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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 13-JUL-74, by ANEMONE LATZINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gal (as frieder calls me) I said to my
Last Line: Always comes along and botches u%p the best ideas
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


ABOUT MY LIFE, by ROLF BOSSERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: 24 september 1977 %I'm married and have two children my wife
Last Line: I intend to write more poems
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


ADVERTISEMENT, by NIKOLAUS BERWANGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I prefer %the naked %truth
Last Line: In the %quelle catalogue
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


ADVICE, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Be careful in dealing %with books
Last Line: Do not trust %second-hand truths
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


ALSO. AN ARS POETICA, by JOHANN LIPPET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always being forced to make confessions
Last Line: Always being forced to justify oneself. %more lethal
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


ANAGRAM BORN OF MADNESS AT CZERNOWITZ, 12 NOVEMBER 1920, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They were the strong nudes of a forgotten
Last Line: "hold on to me and we'll sing."
Subject(s): Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Czernowitz (chernvits), Romania; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


ANNA ESPRESSO, VACI ST., BUDAPEST, 27 JULY 1979, by WILLIAM TOTOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's windy out
Last Line: Anything'll do I say %my money's beginning to run out
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


ARTISTS, CRITICS & CABBAGE SALAD, by ROLF BOSSERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: You see, ladies and gentlemen, this is
Last Line: Because I love cabbage salad
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


AT THE CEMETERY, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reading on the tombstones
Last Line: Where are the bad ones buried, %or do they live on eternally among us?
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Comrade, %what can I say?
Last Line: Just like your ideas %about me
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


BIOGRAPHY, by CLAUS STEPHANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you are sensible
Last Line: Since then %I've been living for a long time
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


BURNING TABLE (FROM A POSTCARD), by RICHARD+(2) WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sat %at the burning table
Last Line: Didn't stop my writing
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


CHILDREN, by ROLF FRIEDER MARMONT    Poem Source                    
First Line: They came in the morning
Last Line: Hanging their heads %they returned home in the evening
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


CONFIDENCE, by ROLF BOSSERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lead is sluggish
Last Line: And so we have time
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


DAILY ROUTINE, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each day is a %book
Last Line: In the evening we put it away %unread
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


DEPARTURE, by WERNER SOLLNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: To lie drunk like %the ancient poet nedim
Last Line: Than an exegesis %of history
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


DEPARTURE, by WILLIAM TOTOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cut winter up into little pieces
Last Line: You wave like the wobbly hands of my clock
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


DIALECTICS, by RICHARD+(2) WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We grasped the situation
Last Line: Then others came along
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


DIMBOVITZA, by ELIZABETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dimbovitza! Magic river
Last Line: Lies my dearest treasure sleeping.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis
Subject(s): Rivers; Romania; Rumania; Roumania


DOBRUJA REALM OF SHADE, by ROLF FRIEDER MARMONT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weary land, %divested of history
Last Line: The subtle pang in your chest?
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


DRY EYES, by NIKOLAUS BERWANGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: These days %I cry honestly only
Last Line: But my eyes %remain dry
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


EVERY EVENING / MY THOUGHTS COLLECT, by JOHANN LIPPET    Poem Source                    
Last Line: While I pick up the dirty shoes %at the door
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


FEDERICO, by HORST SAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world %lonely and distant
Last Line: Into the dark path of the gun barrel
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


FLAG, by WILLIAM TOTOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm still holding
Last Line: If I freeze
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


FORTIFIED CHURCH IN TRANSLYVANIA, by CLAUS STEPHANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lodgings %for bats
Last Line: With pigeon manure
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


GOLDEN AGE OF FABLES, by ROLF BOSSERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lion and mouse
Last Line: The deadman no longer reeks to the heavens, %but among us
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


HOLIDAYS AT HOME, by HORST SAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We go for a swim in our empty wallet
Last Line: We spring joyfully down the beach %into the shrill cry of a seagull
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


HONESTLY, by NIKOLAUS BERWANGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is no made-to-order lip service
Last Line: Because you can still pardon here
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


I WAS A STATUE, by RICHARD+(2) WAGNER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And he handed me %his cloth
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


IF THE STREET SWEEPERS IN RESCHINAR HAVE EITHER TWO RIGHT, by OSKAR PASTIOR    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A material musical process that really goes to heart
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


IMAGES OF AN ABSURD JUNE, by NIKOLAUS BERWANGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: During the day the sun squeezes
Last Line: Those of the last five-year plan, %without relying on imports at all
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


IN JULY 1977, by ANEMONE LATZINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's an established fact %a poem is a prison
Last Line: What we need to survive, %bread and water
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


IN MEMORIAM L., by NIKOLAUS BERWANGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wooden cross ready for a museum
Last Line: Who tomorrow will show where l. Was
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


IN THE FIRST LINE THE POET IMAGINES A SEX ORGAN, by OSKAR PASTIOR    Poem Source                    
Last Line: This poem is not pornographic and takes its appeal from the title november
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


IN THE MORNING I SHOWER, by ANEMONE LATZINA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I take a look at the people
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


INDIAN SUMMER IN A DEPARTMENT STORE, by FRIEDER SCHULLER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That's how they got across the border cheaply
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


ISOLATION (FOR FRANZ HODJAK), by HORST SAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fewer now %we gasp for air
Last Line: Inside the wine bottles %and drown
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


LAMENT FOR ALL I'VE LOST TO THIS WIDE WORLD, by ANEMONE LATZINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where are the fingernails %I cut at the hotel royal, budapest?
Last Line: My saturated liver, %where will they rot?
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


LATE JOY, by NIKOLAUS BERWANGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your embrace %has a rare
Last Line: After the first frost
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


LIFE. AN EXAMPLE, by WERNER SOLLNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A book with pictures and photos of nazim hikmet
Last Line: At the future, laughing loud, then closing %his eyes
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


MARMATIA, SELS., by CLAUS STEPHANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Enter this land
Last Line: Be you silent %upon you
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


MEETING OF POETS IN SIGHISOARA (VLAD DRACUL RESTAURANT), by HORST SAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stones convene
Last Line: In the streets %the vanquished dangle
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


MORNING, by HORST SAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The key turns in the lock
Last Line: And lay a stack of newspapers on the table
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


MOTHER'S CONSOLATION, by JULIANA MODOI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am not allowed to weep
Last Line: For your child is listening %within me
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


MY NEIGHBOUR MAKES A POEM FOR ME, by JOHANN LIPPET    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're lucky,' %says mu neighbour
Last Line: Life is getting more difficult, %death is getting easier
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


NIGHTSHADE RIFT, by ROLF BOSSERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: They're standing outside the door
Last Line: They want your skin, my words
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


NORMAL DAY, by WILLIAM TOTOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your face %is hidden in the fog
Last Line: But your subtle blink
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


OF ALL THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL AFFAIRS I KEEP POOR RECORDS OF, by OSKAR PASTIOR    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But even the forms themselves are negligently incomplete
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


ONETIME SPATE OF SUICIDES IN THE FAMILY, by JOHANN LIPPET    Poem Source                    
First Line: And I believe
Last Line: They white their trees on holidays, %and hang out flags
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


OVID IN EXILE, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forgotten by the seven hills by the lofty skies
Last Line: Only enemies remain faithful
Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Romania - German Minority


PERHAPS I'D TAKE MY COFFEE MUG, by FRIEDER SCHULLER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: When I suddenly got my passport %for west germany or anywhere
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


POETRY CLUB, by CLAUS STEPHANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell me who %your critic is
Last Line: And I'll tell you %the reason why
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


POMPEII, VIA STABIANA, by CLAUS STEPHANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day after day
Last Line: Antiquity is left behind %silent and steadfast
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


POSTCARD FOR FRANK O'HARA, by CARMEN PUCHIANU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Distorted by crystal balls
Last Line: With an apple and a snake %balanced on the scales
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


PSALM, by TUDOR ARGHEZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ponder you in clamor and in silence
Last Line: I want to touch you and shout: 'he is!'
Subject(s): Romania - Communist Regime


PUNCTUAL CURRICULUM VITAE, by HORST SAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: At night my neighbor hans
Last Line: At five in the morning %he's back
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


QUESTION FOR MANDELSTAM, by RICHARD+(2) WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Osip %brother %we are oil in the works
Last Line: What else can %we do
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


REINER KUNZE, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is not a crane operator
Last Line: Weeding %with the double-edged word
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


RIGHT THROUGH THIS HOUSE, by WERNER SOLLNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Runs a border line. On one side love
Last Line: Bird sits which in german we call the soul
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


ROUMANIA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another land has crashed into the deep
Last Line: Rise, rise, roumania! Yet thy soul is whole!
Subject(s): Romania; World War I; Rumania; Roumania; First World War


SAVONAROLA, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: How silently decisions are made
Last Line: And the grass is gradually growing in your mouth
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority; Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498)


SCOPE, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The freedom %which gives us
Last Line: To freedom %day by day
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


SEASON, by ROLF BOSSERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out into the pale day
Last Line: Your hand sleeps %next to me
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


SEASONS, by WILLIAM TOTOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The time has come
Last Line: Petroleum seeps into the sand
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


SHIVER POEM SHIVERS AT THE THOUGHT THAT IT CONSISTS, by OSKAR PASTIOR    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Can you shiver at the thought of shivering
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


SHORT POEM ON A LITTLE FREEZING BIRD, by ROLF BOSSERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm freezing
Last Line: Of a scarecrow
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


SLOGAN, by ERNEST WICHNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All through the government quarter, happiness and us
Last Line: Of the night
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


SNOW POEM FOR EDDA, by HORST SAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The room for us
Last Line: Winter is cold and long
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


SNOW WHITE OPEN YOUR EYES, by NIKOLAUS BERWANGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are living %in an age of dwarfs
Last Line: When you are finally going %to open your eyes
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


SONG, by RICHARD+(2) WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Work slept %verse slept
Last Line: Attempted %a coup d'etat
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


SONG FROM THE OCCUPATION TIME, by ION CARAION    Poem Source                    
First Line: What I would not give for this century, were it only to change!
Last Line: Shall travel across the borders under cover
Subject(s): Romania - Communist Regime


SPACIOUS SECONDS, by ROLF FRIEDER MARMONT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sceonds %are as big
Last Line: As barns
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


SUBSEQUENT REMARK ABOUT MY BIRTH, by HORST SAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the motley sun
Last Line: Was the story %of my birth
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


TESTAMENT, by TUDOR ARGHEZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll bequeath no goods to you when I am dead
Last Line: Though unaware that buried deep within %simmers the stored-up wrath of my ancient kin
Subject(s): Romania - Communist Regime


THEODORE AND HONORIA, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the cities in romanian lands
Last Line: For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
Variant Title(s): Ravenna
Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Nature; Romania; Allegories; Rumania; Roumania


TIMELESS, by CARMEN PUCHIANU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grant me the quiet
Last Line: Snow lies ahead for us all
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


TRAKL IN EXILE, by ERNEST WICHNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know that trakl %rejected brecht's invitations
Last Line: In silent anguish, was simply not there
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


TRANSCENDING BORDERS, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wulf kirsten and I are drinking beer
Last Line: He's in weimar and I am here
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


TRIP TO PARIS, by HORST SAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pont neuf comedie francaise
Last Line: The dome des invalides calls out to me
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


UPON READING POEMS BY WEINHEBER IN VIEW OF HIS SUCCESS, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: His poems say a lot
Last Line: Why were were his poems honoured?
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Romania - German Minority


VILLAGE EVENING, by JULIANA MODOI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pale light of evening
Last Line: The counters %of tomorrow's guests
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


VILLON'S ARRIVAL IN HEAVEN, by FRANZ HODJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Esteemed commission %I feel reborn
Last Line: That I am, collapse under the weight of your kindness
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


WAIL, NAIL, PICTURE, by WERNER SOLLNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My poem is a nail
Last Line: With a nail in it
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


WAITRESS, by RICHARD+(2) WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She flits back and forth
Last Line: And can still see her in front of me
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


WEEKEND. THE HEAD, by JOHANN LIPPET    Poem Source                    
First Line: On this weekend afternoon
Last Line: The snout rummages through the land
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


WINTER MORNING, by HORST SAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Motto; %there you have it
Last Line: How lucky they are %they're sleeping
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


WINTER POEM FOR SARAH KIRSCH, by HORST SAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: North wind blows
Last Line: Is a white fairy tale %that lies
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


WITH THE PAINTER LAUTERBACH, by RICHARD+(2) WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They still keep coming
Last Line: The walls in the stairwell
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


WORDS OF THE POET, by RICHARD+(2) WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Courage said the poet
Last Line: On the development of society %concluded the poet
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority


WORKERS AT THE BRICKYARD, by WILLIAM TOTOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hands full of noise
Last Line: Only a sweaty human arm grabs bricks %again off the swift conveyor-belt
Subject(s): Romania - German Minority