tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14910086168997107432024-03-06T03:18:20.761+00:00Poetry from the Low CountriesDutch and Flemish poetry translated into English by Hans van den Bos, assisted by Hilary Reynolds.Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-72168804648158706392021-10-07T14:29:00.000+01:002021-10-07T14:29:43.979+01:00Duck-billed platypus by L. Th. Lehmann<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYEq25zWgQuzJTNb_tMdvuE6ztcfvO0wg7aJh3vpX8dLqa2WNrNFAvwMhfiYgOXTYNcRNAnDK5HLTRiSuPBSgdYhVwDFX8C-0xZDS8RM-g6SJJRziii1F8dw5yiCSeaUHQXKD8FY90Lj7A/s346/01-11-06.+Louis+Th.+Lehmann.+Dichter%252C+scheepsarcheoloog%252C+prozaist%252C+essayist+en+surrealist.+Foto+Leo+Th.+van+Velzen+NrcHb.heic" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="230" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYEq25zWgQuzJTNb_tMdvuE6ztcfvO0wg7aJh3vpX8dLqa2WNrNFAvwMhfiYgOXTYNcRNAnDK5HLTRiSuPBSgdYhVwDFX8C-0xZDS8RM-g6SJJRziii1F8dw5yiCSeaUHQXKD8FY90Lj7A/s320/01-11-06.+Louis+Th.+Lehmann.+Dichter%252C+scheepsarcheoloog%252C+prozaist%252C+essayist+en+surrealist.+Foto+Leo+Th.+van+Velzen+NrcHb.heic" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L. Th. Lehmann [1920-2012]<br /><i>photo: Leo van Velzen</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Duck-billed platypus</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><span style="font-family: times;">I proposed once
Peg, from Geelong, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><span style="font-family: times;">and was
refused,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><span style="font-family: times;">for a year
I still got real tears in my eyes<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><span style="font-family: times;">when I
heard 'Waltzing Mathilda'<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><span style="font-family: times;">because I
didn't know any other Australian song.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><span style="font-family: times;">Almost
twenty years later<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><span style="font-family: times;">I met a
typically <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><span style="font-family: times;">re-emigrated
Dutch couple.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><span style="font-family: times;">Their little
son still had a platypus<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><span style="font-family: times;">made of
nylon wool, called the plat pussy,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"><span style="font-family: times;">with in the belly a music box<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">that played <span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">'Waltzing
Mathilda'</span>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>(Original title: </i>'Duck-billed platypus' - <i>from: </i>'Gedichten 1939-1998', 2000 - Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam)</b></span></p>Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-67415895280257998972021-10-05T15:19:00.001+01:002021-10-05T15:19:54.973+01:00A meeting about poetry<div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWwJU01xc6cCGZVQuUSeaD_NLaN1q_K8PwapFgE_KnSVicwHVoTeF_MHy6n_VimQaA3qS-8v7JgjbnI_Hko2dBbc6kmlZG2djmkvzd1CwXUWxW1-s-oeOPd6JrA0sAb7tahIoF_SxJaWMw/s1600/Mooy+en+Buddingh%2527.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="1600" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWwJU01xc6cCGZVQuUSeaD_NLaN1q_K8PwapFgE_KnSVicwHVoTeF_MHy6n_VimQaA3qS-8v7JgjbnI_Hko2dBbc6kmlZG2djmkvzd1CwXUWxW1-s-oeOPd6JrA0sAb7tahIoF_SxJaWMw/s640/Mooy+en+Buddingh%2527.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Martin Mooij (left) and C. Buddingh', about 1980, in the office of Poetry International </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>at The Doelen in Rotterdam</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>[copyright photo Pieter Vandermeer]</b></span></td></tr>
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Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-53978541002887713102021-02-03T00:16:00.000+00:002021-02-03T00:16:32.325+00:00Poetry is an act... by Remco Campert<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz-x_78lD8yw2lQQ3e9TzEQCk0dFbbH5AOeuU7XKqyo1N6gZG1dJxwSg54614NSzVXdJ1CTdJvtGIcuVJIYefe7cQ3v23guy6uw3DhD0yvcfYQeqbBBvbuFqudURxOMHzq2aSMHiJOeJ39/s489/Huis.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="305" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz-x_78lD8yw2lQQ3e9TzEQCk0dFbbH5AOeuU7XKqyo1N6gZG1dJxwSg54614NSzVXdJ1CTdJvtGIcuVJIYefe7cQ3v23guy6uw3DhD0yvcfYQeqbBBvbuFqudURxOMHzq2aSMHiJOeJ39/w252-h446/Huis.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Poetry is an act...<br /><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poetry
is an act<br />of
endorsement. I endorse<br />that
I live, that I do not just live.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poetry
is a future, thinking<br />of
next week, of another country,<br />of
you when you are old.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poetry is my breath,
moves<br />my feet, sometimes
reluctantly,<br />over the earth that
calls for it.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voltaire had smallpox,
but<br />cured himself for
instance by drinking<br />120 litres of lemonade:
that's poetry.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Or take the surf.
