Kategorie: Ilona Lay’s Poetry Planet
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Ilona Lay: War
War – that means the indiscriminate, mechanised killing of others in order to assert interests that might not even coincide with those killing. This is basically unimaginable. Yet it continues to be part of our reality to this day. War The city throbs like a bursting abscess,the culture’s corset breaks…
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Deadly Humanity
By imposing the death penalty, a society claims the right to commit the greatest conceivable crime in order to atone for a crime. In doing so, it places itself on a par with the criminal. Deadly Humanity The sinful villain – praise be to God! –was stabbed to death by…
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Ilona Lay: October by the Sea
The first autumn storm rides the hissing waves. Shivering, you gaze after a swan spreading its wings over the troubled sea of life as if in a silent blessing. October by the Sea Between the dunesthe wind plucks at the paling blossoms.The waves shriek like breaking iceunder the vagabond’s burning…
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Ilona Lay: Prayer to Nobody
The question of whether or not God exists is, in essence, blasphemous. For it implies that human beings, with their limited intellect and imagination, can comprehend a form of being that, by its very nature, eludes them. Prayer to Nobody Even if You existed, Lord –I would not believe in…
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In the Storm Surge of War
In war, individual lives are drowned in a sea of numbers: in statistics on troop strength and fallen soldiers, „civilian casualties“ and „collateral damage“. Human beings are reduced to fuel for the fire of war and thus deprived of their dignity. In the Storm Surge of War He was your…
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Autumn Song
Autumn speaks of transience and loss – yet it also invites us to turn to the inner world. After months in which the outside world has dominated our attention, looking inwards can sharpen our sense for other, less tangible truths. Autumn Song Bales of straw lie scatteredacross the battlefield of…
