Men are quite vain, they

conquer a woman as if --


she were a virgin.


Mannen zijn ijdel,Männer sind eitel,
veroveren een vrouw als-erobern Frauen, als wär-

of ze een maagd is.en sie Jungfrauen.

Poem S2703
Amsterdam, 2025-06-08
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Jeanette Winterson) - 2005
Myth Retelling, chapter Weight of the world
Collection: Love Mind and Death
Tribute to: Winterson, Jeanette 
 

Purely virginal

is their ardent desire to --


become a mother!


Zo maagdelijk isRein jungfräulich ist
hun vurige verlangen --ihr brennendes Verlangen --

naar het moederschap!Mutter zu werden!

Poem H4749
Amsterdam, 2024-07-08
Shame (Salman Rushdie) - 1983
Novel / Exposition with stories, part 1, chapter 1 Dumb waiter
Collection: Shadows
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman 
 

Zywa The virgin sacrifice

You disappointed us
your parents, your brothers
everyone who cared for you

You were privileged, but now
you get another room
We will help you

No, you can't see them anymore
you know that very well
You are not pure

for the Holy House
You're already forgotten
You've never been there

Nobody knows you
Your life begins here
You have to prepare yourself

You have to learn the rules
After giving birth you will
work to wash yourself

the baby's blood
and the shame
clean

Poem 5330
Amsterdam, 2023-10-08
Bashfulness (Marlene Dumas) - 1991
Painting "Schaammeisje" ("Shame girl")
Athens: Parthenon = Virgin's room, the temple of Athena Parthenos (Virgin Athena), next to the temple of virgins with six Caryatids (women from Karyes), which is called Erechtheion

Collection: Froend
Tribute to: Dumas, Marlene 
 

My tree is fragant,

I will bear a lot of fruit --


just one bud missing.


Mijn boom geurt heerlijk,Mein duftender Baum
ik zal veel vruchten geven --wird viel Frucht bringen, es fehlt --

er mist maar één bloem.nur éine Blume.

Poem H2815
Amsterdam, 2020-10-25
Lancelot of Denmark (Anonymous, Netherlands) - 1350
Table play "Lanseloet van Denemerken"
After the defloration

Collection: Love Mind and Death
Tribute to: Anon. [Nederland] 
 

Her flowers, falling

on the bank, in the moonlight --


the men are shouting.


Haar bloemen vallenAns Ufer fallen
op de oever, de maan schijnt --ihre Blumen, der Mond scheint --

de mannen schreeuwen.die Männer schreien.

Poem H2672
Amsterdam, 2020-03-03
First Love (Ivan Turgenev) - 1860
Novella "Pjervaja ljoebov", chapter 11
Collection: Tardiness in Acceleration
Tribute to: Turgenev, Ivan 
 

With eyes like a deer,

so wide, the girl is hiding --


in stinging nettle.


Met grote ogen,Sie hat Reh-Augen,
als een hert, schuilt het meisje --das Mädchen, das sich versteckt --

tussen brandnetels.zwischen Brennnesseln.

Poem S0065
Amsterdam, 2012-06-28
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début
 

The girl is hidden

by her hat, like a flower --


under foliage.


Het meisje gaat schuilUnter ihrem Hut
onder haar hoed, als een bloem --gleicht Das Mädl einer Blume --

onder bladeren.versteckt unter Laub.

Poem H0286
Amsterdam, 2012-06-20
Collection: Froend
 

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