Poetry from Christian Morgenstern This is Christian’s most favorite poem. Two funnels are having a walk at night. Moonlight is poured into their maws. I combined it with another poem: the mooncalf. It appears here and there in his poems, wise, mysterious and – dead.
Autor: Bianca Helene Simon
Das aesthetische Wiesel
Poetry from Christian Morgenstern A weasel is sitting on a pebbel inmidst a creek. What for? Why? Just for a rhyme: Wiesel, Kiesel Geriesel. Got it?
Galgenbruders Lied…
Poetry from Christian Morgenstern The cycle „Gallows Brothers“ is part of his most famous works. The poems are grim and melancholic. This one is quite well-known, often cited. The gallow-guy is singing a song to sophy, the hangman’s maid, begging her to kiss him.
Der Schaukelstuhl…
Poetry from Christian Morgenstern I am a lonesome rocking chair on a deserted terrace. I am rocking in the wind, the wind, the wind.
Ohne Wort
Poetry from Christian Morgenstern What would water have to say, if it could talk? Beer & bread, love & faith – nothing new so far. Christian suggests, it should just stay mute.
Bim, Bam, Bum
Poetry from Christian Morgenstern Imagine: a belltone named Bam with a heartache. Seeking for it’s beloved Bim who betrayed him with Bum.
Der Lattenzaun
Poetry from Christian Morgenstern An architect, a daring one, stole the gaps between the slats of a paling. He used them to build a modern building, so ugly and mean that he had to flee to afric- or americo.
Das Nasobem
Poetry from Christian Morgenstern He invites a new species, the nasobem is an animal walking on it’s nose. Followed by it’s cub.
Wurzeln
Poetry from a Christian Morgenstern His poems are full of crazy visions, this one tells us how roots of trees are whispering gossip, while a squirrel is knitting socks.
Unter Zeiten
Poetry from Christian Morgenstern A grammatical encounter: Perfect and Imperfect are drinking sparkling wine saluting future tense.