We arrange flowers

together, and each other --


as well, in our hearts.


Samen schikken weWir arrangieren
de bloemen, en ook elkaar --die Blumen, und einander --
midden in ons hart.in unsren Herzen.

Poem H0450
Amsterdam, 2013-05-18

Kad?: way of flowers - is the meditative form of Ikebana: "making flowers alive" (arranging flowers)
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Reunion 
 

Zywa Evenings are obligatory

Evenings are obligatory

if possible with love
to push the bustle out
of our day head

Like couples at the weekend
in the evening in the park
leaning against each other

folding their hands
in the hands of the other
in the light of the moon

There's nothing to add to their hearts
although she eventually asks him
kiss me

Poem 807
Amsterdam, 2016-10-17

Two lovers on a park bench (Samuel Johnson) (1976)
After: "Two lovers on a park bench" (1976, Samuel Johnson) - from: "Einstein on the beach" (1976, Philip Glass)
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: In love:  
Tribute to: Johnson, Samuel 
Composer: Glass, Philip 
 

Zywa Embrace who is dear to me

My life is a sequence of details
of getting dressed and small talk
wishing to walk away or embrace
and being tired at the end of the day

without a mainline, no game
of double tongue, linguistic tricks
or metaphors, not even
a virtual reality

of bloodless love
and polished pain
in detached poems
that push beyond the familiar

The details include
my love and my pain
which I learn to know in the everyday
of being tired, wishing to walk away

or embrace who is dear to me
what I often don't do

Poem 987
Amsterdam, 2017-01-31

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Habits 
 

Zywa Now go

I can see you love him
hopefully it will all work out
You don't have to take us into account

We just want you to be happy
that he will not grieve you
There's no need to rush

You're young, take time
to get to know him better
The obligations will come later

We are concerned, but we do our best
not to show it
It's hard enough for you

and we'll help you with everything
You can always come to us
you know that, right?

Now go, say goodbye to dad
He is waiting for it
before you leave

Poem 1308
Amsterdam, 2017-04-25

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Goodbye: leaving 
 

Zywa Love now

To see you there
serving in black
with undercut hair
I thought that man
looks very like you

You don't recognize me!
you said challenging
Or may your beauty
madam, be too
pretty to me?

I was a girl, but you
led me like a lady
wrapped in a towel
from an expensive hotel to your bed
and afterwards we drank hot chocolate

Would it be different now?
What have we learned
of loving? Do we know
the secret, the tricks and the pains
the sake of peace and our impatience?

We still are young, do you think so?
Yes, the time is hesitating – that's how
I live since then, in anticipation
of you maybe, anyway
that is over now, yes I think so

Poem 1504
Amsterdam, 2017-08-09

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Memory: of someone 
Dedicated to: Ivelina K 
 

Zywa Love yourself

Darling, maybe you are an angel
and I for you

someone who believes in you
someone who dares

as if it were forever
someone who decides so

and confirms with a clasp of hands
in the silence of not knowing

and exactly knowing
that love is too big

and cannot help
but disguise itself

in half work and failures
to love yourself

Poem 1515
Amsterdam, 2017-08-17

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Love: for yourself 
 

Zywa The secret rules

A teenager again, ignorant
of what I want, confused
of all kinds of things, seeking
what I need
and discovering what not

I dream of freedom
and still wish to learn
the secret rules
of sex, the interplay
of eyes, skin, and hands

how to step across the threshold
and expose myself
with another person
to the mystery
of maturity

Poem 1599
Amsterdam, 2017-11-05

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Desire: wish-dream 
 

Zywa Appropriate steps

The knight and saviour who you are not
could not be and still are, now
water and fire are degrounding my feet

I do love better than I could
have thought when I was not yet tired
of the meetings of my doubts

about the facts, tired of that
being mature and suffering
from the world and myself

from being insecure still
taking appropriate steps
without seeking salvation

At night, rowing in my own
sweat under the fluttering elms
I look out to the sky

whether there condenses a fire
a bright radiance around my body
healing it to be your companion

Poem 1628
Amsterdam, 2017-11-22

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Neighbours: love 
 

Poem 1647
Amsterdam, 2018-01-15

Mouima = little mother, mummy, ARABIC IN THE MAGHREB granny, old woman
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Harmony: relaxation 
 

Poem 1856
Amsterdam, 2018-10-01

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Love: bond 
 

Poem 1882
Amsterdam, 2018-10-26

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Love: sex 
 

Poem 2019
Amsterdam, 2019-01-08

Open (Dyamond C) (2019)
Poem by "Dymbag25" (Dyamond C))
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: In love:  
Dedicated to: Dyamond C 
 

Zywa Dans met mij

Ik dwaal in mijn slaap
over een weg ... van gevoelens
Ik wist niet dat ik verliefd was
Was dit een illusie
Ken ik mezelf?

