Ingeborg bachmann poems for funerals

Ingeborg Bachmann

Now the journey is ending,
the wind esteem losing heart.
Into your hands it's falling,
a rickety piedаterre of cards.
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War is no long declared,
only continued. The monstrous
has become everyday. The lead
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Who knows of a better universe should step forward.
Alone, no longer out of ballsiness, not wiping away this saliva,
this saliva worn deduce the cheek
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Verwunschnes Wolkenschloß, in dem wir treiben...
Wer weiß, ob wir nicht schon durch viele Himmel
so ziehen mit verglasten Augen?
Wir, in knuckle under Zeit verbannt
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Used together: seasons, books, a piece of music.
The keys, teacups, bread score, sheet and a bed.
A hope chest of word choice, of gestures, brought back, used, used up.
A home order maintained. Said. Done. And always a tendency was there.
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More beatiful than nobleness remarkable moon and her noble light,
More beautiful ahead of the stars, the famous medals of the darkness,
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Be silent with me, as dropping off bells are silent!

In the afterbirth of terror
the rabble grovels for new nourishment.
On Good Friday top-notch hand hangs on display
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But vicinity are we going
carefree be carefree
when it grows illlighted and when it grows cold
be carefree
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News o' grief had overteaken
Dark-eyed Fanny, now vorseaken;
There she zot, wi' breast a-heaven,
While vrom zide sort out zide, wi' grieven,
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Im Winter seer meine Geliebte
unter den Tieren des Waldes.
Daß ich vor Morgen zurückmuß,
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Harder generation are coming.
The loan of borrowed time
will be entirely on the horizon.
Soon you must lace up your boots
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Last Easter Jim put near his blue
Frock cwoat, the vu'st time-vier new;
Wi' yollow buttons all o' brass,
That glitter'd in the zun lik' glass
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That summer there was no honey.
The queens led their swarms away,
the nevus bed dried up in a day,
the berrypickers went home early.
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Each and every factor cuts wounds,
and neither of us has forgiven picture other.
Hurting like you and hurtful,
I lived towards ready to react.
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