Smashed<br />on the rocks it is not
really beaten,<br />but regains itself and
is therefore poetry.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Every word that is
written<br />is an attack on old
age.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Death wins in the end,
yes of course,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">but death is only the
silence in the hall<br />after the last word has
sounded.<br />Death is a poignancy.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="font-size: small;">Original title:</i><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Poëzie is een daad...</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">From:</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Het huis waarin ik woonde - Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij - Amsterdam - 1955.</span></span></span></div><p>
<br /></p>Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-85870873001970822822021-02-01T19:37:00.000+00:002021-02-01T19:37:07.118+00:00To a Chinese from Dordrecht by Jan Eijkelboom<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6P59AVA8uWNSrSkPRZluIN0MUO5p6TUFiryYOpa4EfE3OYAVIs_Vk_5qf6Z9kJ-x7-OFkLEHsx0opsMc1XWq32pubGbZksJzASqkCBLsIs4hsGeC6_vNLGLLFJPwwUoXB1dp3AxgNzli/s500/Jan+Eijk.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6P59AVA8uWNSrSkPRZluIN0MUO5p6TUFiryYOpa4EfE3OYAVIs_Vk_5qf6Z9kJ-x7-OFkLEHsx0opsMc1XWq32pubGbZksJzASqkCBLsIs4hsGeC6_vNLGLLFJPwwUoXB1dp3AxgNzli/s320/Jan+Eijk.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Jan Eijkelboom 1926-2008<br /><i>photo Internet</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />To a Chinese
from Dordrecht</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />I had your
poster with a poem<br />- just
listen carefully -<br />attached to
the window<br />with tape
that when it got warmer<br />did not
stick on one side<br />so that you
hung lopsided<br />and look,
your so crooked cigar<br />now pointed
straight down<br />while your
slightly crooked mouth<br />thus became
straight, or straightened up</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqeJ5icg3ZalxvgL25EZ1pgZ05i1qf6suHPhCVY9YJKcJexkdsw49WSrEkgyB1KjRmAs-p2IvCJlTga7fjo7OU5SlBsxfKRtLsN0vhPDgsgHcBTA-qHI0dJs2gViAtkkEyEHA6gAsgkG3Z/s325/eijkelboom_gouden.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="210" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqeJ5icg3ZalxvgL25EZ1pgZ05i1qf6suHPhCVY9YJKcJexkdsw49WSrEkgyB1KjRmAs-p2IvCJlTga7fjo7OU5SlBsxfKRtLsN0vhPDgsgHcBTA-qHI0dJs2gViAtkkEyEHA6gAsgkG3Z/s320/eijkelboom_gouden.jpg" /></a></div>(only the
poster was hanging).<br />Diagonal
was, on the other hand<br />your
broadly-striped shirt<br />in which the
death-doomed body<br />could
crackle like gravel.<br />Suddenly I
didn't see you at home<br />but in a
pressure suit on the moon,<br />still alive
enough, but with a grin<br />no longer.
