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Mother German Poems

These Mother German poems are examples of German poems about Mother. These are the best examples of German Mother poems written by international poets.


Hermann Hesse Translation of 'Stages' from 'The Glass Bead Game'
This is my modern English translation of the poem "Stages" by the great German poet Hermann Hesse from his novel "The Glass Bead Game."


"Stages" or...

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Categories: german, courage, death, flower, life,



Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - English translations by Michael R Burch II
The Fisher
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
translation by Michael R. Burch

The river swirled and rippled;
nearby an angler lay,
and watched his lure with a careless eye,
like any...

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Categories: german, dream, moon, river, song,

Premium Member German Potato Salad
The grandfather on my mother's side was a cheapskate. 
A real cheapskate.
One Christmas, he gave me a used paperback book.
Something like “Jimmy Plays Baseball.”
It was...

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Categories: german, grandfather, memory,

Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the Burning of the Books
Die Bücherverbrennung ("The Burning of the Books")
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen...

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Categories: german, books, fire, holocaust, voice,

The Boy Who Cried German
*The Boy Who cried German*

  Although Ikeh was as nervous as ever he still gathered a little guts to address those sluts. He always...

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Categories: german, 10th grade, absence, adventure,



A German Name
My maternal grandfather’s name was Gleissert 
A German name from the town of Posen in Prussia
They had come to South Australia 
For religious freedom in...

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Categories: german, angst, anxiety, world war


Book: Reflection on the Important Things