A SONNET CORONA  9/15  - Micha (guit.) and Ral (lyr. and recitation)
Channel: Count Ral
Date: 2010-05-12

This is a 70 minutes musical poem cycle project, recorded in one take and divided into 15 parts on Youtube. Here, sonnet number 9. - You can watch the whole cycle on my special playlist A CROWN OF SONNETS - Micha and I recorded the whole piece, as usual, in one take, all spontaneous, first made and completely extemporaneous. The basic idea is to find a specific way of performimg poetry, representing the words in some kind between singing and recitating, to receive a vivid and spontaneous expression. The lyrics are put in English by myself, based on my own sonnet corona in German language. It is made of 14 (+1) English sonnets in the Italian form, with strict rhymes and all set in iambic pentameter. Each one starts with the last verse of the one before, and at the end number 14 ends with the first line of number 1. So you get the 15th sonnet as the result of all first lines in the right order, put together to the so called Corona. 

IX 

From a shop window,   trimmed with the unknown 
delicacies,   sizable dolls are smiling, 
mat lacquered.   One of them,   and most beguiling,
with hands in bandage.   Burned to naked bone, 

the shimmering joints.   A concentrated,   smooth, 
combed head is hanging in the lap of her 
impressive fellow.   And they breathe.   No stir,
with yawning holes instead of eyes and soothe

with sticky edges.   Droplets fall on quite
pale figures at the walls,   remaining still 
with open mouths.   Upon the floor they spill

small puddles,   dark.   The boardings creak and yawn
from time to time.   A spot of wetness on
fine packaging has disappeared at night. 


German version:

IX

aus einem Schaufenster mit unbekannten
Delikatessen lachen große matt
lackierte Spielzeugpuppen   eine hat
die Hände eingewickelt   die verbrannten

Gelenke schimmern   ihren imposanten
Gefährten hängt ein konzentrierter glatt
gekämmter Kopf im Schoß   sie atmen   statt
der Augen gähnen Löcher   ihre Kanten

sind klebrig   Tropfen fallen auf die blassen
Gestalten an den Wänden   sie verharren
mit offnen Mündern   überm Boden macht

es kleine dunkle Pfützen   Bretter knarren
von Zeit zu Zeit   die Flecken auf den nassen
Verpackungen verschwanden über Nacht

(R.P.)