You saw too much<br />of what on
this earth, even<br />on this
island, on the Bankastraat,<br />would never
again be what it was.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I cut two
new pieces of tape<br />and hang you
pure spirit level.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>Original title:</i><span> Op een Dordtse chinees </span><i>From:</i><span> De gouden man - Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers - Amsterdam - 1982.</span></span></div>
Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-2919864767759459662021-02-01T14:42:00.000+00:002021-02-01T14:42:21.955+00:00Rural autumn by Hans Warren<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiNDGM87mJGFqgLj4YtK56_Fha6JG2hozsJQxfeXV371ixq66jpo2YBMzkx-jt1LoMP-zWUqz6pBiF_aCNSym2b1tKWouopiSbfhyfFV1yeO30Nw0gH-qVJjdmlHJBheCfZSOjRmnOXeuW/s250/Warren.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="250" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiNDGM87mJGFqgLj4YtK56_Fha6JG2hozsJQxfeXV371ixq66jpo2YBMzkx-jt1LoMP-zWUqz6pBiF_aCNSym2b1tKWouopiSbfhyfFV1yeO30Nw0gH-qVJjdmlHJBheCfZSOjRmnOXeuW/w295-h198/Warren.jpg" width="295" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Hans Warren<br /><i>20 oktober 1921 - 19 december 2001</i><br /><i>[photo Internet]</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Rural autumn<br /><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">Who hasn't, like us, in
the darkest Europe<br />of this century, when
it seemed there wasn't<br />
a way out anymore, been
young,<br />and loved somebody,
will never grasp<br /><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">how we clung onto a
little happiness,<br />a sonnet, a trace of
luxury,<br />some grapes in a
crystal bowl, that cracked<br />when bombers passed
over.<br /><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">We knew for sure, we
had witnessed<br />death daily in many
forms.<br />Whether we would ever
have a future<br />looked, given our
situation, more and more uncertain.<br /><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">That is why autumn was
possibly the most heart-rending:<br />everything was dying
and we hadn't even lived yet.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>Original title: </i>'Landelijke herfst'<i> -from the collection </i>'P</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">oëzie is en daad van bevestiging</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">' - Noord- en Zuidnederlandse p</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">oëzie van 1945 tot heden - <i>gebundeld en ingeleid door </i>C. Buddingh' <i>en </i>Eddy van Vliet -</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> 1984 - Uitgeverij Manteau Amsterdam</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p>
Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-34643442157577789792021-01-25T01:45:00.001+00:002021-02-01T16:52:27.874+00:00Just listen carefully by C. Buddingh'<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">Just listen
carefully<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFzZf1cXd2VPZRuI7Sezkuu7A6oRVpSGK5A004PNW3f9nZvwDRRaehxbimRtCdYcM3PMYmCje7yiV75TY2yc9brfbesdQPImc7Gs7tJXR92dhvAR8vqeW3M8KQd8BtxnMgEKWERInaJ98/s1698/buddingh-door-toon-winkelb-00934-sch-001_5cf578cba91e8-1440x_.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1698" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFzZf1cXd2VPZRuI7Sezkuu7A6oRVpSGK5A004PNW3f9nZvwDRRaehxbimRtCdYcM3PMYmCje7yiV75TY2yc9brfbesdQPImc7Gs7tJXR92dhvAR8vqeW3M8KQd8BtxnMgEKWERInaJ98/s320/buddingh-door-toon-winkelb-00934-sch-001_5cf578cba91e8-1440x_.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Painting by Toon Winkler (1923-1989)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">I often
listen to my breathing.<br />Something is
always wheezing or grinding or rattling:<br />muffled
signals from my bronchi<br />that there
all is still functioning reasonably.<br /><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">One can hear
too much, but also too little.<br />Too much:
the doctor comes with a syringe.<br />Nothing at
all: one is on one's death bed.<br />No, the best
is somewhere in between.<br /><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">Those long
familiar, rustling sounds:<br />like a mouse
gnawing on a rind of cheese,<br />like a
ripple through coal dust.<br /><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">Especially
at night: the whole neighbourhood sleeps,<br />one reads
and listens, smiles, reads and listens,<br />and alive
enough one looks ahead with a grin.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i>Original title: </i>''Goed luisteren maar''<i> From the collection </i>Gedichten 1974/1985, Uitgeverij de Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 1986</b></div>
Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-59615320285963199502021-01-24T19:20:00.000+00:002021-01-24T19:20:44.877+00:00This island by Jan Eijkelboom<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This
island<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy_7l_CoCQPcweseur6eU3bpa9UCsK283075T1N670hGoAGW4H97pdze59QsolZcWdbstsNWcr6kMEk8rm1xBL0Mq-CXVgcsjPG7-fWTQJzzPeM18r6IBLJLzvtewbVpf5vgvX3mvTJkzZ/s606/Heden.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="369" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy_7l_CoCQPcweseur6eU3bpa9UCsK283075T1N670hGoAGW4H97pdze59QsolZcWdbstsNWcr6kMEk8rm1xBL0Mq-CXVgcsjPG7-fWTQJzzPeM18r6IBLJLzvtewbVpf5vgvX3mvTJkzZ/w244-h400/Heden.jpg" width="244" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Today
my feet are feeling good<br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in
their socks and they in turn<br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in
their roomy but not yet<br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">sloppy
shoes.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Then
why not take the beaten track,<br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">up
the mountains, over the fields<br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">away
from this town<br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">where
alleys go down to landings</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">no
longer used by boats.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Yet
there, one can look out<br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">over
the ever-changing<br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">but
staying the same water,</span><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">experience
that between closeness<br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and
thirst for space can be<br /> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a
marked out though unrestrained domain:<br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">this,
to do in one day's march</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">island.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Original title:</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Dit eiland </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From:</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Heden voelen mijn voeten zich goed - Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers - Amsterdam - Antwerpen - 2002.</span></span></div><p>
</p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-25089439225597881752020-01-01T17:54:00.000+00:002020-01-01T17:54:55.921+00:00Black-backed Gull by Theo de Jong<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Black-backed
Gull<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Theo de Jong - 1943<br />
<i>photo Internet</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Of
untouchable things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">gulls
are the most beautiful.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">He
travels in a straight line</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">just
above the waves,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">slowly
crossing our wake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">No
purpose, no vestige, no</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">future
or origin to be seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
wanderer, anonymous.</span><i> </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Just</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">over
a hill of air,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">then
he pulls the line of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">flight
straight again, heartbeat </span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">wing-beat
one movement</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
unstirred breaks</span></span> free</div>
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from what ties him.<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Original title:</i> Mantelmeeuw <i>From:</i> De
Tweede Ronde Lente 1984 - Uitgeverij Bert Bakker - Amsterdam</span></div>
