Kategorie: Songs
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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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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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Little Song about my Life (And the first love …)
Bulat Okudzhava’s Little Song About My Life. While the Soviet leadership was trying to secure peace through repression and nuclear weapons, intensive discussions were taking place in dissident circles about the mental prerequisites of war and peace. This is also reflected in Bulat Okudzhava’s Little Song About My Life. Bulat Okudzhava (1924…
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