Roger Nupie
sounds of harbour
European poetry anthology: Wilfried Bienek, Job Degenaar, Peter Holvoet-Hansen, Charles Kléber, Roger Nupie, Annmarie Sauer, Fred Schywek.
world internet books, 2010
Original Dutch poem
deutsche Übersetzung
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
Love
looses
its tides.
This ebbing away stays
with us petrified
on the shore.
Never
we'll make it
to tomorrow.
Translation: Annmarie Sauer