<br />Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-3493721354314665962020-01-01T17:36:00.000+00:002020-01-01T17:36:00.690+00:00The mother the wife by M. Nijhoff<br />
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The mother the wife</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">M. Nijhoff - 1894-1953<br />
<i>photo Internet</i></td></tr>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
I went to Bommel to see
the bridge.</div>
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I saw the new bridge.
Two opposites</div>
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seeming to avoid each
other in the past,</div>
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become neighbours
again. About ten minutes</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
that I lay there in the
grass, drinking my tea,</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
my head full of the
landscape far and wide -</div>
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leave me there in the
middle of infinity</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
hearing a voice that
resounded in my ears.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
It was a woman. The
ship she sailed</div>
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came slowly downstream
through the bridge.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
She was alone on deck,
she stood at the helm,</div>
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<br /></div>
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and what she sang I
heard were psalms.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Oh, I thought, oh, that
my mother were sailing there.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Praise God, she sang,
His hand will guide you.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
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<i>Original title:</i> De moeder de vrouw <i>From:</i> Nieuwe gedichten - Em. Querido's Uitgeverij - Amsterdam 1934</div>
Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-43209001622558647842020-01-01T16:53:00.000+00:002020-01-01T16:53:37.745+00:00My father by Wim Hofman<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaQrrSv3P-fNfRZGIeM9Yq7Tx561Ipu99ss2C1n_puDgAqChLjnt9IIcLzV-PNh9pC_l6jFFO4oSHQMzIBvsMo80EKwG5hDZ6JRfaYnrXkV1IEkT3rnXPKtdcU0dxEl93Lgun5DjS_5RP/s1600/5ba1d_94225_Hofman_Wim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1046" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaQrrSv3P-fNfRZGIeM9Yq7Tx561Ipu99ss2C1n_puDgAqChLjnt9IIcLzV-PNh9pC_l6jFFO4oSHQMzIBvsMo80EKwG5hDZ6JRfaYnrXkV1IEkT3rnXPKtdcU0dxEl93Lgun5DjS_5RP/s320/5ba1d_94225_Hofman_Wim.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wim Hofman - 1941<br /><i>photo singeluitgeverijen</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
My father</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
turned ninety the day before yesterday,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
and now he is in bed.</div>
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Thus his ninety-first autumn begins.</div>
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The sun shines in through the window</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
on the wallpaper and the embroidery</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
he once made:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
a still life with blue plums and green
grapes</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
in cross stitch, set in an oaken frame.</div>
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The nights, he says,</div>
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the nights are the worst.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
He pants. He is tired.</div>
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He would rather say nothing more,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
but I suspect that not everything has
been said.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
A bush of gray hair</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
sticks out almost attractively above
the blankets.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Just sleep, father,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
dream of something beautiful</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
the best thing you ever saw in your
long always to short life</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
the raspberry-lemonade-pink evening sun
above the sea</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
near Vlissingen, the lightning above
the sea
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
while fishing at night, the moon</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
that jumped out of heaven like a silver
fish,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
the moment you had a bite</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
and something impatiently tugged at
your fishing line,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
as if to say</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Hello Hofman,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
are you still there?</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i>Original title:</i> Mijn vader <i>From:</i> Tirade 386 / 2000 Nr. 4 - Uitgeverij G.A. van Oorschot, Amsterdam</div>
Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-30246490313077116522019-12-30T01:25:00.000+00:002019-12-30T13:51:55.510+00:00Requiem for a tomcat by Wim de Vries<br />
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Requiem for a tomcat<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wim de Vries - 1923-1994<br />
<i>photo Internet</i></td></tr>
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</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
I still think often of
the neighbours' cat.</div>
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They called him Lazarus
because</div>
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he was constantly being
stoned by</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
fanatic pigeon
fanciers.</div>
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It was the best sort of
tomcat,
</div>
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going out at night and
</div>
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humping what he could
hump, coming</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
home in the morning
with torn ears</div>
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he then slept the whole
day and went</div>
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out again in the
evening.</div>
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A great cat, still
absolutely natural. A</div>
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real bloke you might
say.</div>
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He had already turned
twenty when he died.</div>
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The vet gave him a jab
because</div>
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he soiled himself.</div>
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I still remember that I
cried when he</div>
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was buried in the
garden.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
That day I wrote, young
as I</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
was, the first epitaph
in</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
my life.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
A simple little plank
whereupon was written</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Here lies Lazarus, the
terror of</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
pigeon flyer and
sparrow</div>
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May he rest in peace.<br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Original title: </i></span>Requiem voor een kater<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> - <i>From the collection: </i></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Zwaarbewolkt, enkele opklaringen</span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> - 1980 - Rotterdamse Kunststichting</span></span></b></div>
<br />Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-78409709318659183852019-11-17T21:18:00.000+00:002019-11-19T15:07:52.206+00:00The Jump I. - by Peter Nijmeijer(Dún Laoghaire, Co.
Dublin)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Peter Nijmeijer -
1947-2016</i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
It cannot be denied,
this view</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
that like a ship comes
straight at you: the quay,</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
the gray-blue
mountains, the sparing evening sun</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
(later you can destroy
the negatives).</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
And although you're
only just here, you were</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
here before, two shaky
feet</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
