The Poet Comments

His last stanza is priceless! His last sentence is very ironic. Hesse was best known for Siddharta and Steppenwolf. Both novels are classics. And have garnered a huge following. Unfortunately, he won't be remembered for his poetry.

Wow nice reflective poem, thanks for writing

'...all of them Gratefully celebrate the festival of the future world. Only the poet is missing, The lonely one who looks on, The bearer of human longing...' so true for many writers, though not all write about the emptiness of longing - read Billy Collins, for example

A poignant rendition, well conceived and elegantly crafted in persuasive poetic expressions with insight.

The weeping and singing, lonely in the evening, of a man secretly in love. The temples of the gods are mine also, and mine the aristocratic groves of the past. the great Hermann Hesse the author of Sidharta.

Where is the content?

Brief but compelling.