Short Goethe Poems

Law student Johann Goethe
much preferred poetry you see
In German his verse he sang
as a leading light of Sturm&Drang...

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Goethe had a colour theory
in a treatise for all to see
Kandinsky was one thus inspired
abstracted thereby 'til he expired...

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When the wind is just right and sky

is clear of dark clouds I take sail.
Skiff takes me to where the fish lie

This early morning I can’t fail...

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GOETHE’S PATH

Jake Castle placed a landmark.
He was not on ordinary trip.
His Goethe’s Path was rampart.
In the forest, he trekked.
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PENNED ON JUNE 15, 2014!...

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Sunlight streams through 
the tiny hole in the wall that holds
my heart together;
a crystalline point is trickling 
slow droplets of
ice water the shape of tears.
Slowly melting, I am pouring myself into
my own empty cup....

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True loves knows 

no
deceit
cover-up
skullduggery
tricks

 Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For: Pick-A-Title, Vol 26 - Poetry Contest
Title chosen: Skullduggery
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Date: October 12, 2021...

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Life, And Trekking Across Wild Wilderness

As epic pain ebbs then subsides

Nature's steals the mountainous scene
With beauty's encompassing slides

Home, farm life, peacock yardbird preens.

Robert J. Lindley, Goethe-Stanza
7-27-2023

Note:  Goethe Stanza- New poetry form, that I recently discovered....

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GERMANY 


From Black Forest’s leafy velvet
Breathing fresh air over the land;
From the fertile earth of the sheltered Rhine,
Or where Goethe and Handel wrote their elegies;
From geest and damp marshes
Teeming rich with sea birds : 
From this ground rises a misty eulogy,
A breathy chorus of myriad murders....

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Are dreams made of wishful thinking;

what we want to happen in life
when not fulfilled hearts start breaking;

We blame fates always full of strife.

Unfulfilled wishes continue;

We dream them, though very next day
we just forget, what we've been through;

Why we dream, can anyone say?
~X~X~X~...

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Goethe’s Emissary
 
Mephisto-Hereistoo
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust on the Brocken summit
Go our own sweet way for show.

Walpurgis Nacht’s spirit of perversity 
Mephistophelian 
Time now for your eternal soul
The Evil One’s sitting in a fiery glow.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved, 
May 19, 2015 (Double Dactyl)...

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The great poetic masters of old,
in books a gathering of their words;
on each page beauty will unfold,
left for us as lovely flying birds.

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September 20, 2019


Poetry/Goethe Quatrain/Flying Birds
Copyright Protected, ID 19-1182-442-02
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.

Written for FFI Blog Series 4- Series, Quatrain
Brian Strand

Honorable Mention...

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O dark angel bring forth the light

in delight let me see your face
your face of shadows from the night

this night of fury and disgrace.


Graceful lady hear my plea

in pleasing chants and mystic charms
a charmed voice of humility

your humble child in stillness calms.


Calm my seething breath with your love

your loving touch  and holy rede
the rede I see in stars above

above the clouds where spirits feed....

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Shattered pieces of the heart

Lie scattered at the end of love
Forever is over and now we part

Memories and tears are all that is left of

The days we shared as ecstasy smiled

When passion was yours and mine
Loving too fast and intensely wild

But the end came to our lover’s shrine

Bitter words instead of kisses

We lost the pleasure in a tender touch
And the memories of time reminisces

On loving too hard and hurting too much

 

© JG Farmer 2017
Form: Goethe Stanza...

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