on a fabrication of
iron and wood.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Is the water moving or
you stationary?</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
For a moment you see
nothing, one might say that<br />
looking back is also closed off, do you</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
always dock at
evenfall.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
It doesn't matter if it
is now or at another time.</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
And even if you set
foot on the hesitant shore<br />
exactly on time: Like what is your
position here<br />
and for how long? (But never mind how you harp on,<br />
it
cannot be denied, this view.)<br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Original title: </i></span>(Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin)<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> - <i>From the collection: </i>De sprong - 1983 - Meulenhoff - Amsterdam</span></span></b><br />
<br /></div>
<br />Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-59388268503562090002019-11-07T16:53:00.000+00:002019-11-07T16:53:05.317+00:00Remco Campert - Poetry Night 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-75505885634262383402019-02-05T00:03:00.000+00:002019-02-05T00:03:07.805+00:00Groyne by Willem van Toorn<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Groyne</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
slanting grey stones. Grass in between. </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Halfway a hollow pollard with
a deformed heart </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the bark and initials of dead lovers long ago. </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At
the end the wooden beacon. If you swim </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">there, the eddies pull you
down without mercy. </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The drawing in my uncle's scout book, arrows </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">show
precisely how you must let yourself be </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dragged down into the depths
and then escape </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">along the bottom 'with a few firm strokes'. The </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">priest or curate who went rowing with three </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">boys near the point and
capsized. Days later, the </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bodies were washed ashore, near groynes by </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">distant villages. Only catholics could be that </span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stupid.</span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Original title: </i>Krib - <i>From the collection: </i>Dooltuin - 1995 - Em. Querido's Uitgeverij B.V. - Amsterdam</b></span></div>
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<br />Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-29912580367792565352019-01-23T01:01:00.001+00:002019-01-23T01:01:37.492+00:00Love at first sight by Hans van den Bos<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Love at first sight</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A
house for herself and her</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">children
she could forget
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with
only a widow's pension.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An
education she'd never had,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">except
two years domestic science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All
she could do was find a man,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who
would support her
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
both her children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Young
woman, twenty-nine years old,</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">widow
with two children, </span>seeks </i>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">acquaintance with
man of same age,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with a view to a
serious relationship.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This
advertisement she placed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on
the advice of her friend,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in
a local newspaper, because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">living
in with her parents,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was
a dead-end situation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A
letter, unexpected,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">came
from the east of the town,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he
twenty-six years old,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">still
living with his mother,
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a
member of the Salvation Army.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Probably
love at first sight,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because
a short time later
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">they
were married.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Original title:</i> Liefde op het eerste gezicht</span>Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-82697818559082661402018-12-14T23:02:00.000+00:002019-11-19T00:56:24.201+00:00Lament by Remco Campert<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lament</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here now along the long deep water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that I thought that I thought that you would always</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that you would always</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">here now along the long deep water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where behind reed beds behind reed beds the sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that I thought that you always would always</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that always your eyes your eyes and the air</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">always your eyes and the air</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">always rippling in the water rippling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that always in living silence</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that I always should live in living silence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that you would always that waving reed always</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">along the long deep water that always your skin</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that always at midday your skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">always in summer at midday your skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that always your eyes would break</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that always from joy your eyes would break</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">always in the calm midday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">along the long deep water that I thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that I thought that you would always</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that I thought that joy would always</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that always the light still at midday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that always the midday light your olive-skinned shoulder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your olive-skinned shoulder always in the midday light</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that always your cry hanging</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">always your bird cry hanging</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at midday in the summer in the air</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that always the living air that always</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">always the rippling water at midday your skin</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I thought that everything would always I thought that never</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">here now along the long deep water that never</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I thought that always that never that you never</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that frost never that no ice ever the water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">here now along the long deep water I thought never</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that snow ever the cypress I thought never</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that snow never the cypress that you never more</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Original title: </i>Lamento </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>From the collection: </i>Dichter - Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam - 1995</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everyone in Dublin has the same popish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">puppy-face that you still see in remote </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">parishes in the south of the Low Countries,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which have only just been connected to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the telegraph and telephone net.