Seltsam in Nebel zu wandern
einsam ist jeder Busch und Stein
Kein Baum sieht den andern
jeder ist allein

Voll von Freuden war meine Welt
als mein Leben noch Licht war
Jetzt da der Nebel fällst
ist keiner mehr sichtbar

Wahrlich keiner ist weise
der nicht das Dunkel kennt
Das unentrinnbar und leise
von allem ihn trennt

Selstsam im Nebel zu wandern
Leben heisst einsam sein
Kein Mensch kennt den anderen
jeder ist allein

-Hermann Hesse

The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,'

Presently my heart grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!'
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!'
Merely this and nothing more.

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,' said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore -
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; -
'Tis the wind and nothing more!'

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door -
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as `Nevermore.'

But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow will he leave me, as my hopes have flown before.'
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.'

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never-nevermore."'

But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -
What this grim, ungainly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking `Nevermore.'

This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet violet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
`Wretch,' I cried, `thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee
Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! -
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -
On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -
Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned. - Alexander Pope

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man
is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a
Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse,
as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor
of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans
death diminishes me, because I am
involved in Mankinde; and therefore
never send to know for
whom the bell tolls;
it tolls für thee.

-John Donne

William Butler Yeats
Porte-noir

Ein jäher Stoß: die Schwinge, bebend, packt
die Taumelnde; der Schwimmhaut schwarze Lust
greift um das Schenkelpaar; der Schnabel hackt
sich ins Genick und Brust preßt sich auf Brust.

Wie konnte jene angstverwirrte Hand
so weiße Pracht von willigen Schenkeln wehren?
Und wie der Leib, vom Fittich übermannt,
so fremden Herzens Klopfen überhören?

Ein blindes Schaudern in den Lenden schaut
der Mauer Sturz, Glut im Gebälk entfacht,
und Agamemnons Tod. Die's also graut
vorm Blut der Luft, das wild herniederstieß:
gehörte ihr das Wissen seiner Macht,
eh sie der Schnabel lässig fallen lies?

Spalte ein Stück Holz und ich bin da; heb einen Stein auf und Du wirst mich finden!

Der Panther

Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehen der Stäbe
so müd geworden, daß er nichts mehr hält.
Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe
und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt.

Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte,
der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht,
ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte,
in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht.

Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille
sich lautlos auf -. Dann geht ein Bild hinein,
geht durch der Glieder angespannter Stille -
und hört im Herzen auf zu sein.

[Rainer Maria Rilke]

'Walking Around' von Pablo Neruda

Es geschieht, dass ich müde bin, Mensch zu sein!
Ich trete in Schneiderstuben, in Kinos
schlaff, undurchdringlich wie ein Schwan aus Filz,
der auf einem Wasser von Ursprung und Asche treibt.

Der Geruch der Frisiersalons lässt mich laut schluchzen.
Ich möchte nichts weiter als eine Ruhe von Stein oder Wolle
ich will keine Errichtungen mehr noch Gärten sehen,
keine Waren, keine Brillen, keine Fahrstühle.

Es geschieht, dass ich überdrüssig meiner Füße, meiner Nägel bin,
und meines Haars und meines Schattens!
Es geschieht, dass ich müde bin, Mensch zu sein!

Dennoch wäre es köstlich,
einen Notar mit einer ausgerauften Lilie zu erschrecken
oder eine Nonne mit einer Ohrfeige umzubringen.
Es wäre wunderbar,
mit einem grünen Messer durch die Straßen zu laufen
und zu brüllen, bis man tot umfällt vor Kälte.

Ich mag nicht mehr Wurzel sein in der Finsternis,
schwankend, ausgestreckt, zitternd vor Schläfrigkeit,
abwärts immer, ins nasse Lehmwerk der Erde,
saugend und sinnend, essend Tag für Tag.

Ich  mag so viel Unheil nicht für mich.
Mag nicht länger Wurzel sein und Grab,
verlassener Schacht, Kellergewölb mit Toten,
kältestarr, sterbend vor Leid.

Darum flammt der Montag wie Erdöl auf,
wenn er mich kommen sieht mit meinem Kerkergesicht,
und er heult in seinem Verlauf wie ein wundes Rad
und macht Schritte von heißem Blut der Nacht entgegen.

Und er treibt mich in manche Winkel, in manche feuchten Häuser,
in Spitäler, wo die Knochen durchs Fenster rauskommen,
in manche Schusterstube, die nach Essig riecht,
in Straßen, erschreckend wie Erdrisse.

Es gibt Vögel, schwefelfarbig, und hässliches Gedärm,
das an den Türpfosten der Häuser hängt, die ich hasse.
Es gibt Gebisse, in einer Kaffeekanne vergessen,
es gibt Spiegel,
die hätten wienen müssen vor Scham und Entsetzen,
Schirme gibt es allerorts und Gift und Nabelschnüre.

Ich schlendre umher mit Gelassenheit, mit Augen, mit Schuhen,
mit Wut, mit Vergessen,
ich geh vorüber, quere Amtsstuben und orthopädische Läden,
und Höfe, wo an einem Draht Wäsche hängt:
Unterhosen, Handtücher und Hemden, die langsame
schmutzige Tränen weinen.

