When happiness pounces upon me
When happiness pounces upon me
hitting her nails into me
as if she can only stay
for a little while
and when her passion is gone
almost immediately she leaves
but misfortune stays with me
and I wrestle while she wants to suffocate me
to come out of her pinching claws
and wonder why this fat old lady
constantly is busy with me
as if she wants to sit me flat into the earth.
[Reference: Das Glück ist eine leichte Dirne by Heinrich Heine.]
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Sometimes my life feels somewhere between heaven and hell
Sometimes my life feels
somewhere between heaven and hell,
where I at times
fry like a palm tree in the sun
or like a pine
is frozen by the winter
and every time I yearn for the other side
and this is also how it is with my loving
and sometimes I wonder with whom and where
true love lies,
if I really want it
or rather want to stay lonely?
[Reference: Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam by Heinrich Heine.]
poem by Gert Strydom
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Moskau
Diese Stadt ist eine Dirne,
hat rote Flecken auf der Stirn'
Ihre Z
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When I get images of earlier heroes
When I get images of earlier heroes
who armoured and armed to the teeth
tried to keep to their duty
but were led astray by licentious women
who loosened their skirts,
were led astray while cupid’s
were roaring with laughter
it lets me think about you and me
and it reminds me strongly
and I wonder who now sheathes his lance
in to your sheathe
(or are their knights now standing in a row)
and I am broken by destiny
that takes me to other places
and their are others now fighting my struggle,
are riding the flame of your passion
and everything is broken between us
and maybe a nymph will have charity on me.
[Reference: In Gemäldegalerieen by Heinrich Heine.]
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As if evil was creeping out
Early one morning
Heinrich, the six-year-old boy
gave a big scream
and came running out
op the bathroom.
There’s something in the loo
he said sacred
as if evil
was creeping out
of the sewerage system.
I went a to have a look
and behold a big healthy crab
were pinching with its claws
glaring with little eyes
into mine.
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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.
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Leave the holy parables and answer my question
If could ask God
why I am facing adversity the whole time,
at times have to bare a cross
while my oppressors
are triumphant as if
they are not accountable
and are totally sinless,
I would not be able to lay the cause
against the heaven
and it troubles me
why God is allowing it
or has it been decided in His decisions of fate?
Still by myself
I find no answers
and this is no reproach
and maybe I will wonder
until death silences my mouth
and here I am not challenging God
but only want to understand my life and existence better.
[Reference: Laß die heil’gen Parabolen by Heinrich Heine.]
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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
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Kisses, girlfriends, women and me
I believed in my youth
that the kisses that I receive
were the way that destiny
holds its sway over me
and that every woman
that was interested in me
was destined by the gods
and still I chose
with whom my passions was spent
as if only one was made for me
and did not care where the others went
in rebellion to a eternal plan
and did not take every one
that I could
and now I must admit
that I am displeased
over the purity of youth
and that I did not plough the field
and sow the seed
wherever I could.
[Reference: Kiss as kiss can by Heinrich Heine.]
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God will forgive me. It's his job.
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Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
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God will pardon me, that's his job.
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
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I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
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God will forgive me; that's his business.
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
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Atheism is the last word of theism.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
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Woman is at once apple and serpent.
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There are more fools in the world than there are people.
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