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Friedrich Poems - Poems about Friedrich

Premium Member Sea nymph
... sea nymph falling prey to harsh world realities ~ love overrated Inspired by Ondine which is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, based on the 1811 novella Undine by ......

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Categories: friedrich, betrayal, heartbreak, love, relationship,
Form: Senryu
Contemplation of Life's Path
..."The artist should paint not only what he has in front of him but also what he sees inside himself." Quote by Caspar David Friedrich on his painting "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog." ----------------......

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Categories: friedrich, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Once again, yours truly takes poetic license
...Once again, yours truly takes poetic license. Whenever the missus irks me or complains... I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch before long tête-à-tête escalates in2 Kanipshin whereby......

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Categories: friedrich, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock translations of German poems
...“To Edward Young” by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock translation by Michael R. Burch Die, aged prophet: your crowning work your fulcrum; now tears of joy tremble on angel-lids as heaven extends ......

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Categories: friedrich, angel, death, dream, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God's Air
...Imagine that someone wants to argue against the existence of air All the while breathing in air The Catholics have the Mitered Buffoon They say Protestants have the “Paper Pope” too Immanuel Kant......

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Categories: friedrich, allegory, celebrity, christian, god,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Beware of the Owner
..."To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." Friedrich Nietzsche Some say life is a mirror.. Whenever he whistled his eerie tune, he would always tell me, '......

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Categories: friedrich, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Friends - A Key To Happy Marriage
... Marriage is a truly wonderful thing bringing together man and woman it's a sacred union blessed by God all God's plan for many a human But not all marriages work increasingly failure comes a......

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Categories: friedrich, friendship, marriage, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Goethe and Schiller translations
...These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller........

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Categories: friedrich, beauty, desire, earth, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Labyrinthine
...Friedrich Stowasser was Austrian born some find is art a bit of a yawn Hundertwasser moniker was his first choice labyrinthine*his lyrical artistic voice......

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Categories: friedrich, art, people,
Form: Ekphrasis
Wing
...“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche If you ask me, I’ll tell you wh......

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Categories: friedrich, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Tight-Trope
...One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. - Friedrich Nietzsche......

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Categories: friedrich, evil, religious, teacher,
Form: Other
Premium Member The Sea of Fog
...The Sea of Fog - A Poem Inspired by the famous painting "Wonderer Above Sea of Fog" by Caspar David Friedrich Mystic mountains all around, As a sea of fog is abound The wanderer looks to ......

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Categories: friedrich, adventure, art, beauty,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Seed of Love
...Come, let us plant the seed of love, let's create what some scientist said that was impossible Let our love show in a magnificent way Let it be healthy, wealthy and wise in coming years ......

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Categories: friedrich, allusion, america, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
New Year's Eve 2022
...New Year's Eve 2022 Yours truly riddled with social anxiety, hence (billy me) he will idle away December 31st, 2022 sequestered (with the missus) hunkered down in his mancave while madding ......

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Categories: friedrich, adventure, celebration, dance, december,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wanderer
...Hey, sir! Why did you stop and look awhile? Amazed by flurry fleeting fog, or seeking sacrosanct solace behind the calming chiaroscuro of boundless beguiling beauty in front of you? Hey, si......

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Categories: friedrich, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

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