Calligraphies

Ginkgo Biloba

This tree leaf, which from the eastEntrusted to my garden,Gives secret meaning to taste,How it edifies the knowledgeable.Is it a living being,That separates into itself?Are there two who choose each other,That they are known as one?To answer such questionsI guess I found the right sense.Don’t you feel from my songs,That I am one and double. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1815 […]
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Gold on Lapislazuli

A poem by Abdar Rahman V – Caliph of Cordoba (1002 – 1024) Translated from the Arabic by George Bossong Gold on Lapislazuli Land has become night for meSince you left me.Oh gazelle, you destroyOur love, break the covenant!Have you forgotten our covenant?When we were lying on a bed of roses,Wrapped us in a sash,Formed a pearl necklace,How two branches […]
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Love Song by Rainer Maria Rilke

“But everything that touches us, you and me,Takes us together like a bow stroke,Who draws a voice from two strings.Which instrument are we looking forward to?And which violinist has us in the palm of his hand?O sweet song.” Oil on birch wood Stolberg 2014 (Liebeslied von Rainer Maria Rilke)
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