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    AC Benus
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  • 08/14/2022
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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a Glass Floor Underfoot - 13. moon-gold apples

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Am Morgan –

Nach der Nacht

 

Warum sind Nächte schöner, wo die Nähe

Blaugeäderter schmaler Finger uns droht?


Denn schon geringer worden ist jenes Rot,

Das der Morgen auf der Wolken Wange lockt.


Die Formen eines Körpers abzutasten

Wünscht unser Sinn, der unserm Willen trotzt.


Wie seid ihr weiten Straßen unbewegt,

Ihr maßlos fernen . . . .


Denn voller Früchte strotzt

Noch über unserm Haupt

Mondgoldner Äpfel und Birnen

Dichtes Gezweige

Köstlich verschlungener Nacht.

 

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In Morning –

After the Night

 

Why are nights more beautiful when the nearness

Of gracile, blue-veined fingers can threaten us?

 

Regard how the red has already faded,

Luring the lures of morning on cloudy cheeks.

 

And our senses, which might defy will-power,

Desire the touch of a nearby body's form.

 

How are you wide avenues so unmoved,

You measureless lengths . . . .

 

For branches full of fruit,

Moon-gold apples and pears,

Brim in splendor over our heads,

Whose thick offerings

Deliciously consume the night.

 

 

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William Blake The Blighted Wheat (1821)

 

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, Parker Owens said:

How did I miss this? Jentzsch draws me into the night, calling to me, tempting me with the beloved’s voice and form. 

It's a beautiful poem. The couplets are fully in the Expressionistic style, but the gorgeous bloom of fruit is more modern, and in the direction Lorca took with his Sonnets from the Darkness series. Which is fitting, as they are all love poems. 

Thank you, Parker!   

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