Best Berlin Poems

this non conformist city
breathes a calm but edgy air
through gaps in the graffiti 
and the street art everywhere

its face is sometimes brutal
but its heart and soul seem not
and it walks a sexy diverse walk
that’s cold yet somehow hot

(but I know I’m getting older
when those fun...

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Wild galloping horse
Berlin nineteen forty-five
Hoof pounding the Earth

10/01/17...

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The swirls of freedom’s fervent dreams
On canvas raised in bitter cold
Upon oppression’s wall of screams

A city severed at its seams
Gleaned comfort in art’s bright console 
The swirls of freedom’s fervent dreams

Beyond the walls, a feared regime
With liberty, in stern control
Upon oppression’s wall of screams

The inside;...

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Remnants of wall shelter
from westerly monsoon
city fox finds food...

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I had been studying to make Sergeant,
And was scheduled for the afternoon promotion board.
To get some practice and test the waters,
I volunteered for the morning's Soldier Of The Month Board.

The Battalion recently had been given
A ticket for the well-known Berlin Orientation Tour.
During the in-brief, the...

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Life can turn on simple decisions;
I, myself, am proof that life can even be given a start based on the same.

My father rode into Germany at the end of World War II,
His mission: to help clean up the mess that war can leave behind.
His kismet...

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I have come to a city that is an island;
Though waters are not the boundaries, you understand.
It is an oasis in the midst of bondage for those who are free.
And, I know it must be some intense form of sheer hell for those who 
from...

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Cold and calculated
Assassain in the night
A diplomat of the faded
Never wrong; never right

Thousand-mile stare
The way she feels the ghost
It happened here but not there
Away from crashes at the coast

Missing never meant-to-be’s
Lonely as the setting sun
Chaos is surrounding me
Way too scary to be fun

Heal this virgin...

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Was Ist Los?  Oh, Nothing, Just the Berlin Airlift...
         Berlin 1948-1952
You came into my life one summer's day
the beatnik of a Frauline, caring less
of what society might have to say
than seeking out your inner happiness;

those were...

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BERLIN AIRLIFT .1948-49
You came into my life one summer's day
the beatnik of a Frauline, caring less
of what society might have to say
than seeking out your inner happiness;

those were the days! Berlin was in a bind
you still had all your tan from South of France
and in...

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Rome was always a playground for me,
Where lovely girls thronged around the streets:
The Fontana dei Trevi where people threw coins
Hoping they would revisit enchanting Rome,
Or on the Spanish stairs amid the delicate flowers
Exuding fragrant perfumes of purple roses, 
Delicate dianthus or scented-leaf geraniums.

There she sat,...

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In 1989 I rode the duty train with covered windows across the East German countryside, forewarned not to look outside.  I arrived in that island of freedom, which was surrounded by oppression, tyranny, and more tank divisions than NATO had in all their armies...

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Heard about the Berlin Wall
It made a rather horrid fall
It stood so tall in victory's palm
Everyone here is far from calm...

History has been made for the saddened days
Leaving no room for the crowd of joyous praise 
It’s a tragedy that this wall came tumbling down
Now,...

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No way in

No way out

I feel like a prisoner in my own country

American Berlin wall is what I call it

It's funny how the past repeats itself

Man kind selfish acts is like killing a bird with a stone

stone bird killer

stone bird killer

stone bird killer


stone bird killer

go...

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Monkeys make the world go round
The world go round, the world go round
Monkeys make the world go round
They make the world go round.
Vervet, howler, capuchin
Marmoset or tamarin
Their ooking and their screaming sound
Can make the world go round.
Monkey-monkey-monkey-monkey
Monkey-monkey-monkey
Monkey-monkey-monkey-monkey
Monkey-monkey-monkey....

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