TWO POEMS BY EGON SHIELE
1 | SUN
Taste redness, smell lulling white winds,
look at it in the universe: sun.
Gaze at stars yellow and glittering
till you feel good and have to shut out the blinking.
Brainworlds sparkle in your caves.
Sun — Egon Schiele, Ich ewiges Kind (I, Eternal Child). Gedichte, Vienna/Munich (2) 1985. p. 24 (Source: egonschiele)
II | THE SUNFLOWERS
You golden sunflowers,
Feelingly bowed to die,
You humble sisters
In such silence
Ends Helian’s year
Of mountainous cool.
And the kisses
Make pale his drunken brow
Amidst those golden
Flowers of melancholy
The spirit is ruled
By silent darkness.
Egon Schiele, poetry
G. Trakl, Das dichterische Werk, Munich (11) 1987, p 195. (Source: egonschiele)
