”Poetry” painting by Larysa Golik, Ukraine https://www.larysa-golik.de/bildergalerie/gemaelde/gemaelde.php. THE UNTRODDEN ROAD Uncertain as a body sometimes hesitates between life and death, so hesitates sometimes the word that awakened from

Painting by Mirek Kuzniar, Germany   Waiting for the bus   I’m waiting for the bus. Many busses pass by the station. They go to different places, But

Painting by John Hacking, Netherlands Windgrip Some words light like poplar seeds Rise spun by the wind sink Hard to catch carry far like poplar seeds Some words

Painting by Kelli Fomson, USA   Christmas The winter storms penetrate the world with furious power. There sinks on snowy wings, the fir-scented night . . . There

Painting by Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night TO THE STARS . . . Sometimes I get tempted, and I throw a poem to the stars . . .

Picture by Patrick Frischknecht © www.naturephotography.ch Simple         To understand the least things, the briefest and the simplest, I drank from the spring of pride, climbed

Painting by Nives Palmić, Slovenia  https://www.behance.net/nivespalmia91a Breakout from here For Paul Celan, Peter Szondi, Jean Améry, who did not want to go on living   The rope tied

Stefan Zweig, Kapuzinerberg, Salzburg, Clemensfranz   EXILE for Stefan Zweig A world traveller, you always wanted to be but not an emigrant. That you became one, you suspected

Golden Planet, ©Tamara Javurek, Germany https://maraart.de Question Where did you come from where will you go? How long will last your eternity ─planet? Reversible is everything but where

Painting by John Hacking, The Netherlands A Foolish Man Legend tells of a foolish man. He stands before himself, he stands before no one else, answers to none.