Kategorie: Poems
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Ilona Lay: Magic Writing
October in the mountains 2 German Original Text: Images: Johannes Plenio: Leaf; I.Hoffmann: Larch inthe Gesäuse Mountains; I.Hoffmann:Hawkweed; I.Hoffmann: Reichenstein; Tomascastelazo: Lichen; FreePics: River; Johannes Plenio: Evening atmosphere; Johannes Plenio: Moon
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Ilona Lay: Crystalline emptiness
Happiness is this crystalline emptiness in which the oak is dressed after the colourful frenzy of forms this winding awaitedness in which already germinate the fruits of your future possibilities this crystalline emptiness which spreads out unreachable over the sea of mountain ridges flowing into it in the dreamed distance…
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Ilona Lay:Longing
In our new section, ‘Sung Poems,’ we now present selected poems by Ilona Lay that have been set to music. We begin with ‘Longing.’ LONGINGA grey day,seemingly impenetrablethe shroud of the clouds.But then,all of a sudden,a portal opens in the cloudsand you escape through space and time.The pale canyons of…
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The Utopia of a Realm of Love
Ilona Lay’s Poem Tristan’s Dream Ilona Lay’s poem Tristan’s Dream alludes to mankind’s age-old dream of a realm of love that is stronger than death and at the same time forms a counterweight to the world ruled by hatred. Tristan’s DreamThe evening led me along a secret path,past leafless trees…
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Don’t Shoot! Don’t Be Silent!
A Song by Zemfira about Direct and Indirect Violence In 2005, the Russian singer-songwriter Zemfira wrote the song Nye strelyaitye (Don’t shoot). In a video clip from 2022, she explicitly relates the song to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A Singer in the Sights of the Media In 2007, Zemfira commented in…
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When Tears No Longer Quench the Grief
Vladimir Vysotsky’s song Bratskiye Mogily (Mass Graves) The poem Mass Graves by the Russian guitar poet Vladimir Vysotsky, written in 1963, referred at the time to Russian victims in the Second World War. Today, however, we associate it with mass graves caused by Russia itself. No crosses can be seen on mass graves,here you…
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