Ben jij klaar voor mij?
Laat me mijn liefde onthullen
elk masker dat ik draag
We schamen ons niet
al zijn we twee aparte werelden

Je kunt me bespotten
ik zoek geen goedkeuring
Waarom hou ik van je als ik je niet ken?
Laat me jouw ziel kussen
in de fanfare van het leven

Helder schijnt voor jou en mij het licht
uit de diepten van mijn ziel
terwijl ik kijk naar de sterren van een sterloze nacht
de schaduwen, de schoonheid van de maan
De Eindeloze Liefde ... De Eindeloze Liefde ...

De kus van jouw dromen vanavond
door mijn ziel flitsende
kosmische tinten van liefde
Waar ben je, mijn lief?
Jij en ik, Twee Werelden ... Twee Metgezellen voor het Leven

Poem 2200
Amsterdam, 2019-04-06

Titles of poems by AP haikusaur, published 2016-2019 on AP (AllPoetry.com)
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Love: wish (thought) 
Dedicated to: AP haikusaur 
 

Zywa A little crazy

I like to lie awake
thinking of being romantically
with him, forever after
yes, I do

want to be the princess, I know my role
but my prince still makes mistakes
and blames me for Great Expectations
which he mocks

preferably in the presence of others
because laughing is healthy
and being normal is good
enough

we say: you are my love
a little crazy
but beautiful
the way you are

Poem 2213
Amsterdam, 2019-04-21

"Ancient Master" on AllPoetry.com
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Expectation 
Dedicated to: Michael J K 
 

Zywa I am free

Whatever comes over
as desire, only briefly
sticks to my experience
how relative it is

I can live, I am free
from deficiencies, I do not suffer

from pain, passion or troubles
not from the chaos of love
or ambition, I don't wait to see
what I get thrown

I am too good for that
my friends tell me too

I follow my interests
and that's not the way
of motherhood
and high expectations

but that of the beauty
of you name it

in which I am silently absorbed
One thought
without thinking
of anything else

Poem 2386
Amsterdam, 2019-08-08

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Freedom: connection 
 

Meeting a stranger:

the firewood of language sounds --


is warming our hearts.


Vreemden ontmoeten:Ich treffe Fremde:
gesprokkelde klanken taal --gesammelte Sprachlaute --
verwarmen ons hart.erwärmen mein Herz.

Poem H2646
Amsterdam, 2019-12-12

Caravan (A.L. Snijders) (2019)
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Together: meeting 
Tribute to: Snijders, A.L. 
 

Poem 2542
Amsterdam, 2019-12-15

Song "Honey Love" (1992)
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: In love:  
Dedicated to: Siera Mayhew 
Tribute to: Kelly, Robert Sylvester 
 

Zywa Open me

Our village is too small
I only have grandma
to go and talk to

I massage her shoulders
and she runs her fingers
through my hair, I arch
my back for more, deeper

I stretch my body
until her hand breaks me open
as a woman, who will
break me open as a woman?

The guys who don't see me
and the guys with staring eyes
who think to undress me
have nothing to offer me

I'm looking for one in between
who knows what he wants, and
only has to give
his virginity to me

Poem 3167
Amsterdam, 2020-09-12

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Desire: wish-dream 
 

Poem 3737
Amsterdam, 2021-04-24

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Love: sex 
 

Zywa Landsailor

Loving Apart Together, each
his own music, his own habits
I'm willing to change mine

for something more pleasant
but not just for you
not just anchor

in the rippling water
of a harbour, no longer breaking
the waves with the ship at my feet

my breasts untouchably
coveted, no longer being the bow
that steers the hands of the steersman

You give a sniff at the musky smell
of the rutting squirters
in my breaking charms

You mock them with envious eyes
you lay down sweet smiles
and hawsers of homeliness

You hit the quays full of bollards
you're so handy, unhandy
in love like landsailors

Poem 3852
Amsterdam, 2021-06-28

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Love: for yourself 
 

Saying almost none

of what I wanted to say --


I hope, he sees it.


Bijna niets zeggenFast nichts von dem, was
van wat ik zeggen wilde --ich sagen wollte, sagen --
Misschien ziet hij het.Vielleicht sieht er es.

Poem H3111
Egmond aan Zee, 2021-10-28

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: In love:  
 

I'm longing for him,

to fold himself around me --


wrap me up for good.


Ik verlang naar hem,Ich wünsche, dass er
dat hij zich om mij heen vouwt --sich um mich herum faltet --
en voorgoed inpakt.für immer einpackt.

Poem H3112
Egmond aan Zee, 2021-10-28

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: In love: euphoria 
 

When it's the first time,

skating, dating, comforting --


Too bad! You are stiff!


Iets voor het eerst doen,Jedes erste Mal,
schaatsen, uitgaan, of troosten --eislaufen, ein Date, trösten --
Jammer! Je bent stijf!Schade! Du bist steif!

