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Best German Poems

Below are the all-time best German poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of german poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: german, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Sophie
Sophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...

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Categories: german, death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Butcher Came
The butcher came for the sheep
                   the...

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Categories: german, angst, bullying, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tease For Two
"Tease for Two"



“Ein bisschen Zucker 
mit Ihrer Sahne, Sir?“

German accent 
smoky toned 
she purred

Periwinkles suavely winked, 
then played with his -

cufflinks

“Not now Schvee Tart” 
he...

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Categories: german, adventure, humor, romance, word
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned...

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Categories: german, abuse, addiction, angel, depression,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Last Train To Auschwitz
In nineteen forty four on the third of September
Is a date in my mind that I'll always remember
It was the date of the last train...

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Categories: german, abuse, death, evil, jewish,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Impeach
Merry Impeachness

Justice delayed however symbolic
the orangutan finally won his award
for corruption and dereliction of duties
the constitution used to apply to all

IMPEACH
the orange leach
Lucifer has more...

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Categories: german, america, child abuse, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Scherben Des Lebens/ the Shards of Life/ Los Fragmentos De La Vida
Die Scherben des Lebens lassen sich nicht kitten.  (German)

The shards of the life cannot be cemented.  (English)

Los fragmentos de la vida no se...

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Categories: german, philosophy
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Heinrich Heine Revisited
I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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Categories: german, history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his...

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Categories: german, life, loss,
Form: Narrative
Exerpts From Hitler's Diary 1941
EXERPTS   FROM   HITLER’S   DIARY   1941

"I never travel without my diary, one should always have something sensational to...

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Categories: german, funnywar, crazy, june, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Lost Kind Returns
Krummes Holz gibt auch gerades Feuer    
Crooked logs make straight fires [Work with what you have.]
 
Downcast eyes scan; the larger fear’s...

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Categories: german, freedom, heartbroken, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member O' Wheel of Fortune
My heart shrivels dry, blackened rose in bitter anguish, ...
 Do you feel my pain? 
   Why must the flame of day dwindle...

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Categories: german, musicme, me,
Form: Narrative
Bicycle Playing Cards
Around since 1885,
These playing cards contain
A fascinating history
That Google helped obtain.

My favorite fact’s from World War II.
(It’s more than rumored lore.)
Some special decks were sent...

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Categories: german, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kingsbridge Nine O Five
Pulled on the parka, and turned my face to the cold street.
Half running, half slipping, piece of toast hangin' from my mouth..
man oh man am...

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Categories: german, beautiful, car, girl, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs