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FAN CLUB
Poetry
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
THIRTEEN POEMS
Excerpt from the stage play SCREAMING SILENCE © by
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg,
published by HARTMANN & STAUFFACHER, Verlag,
Cologne, Germany

Poems translated by Daniel Atkinson

The poetry contained on this page is from the
following source:
DRAGON'S BLOOD

You can see
all the rooms
in my castle

except one

There is
the pool
with the dragon´s
blood

in which I bathe
myself
every morning

THE MOLE
I have dug pathways
for years
always further away
from the light

until I grew a fur coat
from head to toe
and my fingers bent
themselves
into claws

Now though
as I slowly
go blind

I feel
a longing
for light

IN THE FIRE
Quiet!
The fire crackles
the roof beams are already burning
Before my window
the flames crash together

Finally
I am alone

Peacefully, I will drink
the last cup of tea
and blow out the candles