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Irish: palefaces with water-colour freckles </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and lifeless eyes that at any</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">moment can drown in tears. Indeed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">drowning sorrow in drink is what they do best:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when you give them a pint they will wag </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their tails and growl in gratitude. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes, it is said, they lick your hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After closing time, far too early of course,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">they piss, one paw up, against the pub.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In almost everything they imitate the English,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but after all, how long haven't these been their </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bosses? So it's bacon and eggs in the morning,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tea with milk, sandwiches for lunch, tea</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with milk, a bit later afternoon tea, with milk,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and in the evening steak and kidney pie with</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">far too big, far too green peas. Just like the</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">English they drive on the left, although it makes </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">no difference on their narrow roads where you drive.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And they speak English: the bilingual</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">street signs are only there for show,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">just like The Irish Times has a little corner</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">left for an article in Gaelic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A stray dog is dead happy with the smallest bone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">III.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is a long way to Tipperary:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the dog, dead tired, drags his paw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oh, sure, Ireland is stunning, with mountains</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and valleys, and the Irish whiskey is</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">good to drink: I know all about it.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But James Joyce wrote his best books somewhere else,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">though of course, in the museum dedicated to him </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Dublin, they don't tell you that,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Kennedy became America's president.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ireland is not a country, it is an island,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and it isn't even that. No one feels called to greatness, </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">meekly they walk the streets, thanking God </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that at least there are potatoes again.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then what the hell was I doing in Dublin?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Epilogue</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I, who went swinging in London, Paris or </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Berlin, entered – madness - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the kite of Aer Lingus and read sweating </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how I should act in case of emergency.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I sought oblivion in alcohol. The drink </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">against fear of death, which I didn't seek here, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">consoled my body, and my limbs acted </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as if it was normal to be Icarus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No city beneath me, Dublin is a hole </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">between mountains of cardboard, a decor for </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cheap tragedies without a heldentenor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I, Icarus, fell. It didn't help to call out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Who would save me: I fell with them. But just as</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sea is good enough for the sailor, I was content.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Original title: </i>Dublin <i>From: </i>De Tweede Ronde, tijdschrift voor literatuur, herfst 1981 - Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, Amsterdam</span></b></td></tr>
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<br />Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-72255852295404603182018-03-05T10:47:00.000+00:002019-02-04T17:04:41.540+00:00ars poetica by C. Buddingh'<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ars poetica<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>C. Buddingh' [1918-1985]</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I
remember as if it were only yesterday</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(I
was maybe 22): I sat</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">brooding
over a poem, </span>and
near the window</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my
mother was peeling the potatoes</span></div>
</div>
<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the
verse was not working: my back was</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dripping
with sweat </span>and
I thought with annoyance:</span><br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">how in the name of god
can one</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">write
poetry in the same room</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">someone
is peeling potatoes ?</span></div>
</div>
<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That
evening, when everyone was sleeping, I finished</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the
verse: it was an exceptionally bad verse</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and
I understood only very much later: the best</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">poetry
is written while peeling potatoes</span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Original title: </i>'ars poetica'<i> -from the collection 'Is dit genoeg: een stuk of wat gedichten</i></b><b> - honderd jaar Noord- en Zuidnederlandse </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">p</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">oëzie (1880-1980) in dertig thema's </b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">- dl.II - <i>samengesteld door </i>C. Buddingh' <i>en </i>Eddy van Vliet -</b><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> 1982 - Uitgeverij Elsevier Manteau, Amsterdam/Antwerpen</b></div>
<br />Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-50227729466922949362018-03-02T20:51:00.000+00:002018-03-02T20:51:30.471+00:00Something about music in March by Jaap Harten<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Something
about music in March<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Jaap Harten<br />[1930-2017]</i></td></tr>
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<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From
my window</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I
see tomcat Ape sneaking over
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the
gutter of the neighbour's shed.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grey
skin against grey</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">roof
tiles, a drizzly sky</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">above
it and in the background</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the
RC graveyard with a lilac</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">prelate.
