For something like 20 years I took holidays mostly in Germany; some in Italy and Portugal; some in France. In Germany I found the land sometimes at odds with the people: the people of my generation still traumatised by their war experiences: so I write about how I sense all these things. It's just observation with empathy, I think.
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Cypresses and dandelions on higher and lower roadside going towards Brescia21 lines, on Dec 30 3:32 PM 2004. In Lyrics
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For no-one heard our truth
Save female souls returned and waiting... -
These are silent hills
Even when couched in cloud -
Birches which stood in April nudity
Now hang upon the air -
The mists of Avalon
Are mirrored here in Lake Garda -
Whoever planted the trees
Had a sense of humour -
As though within its depths
Old Poseidon stirred, inimical still -
And, having lapped, return their separate selves
To a waiting, violent world -
Wait, sisters, for the coming death
Of earth, the space of harsh renewal -
The colours were for the spirits, said the guide
In the days when we knew such things.41 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 9 4:36 PM 2005. In Spiritual -
Outsiders harvesting the world
Through television sets26 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 11 10:41 AM 2005. In Nature -
A quiet landscape, encompassed by spirits
Ancient enough to have known Atlantis,22 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 11 11:15 AM 2005. In Society -
Once the veil of ignorance is rent
There is no return to innocence28 lines, on Jan 14 10:56 AM 2005. In Sad -
She was an ancient child
Intent still upon life's journey14 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 14 11:08 AM 2005. In Sad -
When destruction came, she hovered:
Blown here and there in her distress -
Sheep snowflake hillsides
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I gather up the broken day
And offer it to a gentler tomorrow. -
Perhaps because he took the children
The Piper felt a debt had been paid. -
For remembrance wraps them
Tighter than shrouds -
Wherever I walk
I can touch the sadness -
These hills in drowsiness
Draw a flimsy mist across their flanks -
It is early June
And flowers spike the olive trees
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