Kategorie: Poems
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Ilona Lay: The Homesickness of the Clouds
Songs of Happiness – October in the Mountains Happiness is this silky tapestry which weightlessly rises out of the murmuring rain this cocoon of pearls that healingly lies down on the scars of the rock cheeks this levitating nymph breath fragrant of sage and dost that penetrates your pores this…
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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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