Monday, February 8, 2016

Place poem

Königswinter

On top of the hill
engulfed by sycamore maples
sits Schloss Drachenburg 
Pale blue spires, mahogany bricks
and flourishing trimmed lawns

All like an icicle it seemed,
so tapering and cold
The rigid rain spit softly at us
as we found refuge
at a hole in the wall diner

Kaffe bitte, in shivering German 
as the raindrops trickled down the stained glass
like tears of a travelor
leaving their foreign land behind

Your cobbled streets
prosperous pear trees
and doors that push, not pull
is what I adore
of that German town on the Rhine

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