trijntje fop

welcome to the trijntje fop site of visual artist frank waaldijk. on these pages you can find my trijntje fop poems in dutch after the dutch poet kees stip (see below).

trijntje fop art: a hommage and a gesamtkunstwerk. over 100 light poems with a well-known artist or artwork as clou, fittingly illustrated. there is just one in english, below. (incidentally the dutch ones are probably better, but it gives a taste).

this collection of illustrated poems is a tribute to all the artists which inspire and have inspired me over the years. 

other trijntjes: over 50 light animal verse poems, with animal illustrations. there is also just one in english, see here below.

this site is partly made possible by google and wikipedia

  on a polar bear

a bear in alaska:
`i feel i must ask a

cool shrink a wee question
about my depression:

is it simply contextual,
just possibly sexual

or down to my solar share
that i'm a bipolar bear?'




the (bi)polar bear pun is counted by google as 32.900 hits...mixed feelings therefore about this trijntje because the clou is not quite original. but well, anyway, originality isn't what it used to be...

here a funny piece on bipolar bears on uncyclopedia

serious info on bipolar depression: stephen fry in `secret life of the manic depressive', the documentary is available on youtube in 14 pieces.


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on a bonobo and a chimpanzee

did artist yoko bonobo
completely out of mikado
construct for hiroshige's lobster
`jacuzzi with yakuza mobster'?

the ape clams up mysteriously 
but still complains imperiously
`they never take me seriously'

chimp saatchi: `who knows? years ago
she built in downtown tokyo
her christ in tub with giorgio
committing in this spirito
artistic harachirico'




utagawa hiroshige, 2 shrimp and a lobster




giorgio de chirico, christ and the storm




giorgio de chirico, mystery and melancholy of a street




yoko ono, touch me


yoko ono: once partner of john lennon, bonobo: great ape, jacuzzi: warmwater whirlpool, yakuza: japanese mafia, mobster: mafioso, charles saatchi: owner of saatchi gallery, harakiri: ritual japanese suicide

for this trijntje fop some background on de chirico is useful, see here
  

trijntje fop is a nom de plume of the dutch poet kees stip (1913-2001). the name is currently used to describe light poetry with the following style characteristics :

• 1. light!

• 2. see 1.

• 3. about 1 or more animals (`on a ...' ) with typical human characteristics - as in de la fontaine's work.

• 4. abundance of spoonerisms.

• 5. 2 to ... lines, mostly 6 in aabbcc form.

in one of the continuing stories (between ideas) master pennewip reads and comments on poems of his children. one of them is trijntje fop, with a short and very simple verse:

Tryntje Fop, op haar muts

Ik heet Tryntje Fop
En heb een muts op myn kop.

(Tryntje Fop, on her cap

I'm called Tryntje Fop
And have a cap on my head.)

pennewip's commentary is very memorable. multatuli was a great modernizer of language, i have tried to retain that spirit also.