Joachim Ringelnatz

Joachim Ringelnatz Poems

A postage stamp, male, was elated
With joy, before he was dated.
A princess licked him, by Jove!
Which did awaken his love.
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A snuff box once was made
By King Frederick the Great,
Who carved it from a walnut log
Which made the box prideful agog.
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I love you so!
I would, without any regret
Give you a mattress spring
Of my bed.
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Give gifts big or wee
Yet solid alway
When the donee
The presents assa
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Papa daddy, Momma-love,
Cozy playpen, home-sweet-home,
Choc'late Santa, Auntie Dove,
Pie tastes just like poison foam.
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There once were two ants in Westphalia
Who wanted to go to Australia.
But cursing their feet
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Dragged to a Guest Book sans pardon
You are non-plussed
You feel locked up into the john
Needlessly. You feel disgust.
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Ev'rywhere is wonderland
Ev'rywhere is life,
In Auntie's rubber garter-band
As in the whole wide land.
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Beneath a very little tree stood a very little fawn
Enhanced as in dreams on the lawn.
That was at night, at twelve-ten.
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A gift for you I went to buy
A present priced, though, not too high.
What pity that an iron gadget
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Joachim Ringelnatz Biography

Joachim Ringelnatz is the pen name of the German author and painter Hans Bötticher (7 August 1883, Wurzen, Saxony – 17 November 1934, Berlin). His pen name Ringelnatz is usually explained as a dialect expression for an animal, possibly a variant of Ringelnatter, German for Grass Snake. He was a sailor in his youth and spent the First World War in the Navy on a minesweeper. In the 1920s and 1930s, he worked as a Kabarettist, i.e., a kind of satirical stand-up comedian. He is best known for his wry poems, often using wordplay and sometimes bordering on nonsense poetry. Some of these are similar to Christian Morgenstern's, but often more satirical in tone and occasionally subversive. His most popular creation is the anarchic sailor Kuddel Daddeldu with his drunken antics and disdain for authority. In his final thirteen years Ringelnatz was also a dedicated and prolific visual artist; the bulk of his art seems to have gone missing during World War II, but over 200 paintings and drawings survived. In the 1920s some of his work was exhibited at the Akademie der Künste along with that of his contemporaries Otto Dix and George Grosz. Ringelnatz also illustrated his own novel called "...liner Roma..." (1923), the title of which is a doubly truncated "Berliner Roman" (Berlin novel), for "Berlin novels usually have no decent beginning and no proper ending." ("Berliner Romane haben meist keinen ordentlichen Anfang und kein rechtes Ende.)

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The Postage Stamp

A postage stamp, male, was elated
With joy, before he was dated.
A princess licked him, by Jove!
Which did awaken his love.

He wanted to kiss her back
But had to go on a trek.
His love was thus unavailing
So sad is often life's failing.

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