Merry Christmas

. . . and don't blame the vulture.

 

Beers &Books CCLVIX – Hölderlin

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Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843)

Laughing Lhursday*

Across the street from Seanhenge, a Christmas elf named Wolfram moved in at the beginning of December.

He has not yet been seen,
but he writes regularly, and often traces
of his highly varied nocturnal activities
are unmistakable.

The other day he was told in a letter
that the writer's grandfather
had cooked him a portion of rice, and ...

. . . that she, the letter writer,
hoped Wolfram would relish it.

And yes, it did taste, Wolfram wrote,
but asked for indulgence that unfortunately
he did not quite manage
to entirely eat the huge portion.

 * [For first time visitors]: Typo in the title? Nah. It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.
 

Beers & Books CCLVIII – Heinrich Böll

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Heinrich Böll (21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985)

Beers & Books CCLVII – Novalis: Love Poems

Love Poems

Novalis (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801)

Beers & Books CCLVI – Hafez: Love Poems

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Hafis / Hafez (c. 1315/1325 – c. 1390)

Beers & Books CCLV – Dafydd ap Gwilym

Clicking the label
Dafydd ap Gwilym
soon you will agree with me:
There's no bard like him.

Dafydd ap Gwilym (c. 1315/1320 – c. 1350/1370)

Beers & Books CCLIV – Petrarca's Love Poems

The most beautiful love poems

Francesco Petrarca (* 20. Juli 1304 in Arezzo; † 19. Juli 1374 in Arquà)

Beers & Books CCLIII – Dante's Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

 
Dante Aleghieri (c. 1265 – 14 September 1321)

Beers & Books CCLII – Boccaccio's Decamaron

The Decamaron

Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375)

Beers & Books CCLI – Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s – 25 October 1400)

Beers & Books CCL – Chinese Philosophers

Laozi, Zhuang Zhou, Confucius,
Liezi, I Ching

Beers & Books CCXLIX – Tanka and Haiku

Japanese Seasons
Tanka and Haiku
from thirteen
centuries