Best Prague Poems

As I watch this radiant space
Beyond cloud’s torch, prayers retrace 
Where the ledges of Prague’s border 
Adorns steeples touching moonlight.

In Lesser Town of holy rites,
Infant Child stands like gleam so fair
As I watch this radiant space
Beyond cloud's torch, prayers retrace 

A chorale drifts in soft...

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Poems written on a trip to Prague
in 2009
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Sailing Neath the Charles Bridge
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Such history flows beneath this bridge
And all that have walked on it
So many pass its statues walk
And think so little of it.

Germans, Russians  and the Slav
Have at times been masters here
And yet none...

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" Prague "

Scheduled was a meeting in Prague,
To attend were those men of the bog,
Nary a one of them ever did show,
All spoke they were covered in snow.

Now those men from that bog,
Did gather on a log,
To hear one another so say,
They’d rather to meet...

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Prague

a living place
and tourists crowd,
the buildings' grace,
I say it loud,
it was preserved.
Kafka's and Golem's 
shadows rest,
at places, gardens 
at their best.
A baroque garden,
stylish green,
and artist's craft 
for all be seen.
Old Jewish Quarter,
synagogues,
the  Altneu Shul,
the tombstones
there,
and crossing Charles Bridge's
cobbled path,
I watched Moldavia's water pass.
A picture,
silently...

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The ache in my back
  puts me on track
for a double dose
  of rum and cognac

The pain in my feet
  I'd like to delete
Pour me a double martini
  stick of cherry zucchini

The throb in my head
  makes me feel half-dead
I...

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