The slowed down breathing

of the towering water --


walls of the ocean.


Vertraagd ademenVerzögert atmen
de hoge watermuren --die hohen Wasserwände --
van de oceaan.der Meeresmasse.

 Poem H4491
 Amsterdam, 2024-02-03
 Occam ocean (Éliane Radigue) - 2015
 Personal transmission-composition for orchestra, performed in the Organpark on February 3rd, 2024, by ensemble ONCEIM (L'Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations, et Improvisations Musicales) and others - @orchestra
 Composer:  
 Collection: anp 


Seawater gently

rinses the washed grains of sand --


No flood to be seen.


Het zeewater spoeltDas Meer spült über
over het gewassen zand --den gewaschenen Sandstrand --
Geen vloed meer te zien.Die Flut verschwunden.

 Poem H4492
 Amsterdam, 2024-02-03
 Occam ocean (Éliane Radigue) - 2015
 Personal transmission-composition for orchestra, performed in the Organpark on February 3rd, 2024, by ensemble ONCEIM (L'Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations, et Improvisations Musicales) and others - @orchestra
 Composer:  
 Collection: anp 


There's a lot of blood

spurting out of the trawler --


Murder of the sea.


Er spuit bloed, veel bloedDa spritzt Blut, viel Blut
opzij uit de vissersboot --seitlich aus dem Fischerboot --
De zee wordt vermoord.Ermordung des Meers.

 Poem S2110
 Amsterdam, 2024-01-28
 Leviathan (Paravel and Castaing-Taylor) - 2012
 Documentary
 Tribute to: Paravel, Véréna 
 Tribute to: Castaing-Taylor, Lucien 
 Collection: BloodTrunk 


The storm sweeps away

everything, there is nothing --


just a shoreless sea.


De storm slaat allesDer Sturm fegt alles
weg, er is alleen nog zee --weg, es gibt nur noch das Meer --
een kustloze zee.küstenloses Meer.

 Poem S2098
 Amsterdam, 2024-01-16
 Again from the start (Jan Slauerhoff) - 1947
 Poem "Van voren af aan" (from the collection "Al dwalend"), quoted in the novel "De verdronkene" (2005, "The Storm" / "The drowned", 2010, Margriet de Moor), about the North Sea flood of 1953
 Tribute to: Slauerhoff, Jan 
 Tribute to: De Moor, Margriet 
 Collection: VacantVoid 


The eternal noise

of the sea minimises --


all that is nearby.


De eeuwigheidsruisDas Meer rauscht ewig
van de zee kleineert alles --und schmälert dabei alles --
dat dichtbij bestaat.was uns nahe ist.

 Poem H4119
 Amsterdam, 2023-09-08
 Moving (Chaz Underriner) - 2023
 Microtonal composition, performed by Ensemble Modelo62 in the Organpark on September 8th, 2023
 Tribute to: Underriner, Chaz 
 Collection: anp 


The waves climb on each

other's backs, so hastily --


about to fall off.


De golven klimmenDie Wellen klettern
op elkaars rug, zo gehaast --einander auf den Rücken --
Ze vallen eraf.Fallen herunter.

 Poem H3707
 Amsterdam, 2023-02-06
 The Office - The A.P. Beerta Institute (Han Voskuil) - 1998
 Novel "Het Bureau - Het A.P. Beerta-Instituut"
Page 215, Maarten and Nicolien Koning (1976)

 Tribute to: Voskuil, Han 
 Collection: Not too bad 


Zywa Sea above the sea

There's a thin sea drifting
above the sea, I float
everywhere, infinitely
between ancestors
and unborn

The sea kisses and plays
pulls me under water
up in high foams
which splash apart into
my new rainbow wisps

over the sea, from the sea
the bearing sea
engulfing sea
evaporating sea

making depths out
of valleys, creative
darkness, the sea
the full empty sea

 Poem 5073
 Amsterdam, 2023-01-30
 From and To Infinity, Intro (Niels Brouwer) - 2023
 Composition "From and To Infinity", for voice and 70 bamboo flutes (2019, BOI AKIH: Niels Brouwer; lyrics Monica Akihary), intro
The version for voice, guitar, kora, percussion, recorder and organ (2023) was performed in the Organpark on January 29th, 2023, by Monica Akihary (voice, kalimba), Niels Brouwer (guitars), Sekou Dioubate (kora, slit drum), Dodó Kis (recorders), and Nora Mulder (organ)

 Composer:  
 Collection: anp 


Allured, enchanted

by the murmur of its voice --


Sea, sea everywhere.


