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
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 …, which is presented here together…
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Ilona Lay: Magic Writing
October in the mountains. Meditations on happiness. hat is happiness? Each person will give a different answer to this question. So there are no universally valid answers. Maybe happiness is the Magic Writing of Nature …like the louminous larch amid the dark wave of spruces. German Original Text: Images: Johannes Plenio:…
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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 