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Erich Fried

Posted by Tamar on November 4, 2005, at 23:42:39

Today I was reading some poems by Erich Fried. I'm sure there are proper translations somewhere out there, but I haven't seen Fried's work in English so these are my own translations (I'm including the German just because someone probably knows German better than I do...)

*Addiction*

I sometimes wish
I could
kiss my fill of you
but then I would have to die
from hunger for you
since the more I kiss you
the more I need to kiss you:
kisses do not nourish me
only my hunger


*Perhaps*

Remembering
that is
perhaps
the most agonising way
of forgetting
and perhaps
the gentlest way
of easing this agony


And in German:

*Sucht*

ich wuensche manchmal
ich koennte
mich an dir sattkuessen
aber dann muesste ich sterben
vor Hunger nach dir
denn je mehr ich dich kuesse
desto mehr muss ich dich kuessen:
Die kuesse naehren nicht mich
nur meinen Hunger


*Vielleicht*

Erinnern
das ist
vielleicht
die qualvollste Art
des Vergessens
und vielleicht
die freundlichste Art
der Linderung dieser Qual

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