Bald werd ich sterben
ich bin schon ein alter mann
und warte auf den tod
der bald kommen kann

bald werd ich sterben
ich wart' schon drauf
dann ist's aus
mit mein' lebenslauf

bald werd ich sterben
und hab keine sorgen
dann gibts für mich
auch kein übermorgen

jetzt bin ich tot
und es ist schön
nicht mehr auf erden
sondern im himmel zu sein

gute idee, george!

hier eines meiner all time favourites:

Möglicherweise ein Irrtum
Möglicherweise das Glück
Sicherheitshalber die kleinere Liebe
Seereise ohne Zurück.
Uns hat es niemals gegeben
Wir fanden nirgendwo statt
Dich übermannte ein lauwarmes Leben
Ich wurde müde und satt.
Möglicherweise ein Walzer
Möglicherweise ein Blues
Ewig vertagt - diese Stimme, die sagt:
Wenn du es tun willst, dann tu's.
Dich hab ich tragen und trösten gewollt
Du warst die Schönste von allen.
Nie hab ich Dir meine Fragen gestellt.
Du hast mir furchtbar gefallen.
Möglicherweise nur Feigheit
Möglicherweise Verstand
All mein Versäumtes Nichtausgeträumtes
behältst du als brennendes Pfand.
Möglicherweise ein Walzer
Möglicherweise ein Blues
Ewig vertagt - diese Stimme, die sagt:
Wenn du es tun willst, dann tu's.

Herman Van Veen, Möglicherweise ein Walzer

The Tiger
by William Blake

Tiger, tiger, burning bright,
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
When thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand forged thy dread feet?

What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dared its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did He smile his work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger, tiger, burning bright,
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

A FEVER

Oh do not die, for I shall hate
    All women so, when thou art gone,
That thee I shall not celebrate,
    When I remember, thou wast one.
But yet thou canst not die, I know,
    To leave this world behind, is death,
But when thou from this world wilt go,
    The whole world vapors with thy breath.

Or if, when thou, the world's soul, goest,
    It stay, 'tis but thy carcass then,
The fairest woman, but thy ghost,
    But corrupt worms, the worthiest men.

O wrangling schools, that search what fire
    Shall burn this world, had none the wit
Unto this knowledge to aspire,
    That this her fever might be it?

And yet she cannot waste by this,
    Nor long bear this torturing wrong,
For much corruption needful is
    To fuel such a fever long.

These burning fits but meteors be,
    Whose matter in thee is soon spent.
Thy beauty, and all parts, which are thee,
    Are unchangeable firmament.

Yet 'twas of my mind, seizing thee,
    Though it in thee cannot persever.
For I had rather owner be,
Of thee one hour, than all else ever.

LOVE'S DEITY

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the God of Love was born:
I cannot think that he, who then loved most,
Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn.
But since this god produced a destiny,
And that vice-nature, Custom, lets it be,
I must love her that loves not me.

Sure, they which made him god meant not so much,
Nor he in his young godhead practised it;
But when an even flame two hearts did touch,
His office was indulgently to fit
Actives to passives. Correspondency
Only his subject was; it cannot be
Love, till I love her that loves me.

But every modern god will now extend
His vast prerogative as far as Jove.
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend,
All is the purlieu of the God of Love.
Oh were we wakened by this tyranny
To ungod this child again, it could not be
I should love her who loves not me.

Rebel and atheist too, why murmur I
As though I felt the worst that love could do?
Love might make me leave loving, or might try
A deeper plague, to make her love me too,
Which, since she loves before, I'm loth to see;
Falsehood is worse than hate; and that must be,
If she whom I love should love me.

Edgar Allan Poe - The Bells

I

Hear the sledges with the bells-
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
II

Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And an in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
III

Hear the loud alarum bells-
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor,
Now–now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging,
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows:
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling,
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells-
Of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!
IV

Hear the tolling of the bells-
Iron Bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people–ah, the people-
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All Alone
And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone-
They are neither man nor woman-
They are neither brute nor human-
They are Ghouls:
And their king it is who tolls;
And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
Rolls
A paean from the bells!
And his merry bosom swells
With the paean of the bells!
And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the bells-
Of the bells:
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells-
To the sobbing of the bells;
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells:
To the tolling of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells-
Bells, bells, bells-
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

"the bells" ist nicht nur ein endgeiler Track von Jeff Mills, sondern auch ein Gedich von E.A. Poe, womöglich hat ja letzteres zu ersterem inspiriert, könnt ich mir gut vorstellen.
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wohl eher kein gedicht aber dennoch schöne worte, leider viel zu oft falsch verstanden oder so gut wie immer

@Miss Dita

The Daffodils?!?

Darling...dass du mich nach so viel Zeit noch immer ueberraschen kannst... 

ein wunderschoenes Gedicht 

vor allem:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;

und der Zustand, den ich eines Tages zu erreichen hoffe:

I gazed - and gazed - but little thought