For poetry month this year, I'll be revisiting a few classics from the other side of the Rhine, and I thought it would be more fun to do so in public. So every day-ish, I'll be posting a link to a poem, a not-so-good translation of that poem into English, and a bit of thinking aloud on it.
Since this is partly in German it will all be highly organised, I have a road map and everything. So at the end of each post I'll leave a hint about what's coming next, and you can try to guess what it'll be :) Chronological order will kind of sort of be respected.
Last but not least, I'm aware that I'm neither German nor English so trying to translate German poetry into English is arrogant at best and may turn into a full-blown catastrophy. My excuse is that I'm only doing this as a bit of harmless fun. It is not my intention to force anything on anyone - just to spend a bit of time doing something I enjoy in company of people who might enjoy it too. I don't mean to be offensive in any way. Please speak up if I cross a line, criticism doesn't have to be constructive.
Tomorrow's entry, ie the first real post, will have something to do with fields and birds.