Farbe ist Leben

Farbe ist Leben,
Stille ist Frieden:
So hab’ ich’s, scheint’s,
erlebt und erschrieben.

Leben ist Farbe,
Stille Musik…
Bunt und bescheiden
blüht mein Geschick.

Wort ist Begegnung,
Sprache Musik…
Zwischen den Zeilen
schimmert das Glück.

Christina Egan ©2024

Inspired by the word cloud Colour, Life, Silence of the 25 English poems I have written over the past months (generated and designed thanks to the Simple Word Cloud Generator).
The word cloud created from this poem, in turn, brought up the corresponding German words, with a number of other words expressing the central term “poem”.
“Erschrieben” is a word I made up for bringing about something by writing, while the regular word “erleben” means experiencing and is passive… or perhaps not!

Photograph of rose quartz: by Ra’ike (Own work)
(GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons.