Erhard Hans Josef Lang Poems

If God were a man, he might descend on earth,
open shop down here,
like all the other fellows do,
charge his tokens for his rays of sun
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Why won't the acclaimedly intelligent beings of the animal world,

Called the humans,
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Modern man has come to know
to tame the horse for riding it.
Why would our hominide ancestors,
contemporaries of dinosaurs,
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From out of my heart I despise
Each and every slave of material matters
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Are we really present in this body
when we pass at night
through our lands of dream?
Supposed we wanted to
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Why not let troubled things talk and hold council with you?
Or do you relish the birth-pangs' banging between clashes?
Things can't talk, yes, or can they? !
You may only proffer your own fantasy
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How could one imagine what it
sounded like when starting to
learn a foreign language,
merely from the books, and had
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The Seer, our father, once offered all these worlds in oblation,
assuming a priestly role,
and sought to gain riches by the power of prayer;
he himself entered later creations, while shrouding in mystery
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Wishing for more shares of yours
In times to come in
Your ever self-fulfilling graces and blisses,
I sing a song of success and victory,
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walking with a lush turf carpet under joyous flappers
to feel what exactly you're stepping up to next thing
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