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Tilman Riemenschneider, by Colin Pink

4/10/2020

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detail, The Last Supper, by Tilman Riemenschneider (Germany) 1501

Tilman Riemenschneider

Beneath your hands Limewood is as malleable as butter.
The twists and turns of drapery folds carve arabesques

on the air. You discover so much beauty in wood and yet
your world is a sober affair. Smiles are not an option

among your cast of saints, whose faces reveal past and 
future sorrows no books can explain, no words contain.

Colin Pink

​Colin Pink has two collections of poetry: Acrobats of Sound and The Ventriloquist Dummy’s Lament. New poems are forthcoming in South Bank Poetry, Magma and Under the Radar magazines.
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Timothy Adès link
5/3/2020 06:09:32 am

My translation of a poem by RICARDA HUCH 1864-1947

THE KNIGHT SCHAUMBURG

Gravestone by Riemenschneider

Is it the leaving of life,
Knight, or the yearning to die,
Darkens that notable brow?
Did fortune offer you dross?
Did you endure, to your loss,
Odious duty and strife?

Victory’s palm you abjured,
Offered to many a shield;
Faith set your fervour aglow.
Heaven said never a word,
All you held dear was laid low,
Friendless in forest and field.

You from the dull round of days
Fled to the balm of the blest:
Freed from the pain and the maze,
Blameless, yet always alone;
Leaving the cry you suppressed
Frozen, and hardened to stone.

Photo at: Wikipedia Marienkapelle Würzburg

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