From here you have direct access to the following poems in
This Language
(in reverse chronological order):
- What's in a
Name?
An answer to Romeo and Juliet after 420 years
- A Sense of History
with
Historisch Besef,
a parallel version in Deze
Taal
Not really a good advertisement for oranges
- Masturbate or
Exacerbate
From the solo sex of humans to the gender of 'rhyme'
- What the Sad One
Said
Bad at grammar and pronunciation is not that irrelevant
- Ring Out,
Clear Bells
If Alfred Tennyson is able to turn in 'his' grave, 'he' will much
better understand this poem
- At Eighty I Should
Give Up
Give up what? Definitely not something Kong Fuzi (Confucius) did!
- Turning Time
Would the ability to turn time back be an unqualified pleasure?
- A Sparrow's
Extraordinary Sonnet
When is World Sedentary Birds' Day?
- The Moppers
with De
dweilers, a parallel version in Deze Taal
Mopping up an 'ocean' of gall and blood with a handkerchief
- Vincent's
Ravens
A translation of Sonja van Mechelen's
Raven van
Vincent
- Russian
Gas
Gassing is alright again, now in Russia
- Francis Preaching to
the Animals
A narrative poem in which animals do listen to the Word
of God
- 红、光、亮
in
Zhezhong Yuyan and its
translation into This Language:
Red, Light and Bright
Is it the redness, lightness and brightness of the Middle Path, of
neutralism, of China or, perhaps, of all three?
- The Body is a
Stone
About a person's material and only component part
- The Family
Non-planners
Breeding is necessary to maintain a natural equilibrium, but what
does a lack of family planning breed?
- What If There Were No
Ash?
The superfluity of this poem depends on the superfluity of its
ashes
- Jesus'
Sib (beginning only)
Jesus' younger brother about his manna dream in the year 1837 of the
Christianist Era
- Nitassinan,
Our Earth
Nitassinan means and does not mean "our Earth"
(The song can also be listened to as an *.mp3
file.)
- The Elephant in the
Room
Now for some extra attention for the main cause of the world's
environmental degradation
- Tunnel Vision
On the viewpoint of zealous and pedantic theocentrists
- The Lay of This Our
Language (in This Language) / 我们这种语言
(in Zhezhong Yuyan) / Door Deze Taal
verbonden (in Deze Taal)
Three language acrostics
- Hema, the River
Horse with 河马和我, a
parallel version in Zhezhong Yuyan
Not really about a hippopotamus
- Divine
Division with 神的划分, a
parallel version in Zhezhong Yuyan
It is still possible to write and read this poem on Earth, is it?
- The Two That Will
Always Be New with De twee altijd nieuwen,
a parallel version in Deze Taal
Inspired by an Arabic poem of more than fourteen centuries ago
(Can also be listened to as an *.mp3 file.)
- Terrific Present
A poem in which the attack on the New York World Trade Center is
put in a global and historical perspective
- Billbodies
About the plight of living billboards
- The Loaf-Guards
Alas, not an entirely peerless piece of writing
- My Pussy
About my (late) cat, a 'diviine puussy'
For those interested in poetry there are also:
And for those interested in reading poems/诗/gedichten
printed out on paper and published in one trilingual volume there
is:
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