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The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss - 17. We must see ourselves in naked beauty

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Sonett II.

 

Die purpurbraunen Buchen beugten

Sich schaukelnd durch das Abendwehn,

Und zu uns auf stieg aus dem feuchten

Waldgrund, wo die Erlen stehn

 

Und seltsam weiße Nebel scheuchten

Ein Wunsch wie Tod und Untergehn,

Plötzlich entbrannt gleich jähem Fackelleuchten:

Wir müssen uns in nackter Schönheit sehn. –

 

Da hast du meine Hand genommen,

Die Berge waren ein Rausch von Rot,

Über den Himmel ist Feuer geschwommen,

 

Mein Herz entbrannte in glühender Rot –

Und ist meine Sehnsucht zu deiner gekommen

Hinter den Bergen wußt ich den Tod.

 

 

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Sonnet II.

 

As the crimson-brown beeches swayed aloft,

Bowing bent to the evening breeze,

The damp forest floor rose up to us

From where the tall alders stand

 

And with it a strange white mist ushered

A wish like death and subsidence,

But a rush suddenly kindled like torching light:

We must see ourselves in naked beauty. –

 

So you took my hand, and the mountains

Became a moving torrent of red,

The sky then swam amid currents of fire,

 

My heart flared up red-hot and glimmering –

For all of my longing reached out to embrace yours

Beyond the peaks where I once knew death.

 

 

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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.
Note: While authors are asked to place warnings on their stories for some moderated content, everyone has different thresholds, and it is your responsibility as a reader to avoid stories or stop reading if something bothers you. 
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12 minutes ago, chris191070 said:

Interesting and wonderful 

Thanks, Chris, for reading. I really appreciate it

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Expressive, as the trees swayed, then a sudden light like fire.  As sometimes our spirits are renewed with new energy and optimism. 

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22 minutes ago, ReaderPaul said:

Expressive, as the trees swayed, then a sudden light like fire.  As sometimes our spirits are renewed with new energy and optimism. 

Thanks, ReaderPaul. That's very true about renewal; it sometimes comes all of a sudden

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