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#selfishness
#selfknowledge
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selfknowledge poems
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Zywa
2d
[ I talk in my sleep ]
I talk in my sleep,
I recorded it and then --
quickly erased it.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India
Collection "Low gear"
#sleep
#selfknowledge
#research
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Zywa
Mar 29
[ My foe shows no light ]
My foe shows no light,
but I do sense some little --
dark within myself.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 8 "In Which the Tide Begins to Turn"
Collection "Low gear"
#selfknowledge
#honesty
#ethics
#goodandevil
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Zywa
Feb 25
[ The world is too tight ]
The world is too tight,
would I be too big for it --
or can it still grow?
Poem "De wens" ("The wish", 2019, Bart Moeyaert)
Collection "Skin-contact"
#selfknowledge
#world
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Zywa
Feb 20
[ You cry in your sleep ]
You cry in your sleep,
that is a side of yourself --
that you don't know yet.
Novel "The Golden House" (2017, Salman Rushdie), chapter (1-) 12
Collection "Low gear [2]"
#selfknowledge
#sleep
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Zywa
Jan 24
[ At most I myself ]
At most I myself
catch what I mean, with you it's --
misunderstandings.
Novel "Buitenstaanders" ("Outsiders", 1983, Renate Dorrestein), § 1
Collection "Wean Di"
#selfknowledge
#communication
#understanding
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Zywa
Jan 15
[ Interrogators ]
Interrogators
give you a magnifier --
to observe yourself.
Novel "Maurits en de feiten" ("Maurits and the facts", 1986, Gerrit Krol), Prologue
Collection "Specialities"
#selfknowledge
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Zywa
Jan 1
[ Living to the full ]
Living to the full,
always searching for balance --
and finding myself.
For Maria Godschalk
Collection "On living on [1]"
#life
#balance
#selfknowledge
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Zywa
Jan 1
[ You don't live to get ]
You don't live to get
to know yourself, nonetheless --
it is part of it.
Novel "Perfecte stilte" ("Perfect silence", 2011, Thomas Verbogt), chapter Ritual
Collection "Inmost [1]"
#life
#selfknowledge
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Marília Galvão
Nov 2023
Thrive
Light thrives in the dark
by finding its way through the brenches
of a dense forest
Light thrives in the dark
by passing through the windows
of a wintered house
Light only strikes you
when you finally get to know
projected on the path you've always walked
your long buried shadow
#selfknowledge
#gratitude
#realization
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