moves,

everything's eternal, time --


my sweat and the shirt.


Tot er iets beweegtWenn sich nichts bewegt,
is alles eeuwig, de tijd --ist alles ewig, die Zeit --

mijn zweet en het hemd.mein Schweiß und das Hemd.

Poem S1098
Amsterdam, 2020-12-03
Leaf Storm (Gabriel García Márquez) - 1955
Novella "La hojarasca"
Collection: Dream flight
Tribute to: García Márquez, Gabriel 
 

It is super thin,

the gold leaf that will survive --


the iconoclasm.


Flinterdun is hetHauchdünn ist das Gold,
goud, dat zal blijven bestaan --das weiterhin existiert --

na de beeldenstorm.nach dem Bildersturm.

Poem H2589
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2019-10-19
Collection: On living on [2]
 

A wind from behind

the hedge blows a vast silence --


an eternity.


Van achter de hegHinter der Hecke
waaien weidsheid en stilte --wehen Weite und Stille --

waait de eeuwigheid.weht die Ewigkeit.

Poem H2164
Amsterdam, 2018-06-01
The infinite (Giacomo Leopardi / Ronald Moelker) - 1820
Poem "L'infinito" (collection "Idilli"), set to music in 2018 by Ronald Moelker, for choir and saxophone quartet, performed in the Organpark on June 1st, 2018
Collection: ORG anp ark 
Tribute to: Leopardi, Giacomo 
Composer: Moelker, Ronald 
 

Zywa Quiet beholding

Let there be light, and there was light
big bang alpha from darkness
the first day the beginning
of all days of history

until the last day
in the omega hyperhole
the way, the truth
life and all

is described and recorded
in hologram bits, all
that exists existed and will exist
it has expanded itself in time

and it has compressed space again
it is collecting in It's
ultimate hyperhole which sees all
and knows all, and it stands still

Poem 1069
Amsterdam, 2017-02-23
Collection: Secrets & Believers
 

Zywa Antiall

With arms and legs
I write courses
of thoughts blood warm
on the edge of the anti-all

five dimensional loops
ornamental curls around the poles
the cores of my mass
the things and the people

their daily action
of binding, colliding and releasing
encircling and intertwining
in all and antiall

It's all a dream
of mine, which is of nobody
a life that shortly exists for real
and then forever

Poem 1010
Amsterdam, 2017-02-13
Collection: Metamorphic body
 

Zywa Angels in the park

As with the landing
of an unearthly traveling
saucer in a clearing

in the park, we walk
with our ears
through the large cube hall

red in the vibrating light
Mighty trills pull us
up, out of the seats

into a dimension
for which we lack the senses
but with each step we feel

eternalised time
until we shall dissolve
into another existence

Angels walk like this
immortally themselves
in heavenly light

We soar
we rumble
with a whole fleet

away from the earth

Poem 1006
Amsterdam, 2017-02-12
music for four fixed organs and four sound converters (André Möller) - 2016
Composition "musik für vier geparkte orgeln und vier ton-wandler(innen)", with sticks of lead upon the keys, performed by Elisabeth Frey-Bächli, Jeromos Kamphuis, Samuel Vriezen and Dante Boon in the Organpark on Saturday February 11th, 2017
Collection: ORG anp ark 
Composer: Möller, André 
 

Zywa Differences in time

Seeing the smooth water
in the canal and then without
looking any longer, I think

of the fuss
of jumping molecules
the superfast sparks

of our slow mind
with its outposts
the retina watchmen, they

need magnifying glasses
to see differences
in the breathless water

and they call them time
and mass, hence space
in one word existence

which slows down
the more you distance yourself
Thought to infinity

everything stands still
in sets of now
immaterial photos

of nano seconds
and I call them
eternity

Poem 935
Amsterdam, 2017-01-05
Collection: Secrets & Believers
 

Zywa Divinity: the duration of everything

Are there poems to rewrite
about the crater edge of states
around black holes

and the pulsation of the big bang
now that Verlinde has given
his explanation of the old
esoteric knowledge

that yang only exists
as inner backside of yin, not being
an autonomous phenomenon

but a measurable illusion
of mass, shaped
by information
that wants to remain

complete as it is
not even for a quantum willing to change
not because something would be lost

but because something would change
its place, something the information wants
to keep with all its weight
pulling it back with all its gravity

for continually flowing and mixing
it would be amorphous
without temporary stability

even without time, only a
spatial nothing, an
ever, a
duration

Poem 831
Amsterdam, 2016-11-14
Collection: Summer birds
 

Repeating circles

of the conductor's arms turn --


time into timeless.


Ronde na rondeRunde nach Runde
dirigeren de armen --dirigieren die Arme --

de tijd naar tijdloos.die Zeit zu zeitlos.

Poem H0162
Amsterdam, 2012-01-22
Atlas of the apparent path of the sun (John Cage) - 1962
Composition "Atlas Eclipticalis", performed in the Organpark on January 22nd, 2012, on January 19th, 2019, and on January 15th, 2023
Collection: ORG anp ark 
Composer: Cage, John 
 

Lovers
experience eternal energy
Lovers
I too experience eternity of time

I live in the flow of energy:
I feel that I am part of an energy flow
I move with the energy flow
I surrender to the eternal energy
 

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