Kategorie: Poems
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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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A Peace Prayer Against the Witchcraft of War
A Song by Boris Grebenshchikov about Good and Evil Magic In his song Vorozhba (Magic Powers), the Russian singer-songwriter Boris Grebenshchikov contrasts the evil magic of war with the healing magic of a life based on striving for harmony with oneself and the world. Grebenshchikov’s „No to War“ With Boris Grebenshchikov, another…
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Ilona Lay: In the Ancient Garden
In the Ancient Garden The dusk approaching like a timid horseand birches whispering serenely,hyacinths that on a bridgeof scents stretch out into the nightin the garden, in the ancient garden,when the voices of the feast fell silent. The moonlight opening a hidden gateand brooks embarking on a secret journey,crickets that…
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Ilona Lay: Early Morning
On Planet Literature, we celebrate Easter with a music video to a poem by Ilona Lay. Happy Easter! Early Morning Dreamily Mother Earth lolls in her sleepunder the clumsy embrace of the winds,her shivering shell still wrappedin the garment of the clouds. Winking between the pine stairs,the eye of the…
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