Loneliness

I´m sitting here in the darkness
And I´m waiting for forgiveness
And I hope it will come soon.


My heart is full of emptiness
What I´ve done was crazyness
I wish I could re-do.


So I hope time will take your pain
Because life without you is a shame
I´m sorry for it all.



(Jasmin Hornung)

The end of your life

You can't see it,
but you know it's all around.
You can feel its hunting presence;
it's the death.

You can't hear it,
just it's victims,
when they scream for life;
not heard by the death.

You try to run away,
but you can't hide.
It follows your track,
waiting to steal your soul.

Finally, it grabs your body,
pulling you into darkness.
And you should accept:
Your life is ending here.



Stefan Rixen

Tsunami

It was a sunny day
in the winter vacation,
when there were lots of people on holidays
in Spain, Italy, Turkey and in South-East Asia.
It was sunny and warm there
and nobody had the feeling
that something terrible will happen
in Thailand, that year.

The sea was very warm
and everyone was on the beach.
Some people were laughing,
some swam in the blue water.
Others just lay in the sand
and enjoyed the warm sun.
The world was so peaceful.

Then there happened something exciting that day
and no one knew, that it would end terribly:
Suddenly, the sea went away
and you could see seashells, that were little,
but then, there were lots of screams
and when you looked to the sea,
there was a monster-wave rushing to the land and it seemed
that it reached the sky and we
were small and weak and too slow to run away.

The wave came nearer and nearer
and all people tried to escape
but then the wave was there; its height was 30 meter.
It carried away everything that got in its way
and people were praying and screaming for help –
but there didn’t come any…

...then everything was quiet.
The sun shined warm and the sky was blue.
People were desperate
and they asked themselves, if it could be true,
that they were alone now and all their friends were away,
or if they woke up –
and everything was okay.

moon

please dry my tears and let me sleep
please save me from the shadows of loneliness
please protect me from this harsh distress that threats to wrap me into totally gloom
abscond with and take along all the memories

donate just one night in which you don’t force me to see my mistakes
donate just one night in which you don’t force me to remember my missed fortune
donate just one night in which I don’t have to believe my one lies
only to avoid drowning in tears
just one night in which I don’t have to hide from myself

Sophie Stengel

The torture

She takes the knife and thinks
About if she really should do this.
All of a sudden, the knife scratches
Through the tender skin.

It is almost done
Just about 10 minutes left.
Her hands shake when she applies
The second cut.

Her stomach growls
Due to the big torture
She is set out to.
Just one more thing to do –

Put the sliced apple
Onto a plate and enjoy it!

Philip Kern

Outside

Outside

Sometimes I look
outside my window
and what I see there
is beautiful.

There is water in the fountain,
shining brightly in the sun
There are plants,
green and wonderful.

There are birds,
picking at the plants to catch their food;
and there are young birds,
just learning to fly.

If you see this picture you think:
what a wonderful world.
but if you look over the hedge
you can see a main street full of cars and trucks,
and you think:
what a sad and foggy world

Fabian Rathke

Poem

A night beyond the stars

Looking up to the moon
she wondered
if the sun would ever
shine again

The stars glistened tonight
while she sat down
by the riverside
and cried in deep tearfulness

Night was cold
and the warm wind
could not comfort her
for none could ever do

As she lost her lover
a great knight
known all over the kingdom
for braveness and strength

She looked up to the sky
and hoped to see his sign
in the clouds or
the glistening of the stars

But she could neither see
nor hear anything
except the sound of the river
and the wind in the leaves

She stood up again
her face a mask of tears
one last look to the stars
Then she ended her life


Stefanie Eckmann

Aubade Example

Title: Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

lyrics can be found on: http://www.lyrics007.com/Eagle%20Eye%20Cherry%20Lyrics/Save%20Tonight%20Lyrics.html

Aubade example: Save tonight/ Pirates of the Carribean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYzMXDI0PS0

tell me what you think :)

Dark Poetry

Ballad

- Ballads are poems that tell a story (= narrative poems)
- Early form of entertainment, the performers were called Balladiers
- Basic form is a jambic heptameter
- Arranged in sestets or six-line-stanzas
- 2nd, 4th and 6th lines are rhyming
- It's often sung
- Their simplicity made them survive and popular
- German poets are famous for their ballads, e.g.:
>>> J.W.v. Goethe: Erlkönig>>> F. Schiller: Der Handschuh

Example of pop-Ballad:
the Ballad of Lucy Jordan
lyrics: http://www.lyricsdrive.com/lyrics/faithfull-marianne/284954/ballad-of-lucy-jordan/
youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiC_DiqMRCE

Put more examples under comments!

Limerick

The Limerick is build of nonsense verses, is light and humorous.
It is a five-line-stanza/ four-line-form.
The first and the fifth line end in the same word.
Scheme: aabba/aacca;
it has a structured form and is short but sweet
+should have a single anapestic stanza!
Example:
There was an Old Man of Berlin,
Whose form was uncommonly thin;
Till once, by mistake,
Was mixed up in a cake,
So they baked that Old Man of Berlin.

"Father" of the Limericks is Edward Lear. Limericks became a popularised form with his "Book of Nonsense" in 1846.

http://www1.freewebs.com/grahamlester/classics.htm%20 : limericks by famous people!

Further examples under comments!

Aubade

-it's a poem or a song
-about:greeting the morning
-lovers are seperating at break off the day
often a dialog between lovers
-form: dramatic elements
-refrain: warning of the approaching dawn-time/sunrise
- Middle Age
-place: Europe

examples:

an aubade is embedded in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, starting with the famous lines:
Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear

Performance Poetry

- also called "Stand Up Poetry" or "Slam Poetry"
- created by Marc Smith
- during the 1930s became popular
- is written for performance and for print distribution (printing)
- mixture of words and objects
-> manipulated in space by the poet
- the objects became the most important
- like a mime/action by the artist
-commonly: mixture of a song and a poem--> performed!

Famous Performance Poetrists:
Levi Tafari (Melanin, Plasticfantastic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaMEQJTsyrE)
Patience Agbabi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHyWyTpBgsA)
Benjamin Zephaniah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78tk20rLM44)
Want to know how they talk? They have interviews on youtube as well!

Examples under comments? Or performed?

Haiku

--> Japanese small poem;
first proofs for Haikus were already found in the 13th century.
> structure : - 5-7-7 syllables per line or - 5-7-5 syllables per line

Two types of Haiku :
--> Mondo: Its written by two people ( asking question and answering )
--> Sedoka: Its written by a single author

put examples for Haikus under comments!

Poetry

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Have a nice day
K. Sauer