Tag: Berlin
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Poetry pack number 9
Back in the cafe village by the sea for a while. For a short time, I read poems semi regularly on the community radio station Bondi Radio. Once I was asked to write a poem about hindsight, and one about Halloween. Here they are. Blue days. Conversations and thoughts about depression, triggered by a sense…
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Poetry pack number 8
Another set of travel poems from 2008. Plus the last one that came to me from nowhere and something insisted I write it down. Not my family. Kit Kat Kapers. A club with a dress code. Minimal or no clothing required. Sexy dance club. Reflections. Comes a time when travelling, that we look at where…
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Poetry pack number 7
Some of these relate to summer in Europe 2008. Others arrived in my brain a few years earlier or later. Conspiracy of elders When we all had hair World Cup football 2006 Antaris finis Antaris is an annual summer festival, held somewhere in the German countryside, between Berlin and Hamburg. Three days of mostly psy…
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Random travel jottings
Random travel jottings hard to think about there while immersed in here English cops with machine guns texting at the airport food counter flip flop changes over thirty years back then Spain had armed Guardia Civil England had old, friendly and unarmed bobbies London, England, a disappointment expensive, over-rated, under-resourced cold, rainy…
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Reflections while sleepless and restless
Introspection in the Berlin night time. Thoughts of home and comfort, travel and loneliness. Poetry & photographing things Serving as distractions of the shy From participation in the life of others Abstract data gathering of the now For sometime future presentation As observations from a past imperfect Then what’s left In the space between The…
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Berlin Impressions
On my second visit to Berlin, I was based at a friend’s house in Kreuzberg. From there I adventured forth into the unknown … back there I returned to rest and process. These are some of my clumsily remembered impressions. travelling through a data storm places, streets, buildings, people sounds, smells, shadow and light bicycles,…
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Kreuzberg Summer 2008
What a fabulous summer it was! I didn’t come here for buildings Monuments to pain and grief Shadow walls of delusion That echo disbelief I came here for the people The street life and the food For the novelty of living As a new guy in the ‘hood To struggle with a language Outside my…
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KitKat KitKat KitKat
From my time in Berlin during the summer of 2008 … when the Kit Kat club was a lot raunchier than it is now. I almost blush to remember the shenanigans going on there when I visited … in the interest of cultural observation … three times. This is the poem I wrote combining my…
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