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
BEATLES 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
My 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
The 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
Prisoner 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
Meat 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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