Kategorie: Songs
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Ilona Lay: The Eye of The Night
The eye of the night Happiness is the glistening eye of the night floating in flickering curls of clouds Happiness are the groping glances of the night in the praying arms of the maple tree Happiness is the magic scepter of the night wandering on the awakening paths Happiness is…
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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: Rain Song
Rain SongDo you hear the whispering song of the rain,embracing with its wings the withered world?Humming, it quenches the wavering reedand pours a field of flowers on the earth.Do you see the iridescent web of the rain,sprinkling the land with pearls of stardust?Its breath sets the asters on fireand scatters…
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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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