All the resistance

fighters are afraid, they are --


baptise them in Love.


De verzetsstrijdersDie Partisanen
zijn steeds bang, er zijn er veel --haben immer Angst, sie sind --

te weinig van hen.viel zu wenige.

Poem S2191
Amsterdam, 2024-05-18
Shalimar the Clown (Salman Rushdie) - 2005
Novel, chapter Shalimar the Clown, § 2
Collection: Sludge
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman 
 

They have braced themselves,

their heels in the solid earth --


their boots full of fear.


Ze zetten zich schrap,Sie spannen sich an,
hun hakken in de aarde --die Fersen in der Erde --

hun laarzen vol angst.Stiefel voller Angst.

Poem S1862
Amsterdam, 2023-08-16
the making visible of all kinds of raids (Antjie Krog) - 2022
Soldiers
Poem "die sigbaarmaking van allerlei strooptogte"(collection "Plunder" ["Pillage"])

Collection: May the Might
Tribute to: Krog, Antjie 
 

Zywa Dad is angry

Dad doesn't get off my back
since I left home
He is angry

about my friends
and takes things from me
Home invasion

The police are trying
to appease it, I have to beg
for help, protection

His honour is at stake
He wants to restore
my virginity or lock me up

He can't go back and not ahead
he prefers to suffocate
in his lied right

instead of fully growing up
and rejoicing
in his family's prosperity

Poem 4635
Amsterdam, 2022-08-31
Sovereignty guarantees for Ukraine in the Budapest Memorandum (December 5th, 1994)
Collection: Lilith's Powers
 

Who's willing to fight?

Talking doesn't stop the war, but --


our resistance can.


Wie wil er vechten?Wer möchte kämpfen?
Praten stopt de oorlog niet --Reden stoppt den Krieg nicht, nur --

Alleen ons verzet.unser Widerstand.

Poem H3395
Amsterdam, 2022-07-29
It is wrong to want to end the fighting, one must stop the attacker
Collection: PumicePieces
 

Zywa Europa 2022

Fear without thoughts, the mind
goes like a pack-mule
into the scorched earth -- there's nothing
to cogitate on now.
Irreversible facts around us.

Hope is an alchemist: the densest stone
unseals it. As out of an egg: a small
feather pack, still bloodied, frail.
The first resistance becomes the loudest protest.
A new world is possible.

Poem 4590
Amsterdam, 2022-07-19
Europa 2022 (Lieke Marsman) - 2022
Poem by Lieke Marsman (February 24th, 2022, Russia invades Ukraine)
Translation competition "Nederland vertaalt" ("The Netherlands translates") in the context of the "European Day of Languages" (September 26th, 2022)

Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2000-2009 
Tribute to: Marsman, Lieke 
 

Acts of resistance

must be kept secret, only --


the victor can tell.


Verzet is geheim,Widerstandstaten
alleen de overwinnaar --sind geheim, nur der Sieger --

kan het verklappen.kann sie verraten.

Poem H2947
Amsterdam, 2021-05-04
Remembrance of the Dead in the Netherlands, on May 4th
Collection: The King
 

Zywa The siege

Just let them reason, get their right
in words as if we are talking
about the same, yes just let them

shoot, the State will not give in
to violence, blood does not write
evidence, only facts

reveal truth:
foreigners and relatives besiege
us, they yell threats

and demands, forsake peace
But we have everything to lose
we have victory or heaven

and they will be forgotten
not even mocked for their foolishness
of coming to kill us in their delusion

to be happy afterwards. Like cadavers

after slaughter, they will lie in the field
eaten by hyenas, jackals, rats

and worms from the underworld
Children will play with the bones

Poem 897
Amsterdam, 2016-12-16
600 BCE - "Seven against Thebes" (Aeschylus, 467 BCE), "Phoenician Women" (Euripides, 410 BCE)
1566-1648 Eighty Year's War
2015-2017 ar-Raqqa
Ukraine

Collection: PumicePieces
Tribute to: Euripides; Aischylos 
 

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