I would rather die,

I don't want to shoot people --


Shoot at me instead.


Liever ga ik dood,Lieber sterbe ich,
ik wil op niemand schieten --als Menschen zu erschießen --

Schiet dan maar op mij.Dann schieß doch auf mich.

Poem H6213
Amsterdam, 2026-04-26
The deserter (Boris Vian) - 1954
Song "Le Déserteur" (music Harold B. Berg), sung by Serge Reggiani (1964, album "Serge Reggiani chante Boris Vian")
Collection: Human excess
Tribute to: Vian, Boris; Reggiani, Serge 
 

Free the world! Weapons

out! People are man enough --


for non-violence!


Wapens de wereldWaffen aus der Welt:
uit: mensen zijn mans genoeg --Menschen sind Manns genug für --

voor geweldloosheid!Gewaltlosigkeit!

Poem H4674
Amsterdam, 2024-06-04
The Hammer of God (Arthur C. Clarke) - 1992
Short story
End of the NRA (National Rifle Association) in the USA
Cartoon "Geen nieuwe kernwapens in Europa" (1981, "No new nuclear weapons in Europe") by Opland (Rob Wout)
Collection: Human excess
Tribute to: Clarke, Arthur C; Opland 
 

Zywa Operation #Snowflake

The parties fell silent
all fuss ran away
from the cafes and the streets
And the sky turned pale

We no longer participate
as long as it is winter
and we can do without
Only the absolute necessary

we'll buy, we'll maintain nothing
that sustains the occupation
its land bite, people bite
Freedom bite

Our blood flows, our breath
makes us appear at our most beautiful
crystal after crystal
Untouched

We will die a new life
in the hearts of the soldiers
once vulnerably kiss spring
awake in them

Poem 4430
Amsterdam, 2022-03-28
Non-violent resistance
Collection: Untwisted
 

Zywa Operation #Autumn Leaf

The roof-gutters drip
into the occupied city
After a night of lying awake
from injustice and death

we go outside and show our lives
worn with age. Look, this is how
it should be, growing old
with wrinkles and skin spots

Our silent march rustles and sighs
a little, sometimes swarming
together for a moment
to music from our youth

Poem 4406
Amsterdam, 2022-03-21
Non-violent protest
Flash swarm: flashmob
Collection: Silent walk
 

Zywa Operation #Summer Scents

We come unsolicited
from flower cones and memories
across the borders, we charm
friends and foreigners
with the scent of freedom
the balm of warm-heartedness

and being uncompromising
to live small and silently
to ignore the yoke
to the utmost
to pay attention only to the springs
and the summers in the wind

and to find ways
in night and mist
to meshes in the power
to do what is forbidden
to help where it is not allowed and
to sabotage what oppresses

Poem 4376
Amsterdam, 2022-03-14
Collection: Silent walk
 

Zywa Operation #Spring Gluttony

How much would we like?
Much, more, or admit
with a sigh

that we know better, know
the law of cause and effect
Healthy mind, healthy body

that we do not devour beauty
and only live like spring
in the spring of our lives, growing

under oppression, winter
driven away with the zest for life
of countless many

Poem 4359
Amsterdam, 2022-03-07
Non-violent growth?
Mens sana in corpore sano (A healthy mind in a healthy body)
Collection: Untwisted
 

Fighting is bending:

then, the enemy will live --


and leave quietly.


Vechten is buigen:Kämpfen ist beugen:
dan zal de vijand leven --dann wird der Feind leben und --

en stil verdwijnen.leise verschwinden.

Poem H1112
Amsterdam, 2015-02-05
shiho nage cuts (Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer) - 2008
Poem "shiho nage snijdt" (collection "De man van vele manieren")
Collection: Palace of the night
Tribute to: Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard 
 

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