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Zywa Jul 2024

A poet who cries

writes concentrated, uses --

his tears as his ink.

Poem "Aus meinen Thränen sprießen" ("From my tears sprout", 1823, Heinrich Heine), from the collection "Lyrisches Intermezzo" - II, set to music in 1840 by Robert Schumann, in a translation reworded in 2004 by Jan Rot

Collections "Love Mind and Death" and "Look at me"

#sadness #poetry #emotions

Zywa Jul 2024

[ The coffin must be ]

The coffin must be

big, bigger than you think now --

For all my sorrow.

Poem "Die alten, bösen Lieder" ("The old, evil songs", 1823, Heinrich Heine), from the collection "Lyrisches Intermezzo" - LXVI, set to music in 1840 by Robert Schumann

Collection "Love Mind and Death"

#sadness

Zywa Jul 2024

[ All my skin is clothed ]

All my skin is clothed

in a flowing net of rain:

living crocheting.

Novel "Frankissstein: a love story" (2019, Jeanette Winterson), Lake Geneva, 1816

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in 10s"

#rain #pattern

Zywa Jul 2024

[ Let me be alone ]

Let me be alone,

I do like it and get bored --

when in company.

Novel "Frankissstein: a love story" (2019, Jeanette Winterson), Lake Geneva, 1816

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in 10s"