Werner Krotz
Impressions from a vacation on Corfu
© 2015 Werner Krotz
© for the English Translation 2016
Angelika Rust
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Corfu is known as the greenest of the Greek islands. That is why I wanted to go there, together with my wife, Gerhild. To the sea, of course, because I like to swim as far as I possibly can.
On the day before our flight to Corfu, the postman delivered the book “Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic” by Osho, and I instantly began to read. It gave me the idea to accompany our three-week vacation, which Gerhild and I wanted to spend being exceptionally lazy, with lyric poetry and pieces of short prose.
In Petrití, I finished Osho's book, went on to a magazine about Buddhism in Austria, which I had found in the oratory at Vienna airport, and finally read a short crime novel from the guest library of our B&B, Égrypos. During the rest of our stay I barely read anything at all. I simply existed, and took a good look at what was happening inside and around me. This felt considerably medicinal to me.
At any time during the day or night, I was in a receptive state. Our time in Petrití, and the days shortly before and after, saw the creation of all in all 85 pieces, two thirds short prose and one third lyric poetry. I've put them in this book in chronological order, from August 30 to September 29, 2015: Nature observations, life experiences, ideological considerations, dream adventures, and mischief. I wish all readers much joy with them.
Dürrwien, September 29, 2015
I invite you to exchange your thoughts on the contents of this book with me.
My e-mail address:
werner.krotz@gmx.net
My website:
www.wernerkrotz.net
Most of all, I want to thank the Kourtésis family and their team, who took such good care of us during our stay at the Égrypos B&B. Also, all the Greek women, men, dogs, cats, donkeys, sheep, goats, chickens, seagulls, swallows, and sparrows, we had the pleasure to meet. And the landscape and the sea, which offered us their beauty and power.
I especially want to thank Gerhild, my wife. The fact that these pieces have found their way into existence owes a lot to the congenial rapport between us.
I also want to thank Angelika Rust, my daughter. Her translations of my short prose are outstanding and her adaptations of my pieces of poetry are brilliant.
holidays
wedged between cars we drive
to the airport
air wedges meet us as we fly
to corfu
a wedge of wild geese
watches us as we go
Dürrwien, August 30, 2015
with heart and soul!
said the heart
are you in?
with heart and soul!
said the soul
they said as one:
we love each other
heart and soul!
Dürrwien, August 31, 2015
It is the task of every human being to bring a bit of awareness into the world. This is only possible if they develop an awareness of their own.
Every facet of awareness needs to come alive.
It is not about defeating evil, it is about learning from every aspect of life, even the most twisted. It takes this sort of willingness to enable people to finally move closer to one another.
Dürrwien, August 31, 2015
What I bring into the world is a call for diversity and autonomy in every human being, a call for every human being to recognize and realize the potential dormant within them, a call for every human being to be supported in this respect by the political and economical system.
What I bring into the world will not end with my death, for I am an eternal being.
Dürrwien, August 31, 2015
you, my god
take me from me
and make me completely your own