Amfortas's heart is always aching,
because he has commited sin!
He met with Kundri laughing, scoffing
And he betrayed his God by this.
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I am so taken by YOUR Wagner poems, they are helping cross a threshold - from narrative to prayer. That's what I sense in this poem: you tell the story of Amfortas's rash, vain, really stupid attack alone against Klingsor castle but it is Kundry who defeats him - and at that moment in your poem at line 5 the poem becomes a hymn
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I am so taken by YOUR Wagner poems, they are helping cross a threshold - from narrative to prayer. That's what I sense in this poem: you tell the story of Amfortas's rash, vain, really stupid attack alone against Klingsor castle but it is Kundry who defeats him - and at that moment in your poem at line 5 the poem becomes a hymn