Hauptstrasse Heidelberg

idle musing

 

 

 

Hauptstrasse Heidelberg.

 

I seem to see superimposed

 upon today’s reality

An older world a fantasy

this high street as it used to be.

 

Pondering with eyes half closed.

I can imagine easily.

This old streets chequered history.

Today a lasting legacy.

 

Perhaps in truth I merely dozed

and only dreamt that I could see.

This cobbles street completely free.

From all modern technology.

 

A great deal different I suppose.

No mobile phones, no cameras

 no bicycles, no motor cars.

 

Then in my mind a question rose.

Was there a possibility

 my poet’s sensitivity.

Had actually enabled me.

 

To slip through times firmly closed door

 and see vignettes from history.

A gift that fate had granted me

 however undeservedly.

 

I do not know nor ever will.

It must remain a mystery

Just what I saw or did not see

Is etched deep in my memory.

 

I am compelled I must compose

A verse or two of poetry

Say how this street affected me

The how and why ,eluding me

 

19/09/2009

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Reviews

[R.R.Louderback]

I must give this one a rave review. Bravo! I am familiar with Heidelberg and lived for a time in Wien. The mystique of old cities is well known to me.

Your rhyme scheme is powerful. It pulled me from one stanza to the next. Your fancy of seeing through a poet's eyes vignettes from the past is one I love. Again, Bravo!

[Tate Morgan]

This is unique among your work You show the childish side still aware of the longings of youth I like it I like it alot Imagination is the food of the gods
tate

[The Outlaws' Song]

Lovely rhyme and rhythm!