Date: 12/7/2012 6:38:39 PM ( 12 y ) ... viewed 2649 times
INTRO TO LUDWIG MAX FISCHER
Met Ludwig Max Fischer on my 65th Birthday. He is working on a book to bring alive again the work of Edmond Bordeaux Szekely. Ludwig Max Fischer wrote Seasons of the Soul, about Herman Hesse.
Who is Herman Hesse?
Herman Hesse was the author of :"Siddhartha"
"He did not have joy in his heart...
a restlessless of the Soul...
infused...with Rig Vidha..
The Soul was not satisfied...
did not heal...
or releave...
PRUNED OAK
by Herman Hesse Read by Ludwig Max Fischer
in conversation with Andrew Harvey
ABOUT ANDREW HARVEY
SEASONS OF THE SOUL,
POETRY OF HERMAN HESSE, TRANSLATED BY LUDWIG MAX FISCHER
Pruned Oak
Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you.
Now you stand odd and strangely shaped!
You were hacked a hundred times
until you had nothing left but spite and will!
I am like you, so many insults and humiliations
could not shatter my link with life.
And every day I raise my head
beyond countless insults towards new light.
What in me was once gentle, sweet and tender
this world has ridiculed to death.
But my true self cannot be murdered.
I am at peace and reconciled.
I grow new leaves with patience
from branches hacked a hundred times.
In spite of all the pain and sorrow
I'm still in love with this mad, mad world.