Kategorie: Poems
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Nothingness as a Fountain of Youth
On Antonin Artaud’s Poetic Revolt, Exemplified by his Poem Invocation à la Momie (Invocation of the Mummy) The French poet and playwright Antonin Artaud (1896 – 1948) dreamed of transforming the world through poetry. His own life, though, was anything but „poetic“. Invocation of the Mummy The bone caves of…
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The Dictator
A Poem Based on Ossip Mandelstam’s Stalin Epigram In 1933, Osip Mandelstam wrote a poem against Stalin, which he ultimately had to pay for with his life. In an adapted form, the poem can also be applied to autocratic rulers in general – not least the current Kremlin despot. The…
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Ilona Lay: Love Poems
Ilona Lay’s love poems explore the essence of love from different perspectives. This is also reflected in the different forms of poetic expression. The poems are complemented by short accompanying texts that serve to provide a broader context and to stimulate further reflection. Image: Wsjewolod Maximowitsch (1894 – 1914): The…
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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…
Planet Literature 