German Poetry translations into English II
...These are modern English translations of poems by the German poets Ingeborg Bachmann, H. Distler and Johann Georg Jacobi.
“Song”
by Johann Georg Jacobi
translation by Michael R. Burch
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Categories:
townsman, books, dance, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
I Changed Tonight
...I changed tonight, of country, my friends,
I know a dirty girl from Tennessee,
More sparkling than a champagne cork,
With black rimmel and lipsticks on sale.
I changed countries last night, my ...
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Categories:
townsman, 9th grade, appreciation, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Breathless
...The preacher sent the townspeople home
just as eventide set in
each one carried a crimped piece of paper
the instructions were easily read
lock your doors and windows, remain inside until dawn
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Categories:
townsman, emotions, for her, for
Form: Free verse
Bethlehem's First Gift
...In Bethlehem so long ago when our Savior was born,
I'd put myself into to that scene, as something used and worn.
Not an angel singing, or shepherd from the hill,
not a curious townsman, or East...
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Categories:
townsman, birth, child, christian, christmas,
Form: Couplet
The Dance Hall Girl
...I'm standing here in limbo as
I see him wander in.
That no townsman has warned him
is truly a mortal sin.
He slides up to the bar and
takes a curious look around.
He orders a shot of whisk...
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Categories:
townsman, scary,
Form: Quatrain