A Poem I Left In Austria
I wrote a poem years ago.
The content alludes me and its theme.
I recall It was written in Innsbruck Austria.
I was writing it while I ordered a dry martini;
they brought me the whole damn bottle
together with a huge bill!
I was young and trying hard to be sophisticated,
my German may have confused the wait-staff.
I paid up
then took
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Categories:
austria, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Alfonse of Austria
Alfonse Walde* of Kitzbuhel descent
an artist of the Secessionist bent
Up the Hannenkam often did stroll
painting scenes of his beloved Tyrol
*1891-1958
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Categories:
austria, art, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
To the Syrian Refugees
Have wonderful days in Austria,
until the war is over in Syria.
Enjoy your life and adore
what you can get. We give you more
as we have for ourselves.
We wish you the best, appreciate our helps.
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Categories:
austria, life,
Form: Rhyme
Refugee Poetry Austria
Hi, Migrants of Syria,
We welcome you to Austria,
The country which you come through,
It is in the middle of Europe too.
Take it for granted we treat you
With respect, yes, we really do.
We
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Categories:
austria, humanity, life, war,
Form: Rhyme
Afghanistan, Austria, Argentina
LORD, this morning, thank you. This SONnet will please, tease, release:
I greet thee, having access to Your throne by Jesus
And His sacrifice on Calvary: We pray against the Virus
With a sunshiny name, an aura of a name, garland ...
Coronoa Virus, COVID VIRUS, or SARS-Cov-2, Thy Hand
Is mighty and righteous, always Righteous, even in judgment
We deserve
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Categories:
austria, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet
Visit To Austria
The flight to Austria with the teachers,
We shared accomodation when we landed.
I signed up for ski lessons instead taking a tour of Salzburg.
Two weeks of lessons and we were destined to ski the highest mountain in Austria.
The Patscherkoepfle was the tallest mountain in Austria,
I said I am only skiing halfway,
We went to
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Categories:
austria, appreciation, friendship, god, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Brexit Sonnet 41 - Austria, Not Australia
Brexit Sonnet No. 41
‘Austria, not Australia!’
I’m Mad to the Max, brimmed full with deep disgust.
So who’s on the bike and who’s in the car with the grunt?
Who’s the guy that is good, is it he that is heavily trussed,
Or shot in the leg, or dragged down the road for a stunt?
This violent dystopian
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Categories:
austria, political,
Form: Sonnet
Austria
Austria, you refresh my spirit like dew refreshes the earth
The flowers of the field are glorified in your country.
Your snow falls so silently as God imparts,
Yet it is only music to my heart.
Give my mind a grandeur, for you are nature’s fine art
Austria, you are the steady beat of a living drum- I am
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Categories:
austria, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Pastoral
A Serenade To Austria
The singer sings a serenade to Austria,
You sit mesmerized at his handsome appearance,
His kind ways enrapture you,
He carries a love for humanity with him,
The mountains in the background strong and bold,
To climb them, you caress every moment,
The fields of wild flowers, a walk through paradise.
God's blessings on a beautiful day,
The wisdom of a poet, strong
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Categories:
austria, appreciation, blessing, god,
Form: Free verse
Fleeing Austria
My wife and I return from our honeymoon, and what do we see?
There is a new regime that is overrunning my country.
I have the terrible feeling another war will begin.
It will be started by those goose stepping morons from Berlin.
I have been given orders to report to Bremerhaven.
A commission in the Third Reich’s navy I
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Categories:
austria, family, freedom, history,
Form: Rhyme
Austria
A lightning collision
The train wreck born of mountain side
A thick black Eden held as a chalice in the far
Reservoirs of each moon high star-flung eye
Braught to the corners as an incident
Of which to rubberneck could capture a soul or
More to the point an unopened envelope
Spilling out as vivisected loveloss
To drop a cold shoulder
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Categories:
austria,
Form: Free verse
The Beauty of Austria Shattered
I remember the dream of Austria
As the war for me was finally closing
High in my turret upon the Sherman
I entered this mountain paradise at last
Until I reached the earthly gates of hell
Within those eyes I found despair
That spark of life long dead
Their hearts filled of solitudes poison
Muted voices no longer calling out
Thousands of souls
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Categories:
austria, angst, death, faith, history,
Form: Free verse