Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems - 14. Dreaming big

Well done!  

Here are earthy adjectives employed for cosmic questions. Wind, blood, ruddy desires - each propels the reader into deeper thought. Thank you for this translation. 

A very haunting and elegant poem.  Thanks for finding and translating these poems I might never have seen.

On 10/25/2023 at 12:18 PM, ReaderPaul said:

Well done!  

Thanks for reading and commenting, ReaderPaul. The next one is up

On 10/25/2023 at 7:18 PM, Parker Owens said:

Here are earthy adjectives employed for cosmic questions. Wind, blood, ruddy desires - each propels the reader into deeper thought. Thank you for this translation. 

Thank you, Parker. As I think I've stated elsewhere, rhetorical-style poems -- like the one above -- are very rare from Expressionist poets. Although they embraced 'archaic' forms for their work (like the Italian Sonnet), they eschewed the old poetical practice of asking or stating unanswerable questions. I suppose they thought life itself was unaccountable enough on its own, and primarily focused on painting the situations as they found them   

On 10/25/2023 at 11:05 PM, raven1 said:

A very haunting and elegant poem.  Thanks for finding and translating these poems I might never have seen.

Thank you, Terry. This poem is uncharacteristically pessimistic for Wilhelm Runge, but I'm glad he showed us this side of him too