Verleid, gegrepenVerführt, gefesselt
door haar zacht bruisende stem --vom Geräusch seiner Stimme --
Zee, overal zee.Meer, Meer überall.

 Poem H3688
 Amsterdam, 2023-01-29
 The Sea (Niels Brouwer) - 2023
 Composition "From and To Infinity", part 1: "The Sea", for voice and 70 bamboo flutes (2019, BOI AKIH: Niels Brouwer; lyrics Monica Akihary)
The version for voice, guitar, kora, percussion, recorder and organ (2023) was performed in the Organpark on January 29th, 2023, by Monica Akihary (voice, kalimba), Niels Brouwer (guitars), Sekou Dioubate (kora, slit drum), Dodó Kis (recorders), and Nora Mulder (organ)

 Composer:  
 Collection: anp 


As a swimmer, I

am too small in the wide sea --


in fact I am swum.


Als zwemmer ben ikAls Schwimmer bin ich
te klein in de wijde zee --zu klein im weiten Meer, ich --
Ik word gezwommen.werde geschwommen.

 Poem H3274
 Amsterdam, 2022-04-14
 Groundwater (Piet Gerbrandy) - 2017
 Essay "Grondwater"
 Tribute to: Gerbrandy, Piet 
 Collection: Stream 


Nice weekend: lonely

I'm walking along the sea --


with my shoes in hand.


Weekend: fijn eenzaam,Wochenende: schön
met mijn schoenen in de hand --einsam, mit meinen Schuhen --
langs de zee lopen.in der Hand am Meer.

 Poem H2212
 Scheveningen, 2018-06-21
 The road to Sacramento (Gerrit Krol) - 1977
 Novel "De weg naar Sacramento"
 Tribute to: Krol, Gerrit 
 Collection: Skin-contact 


Zywa The fish fly

The great sea
foams impetuously
The ships are struggling

through, dive up
from the waves, again and again
on their way to the port

that tames the wild water
The fish fly
out of the hands of the skippers
quickly ashore, to high piles

under the brown-red sky
of the setting sun
and the ships leap up

On the dark horizon
the sea is dreaming restlessly
in a night without time

 Poem 1703
 Amsterdam, 2018-03-17
 Zebulon, the red window (Marc Chagall) - 1961
 Window in the Abbell synagogue in Jerusalem
Composition "Okna podle Marca Chagalla" ("Windows after Marc Chagall", 1976), performed in the Organpark on April 5th, 2014

 Tribute to: Chagall, Marc 
 Composer:  
 Collection: org anp ark 


The breakers bubble

in seven front lines: closed off --


is the sea, the sea.


In zeven liniesTosende Brandung,
bruist de branding: gesloten --in sieben Linien: gesperrt --
blijft de zee, de zee.bleibt das Meer, das Meer.

 Poem H1999
 Zandvoort aan Zee, 2018-01-30
 Collection: Metamorphic body 


Salt biting my skin,

tides rinsing me out, the sea --


pulling me along.


Zout bijt in mijn huid,Salz beißt meine Haut,
getijden spoelen me uit --Gezeiten spülen mich aus --
de zee trekt me mee.das Meer zieht mich mit.

 Poem H1239
 Amsterdam, 2015-07-27
 Collection: NightWatch 


A world of water:

clouds, heavy and low, raining --


into sky-high waves.


Een waterwereld:Eine Wasserwelt:
lage wolken regenen --niedrige Wolken regnen --
in hoge golven.auf hohen Wellen.

 Poem H0291
 Amsterdam, 2012-06-26
 Collection: From Sacred Scriptures
My Home 



So tasty, the smell,

the ferry crosses the Thames --


Heading for the sea?


Zo lekker, de geurHerrlich, der Geruch
vaart de pont over het IJ --befährt die Fähre den Fluss --
Wil ze mee naar zee?Will sie mit zum Meer?

 Poem H0067
 Amsterdam, 2011-12-15
 Collection: Moons 

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