Long Rotterdam Poems

I come from the land of coffee,
plastic breasts and nonsense,
drugs and narco past, 
very proudly they'll exalt.

Woman so pretty as blow-up doll, 
got so many surgeries, you don't know what you touch.
Reality or banality, 
inflatable,...

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At Rotterdam in Netherlands
I made plenty of window friends
I could reach out to them 
whenever I missed my own
friends and near ones back home.

The window facing the South unfolded
the beautiful, enchanting river Masse.
Its simmering and...

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Russia, my lovely

Why do I remember this now on a Christmas day 
galley boy on a tank ship that was old in 1956
as the youngest of the crew of mostly middle-aged men
it is safe to...

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On the skeleton of a sleeping goddess is my beloved Netherlands, 
Waters in her branches are curling my roots as a Dutchman 
And her gigantic heart seemed to born the beauties you may choose and...

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Phil embraced his disability when he acquired it, 
And took up the disability sport of para-triathlon, 
Where you swim, cycle and race a set distance:
He broke his back in 1991 in a cycling incident. 

His...

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A boy and shore leave

The 15 years old boy was standing on the poop deck of an old
tank ship late at night looking up to the millions of stars over The Red Sea.
His job was...

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Alison completed the triathlon in Rio, 
With Hazel Smith, her guide athlete, 
‘Cos she’s visually impaired, not solo, 
And so needs Hazel to see the beat. 
 
She comes from Dunfermline, Scotland, 
Hazel comes from...

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It isn't just the wonders of the world 
that dominate my mind and memory.
Sometimes it is the trifles that cement
in me that dawning consciousness that
makes me suddenly aware, "I'm really here!
I've stumbled on that rare...

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Practical mode - is to pass theory and note
That we are on the way
Where the driver can drink hot,
Musician - live without music,
But we can listen our radio
And music -
Let choose it,
Driving our car!
And if...

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Magda.  
 
A friend of mine, who used to be a chef, 
was filleting a mackerel when he found 
a ring, inside the ring read: Magda 1972.
The golden ring, my friend wore on is...

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“Cerebral Palsy has not held me back, 
I've not let it hold me back.” A footballer, 
In past years on the England CP squad, 
Ryan is a para-triathlon PT2 competitor. 

In 2015 Ryan won the...

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The collectors' job is to get the drugs out of the container
and away from the docks,from where they will be transported
to Amsterdam, Germany, Poland, Holand, Lithuania, Latvia,
Estonia, Finland and other parts of Europe.Over 150 tons...

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The merchant ship 
The ship leaves Rotterdam
sail to the med, and through the Suez channel
into the red sea, the vessel arrives at an oil terminal
and all you see is pipelines storage tanks and sand,
then the...

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