Garten literarischer Wirrungen / Garden of Literary Confusion

At the castle gate there is a green hortensia. Green leaves, green flowers. When the leaves droop, I take a plastic jug and run for water. Q...

Alba Kühl wie die bleichen nassen Blätter                                               des Maiglöckchens Lag sie in der Morgendämm...

Psalm What I do is poorly done, what I sing is badly sung, therefore you have a right to my hands and to my voice. I will work with...

The ravens scream their wounded cry; of night and need they prophecy. Frost has surrounded every door; hunger’s dog barks out there f...

Grey melody. Earth and sky sing in you And are Spring. – Peter Hille (1854-1904) (Translation of Nachtigall ; copyright © of translati...

Archaic Torso of Apollo We did not know his head of such unheard-of fame wherein the orbéd eyes matured. Even so, his torso, candelabrum-lik...

Spanish Dancer As a struck match, before becoming flame, white flickering tongues in all directions sends, so, bystanders looking on, unfold...

My soul mate’s soul is like delicate silver, Two lissome white seagull wings Her feet, And in her dear blood Rises a blue intimation O...

Wenn die Minni im Bikini in der Sonne sitzt und der azurblaue Himmel niederblitzt, dann stehn die Nachbarjungs am Zaun und sehn: die Minni w...

She dealt her pretty words like Blades — How glittering they shone — And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone — She never deeme...

Mit den besten Wünschen zu einem glücklichen 2008 und zur kommenden Zeit verbinde ich eine Übersetzung des Gedichtes "To England" ...

von Sukumar Ray Bombarien, ein weit entlegenes asiatisches Reich, ist wohlbekannt für manch eigenartigen Streich. Dort beschenkt zum Beispie...

Silence There are some people who bow To those given to extended silence With a serious brow. And then there are those who resent Contempora...

The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And looked down...

The wingambat The wingambat haunteth through weerowarowood, the ruby fingoor taunteth, and cruelly laughs the drood. – Christian Morgenstern...

Май. Квітнеючая дзічка. Затрымай дыханьне, Інакш пасыплецца сьнег! May. Blooming crab tree. Do not breathe, Snow will fall! – Victa...

no contradiction life becomes longer and longer i.e. shorter and shorter it doesn't stretch (translated without much effort fro...

From this poem by Louis Aragon from 1946 two lines in a new translation by myself: Mon bel amour mon cher amour ma déchirure Je te porte d...