Zywa - Hello Poetry

Zywa 1h

The guests run away,

the staff is left with the feast --

left with the rumours.

Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter Boonyi, § 1

Collection "Low gear"

#rumours #thinkingahead #selfcare #danger

Zywa 1h

It is night, I walk

across the metropolis --

which denies the night.

Novel "Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie), chapter 4

Collection "Low gear"

#city #night #2424

Zywa 1d

India is much

more than chaos: through and through --

logical chaos.

Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India - 'India is chaos making sense'

#bharat #india #order #chaos #reason

Zywa 1d

Walking in silence,

listening attentively --

to what the world says.

Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter India

#attention #surroundings

Zywa 2d

On a tightrope, you

walk best thinking of it as --

air that carries you.

Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter Boonyi, § 1

Collection "Low gear"

#attention #focus #tightrope

Zywa 2d

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

Zywa 3d

I'm expectant and

I'm ready to write it down:

the northern lights, there!

Poem "Mevrouw Despina ziet noorderlicht" ("Mrs. Despina sees northern lights", 2008, Marjoleine de Vos)

Collection "Unseen"

#distance #attention #expectation #detachment