It has to be done!

Let's go: into the mirror --


without a blindfold!


Het moet toch een keer!Wenn es sein muss, dann
Vooruit dan: de spiegel in --gehe ich in den Spiegel --
zonder een blinddoek!Augenbinde ab.

 Poem H4172
 Amsterdam, 2023-09-20
 Mr. Fisher's harrowing of hell (Simon Vestdijk) - 1934
 Novel "Meneer Visser's hellevaart" (published 1936), chapter (2 and) 4
 Tribute to: Vestdijk, Simon 
 Collection: Inmost 


As a marauder,

I snare people to get hold --


of a new story.


Als stroper strik ikAls Wilderer fang
mensen om een nieuw verhaal --ich Menschen, bekomme so --
te bemachtigen.neue Geschichten.

 Poem H4086
 Amsterdam, 2023-08-28
 Jonas / The dog of Jonas (Freek de Jonge) - 2004
 Performance "De vergrijzing", #5 of the series "The ageing"
 Tribute to: De Jonge, Freek 
 Collection: A profession 


Together we can

untangle our confessions --


before the mirror.


BekentenissenEingeständnisse
worden fluisterend ontward --werden gemeinsam entwirrt --
in elkaars spiegel.vor einem Spiegel.

 Poem H3674
 Amsterdam, 2023-01-16
 A confession is a knot (Edmond Jabès) - 1959
 Poem "Un aveu est un nœud" (collection "Je bâtis ma demeure")
 Tribute to: Jabes, Edmond 
 Collection: Finethreads 


I don't cry and smile

with you, only with myself --


reflected by you.


Ik huil en lach nietIch weine nicht mit
mee met jou, maar met mezelf --mit dir, aber mit mir selbst --
weerspiegeld door jou.reflektiert von dir.

 Poem S0945
 Amsterdam, 2019-10-10
 Wedding (Ellen Deckwitz) - 2019
 Column "Bruiloft" (in nrc, October 10th, 2019)
 Tribute to: Deckwitz, Ellen 
 Collection: Death on Cast 


Zywa You are

Just because, precisely because
you don't know, you can't
know, I know
that you know, that
I see and know

who you are, shining
what I don't tell anyone
only think out loud
and cry out in myself
you are, you shine, you are

The cypresses stand tall
against the pale evening blue
far from here, heat is pressing
on the city where you live

thinking of all kind of things tonight
maybe thinking of me, maybe
also of yourself, being reflected
by me, and that

 Poem 1842
 Amsterdam, 2018-09-22
 Collection: Without reserve 


 Poem 1825
 Amsterdam, 2018-09-01
 Collection: Lilith's Powers 


People walk along

with us, on the other side,


and take the bridge too.


Zij lopen met onsSie gehen mit uns,
mee, aan de andere kant,auf der anderen Seite,
nemen ook de brug.nehm'n auch die Brücke.

 Poem H1800
 Amsterdam, 2017-09-17
 Sunday afternoon: a clear winter day (Frida Vogels) - 2006
 Poem "Zondagmiddag: een heldere winterse dag" (diary 1958-1959)
 Tribute to: Vogels, Frida 
 Collection: Trench Walking 


Zywa The together

However different people are
from my thoughts about myself:
if I look better, I know that
the differences do not matter
that what is conspicuous in their behaviour
reflects my own attention

Those times when I was in love
I heard it in some songs
recognized it in movies and sometimes
someone recites a poem
with exactly the right words

that make contact and let
energy flow on a basic tone
that brings us together, the together
that I often ignore

 Poem 1133
 Amsterdam, 2017-03-05
 Collection: The drama 


Zywa Palace of mirrors

This palace of mirrors looks quite
common because it refracts everything

into googol beings and objects and even
more tissues, and so on, and so on

No one can see the whole
Only with closed eyes

it is possible to think a whole
out of loose people and see

that they do not exist separately
but live and move in all

mirror pieces, we too -
only blindly I can see

if I dare, that I can
only care well for myself by

 Poem 602
 Amsterdam, 2016-03-25
 Collection: Mosaic virus 

Healers
reflect who you are
Healers
I too mirror myself
I heal myself:
I see through my excuses
I let go of what is unhealthy for me
I do what is good for me
 
 Collection: Lilith's Powers 

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