Fjordscene Poetry

The godchild sat with me.The golden lyre sang under my hands.The god-child stare towards endless twilight hours.The song circles around her head with outstretched wings.What do you see in the song?It is your own future risingout of frozen twilight hours,your […]

Who can love you, sister?Won’t a god with darkened face embrace you with his arms?Doesn’t he stand at the foot of the bed when you doze?Shall our eyes see him, sister?Didn’t we live in the fairytale, where everything impossible is […]

I once had a sister, a golden child.In the city she disappeared for me in the masses. If I among black coniferssee the young birch shake its golden locksI then remember my sister. Does she stand wide-eyed among the treeswith beating heart,does […]

No, no, no shout all the echoes in the forest.I have no sister.I am lifting her white silk gown as I walkand dye it powerlessly.I kiss you, my suffering I place in you,thoughtless loom,do you remember her rosy limbs?Her shoes […]

In walk in the desertand sit lonely on the mountains,on the Devil’s rock,where sorrows have waitedfor thousands of years.I have a sister.The elf-girls wove her silk garments,the moon virgin sprinkled dew on her breasts…She is delightful… desired by gods. Oh […]

I didn’t find love. I met nobody.Trembling I passed Zarathustra’s grave in the autumn nights:who on Earth listens to me anymore?Then an arm were laid lightly around my waist –I found a sister…I took her golden locks –is it you, […]

Letter from my sister.What can letters saywhen I see you!Does the hair not fall lightly around you in golden waveswhen you enterto tell me about your life?Do the awestruck folds of your dress not harden when you leave?The Earth carries […]

Sister,you come like a spring wind to our valleys…The violets in the shadow smell sweetly of fulfillment.I will lead you to the loveliest spot in the forest:Here we will confess to each other how we saw God.

The martyr is pale.His eyes burn.Pitying he looksdown at you. What do you know aboutwhat swarms here and therewith grim movements,what do you know about your welfare,how does it feel to raise your head freely. He is acquittedwhom the rest […]

I saw beauty.It was my fate! It explains everything.How thank for it?Fresh roses, picked with warm hands,I lay every single dayin front of your statueso your smile can find rest.Where do I find rosesthat don’t offend my dreams?It is my […]

Facing the eyes of all the worldsyou must decide…Will you enter the ring…?Nobody enters the ring lightly.The gods come to fetch you –you stepped aside,your hour hadn’t come.When the hour comesyou will give up the heart in your chestand silently grasp […]

I will light my torches all over the Earth.My torch shall standon each and every nightly farmin the Alps, where the air is a blessing,in the tundra, where the sky is melancholy.Oh my torch, shine for the shocked,the teary-eyed, the […]

I need nothing but God’s mercy.Through life I go as if intoxicated.– – – – – – – –Oh, you strangely sparkling reality –— is there a bowlfor my few drops of rose oil?

Careful, careful,what do you press to your chest?Do they resemble youlike these seas resemblethe ocean that cries in anger? Ocean, ocean,you throw yourself from beach to beachin insatiable longing,you pound during the nighton the iron plates of the Earth till […]

On the stairs of Himalayathe great Vishnu sitsdreaming. Infinite is the evening in Himalaya. Whitecladstands the tiny pilgrim in the violet glow.Almighty,take my lifein exchange for just a moment of your dreams…I will see what you want – and perish…

How shall I speak to you from the depths of my heart?How do the gods cover their words, irresistibly and lightly,how shall I speak, so human weakness doesn’t fell my words?I will speak, so I open up all of my […]

What blessedness on the wind…The kiss of infinity…How my life has changed, how silent it has become,deceitfully silent…Happy fairytale princess,your heart storms wilder than the heart of the ocean.Do one carry in vain this heart in one’s breast?Time, listen to […]

Humans know but little of themselves,they believe they are as poor as they show themselves in life,they know not at all that the gods live in their chests,unrecognized. The gods laugh. Life is theirs.They drive the wagon with the glowing […]

For me life sank into blue smoke.I stand up straightwith nothing else above me than the threatening copper sky over which I rule.Why is this burden lifted onto human shoulders?Why does iron armour enclose my heart?Am I not allowed to […]

Where do the gods live? In my heart,in my worn-out, tenderly intoxicated heart,when the song rises. Oh gods, what is a human capable of in its few moments!I have felt all of your power… Gods, come to me…and I lie […]