Mr Wag
...We really rather love our Mr Wag.
A bag of music, music in a bag.
Such masterpieces did he once produce.
We listen every day to Mr Wag.
Oh such a man, a wit was Mr Wag.
Oh what a dish of gifts...
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Categories:
gotterdammerung, character, music,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Morning Cuppa
...I love it,
Our morning ritual of tea,
Just you and me.
But the milkman, and the maid
The kids wailing,
Like the newly awoken dead
Won’t have it.
Gotterdammerung
They scream.
Or something...
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Categories:
gotterdammerung, humorous,
Form: Free verse
My Contingency Measure In Case of Gotterdammerung
...My contingency measure in case of…götterdämmerung
A scenario unfolds
more abominable among
any previous warring factions,
his wicked weltanschauung
charred effigies futilely hung
against regi...
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Categories:
gotterdammerung, angst, anxiety, bereavement, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Yesterday's Coffee
...Got up from the sofa with sleep in my eyes
As the dawn was beginning to break.
I went to the kitchen to clean up the mess
From the previous evening’s mistake.
I’d thought it was worth it. I gav...
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Categories:
gotterdammerung, break up,
Form: Lyric
Daniel's Song
...A once dear friend, he now is gone,
But not into oblivion,
I search my heart, I scratch my head,
But it is clear that he’s not dead.
The silence is quite staggering,
The permafrost yet lingeri...
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Categories:
gotterdammerung, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme
14 May 1940
...14 May 1940
Rotterdam was brung
Gotterdammerung
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Note
(a ) In 1940 the Germans bombed most of the city ...
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Categories:
gotterdammerung, war,
Form: Couplet