shedding the skin
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¨being mistook we burnt the books
thoughts rest, we dwell in our heart’s nest
touched by spirits, our body shook
by God’s light blest as we undressed¨
book burning had always been quite the p...
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Categories:
heinrich, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
CLERIHEW carl orff
...Munich born Carl Heinrich Orff
a talented composing boff
Known for his cantata Burana
twenty-four poetic nirvana...
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Categories:
heinrich, music,
Form: Clerihew
German Poetry translations into English I
...These are modern English translations of poems by the German poets Hannah Arendt, Ingeborg Bachmann, Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim and Heinrich Heine.
Heinrich Heine
The Seas Have Their Pearls
by H...
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Categories:
heinrich, death, heart, heaven, love,
Form: Free verse
Honesty Take Three
...San Gabriel Refrain
Take honesty because that's what matters;
evasion is the truth - suppressed.
Lies thrive on corrupt laws, noisome splatters
that cannot get past the smell test.
What happ...
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Categories:
heinrich, 11th grade, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Critics Beware
...Critics Beware!
Poets are vulnerable no less than anyone,
when fallen victim to outrageous critics.
As Shelley wrote, critics' darts struck Keats,
who blindly, cruelly, mocked 'Endymion.'
...
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Categories:
heinrich, humanity, poets, strength,
Form: Elegy
A Belated Ccv Das Kapital Event
...A Belated CCV Das Kapital event...
regarding birthday anniversary
wicked candle box event burns bright
for Karl Marx,
who amazingly graced,
and kindled pinterest
jumpstarting money fest dest...
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Categories:
heinrich, absence, anniversary, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Fuseli
...Fuseli forenamed Johan. Heinrich
was a bit of a art maverick
He had an obssession with women's hair
painted with abandon&sans a care*
*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare#:~:text=Th...
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Categories:
heinrich, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihew Kuhn
...Austrian German Heinrich Kuhn no less
found fame with he Autochrome process
Heavy&expensive with long exposure effect
Still Life flowers * were a perfect subject
*https://www.metmuseum.org/art/...
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Categories:
heinrich, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Stradivarius - Mia
...S - she played like an accomplished musician
T - throughout the whole of the audition
R - receiving a standing ovation after an
A – awe inspiring perfor
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Categories:
heinrich, child, music,
Form: Acrostic
Biologigal Warfare
...Better read history of WW ll!
Racism, plus fear of a bug were
quite effective then, too.
Malaria was created, and placed
in mosquitos.
Hoping to wipe out populations in toto.
Heinrich Himmler...
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Categories:
heinrich, health, history, humanity,
Form: Verse
Political Incorrectness
...wild fires on Table Mountain
spread their ugly flames onto
the University centre of learning
old books in the ancient library
smouldering ashes of bygone wisdom
student quarters bu...
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Categories:
heinrich, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Die Lorelei By Heinrich Heine - 1797-1856, Translated By T Wignesan
...Die Lorelei by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)- Translated by T. Wignesan
For Regina von Degenfeld at Waibstadt
-in respect and unending sufferance-
(Heine, a German Jewish lyrical and satiric p...
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Categories:
heinrich, angst, fear, gothic, song,
Form: Quatrain
The Old Crone In the Woods, Part Iii
...III.
Lost in a daze, but her fingers still shaking,
Liesel turned the great brass knob on the door.
She felt herself tense, was ready to shriek,
Expecting to see some Satanic horror.
Instead s...
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Categories:
heinrich, anxiety, baby, children, heaven,
Form: Epic
Life Everlasting
...Raphael in the 16th Century of 1505 painted about Yeshûa,
Anglicized is Joshua, who Michelangelo Buonarroti
Remembered in renaissance art, including the Sistine Chapel, and
Carl Heinrich Bloch mad...
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Categories:
heinrich, art, bible, christian, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the Parting
...Der Abschied (“The Parting”)
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We embrace;
my fingers trace
rich cloth
while yours encounter only moth-
eaten fabric.
A ...
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Categories:
heinrich, friendship, holocaust, leaving, war,
Form: Free verse
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