Showing posts with label Havenklanken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Havenklanken. Show all posts

Monday, December 12, 2011


The bridge like structure in background is part of the Cockeril:

The ship repairers

The men working for Cockeril
were special
and strong of will
and working that they did
and strike
and all that was broke they could repair
and partying they did
lorries full of beer and fare
delivered  by the grandpapa
who was from there
food as much as you can think
come on take another drink

but then  - oh man
arrived Japan
the price got too high for hardened steel
life hard and dour
forlorn - forsaken - forgotten
it lays there
faded glory by the stream
loss and
resurrection of a dream

from Hafenklänge-Havenklanken-Sounds of Harbour
by world internet books   

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Clara Hsu-San Francisco Poet

Clara Hsu is one of the San Francisco poets we met and even heard read her work, accompanying herself with Chinese singing bowls. A wonderful combination.


Cherry Blossoms

To dream
is to wake when the first
token of romance is set adrift.
The crystal droplets that clung onto new shoots
have given birth.
The sun, in mere days, ripens the offspring.
They bloom in droves,
pale lace wrinkling on the edges,
blushing as they warm.

To wake
is to walk into the dreamscape of flowers
masking earth and sky,
and petals are the rain.
Young girls clip a cluster of pink
on their long black hair,
half-cover their faces
with lacquered parasols.
Young men get drunk on love poems.

To wake again
is to let the maudlin memories
be crushed by tire tracks,
and watch cyclists careening down
the velvet floor,
swift as birds in flight.

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Kersenbloesem

Dromen
is wakker worden als de eerste
blijk van romance op drift is gezet.
De kristallen druppeltjes die kleefden aan nieuwe scheuten
hebben gebaard.
De zon, in luttele dagen, rijpt het nageslacht.
Zij bloesemen veelbloemig,
bleke kant rimpelend aan de rand,
blozend als zij opwarmen.

Wakker worden
is wandelen in het droomlandschap van bloemen
die aarde en hemel maskeren,
en bloemblaadjes zijn de regen.
Jonge meisjes spelden een tros roze
op het lange zwarte haar,
half bedekkend hun gelaat
met gelakte parasols.
Jonge mannen worden dronken van liefdesgedichten.

Opnieuw wakker worden
is de huilerige herinneringen laten
vergruizelen door bandensporen,
en kijken hoe fietsers naar beneden slingeren
op fluwelen grond,
snel als vogels in vlucht.