Today an important person will be
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">committed
to the earth there.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Starchy
or dejected (who can say?)</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the
bereaved trudge, friends,</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">housekeepers,
etc. behind the coffin.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It
is 12th March, cutting bleakly in shrubs</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
wreath ribbons: tears might also
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">be
brought about by the lashing wind.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Always
looking at tombstones</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">leads
to too much organ music at home.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why
not play a LP with the</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sonatina
of Ravel for once?</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Consolation
is not for sale. Years</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pass
by and I'm off now to buy</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">luncheon
meat; life goes on</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">they
say. Even so, while shopping, I worry</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">about
the right music at my cremation:</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Satie
too modish, Bach too outmoded.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'd
choose Greta Keller with <i>Dis-mois je t'aime</i></span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a
scratchy little record from the meagre</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thirties,
but the favourite</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">song
of Dior. It would match my</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">French
ties, boots and glasses.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I
never really felt I belonged in
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Holland,
rather to German drag</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or
Indonesian boy. Honestly, I
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">am
at an utter loss in this country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Original title: </i>'Iets over muziek in maart'<i> -from the collection </i>'P</b><b>oëzie is en daad van bevestiging</b><b>' - Noord- en Zuidnederlandse p</b><b>oëzie van 1945 tot heden - <i>gebundeld en ingeleid door </i>C. Buddingh' <i>en </i>Eddy van Vliet -</b><b> 1984 - Uitgeverij Manteau Amsterdam</b></span></div>
<br />Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-27440618276308449242018-03-02T00:47:00.000+00:002018-03-02T00:47:47.215+00:00Heavenly Peace by Ira Bart<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Heavenly
Peace</b></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i> </i></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i> for
Duo Duo<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ira Bart (Ria Baart)<br />
[1947-1996]</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</i></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">You
were on the Tiananmen Square</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">when
a new wind was starting to blow there</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">full
of spring air and cherry blossom, the future</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">crushed
under the wheels of tanks</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> -
colics, hard corses of a lava flow -</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">did
you run, no, but did I run</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">over
my screen.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">I
recognised you later in my country</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">by
a photo in the newspaper.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Driven
by hate and homesickness you watched</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">in
my house pictures of the whitewashed square where </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">what
had happened was no longer shown.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i> People
who haves eyes are often sad</i>, you said,</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">swimming
in the sea, where your head</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">became
a smaller and smaller dot</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">until
I could only somehow</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> vaguely</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> surmise
it.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Men
in a boat showed you the way</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">back.