Poem H3160
Amsterdam, 2021-12-27

Tension
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Curiosity: new / news 
Dedicated to: Ellen H 
 

Zywa A furtive visit

Here I lie, no respiratory mask
There is a little wind
I get too little air

to talk, no energy
My body is busy
eliminating the virus

I have no strength for anything
don't even fancy nuts or chocolates
just sleep, I would like to sleep

And wake up well rested
In bed next to you. I go too far
I'll only go to sleep after you have left

There are few colours, high veils
no thunderstorm in the air, no birds
From above I see us lying

Our breath is exactly the same
Five meters apart, we are
not really trespassing

I haven't caught your little bird yet

Poem 4564
Amsterdam, 2022-06-29

Social distancing to prevent infection
"Il Decameron" (Boccaccio, Anno 1353), 5th day, 4th story: because of the heat, Caterina is allowed to sleep on the balcony, where she listens to the nightingale; in the morning her father Lizio sees her naked with her friend Ricciardo, holding his nightingale in her hand; Lizio calls his wife to show her what kind of bird Caterina has caught
uccello = bird, usignolo = nightingale
Pier Paolo Pasolini filmed this story in 1971

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: In love:  
Keyword: Covid-19^ 
Dedicated to: Maria Godschalk 
 

Zywa Immortal soul

Where are the disguised gods?
I wait in the surf
for the heavenly pleasure
for which I exist

Desire is foaming
between my legs
where my heart beats
to be touched
by strange hands

which let me flow out
into the world, an ocean
of sun and moon, ebb and flood
white with sweet-salty flakes
fertilising the coasts
with my immortal soul

Poem 4707
Amsterdam, 2022-10-09

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Desire: lust 
 

I appear to be

great, I raise expectations --


and reach to kiss them.


Ik doe me groot voor,Ich möchte groß sein,
wek verwachtingen en reik --greife nach Erwartungen --
om die te kussen.um sie zu küssen.

Poem H3508
Amsterdam, 2022-10-21

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Puberty 
 

The biggest fairground

attractions for teenagers --


are the French kisses.


De grootste kermis-Die größte Kirmes-
attracties voor de tieners --attraktion für Teenager --
zijn de tongkussen.ist der Zungenkuss.

Poem H3510
Amsterdam, 2022-10-21

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Puberty 
 

Loving couples kiss

whispering in the chambers --


of the swaying grass.


De paartjes kussenDie Paare küssen
fluisterend in de kamers --sich flüsternd in den Räumen --
van het hoge gras.des hohen Grases.

Poem H3846
Amsterdam, 2023-06-11

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Privacy 
 

And then you let me

in, then I could be with you --


there, in the bathroom.


En toen liet je mijEndlich lässt du mich
toe, toen mocht ik bij jou zijn --zu und kann ich bei dir sein --
in de badkamer.im Badezimmer.

Poem H4041
Amsterdam, 2023-08-15

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Love: intimacy 
 

Zywa My heart on your tongue

How do you smell, how softly elastic
is your skin, how will your mouth kiss
my heart on your tongue?

Is there any solid ground
on which I am safe
other than under your feet?

Shall I write to you
about your eyes, that
they have cast me down

and I don't want to
but have no other choice
but to wait for you

your gaze on me
a word to me
the tips of your fingers

of which I dream
and cannot sleep
for fear and longing

even in love
with this stammering
of my happiness

Poem 5277
Amsterdam, 2023-09-07

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: In love: unsure 
 

Enticed by the scent

near her moving hand, a bee --


seeks for her flower.


Gelokt door de geurIhre Hand bewegt
bij haar bewegende hand --sich und riecht, die Biene sucht --
zoekt een bij haar bloem.nach ihrer Blume.

Poem H4369
Amsterdam, 2023-12-16

Punani (Hawaiian Puanani = splendid flower, vagina)
Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: In love: allurement 
 

My vague reflection

in the fortune-telling ball:


a hazy childhood.


De kristallen bolDer Kristallkugel
weerspiegelt mij nogal vaag:reflektiert mich nur vage:
een mistige jeugd.neblige Kindheit.

Poem S0030
Amsterdam, 2012-01-13

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Past 
 

Zywa Achteraf stelde ik vragen

Papa deed het ongemerkt
Ik was zijn prinses
hij vervulde al mijn wensen
en ik had niets door

We gingen in Frankrijk wonen
Ik had niet veel te doen
naast mijn lessen, tijd genoeg
voor Eddy, een leuke jongen

Ik had de leeftijd
en ineens ging het snel
de verloving, het geheim
van de ringen, kleermaker, kapper

en dan eindelijk de bruiloft
Achteraf stelde ik vragen
Mama leerde me dat er meer is
dan de dingen die ons overkomen

meer dan wat er misgaat
tussen mensen, we wandelden
weg van de mannen
en telden onze zegeningen

Poem 4461
Amsterdam, 2022-04-25

Collection: It takes a lot of tries to make a début 
Keyword: Marriage / Wedding 
 

Zywa
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