Best Frankfurt Poems

in a dusty old Amsterdam attic
Anne Frank finds refuge
outside the menacing Gestapo
seeks wordsmiths to persecute

Anne adds another page to her diary
memories of Frankfurt
blurred by pains...

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secrets began leaving the building
bar codes covered the license plate's
threats intimidation badgering
and fear meaningless arousal

I began to focus on her treason
again a righteous over reasoning
I...

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Philipp Reis (Deutsch/ English/ Español   (Sentanka)

Übertragung von Sprache
Mit den einfachsten Mitteln
Über große Entfernung 

Versagt blieb ihm der Erfolg
Viel zu früh kam sein Tod


Transmission...

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The Fellow From Frankfurt

There was an old man from Kentucky
At his age he still would get lucky
The old ladies would swoon
As he used the spittoon
He...

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At the age of 17 Ian broke his back, 
In a motorbike accident, had rehab, 
He then worked for a w/c company, 
Who showed him...

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Simon started playing wheelchair basketball, 
Aged twelve at a school community project, 
And under coach Ian Laker accepted the call, 
To play with London Titans...

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THE  OLD  GERMAN  PROBLEM

The  burghers of Hamburg are themselves usually Hamburgers, so there!
The burghers of Frankfurt are themselves usually Frankfurters, it‘s...

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I went to the Frankfurt Book Fair the other day.
It was mind-boggling..
Books! There were fat books, thin books,
White books, black books, tawny books,
Paperbacks, hardbacks, beautifully...

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Ade is a 2.5 wheelchair basketball player, 
Who was born in Lagos in Nigeria in 1978,
His home town is Liverpool, a Mersey sayer,
In Spain club...

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Boston is for leaving.
Torgau is for brothers
Weimar is for mourners.
Dresden is for lovers.

Leipzig is for players. 
Meissen is for Sisyphus.
Frankfurt is for patience.
Berlin is for...

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A rose poem
A walking cobbler came to Yasmin valley
That had a small brook with swimming ducks
Even though, since everyone wore clogs 
He decided to settle...

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We flew out from Kirmington, Germany bound
To bomb Frankfurt, and the area around
One of a thousand planes that took to the air
Mine was a Wellington,...

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You traveled with me in a flash of thought.
Tanja called from Frankfurt on the Main.
She arrived in Germany; there was no one to meet her.
Let...

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I like Germany
I like the Germans
I have friends there
I worked for a time near Frankfurt 
And I visit Berlin often
It’s my favourite city
They are nice...

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ian had developed quite 
the fetish for my prose we both 
were quite taken why it was santa's eve 
while we settled into the obvious...

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