From In Lovely Blue Poem by Friedrich Holderlin

From In Lovely Blue

Rating: 4.8


Like the stamen inside a flower
The steeple stands in lovely blue
And the day unfolds around its needle;

The flock of swallows that circles the steeple
Flies there each day through the same blue air
That carries their cries from me to you;

We know how high the sun is now
As long as the roof of the steeple glows,
The roof that's covered with sheets of tin;

Up there in the wind, where the wind is not
Turning the vane of the weathercock,
The weathercock silently crows in the wind.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
paul amrod 04 June 2019

Í have set this man's poems to music in his native tongue German. He is very special and wonderfully mysterious.

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Dr Antony Theodore 04 June 2019

a very fine poem from a great poet. tony

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Michael Morgan 28 February 2014

This is poetry. Reality, justly transformed by the needs of the viewer.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 04 June 2019

One of the best poems by Friedrich Holderlin............................

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Ratnakar Mandlik 04 June 2019

A superb poem on a few marvels of nature's manifestations composed by a master craftsman.

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paul amrod 04 June 2020

I live in Germany and I have had to opportunity to enjoy the poetry of Holderlin in his mother tongue. It is very reflective passionate colorful and highly gorgeous. Thanks for posting,

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Uche Nwanze 04 June 2020

Deserving of Poet of the day

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Ratnakar Mandlik 04 June 2020

A wonderful life song revolving around beautiful manifestations of nature. A well deserved classic poem of the day.

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Susan Williams 04 June 2020

Lovely is the exact word for this piece

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Kumarmani Mahakul 04 June 2019

A beautiful poem is amazingly shared. Thanks and congratulations for being selected as modern poem of the poem of the day.

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