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Anton K. & Paul Boldt: Reise nach Berlin

Anton K.: Pictures of a journey to Berlin, 2009

Mit ein gedicht von Paul Boldt (1885-1921)

Berlin

Die Stimmen der Autos wie Jägersignale
Die Täler der Straße bewaldend ziehn.
Schüsse von Licht. Mit einem Male
Brennen die Himmel auf Berlin.

Die Spree, ein Antlitz wie der Tag,
Das glänzend meerwärts späht nach Rettern,
Behält der wilden Stadt Geschmack,
Auf der die Züge krächzend klettern.

Die blaue Nacht fließt in der Forst.
Sie fühlt, geblendet, daß du lebst.
Schnellzüge steigen aus dem Horst!
Der weiße Abend, den du webst,

Fühlt, blüht, verblättert in das All.
Ein Menschenhände-Fangen treibst du
Um den verklungnen Erdenball
Wie hartes Licht; und also bleibst du.

Wer weiß, in welche Welten dein
Erstarktes Sternenauge schien,
Stahlmasterblühte Stadt aus Stein,
Der Erde weiße Blume, Berlin.

Paul Boldt (1914)

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Arthur Conan Doyle: The Message

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Arthur Conan Doyle

(1859-1930)

The Message

(From Heine)

 

Up, dear laddie, saddle quick,

And spring upon the leather!

Away post haste o’er fell and waste

With whip and spur together!

 

And when you win to Duncan’s kin

Draw one of them aside

And shortly say, “Which daughter may

We welcome as the bride?”

 

And if he says, “It is the dark,”

Then quickly bring the mare,

But if he says, “It is the blonde,”

Then you have time to spare;

 

But buy from off the saddler man

The stoutest cord you see,

Ride at your ease and say no word,

But bring it back to me.

 

Arthur Conan Doyle poetry

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In Memoriam schrijver en dichter Michel van der Plas

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In Memoriam

schrijver en dichter Michel van der Plas

De schrijver Michel van der Plas is zondag 21 juli 2013 op 85-jarige leeftijd overleden. Hij was al geruime tijd ziek.

Michel van der Plas, een pseudoniem van Ben Brinkel, werd bekend als tekstschrijver voor cabaretiers, zoals Wim Sonneveld, Wim Kan en Frans Halsema.

Verder was hij actief als journalist (Elseviers Weekblad), vertaler, dichter en biograaf. Zijn biografieën over katholieke figuren als Guido Gezelle, Joseph Alberdingk Thijm en Anton van Duinkerken, kregen onvoldoende waardering.

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Erica De Stercke: Samenkomst

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Samenkomst

 

De kilte warmt de kamer op

er wordt geen woord gesproken

alsof de hele wereld is ingeslikt

hij kijkt naar buiten

ik in de ruimte rond

de gedachten ploeteren door herinneringen

 

een vlieg

afgesneden van de vrijheid

bromt haar leven bij elkaar

 

rinkelgeluid

handen grijpen naar de gsm

ik zie dat hij een trui aan heeft

met rolkraag

 

Erica De Stercke

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Martin Beversluis: Tijdbom

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Tijdbom

 

Woorden zijn gordijnen die je toedoet

zodra het spektakel is afgelopen het

waren mooie beelden een stuk of acht

jongens die in het midden van de nacht

iemand aanvielen en helemaal verrot

schopten na de daden komen dan altijd

de woorden die van afschuw het eerst

dan is het gevaar geweken kunnen we

de toedracht gaan verklaren deze tijden

zijn van teruggang en onbegrip dat vatten

we onvermijdelijk persoonlijk op hoe kan

dit mij overkomen een frustratio die er

toe doet die smeekt om een uitlaatklep

het grote verklaren is begonnen na ieder

conflict begrijpen we meer tot begrip ook

niet meer helpt en het recht van de sterkste

geldt deze woorden zijn gordijnen die

je dicht doet als je het denkraam sluit

een tijdbom wordt terloops ontploft.

 

Martin Beversluis

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Christine de Pisan: Belle, ce que j’ay requis

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Christine de Pisan

(ca. 1364-1430)

 

Belle, ce que j’ay requis

 

Belle, ce que j’ay requis

Or le vueilliez ottroier,

Car par tant de fois proier

Bien le doy avoir conquis.

 

Je l’ay ja si long temps quis,

Et pour trés bien emploier,

Belle, ce que j’ay requis.

 

Se de moy avez enquis,

Ne me devez pas noyer

Mon guerdon, ne mon loier;

Car par raison j’ai acquis,

Belle, ce que j’ay requis.

 

Christine de Pisan poetry

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Gottfried Keller: Abend auf Golgatha

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Gottfried Keller

(1819–1890)

Abend auf Golgatha

 

Eben die dornige Krone geneiget, verschied der Erlöser,

Weißlich in dämmernder Luft glänzte die Schulter des Herrn?

Siehe, da schwebte, vom tauigen Schimmer gelockt, die Phaläne

Flatternd hernieder zu ruhn dort, wo gelastet das Kreuz.

Langsam schlug sie ein Weilchen die samtenen Flügel zusammen,

Breitet’ sie aus und entschwand fern in die sinkende Nacht.

Nicht ganz blieb verlassen ihr Schöpfer: den Pfeiler des Kreuzes

Hielt umfangen das Weib, das er zur Mutter sich schuf.

