Grundige Erde

GRUNDIGE ERDE
Grundige Erde, ergrunde mein Wesen.
Kannst Du im Grund
meinen Lebensgrund lesen?

Blau-grauer Himmel,
spiegelst Du Dich
in meinem Auge wunderlich?

Nacht, tiefe Nacht,
hat mein Traum Dich erdacht?
Lebensbaum, waechst Du aus meinem Traum?

Ist der kuerzeste Weg,
nicht auch sehr weit?
Wohin geht’s denn in Ewigkeit?

Alles passiert doch im Augenblick.
Ist das der ganze grosse Trick?

Ute Kaboolian

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Pure light

PURE LIGHT
How glorious to be pure light,
not earthly sun, but inner white,
to know that it’s the whole and you,
the one unbroken spectrum true,
which does exist a blink away
from ordinary light of day.

Ute Kaboolian

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Der Zufall

DER ZUFALL

Gesetzt den Fall,
dass ueberall
der liebe Zufall waltet,
dass es
im wahrsten Sinne aber
keinen gibt,
nicht einen,

so klingt das wie ein Paradox,
doch darf’s mir scheinen,
dass es drauf ankommt
wie man’s sieht:
Als Zufall, oder keinen.

It’s doch kein Zufall,
dass es scheint
genauso
wie wir’s meinen.

Ute Kaboolian

 

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The Spark

THE SPARK
A god who does not save the devil
Is one himself.
Beware that devil!

Find love, instead,
Within your soul.

God is your love
That sees things whole.

Only in conflict
can we come to know who we
truly are.

We are the source of all things,
Not only when we perceive this to be so.

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Mindful

MINDFUL
Meadows,
greenlands, silver birches,
country lanes with quaint old churches,
steepled roofs atop small houses,
people, dear – young -old -far -near,

a thousand words in anger spoken,
taken back,a promise broken,
promise kept, mistakes forgiven,
woodland walks
till one is driven

to conceive of all as one:
sky, earth, creatures,
moon and sun.

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Die Muse

Fuer Eleanor Ramrath Garner

Die Muse

Schleiche sanft, Du kleine Muse,
schleich dich in mein Herz hinein.
Sei mir Mentor und Begleiter
auf des Lebens Wirbelbahn.

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Life as One

LIFE AS ONE

We stand within an ancient brand-new NOW,
At once within an empty corner devoid of vision,
An angle formed by two lines meeting,
The meeting point itself a standstill,

And then, beyond the point, a yearning,
A fierce longing to make another start,
Create a vision of geometric movement at every point.

No static of statistics stagnating between fact and fiction;
Instead a vision where numbers, letters, words
Are worlds of sound, of special meanings imbued with feeling:

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Fuer Grete

Fuer Grete

Steile Bergwand, Du reisst Dich hoch
in der Luefte Nebel,
die Dich wie geisterhafte Haeuche umrinnen,
dann trocknend und dunstig,
fast unsichtbar,
unserem offenen Auge entgehn.

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For Grete

For Grete

In memory of Grete Perleberg

Steep mountainface,
you haul yourself up into cloudy mists,
which surround you like ghostly vapours;
then drying and humid,
invisible, you escape our open eye.

You, hard rock, are homeward bound.
Our mathematical eye
sees your heavy atoms whirl faster
than a waterfall plunges into its depths.

While falling you stand,
a touching presence for our hands.

In dreams we are equal.
Your smooth seamless seams open for me,
and I part you.

We move one through the other,
amongst and within each other –
but whole.

11/17/1986

 

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Der Zeitpunkt

DER ZEITPUNKT 
(Original German language version of Timeframe) 

HOERT IHR LEUT UND LASST EUCH SAGEN:
UNS’RE GLOCK HAT ZWOELF
GESCHLAGEN!

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