Ute's Poetry and Musings

I AM A HUMAN BEING

Grapevine and grapes grope for my brain
though I don’t drink.
It’s all in vain.

For I see double and triple to boot,
see some of the others
and cannot stay mute.

I’m Mrs. Messy, yet at times
I’m Tina Tidy,
and this rhymes

for there’s order in chaos.  Oh, what mess!
Now, who’s to say, who’s more,
who’s less?

I do hoard things, eat, drink too much,
must somewhere be starving,
not one drop to touch.

I do die poor and quite well-off;
am nothing here, but
please don’t scoff

for there, I’m mayor and/or judge.
To recall my own faces
need more than a nudge.

F O X

In this German children’s song
the fox who stole the goose
is told that he must give it back,
or he will surely lose: Continue reading →

THREE CARROTS

English version by the author from the German on 9-3-1993

They were scraping carrots
in the pub by the moor,
somewhere in Germany,
to be sure,
when
on the first of September ’91,
they found these three carrots
intertwined into one,
just the way they’d been growing
beneath the ground,
a three-carrot union!

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