From: hz225wu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Micaela Pantke)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: GOOD NEWS!
Followup-To: alt.pagan
Date: 5 Jan 1993 13:46:52 +0100
Organization: University of Duisburg
Reply-To: hz225wu@unidui.UUCP (Micaela "Stayka" Pantke)
NNTP-Posting-Host: unidui.uni-duisburg.de
Keywords: Stayka may officially use E-mail!!!   >8-)

                                        
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Hi there - Stayka is here!                |      <--- translates as a    
                                        \___/            BIG grin!
GOOD NEWS! BETTER NEWS! BEST NEWS!               

I just called the guy who is responsible for costs + accounts and so 
on in our computer center at the university, and he told me that we 
now pay a monthly amount of money, so that every posting is covered. 

In simple words: NOW I AM ALLOWED TO E-MAIL WHEREVER I WISH!!!! 8-)
(As long as I do not use Datex-P, that is...)

And as I have to celebrate this fact, I make you the gift of 
another of my German Poems... (There are lots of them left, as I
posted more of the English ones. Maybe I'll try to make the English 
translations rhyme as well --- SOMEDAY, when I have a little time)

I had to replace the original German umlauts (ts, it looks strange to
see it in English...) with ae, oe, ue and the sharp s with ss. I hope
you don't mind. Also I included a translation of the texts for the
ones not so fit in German. But be sure that the German version does
sound a lot more fluent and poetic than the translation. Sigh.

----------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------------

SPIEGEL
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by Stayka deyAvemta
(c) 1992/05/08

Sucher wand're durch die Nacht
Ich hab' dir etwas mitgebracht
Einen fernen, fremden Traum
Von einem wundersamen Raum

Du stehst herum, weisst nicht mehr weiter
Vor dir schwebt die Sternenleiter
Erklimm die Stufen in die Nacht
Und greife nach der alten Macht

Zeitenwende - Wendezeit
Morgen wird Vergangenheit
Und du fuehlst das All vergehn
Eh die Menschen dich verstehn

Aus einem leeren Raum fuehren
Tausend abgeschlossene Tueren
Du stehst davor, hast du's erkannt
Noch weist kein Weg ins Spiegelland

Du tanzt herum, drehst dich im Kreis
Gedanken wirbeln, schwarz wird weiss
Im Spiegel bist du hier und dort
Du siehst hinaus, und du bist fort

Spiegelbilder - Spiegelgeist
Spiegeln dir, was du nicht weisst
Du siehst es nun, doch siehst es nicht
Noch hast du kein zweites Gesicht

Zwei Spiegel sind Unendlichkeit
Vorn bist du - hinten Ewigkeit
Ein Stein geworfen, bricht die Macht
Die Splitter fallen in die Nacht

Eine Traene tropft auf's Glas
Auch sie ein Spiegel, kuehl und nass
Staunend schaust du auf deine Hand
Wo sich ein Splitter Ewigkeit befand...

----------------------------- END OF POEM -------------------------

The translation may sound a little rough, but it's due to the fact
that I try to stick as close to the German version as possible!

MIRROR

Searcher wander through the night
I brought something with me for you
A far, strange dream
From a wonderous realm

You stand around, don't know what to do
The star stairway floats in front of you 
Climb the steps into the night
And strive for the old power

Turn of time - changer's time
Tomorrow will be yesterday
And you feel the space dissolve
Before the people will understand

A thousand locked doors lead 
Out of an empty room 
You stand in front of them, do you realize?
Still there's no way into the mirror land

You're dancing around, spinning in circles
Thoughts are spinning, black becomes white
In the mirror you are here and there
You're looking out of it, then you are gone

Mirror images - Mirror mind
Reflecting what you don't know
Now you see it, and now you don't
Still you have no second sight

Two mirrors are infinity
You are in front of them - eternity behind
A thrown stone breaks the power
The splinters fall into the night

A tear is dripping onto glass 
It's also a mirror, cool and wet
Astonished you're looking at your hand
Where you can see a splinter of eternity 

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