Who knows of a better world should step forward.
Alone, no longer out of bravery, not wiping away this saliva,
this saliva worn upon the cheek
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This poem bearing sadness is intensively and amazingly delineated. Five stars.
Saddest was the fact her tragic death through a piece of cigarette in her bed. She was brought to hospital. Very very sad!
1) 5 Stars for this wonderous Modern Poem Of The Day! Ingeborg Bachmann died in the Roman Sant' Eugenio hospital three weeks after a fire in her bedroom, on 17 October 1973. Local police concluded that the blaze was caused by a lit cigarette.
CONGRATULATIONS to the family of the late poetess. A well deserved Modern Poem Of The Day. TODAY.. A special and precious poem created. This poem deserves to be read thoughtfully. With the help of her loving family her poems are published on PoemHunter, we are reading her poems now, Her poems consist oft melancholy and tragedy, much sadness but enormously of great beauty bestowed. Thanks for sharing this poem and all her poems (very few submitted) on PH
dream for the highest crowned development now changes into hypocrite greed; the imperialist destruct the innocent world for the name sake where third world cannot dream to survive only; what's the better luck of the universe nobody knows though everybody is concerned about this!
The mindset of modern day man beautifully unveiled, deserving modern poem of the day.
No better world than this one, Returning home to this only home, A great poem from the poet
no longer alone, but as one, though still afraid, the dream of returning home in the dream of armament, in the dream of returning home........fine statement. Beautiful poem by Ingeborg Bachmann.
Always this saliva! ! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
A beautiful creation. Congrats on your poem's selection as POD.