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Erich Fried
this site contains the german originals
& my own translations
i hope despite my incomplete english
you get the confusing depth
of Erich Fried's verses

ashes

reckless artistic nature

learning process

anxiety and doubt

earn and bear

constructive self criticism

speechless

preservation of materia

strange child

liberation from the big idols

need knows no command

of the inner freedom

abandoned room

a collector

reasons

one agitated poet's questions

the edge

what it is

  earn and bear

to collect hope
out of solvable problems
out of possibilities
out of everything
which promises something

to reserve
the powers
for that
which really
should be done

that way grows
quiet
the stock
of unspent
despair



Ertrag

Hoffnung sammeln
aus lösbaren Problemen
aus Möglichkeiten
aus allem
was etwas verspricht

Die Kräfte
sparen
für das
was wirklich
zu tun ist

So wächst
im stillen
der Vorrat
an unverbrauchter
Verzweiflung


first published 1967
in 'Anfechtungen' ('Contentions')


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