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Berlin Irony
9th November 2019
1961
A wall of shame
cut through a city and a people
a bleak new division:
we and the world turned away
1989
A wall fell
remade a city, a people, a history
a bright new union:
we and the world rejoiced
2019
Now we fashion
our uniquely British wall
a tragedy of repeated history:
the world wonders, shrugs
2047
A...
Tuesday 19th November 2019 9:41 am
the berlin wall
We were sat on the U-Bahn in Berlin
My soon to be wife and I
After a long day shopping and sightseeing
A tramp boarded at Gleisdreieck
He stank of his own shit
Wretched and base
Freshly lain
He shuffled up the middle of the train
As people leered and ogled his plight
This once proud human
That bleeds the same colour as all of us
Reduced to a foul shit stink
My w...
Sunday 19th July 2015 4:36 pm
BRICK WALL
BRICK WALL
This high brick wall borders East and West, a Cold War frontier that symbolises the divisions between two mindsets. A time of paranoia and of being taken away in the night, soldiers only following orders, you’re going to the East, not to be seen again as you’re an enemy of the state, Stassi style.
For those who resist and fight there is only one option, eliminate ...
Thursday 25th July 2013 6:26 pm
THE BERLIN WALL REMEMBERED
One of the great events of my lifetime was the removal of the hated Berlin Wall.
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It was an obscene reminder
That Man could divide his very soul,
A terrible thing...yet kinder in its parts
Than the reasons for its whole.
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Saturday 12th November 2011 4:29 pm
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