 

Gottfried Keller poetry

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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Siddal: Four Poems

 

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Siddal

(1829-1862)

Four Poems

 

A Silent Wood

O silent wood, I enter thee
With a heart so full of misery
For all the voices from the trees
And the ferns that cling about my knees.

In thy darkest shadow let me sit
When the grey owls about thee flit;
There will I ask of thee a boon,
That I may not faint or die or swoon.

Gazing through the gloom like one
Whose life and hopes are also done,
Frozen like a thing of stone
I sit in thy shadow but not alone.

Can God bring back the day when we two stood
Beneath the clinging trees in that dark wood?



He and She and Angels Three

Ruthless hands have torn her
From one that loved her well;
Angels have upborn her,
Christ her grief to tell.

She shall stand to listen,
She shall stand and sing,
Till three winged angels
Her lover’s soul shall bring.

He and she and the angels three
Before God’s face shall stand;
There they shall pray among themselves
And sing at His right hand.


Early Death

Oh grieve not with thy bitter tears
The life that passes fast;
The gates of heaven will open wide
And take me in at last.

Then sit down meekly at my side
And watch my young life flee;
Then solemn peace of holy death
Come quickly unto thee.

But true love, seek me in the throng
Of spirits floating past,
And I will take thee by the hands
And know thee mine at last.



 

Dead Love

Oh never weep for love that’s dead
Since love is seldom true
But changes his fashion from blue to red,
From brightest red to blue,
And love was born to an early death
And is so seldom true.

Then harbour no smile on your bonny face
To win the deepest sigh.
The fairest words on truest lips
Pass on and surely die,
And you will stand alone, my dear,
When wintry winds draw nigh.

Sweet, never weep for what cannot be,
For this God has not given.
If the merest dream of love were true
Then, sweet, we should be in heaven,
And this is only earth, my dear,
Where true love is not given.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Siddal – poetry

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Emma Lazarus: Dreams

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Emma Lazarus

(1849–1887)

Dreams

 

A dream of lilies: all the blooming earth,

A garden full of fairies and of flowers;

Its only music the glad cry of mirth,

While the warm sun weaves golden-tissued hours;

Hope a bright angel, beautiful and true

As Truth herself, and life a lovely toy,

Which ne’er will weary us, ne’er break, a new

Eternal source of pleasure and of joy.

 

A dream of roses: vision of Loves tree,

Of beauty and of madness, and as bright

As naught on earth save only dreams can be,

Made fair and odorous with flower and light;

A dream that Love is strong to outlast Time,

That hearts are stronger than forgetfulness,

The slippery sand than changeful waves that climb,

The wind-blown foam than mighty waters’ stress.

 

A dream of laurels: after much is gone,

Much buried, much lamented, much forgot,

With what remains to do and what is done,

With what yet is, and what, alas! is not,

Man dreams a dream of laurel and of bays,

A dream of crowns and guerdons and rewards,

Wherein sounds sweet the hollow voice of praise,

And bright appears the wreath that it awards.

 

A dream of poppies, sad and true as Truth,—

That all these dreams were dreams of vanity;

And full of bitter penitence and ruth,

In his last dream, man deems ’twere good to die;

And weeping o’er the visions vain of yore,

In the sad vigils he doth nightly keep,

He dreams it may be good to dream no more,

And life has nothing like Death’s dreamless sleep.

 

Emma Lazarus poetry

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Renée Vivien: Prolong the night

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Renée Vivien

(1877–1909)

Prolong the night

 

Prolong the night, Goddess who sets us aflame!

Hold back from us the golden-sandalled dawn!

Already on the sea the first faint gleam

Of day is coming on.

 

Sleeping under your veils, protect us yet,

Having forgotten the cruelty day may give!

The wine of darkness, wine of the stars let

Overwhelm us with love!

 

Since no one knows what dawn will come,

Bearing the dismal future with its sorrows

In its hands, we tremble at full day, our dream

Fears all tomorrows.

 

Oh! keeping our hands on our still-closed eyes,

Let us vainly recall the joys that take flight!

Goddess who delights in the ruin of the rose,

Prolong the night!

 

Renée Vivien poetry

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Cimetière de Passy, Paris: Renée Vivien (1877–1909)

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Renée Vivien  (1877–1909)

born Pauline Mary Tarn (11 June 1877 – 18 November 1909) was a writer and poet.

She was born in London and has been buried in Paris in Cimetière de Passy.

photos: jef van kempen 2011

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Henry Bataille: Le mois mouillé

Henry Bataille

(1872-1922)

Le mois mouillé

 

Par les vitres grises de la lavanderie,

J’ai vu tomber la, nuit d’automne que voilà…

Quelqu’un marche le long des fossés pleins de pluie…

Voyageur, voyageur de jadis, qui t’en vas,

A l’heure où les bergers descendent des montagnes,

Hâte-toi. – Les foyers sont éteints où tu vas,

Closes les portes au pays que tu regagnes…

La grande route est vide et le bruit des luzernes

Vient de si loin qu’il ferait peur… Dépêche-toi :

Les vieilles carrioles ont soufflé leurs lanternes…

C’est l’automne : elle s’est assise et dort de froid

Sur la chaise de paille au fond de la cuisine…

L’automne chante dans les sarments morts des vignes…

C’est le moment où les cadavres introuvés,

Les blancs noyés, flottant, songeurs, entre deux ondes,

Saisis eux-mêmes aux premiers froids soulevés,

Descendent s’abriter dans les vases profondes.

 

Henry Bataille poetry

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