Staune dass du bist

staune                                                    be amazed
dass du bist                                            that you are
erlebe die welt                                       experience the world
als wunder                                              as wonder
jedes blatt hat sein geheimnis                every leaf has its secret
jeder grashalm bleibt                             every blade of grass remains
ein rätsel                                                 a puzzle

verlerne das staunen nicht                     don't forget that wonder
wenn man dir eintrichtert                      whenever someone stuffs your head with
wie normal und                                      how normal and
einfach alles ist                                      simple everything is

(Günter Ullmann)

(Poem and Image Source; English translation mine)

Nur Ein Gedanke

That means just a thought, and is the title of a blog post where this wonderful poem is quoted: 

Ich habe diesen Himmel mir nicht ausgesucht
den ewig hohen den unendlich blauen ....

(I have not searched out this sky, the eternal highs, the unending blues  .... )

It ends:

Ich bin nicht unter diesem Himmel
Ich bin nicht unter diesem Blau
Ich bin ein Stern wie alle dort hochfern

(I am not under this sky, I am not under this blue, I am a star like everything there high and far.)

Lovely.  (Apologies for mangling the translation)

It's from this intelligent erotic gay blog (like The Slab) called Balcon6.  I'm always humbled by how Europeans can often speak 3 or 4 languages fluently.  This bloke does English, French and German, fluently.

If you speak French or German, you'll enjoy his blog.  He often posts some quite lovely modern poems in those languages.

And isn't the image, also from that blog, marvellous?