1
Late Train to Haguenau (1974)
From
Dieburg, to Strasbourg to Haguenau, France
On
a late train, with a wild thought we went—
Cody
keeping himself occupied with a toy car:
Set
his blood astir; aroused and awake,
Glitter
in his eyes (at three; he’s silent but wondering):
Youth
tossing in balance with his life, on this late train seat:
I
marveled: O’ Lord what does he think?
What
would he say if he could: fitter days to come?
No: 4701/ 2-20-2015 (4:00 a.m.)
2
The Hearth in Amsterdam (1975)
My
boy, my boy, I know, more than another
What
makes your heart beat so!
All
shuffled there, it’s been a long train ride,
From
Babenhausen, to Amsterdam; now—
Now
sitting warm, nearby a guesthouse’s hearth
Chilled
is the wind outside its doors!
What
made us dream, as it were all life’s epitome.3
No: 4702/ 2-20-2015 (4:15 a.m.)
3
The Meadows of Garmisch (1976)
Cody thumb in mouth, the Poet, and Sawn,
in Garmisch, Germany in 1976, by the meadow…
And
now in my old age, time’s over the moon,
Yet,
it shall not rob me of my joys,
For
those far-off days shall be courted,
Those
days in Garmisch’s meadows,
Strolling
with my twin-boys.
For Cody and
Shawn
No: 4700
(2-18-2015)
Note: Although
Garmisch is in the mountains, and a skiing resort, it is in a valley of sorts,
and in certain areas there are grazing lands, this is the essence of the poem,
not necessarily the mountains, although they make for a nice background.
Note: two poems to be
added to the forth coming book: “Stars over Germany” which has been: a work in
progress for nine years, of which are twenty-two poems, complete. To be out in
2016
