Poems

Changing the wheel by Bertolt Brecht

Changing the wheel I sit by the roadsideThe driver changes the wheel.I do not like the place I have come…

When you’re here From here, oh,you can hold yourself,so you can laugh. Free to exploreall manner of things. When you’re…

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the…

Bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I’m too tough for him,I say, stay in there,…

the radical moveis to enter each dayas a constant nowfree from the clawsof then and nextso you may take the…

Late Fragment And did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself…

A psalm of life Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that…

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with…

I walked a mile with Pleasure;She chatted all the way;But left me none the wiserFor all she had to say.…

Don’t ask, it’s wrong to know,what fates the gods us bestow. Don’t seek for answers in stars divine,endure and let…