Anemone coronaria de Caen
(before and after the petunias have taken over :-)
they flowered first in the second half of may, to my surprise they are showing some blossoms again. I am thrilled to see anemones for the first time, after having dreamt so much about them!
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemōnē)
means 'daughter of the wind'. The Metamorphoses of Ovid tells
that the plant was created by the goddess Venus when she sprinkled
nectar on the blood of her dead lover Adonis.
Erschütterer -: Anemone,
die Erde ist kalt, ist nichts,
da murmelt deine Krone
ein Wort des Glaubens, des Lichts.
Der Erde ohne Güte,
der nur die Macht gerät,
ward deine leise Blüte
so schweigend hingesät.
Erschütterer -: Anemone,
du trägst den Glauben, das Licht,
den einst der Sommer als Krone
aus großen Blüten flicht.
(Anemone - Gottfried Benn)
Sublime mover -: Anemone,
the earth is cold, is nothing,
your crown
alone murmurs
a word of hope, of light.
Into a world without value
which
only power directs,
your gentle blooms
are sown in silence.
Sublime
mover -: Anemone,
you bear the hope, the light,
which one day, from
heavy blossom,
the summer will weave into a crown.
tr. by Martin Travers
(Martin Travers)
