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Hamburg Poems - Poems about Hamburg

clouds of hell

...The Cloud of Hell
It was a perfect day, cobalt sky and azure, glittering sea
When a stygian cloud came from the east, the Lord of Wars
spat phlegm, spraying us with horror

Inside this monstrosi...
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Categories: hamburg, 8th grade, age, allusion,
Form: ABC

Grecians

...Grecians 

Hellas and the port of Piraeus hold a memory
in my seafarer’s heart, civilized people, no
they are not leaders of efficiency, but you can
talk to them and expand your knowledge.
Not ...
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Categories: hamburg, anti bullying, august, betrayal,
Form: ABC



Premium MemberBEATLES BEGINNINGS

...John..Paul..George..Ringo Starr
four Liverpool lads with drums+guitar
From Hamburg 's Reeperbahn
to a famous worldwide yarn...
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Categories: hamburg, appreciation, music,
Form: Clerihew

eternal seaman

...The eternal seaman

Coming from the sea, he stayed at a B/B hotel Churchill 
 near the railway station in Liverpool, a handy place for working women
to bring their customers, who would come home ...
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Categories: hamburg, age, allusion, america,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberMy Father's Dream

...My Father's Dream

A wide and vast horizon beckons me to enter there

where oceans echo ancestral voices and gulls paint images in the air.

The Saxons and Angles, Hansas and Norse of Ha...
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Categories: hamburg, age, america, beauty, dad,
Form: Free verse



Deva Ossig, the landlady and property owner turned rogue

...Deva Ossig, the landlady (and property owner) turned rogue

Just a couple weeks shy 
and seven years ago to the day,
I still remember contractual obligations
our previous residential abode
724 ...
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Categories: hamburg, adventure, anger, animal, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme

the cloud of abyss

...The Cloud of Abyss

It was a perfect day, cobalt sky and azure, glittering sea
when the stygian clouds from the east came
the lord of war had spat phlegm, spraying us with horror
Inside this mon...
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Categories: hamburg, anti bullying, birth, career,
Form: Blank verse

Der spiegel

...Der Spiegel 

In Kashgar, where the Silk Road begins
I bought an apricot and saw a young 
Fidel Castro on a bike 
The woman who sold the fruit wore 
a red shawl over her shiny black hair
knott...
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Categories: hamburg, absence, allegory, angel, anger,
Form: Blank verse

Der spiegel

...Der Spiegel 

In Kashgar, where the Silk Road begins
I bought an apricot and saw a young 
Fidel Castro on a bike 
The woman who sold the fruit wore 
a red shawl over her shiny black hair
knott...
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Categories: hamburg, absence, allegory, angel, anger,
Form: Blank verse

11 november in Europe

...The trenches are dug,
We gotta go, guys,
Defend our country,
On the other side of the Rhine,
They don’t speak French,
On the other side of the Rhine,
They don’t speak German,
Sprechen Sie Deut...
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Categories: hamburg, courage, peace,
Form: Free verse

The Eternal Seaman

...The eternal seaman

Coming from the sea, he stayed at a B/B hotel Churchill 
 near the railway station in Liverpool, a handy place for working women
to bring their customers, who would come home ...
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Categories: hamburg, best friend, integrity, mom,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberThe Wanderer

...Hey, sir!
Why did you stop and look awhile?
Amazed by flurry fleeting fog,
or seeking sacrosanct solace 
behind the calming chiaroscuro
of boundless beguiling beauty
in front of you?

Hey, si...
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Categories: hamburg, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberPrisoner of My Language

...We study our language when we are just born.
First, we touch and hear, taste and smell, and then we see.
We put a name on it.  And we repeat it back by sound, motion, and symbols.

Some words we ...
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Categories: hamburg, language, , hinduism,
Form: Free verse

The Polar Ice Cap

...What If There Was No Tomorrow? - The Polar Ice ‘Cap’

- this time it’s burnt and curled upon a new head. The 
sweet smoke of his sugarloaf effigy black as night, 
surrounded by a material red tri...
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Categories: hamburg, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMeat Market

...Meat Market

They sit on window sills in Hamburg Amsterdam and many beautiful Cities

Legally ‘freed’ they take part in a shady economy of flesh lust and domination

Skimpy dress bare buttocks ...
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Categories: hamburg, sick,
Form: Free verse

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