Why, you asked, denying the supremacy</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">of
the sees, surely rinsing off something </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> must
be done with a great deal of water?</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Original title: </i>Hemelse Vrede - <i>From the collection: </i>Verwaaide liefdes, tere vleugels - 1997 - Uitgeverij Tortuca, Rotterdam</span></b><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-89325784763051679342018-02-19T00:51:00.000+00:002018-02-19T23:32:57.033+00:00The thrush again by Hans Andreus<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hans Andreus<br />
<i>[1926-1977]</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<tr><td valign="TOP" width="100%"><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The thrush again.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There wasn't an evening</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that he lost his way:</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his soundtrack</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">between the houses</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">moved unfailingly synchronized</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with in this</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reality the in-</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">escapable effect</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of clouds, sky and</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">setting sun</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and while I lay still</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as if I were dead,</span></div>
<div class="western">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sang he. He sang.</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
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</tbody></table>
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<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;">
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<td valign="TOP" width="100%"><div class="western">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Original title: </i>'De lijster weer' - <i>from: </i>Om de mond van het licht. Een kleine case history - Uitgeversmaatschappij Holland BV - Haarlem - 1973</span></b></div>
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Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-82293626625245048812018-02-18T17:33:00.000+00:002018-02-19T00:33:13.096+00:00Two poems by Bert Schierbeek<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bert Schierbeek<br />
<i>[1918-1996]</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<colgroup><col width="256*"></col>
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<td valign="TOP" width="100%"><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">LOOK</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it's much worse</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">than you think</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">if you think</span></div>
<div class="western">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it's even worse</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;">
<colgroup><col width="256*"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP" width="100%"><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I THINK</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when it rains</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">let her not get wet</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and if it storms</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">won't she get a cold</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I also think</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that that thinking</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">doesn't help</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because you'll never get wet</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">again nor get a cold</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because it rains</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nor is windy ever</span></div>
<div class="western">
</div>
<div class="western">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">more for you</span><br />
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;">
<colgroup><col width="256*"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP" width="100%"><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Original titles: </i>'Kijk' and 'Ik denk' - <i>from the collection </i>'De Deur', Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam - 1972</span></b></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-65934496282907725062018-02-10T21:48:00.000+00:002018-02-10T21:48:13.771+00:00Landscape by H. Marsman<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Landscape<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the pastures grase</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the peaceable creatures;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the herons glide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">over shiny lakes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the bitterns stand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by a dark pond;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and in the washland</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the horses gallop</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with waving tails</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through rolling grass.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><i>(Original title: </i>'Landschap' - <i>from: </i>'Verzameld Werk', 1938 - Uitgeverij Querido, Amsterdam)</b></span><br />
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<br />Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-54725093566106912762018-02-09T23:03:00.002+00:002018-02-09T23:03:54.760+00:00Terror by Lucebert<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucebert [1924-1994]</td></tr>
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<b>Terror</b></div>
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finally the empty road</div>
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the endless empty road</div>
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the empty stones the
thousand and one</div>
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white steps the split
stones</div>
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the very long white
road</div>
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the extremely stony
road the extremely</div>
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split stones the
endless</div>
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jog the glass the
stones the white</div>
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recently dug legs of
passers-by</div>
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right behind the
brushwood</div>
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nothing conspicuous
behind the hills</div>
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deserters are plugged</div>
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a general breaks wind</div>
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over the road moves a
stinking cloud</div>
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the corpses find
themselves between the white stones</div>
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remarkably well hidden</div>
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artistically inlayed
between the split stones</div>
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every split is a
surprised eye</div>
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and the hundreds the
endless empty eyes</div>
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are from nobody from
nobody are</div>
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also the storms of
violence</div>
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at times they are
disguised as closed cars</div>
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slowly over the empty
white road</div>
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but then it is also
certain that they will vanish<br />
suddenly in the clear
bloodstain right on the horizon</div>
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Hans van den Boshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12943415156419076866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491008616899710743.post-786640142298243292018-02-07T12:32:00.000+00:002018-02-07T12:32:36.739+00:00Three poems by Eddy van Vliet<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>La gare
forestière</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Paul Delvaux)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The wood smells pause.
Between the leaves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">darkness keeps asleep.
The sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fills with light yellow
defence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the rural platform
the waiting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has started. The
destinations do not run out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the girls who made
up all the arrivals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The rails are carrying
like parallel running
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">servants their
ponderous masters.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For everybody waiting
they bring an absentee.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Eddy van Vliet</span><br /><i>[1942-2002]</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>For
Gert B.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is Easter Monday.
The magnolia flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The garden wall seems
to glow gently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Just for a moment I
sense the winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when I take the garden
chairs out of the cellar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What is in the bud,
wants to open</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">before nightfall. As in
a race</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">green holds the first
place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing is hesitating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The exception is my
hand that touches the tree-bark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The branch that it
breaks, contains no sap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is clear: the pear
tree is dead</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and from what I have
heard this morning, so are you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>The
synagogue on the Koornmarkt</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I
have come to Delft, not for its blue</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or
its tower. Because only what was lost,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has
the right of existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ornament
that lives in a pencil sketch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Light
spots on the eastern wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tolerance
made evident from a speech</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Much
was devoted to what had disappeared. A collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
words of a poet from The Hague. Lotteries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
the whole life of an unmarried engineer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
specification provided room for eighty Jews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In
fear they threw themselves down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
occupiers registered</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a
hundred and thirty eight.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Twelve
returned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oh
Eternal one, I love the throne of Your house that</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">turned
into a storage place for rusting barrels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Original titles: </i></b>La gare forestière, Voor Gerd B. and De synagoge aan de Koornmarkt<b> </b><b> - <i>From:</i> De tweede ronde, Tijdschrift voor literatuur, Herfst 1989 - Vlaams nummer - Uitgeverij Bert Bakker BV, Amsterdam.</b></span></div>
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