Ποιειν Και Πραττειν - create and do

Berlin als Heimstatt für Ratten

war immer mal wieder gegeben.

Doch lebt es sich weg im Verein

mit dem Bürger von Mensch bis Schwein!


 

In diesem Gedicht-Bild-Band pflegt Armin Gröpler die lyrische Klein-Form - seine Gedichte kreisen um seine Heimat, sein Leben und seine Freunde.

Existence

1

Today weighed in again the consciousness

about my family

and the night stars were

the ones which consoled me.

The wind through the trees,

the magpie fighting with a cat,

and the songs of Franz Schubert,

which are so tragic,

but in their beauty

sustain my life!

2

Why should I be bothered about my body,

when my emotions are terrified?

The many political deceased ones:

possible friends

for

a better life...

Why be bothered by

political arguments

wenn friends are lost

due to state violence.

3

Who lives

and calculates death

by war

has gambled away his life.

Especially when it is

not his own

death

which

he pre-plans for.

4

The spoiled food,

the polluted air -

the nuclear power catastrophies

as well criminal governments

will not reduce

my love and trust

in the stars,

deer,

trees and worms,

viruses and bacteria.

The wind and the moon,

the bodies of water

oceans and seas,

lakes and pond:

where life is.

5

When is life given away?

When a dream is left unrealized?

The more ideology

the more life shall be buried under!

The one who does not see the swallow's flight

has missed out on life.

6.

He who postulates the border

between animal and human being

as a living creature,

has lost the game.,

That we eat animals

is enough of a connection,

to demand respect

for the animal creature.

7.

Learn to speak the language of animals!

Talk with the bacillus...

Lern from the welting flowers -

when they have become immortals,

then you will understand your own dying.

8

Once religion mutates

into ideology,

it undermines

life,

becomes intolerant

and aggressive.

Translated by Hatto Fischer