Visual poetry of text A Window will be Thrust Open.
Christina Egan ©2024 (Text ©2003).
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These images were created in a day…
one visual poem can easily take a working day!
Dem Freunde
Wir brauchen gar nicht viel zu reden
und haben uns doch so rasch erkannt…
Es ist,
als seien wir in einem andern Leben
Hand in Hand
durch die lachenden Felder gerannt
und hätten uns, ernsthaft und atemlos,
ein Versprechen gegeben –
oder als seien unsere Sprachen
eng miteinander verwandt:
dein Gesicht will ich entziffern,
deine Worte erleben
und deine Hand…
Als welche Botschaft, Freund,
sind wir einander gesandt?
Christina Egan © 1990
A Window will be Thrust Open
A window will be thrust open
where you forgot there was one,
a glow as of noon will be thrown
over your working hands, over your tired face.
You will look into the mirror
and find upon yourself the gaze of an absent one,
you will look into the eyes of a stranger
and find there your face as if steeped in sunset.
You will run down the road
to overtake your shadow,
you will push through all your doubts
to hold that hand, to clasp it tight.
Christina Egan ©2003
No title. René Halkett (1938).
Image with kind permission
of Galerie Klaus Spermann.
Visual poetry: 1st stanza of A Window will be Thrust Open. Christina Egan ©2024 (Text ©2003). (Click on the image to enlarge it).
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