When it isn't asleep it will be
Upside down from the branch of a tree
By it's instinct it knows
To keep eyes and mouth closed
Every time it needs to have a pee.
For contest ' make me laugh', sponsor Christine Lehmann
26th August 2016
Categories:
lehmann, humor, nature,
Form: Limerick
Lotte Lehmann (Sentanka)
Charlotte Lehmann
Die große Opernsängerin
Sie schrieb und filmte
Ihr Ruhm bleibt unvergessen
Und bot den Nazis die Stirn
Charlotte Lehmann
The great opera singer
She wrote and filmed
Her fame will always be remembered
And she defied the Nazis
Charlotte Lehmann
La gran vocalista de ópera
Ella escribió y filmó
Su fama siempre será recordado
Y desafió a los nazis
Note: Charlotte Lehman, known as Lotte Lehman, born in 1888 in Perleburg, Germany, and one of my relatives, was a famous opera singer in Europe and the USA. She emigrated from Vienna to the USA in 1937. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1934 to 1945. In 1951 she retired from public live and gave singing
instructions. One of her scholars was the well-known opera singer Grace Bumbry. Lotte Lehmann was also a writer and poetess and a filmmaker. She died in 1976 in Santa Barbara, California and was buried at the famous Vienna Central Cemetary in 1977.
Categories:
lehmann, people
Form: Tanka