I give my body

to his pleasure, I am a --


living sacrifice.


Ik geef mijn lichaamIch ergebe mich
aan zijn genoegen, ik ben --seinem Vergnügen, lebend --

een levend offer.opfere ich mich.

Poem S3235
Amsterdam, 2026-08-09
The Flight of the Maidens (Jane Gardam) - 2000
Novel, chapter 3
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2000-2009
Tribute to: Gardam, Jane 
 

She is beautiful,

flirts with all men, practised, in --


front of her mirror.


Ze is mooi en flirtSie ist schön, flirtet
met elke man, geoefend --mit allen Männern, geübt --

voor haar passpiegel.vor ihrem Spiegel.

Poem S3225
Amsterdam, 2026-08-01
The Penelopiad (Margaret Atwood) - 2005
Novel, chapter 6, My Marriage - Helen of Sparta (and Troy)
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2000-2009
Tribute to: Atwood, Margaret 
 

Helen smiles at all,

flirts with all men, practised, in --


front of her mirror.


Helena glimlachtHelena lächelt
met elke man, geoefend --mit allen Männern, geübt --

voor haar passpiegel.vor ihrem Spiegel.

Poem S3226
Amsterdam, 2026-08-01
The Penelopiad (Margaret Atwood) - 2005
Novel, chapter 7, The Scar - Helen of Sparta (and Troy)
Collection: Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the years 2000-2009
Tribute to: Atwood, Margaret 
 

My date gets off and

looks at the window, perhaps --


at her reflection.


Mijn vriendin stapt afMein Date steigt ab und
en kijkt naar het raam, misschien --schaut auf das Fenster, vielleicht --

naar haar spiegelbeeld.auf ihr Spiegelbild.

Poem H6069
Amsterdam, 2026-01-28
My struggle 2. A Man in Love (Karl Ove Knausgård) - 2009
Autobiographical novel "Min Kamp. Andre bok", part 3 - End of March, 2002, Stockholm
Collection: Leaving
Tribute to: Knausgård, Karl Ove 
 

So, if there are gods,

please let one of them come now --


and impregnate me.


Als er goden zijn,Wenn es Götter gibt,
mag een van hen nu komen --möge einer jetzt kommen --

en mij bevruchten.und mich schwängern.

Poem H6012
Amsterdam, 2025-11-14
Collection: Leaving
 

Zywa #Woman

The loveliest caress you know
is my radiance on your skin
You cannot be more beautiful
than that feeling

I am your dearest mistress
You take me with the name you give
me: Mistress of Sunlight, brightness
of your life

Your pride makes me
human, knowing
that I'm too light, too hot
to be intimate with you

You can only dream of that
Sometimes you boast
that you brought me to safety
conquered city and country for me

and are living happily ever after with me
sometimes that you have renounced me
and have me murdered in Rhodes
but I'm alive

My grave is not a grave
but a memorial stone
even if your bones lie next to it
as if I have been yours

Poem 3157
Amsterdam, 2020-08-30
"Hele-na" = "Mistress of Sunlight"
The most beautiful woman in the world, daughter of Zeus, wife of "Menelaus" ("Vigor of the people"), Paris en "Deiphobus" ("God-fearer")

Collection: Imprints Masks
 

Heavily pregnant

breasts, of my daughters, they're old --


as old as time is.


Zwangere borsten,Schwangere Brüste,
van mijn dochters, ze zijn oud --meiner Töchter, sie sind alt --

zo oud als de tijd.so alt wie die Zeit.

Poem H2347
Amsterdam, 2019-01-10
Blood ball 4 (Eva Gerlach) - 2011
Poem "Bloedbal 4" (collection "Kluwen")
Collection: Being my own museum
Tribute to: Gerlach, Eva 
 

Women seduce men,

that's a fact, it is the way --


they are, made of girls.


Vrouwen verleiden,Frauen verführen,
dat is een feit, zo zijn ze --das ist Fakt, ja, so sind sie --

gemaakt van meisjes.aus Mädchen gemacht.

Poem H2097
Amsterdam, 2018-05-17
Girl (Herman de Coninck) - 1993
Poem "Meisje" (collection "Pastorale")
Collection: Shortages
Tribute to: De Coninck, Herman 
 

Zywa Foreplay, Endplay

Forty, I still have hope
The glands in my breasts engorge
my desire, with big eyes

I bounce between decency
and groping, tripping
over crooked paving stones

spying for an opportunity
Where is my husband now
that I need him

to go for me?
Doesn't he smell my need?
I pull up a leg

my wrap skirt falls open
Half-hidden my butterfly
the promise of my powder puff

Poem 1570
Amsterdam, 2017-10-18
Farfalla = butterfly, vulva
Her powder puff: Il suo piumino da cipria, from the story "La signora Speranza" - I ("Mrs. Hope", 1903, Luigi Pirandello)

Collection: Eyes lips chest and belly
Tribute to: Pirandello, Luigi 
 

Zywa Spiegel Hand mirror Venus

In the mountain with my man
of fire I have nothing to do
but to be happy

To entertain me
I sometimes appear
as a white virgin

in the world
before envious eyes and
unstoppable craving

to physically rediscover
myself once again
as new

My night and day last
longer than a human year
of the boys and the men

who string their shields
to the cords of my dress
falling open, showing

my beauty to be touched
to have the fragrant spring
of their foaming cream

massaged into my skin
of rose petals, being happy
without doing anything

Poem 1241
Amsterdam, 2017-03-24
Aphrodite
The symbol for the hand mirror became the symbol for Venus; the symbol for spear en shield became the symbol for Mars

Collection: Eyes lips chest and belly
 

The broiling summer

undresses the girls, all those --


beautiful giraffes.


De hete zomerDer heiße Sommer
kleedt de meisjes uit, zo mooi --zieht die Mädchen aus, so schön --

al die giraffes.diese Giraffen.

Poem H1165
Konstanz, 2015-06-20
La Superba (Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer) - 2013
Roman
Song "Fatou yo"
Long legs and small shorts

Collection: Palace of the night
Tribute to: Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard 
 

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