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Schiller Poems - Poems about Schiller


Escapism
...Foundation. If you could escape this world, would you take that risk? Escapism As if cursed by the son of perdition As I go about my new life's mission to gain admission to her realm ......

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Categories: schiller, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
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: schiller, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ode to Joy
...Suddenly I’m walking on my own path and hear Beethoven's Ode to Joy as sunlight breaks through the clouds My own path that under all the busyness I just didn't see, I’d been treading it fo......

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Categories: schiller, joy,
Form: Free verse
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: schiller, beauty, desire, earth, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Against Stupidity
... Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. Friedrick Schiller We are now used to accept that money Is our gods, and getting it is pure honey. I bought a cargo vesse......

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Categories: schiller, sea, storm,
Form: Couplet



On Looking At Schiller's Skull Translation Goethe
...ON LOOKING AT SCHILLER’S SKULL by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Here in this charnel-house full of bleaching bones, like yesteryear’s fading s......

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Categories: schiller, best friend, body, death,
Form: Free verse
No Mark
...No Mark by Michael R. Burch A wave implodes, impaled upon impassive rocks... this evening the thunder of the sea is a wild music filling my ear... you are leaving and the ungrieving ......

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Categories: schiller, break up, change, divorce,
Form: Verse
The Great Writer's Fate, Part I
...My name is Bedford Schiller-Smith, and you’ve probably seen it before on the book racks in airport shops, usually just inside the doors. I’ve made a career of writing, tech and spy thrillers a......

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Categories: schiller, art, celebrity, family, father,
Form: Narrative
How It Strikes a Contemporary
...(On 28 June 1914, in the Balkan town of Sarajevo, an attempt to assassinate a royal Austrian duke failed miserably ... or did it? Gabriel Princips, one of the plotters, stopped for a coffee and b......

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Categories: schiller, history,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Gems of Love
...Bright stars shine in night skies Like bangles, baubles and beads Puts a twinkle in every girl's eyes Like a gift of fine jewelry A pair of sun stone earrings Presented to the daughter I love ......

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Categories: schiller, father daughter, i love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Made In Neonazia
...Made in Neonazia Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attrac......

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Categories: schiller, evil,
Form: Free verse

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