Dino Steffens Poems

Had I the slimmest chance to change the principle of orbits, I would place the moon at the center of the solar system
Because you look so beautiful in the moonlight
Even your shadow appears to be silently liberated when we kiss in the moonlight
I wish not to witness the first rays of dawn but to hide ourselves behind the stars
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All the words and meanings that now seem leery, unripe
Someday, sometime they would rather seem ripe
O poet, scattering the seed in man's unplowed soil
Over time the vindication of your sentimental toil
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O swan!
Sum a lifetime’s silence and turn it into a song
Make death envy you and sing along
O swan!
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How can I deny you?
You light my inner torch when I am lost in dark caves of thoughts
But how can I, on the other hand, welcome you?
You expect me to keep the torch burning, to carry it for you despite all doubts
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Man's spirit tomb
Catharsis
Out of death's womb
The spirit's diagnosis
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We pass away and we leave behind fingerprints
To every soul that happened to cross our way
Latent or patent by the fingers of our deeds
The transient touch of time can't fade them away
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