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Bunter Zwirn

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Bunter Zwirn

Stone trough with dwarf daffodils, dwarf pansies, and other spring flowers, amongst outbuildings of a palace.Gleich Strängen feiner Fäden
in Regenbogenfarben
sieht man die Blüten weben
im neugebornen Garten.

Rost springt aus Rosenrot,
Grün ist zu Gelb gefiedert:
Hier ist, was sonst sich droht,
in stummem Tanz verbrüdert.

Und auch die Düfte wehn
wie bunter Zwirn verwoben,
doch nur die Bienen sehn
den zweiten Regenbogen!

Christina Egan © 2017

Rhönkalender 2019.

 

Palace grounds of Schloss Fasanerie (Adolphseck) near Fulda, Germany. Photograph: Christina Egan © 2014.

One stanza of this poem in the vein of Eichendorff
has been published in the Rhönkalender 2019.

House of Books

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Drawing of the mechanics of a loom (yarn on rolls, without the frame)House of Books
(British Library)

On the grey carpet,
grey shapes intersect,
shadows of shoulders,
of hands, of heads:
minds overlapping
for a moment.

From the white walls,
rapid shuttles ricochet,
shiny yarns interweave:
Very large bookcase with foldable desk surface and chained volumes (drawing)threads of voice,
trains of thought,
embroidering the air.

Built of a million bricks
glowing at the ashen junction
is the House of Books;
built of a million minds
is the fabric of the pages,
of the screens, of the scrolls.

Christina Egan © 2017

Illustrations of Loom and
Bookcase from the Wikimedia