Planet Literature

Poem from the cycle „October in the Mountains“, with musical setting.

What is happiness? In her 17 „Meditations on Happiness“, Ilona Lay offers answers to this question that are inspired by an autumnal stay in the mountains. One example of this is the poem „The Eye of the Night“, which is presented here together with a musical setting.

The eye of the night 

Happiness is the glistening eye of the night 
floating in flickering curls of clouds 

Happiness are the groping glances of the night 
in the praying arms of the maple tree 

Happiness is the magic scepter of the night 
wandering on the awakening paths 

Happiness is the glimmering eye of the night 
in the gloomy swirls of the lake of time

Images: 

Robert Karkowski: Moon (Pixabay)
I.Hoffmann: Moon, Clouds
I.Hoffmann: Moon, Mountains
Gerd Altmann: Tree (Pixabay)
Pexels: Stars (Pixabay) 
Gerd Altmann: Stars (Pixabay)
Philipp: River in the moonlight (Pixabay)
I.Hoffman: Ai generateds, Path
Johannes Plenio: Mountains (Pixabay)
ChiVera: Sky (Pixabay)
Dorothe Wouters (DarkMoonArt): Moon (Pixabay)