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I used to travel a lot during the last years and was always eager to meet the spirit of the place I have been visiting.
„May I catch you by a few words?“ I asked .
„I am like a wind and cannot be caught“ was his answer.
„But words are like birds-they like to play with the wind!“ I insisted.
„Ha ha- then give it a try“ He said before turning into a little white bird and flew away.
Moscow
the speed of life is high
the air smells greedy
the water has no blue color
and happiness has the face of a dollar
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Tokyo
I-pads walking
Blackberries talking
people knowing how to behave properly
longer than 10 hours a day
and you are getting the sense of
how it feels to be a corporate slave
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Berlin
Your freedom is my passion
You, capital of art and love
Allowing everyone to stay a child
keep the feelings young and wild
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Cairo
you enter this bazaar of a million souls
and you feel like you want to grow
to grow and fly over the pyramids
and turn to one of a billion sahara seeds
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Sardegna
if the eyes could even once
drink from your beauty
They would never get thirsty again
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Barcelona
Tight streets in a body full of crazy buildings
Boats playing music in the ports
You see parrots flying over the palm trees instead of crows
And the joy inside you grows
Come te llamas , preciosa?
Barcelona Barcelona
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Cape town
Cape Cape
How can one‘s heart escape?
The rendezvous between Table Mountain and Lions Head
The Camps bay and its white and full of sand sunset
The black homeless man taking care of the parking of
The fashion model‘s car and calling them „my mam“
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Bodrum
A bit dramatic
A bit emphatic and charismatic
Women are strong and full of fire
Men are rough and full of unfulfilled desire
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Paris
Hemingway used to say
in Paris is always o.k.
I would add:
This is now not a fact
Glamour based on past
Walt Disney entered Elysee Palais
And if Hemingway would live in our time
He would move to Berlin for a while
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Stockholm
the wind is freezing cold
the river dark and full of ice
A blond girl smiles at you once
and makes you think twice
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Israel
palm trees are shaking their bodies in Bethlehem
gay priests are praying in Jerusalem
but if you like to catch the kadayif
you better go to Tel Aviv
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Milano
the gipsy wants to get some money
the black man is selling bags
a fashion model is walking funny
The vanity takes a little rest
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Poland
drunk fellows behaving like supermen
gorgeous girls who know how to say No to them
a mixture of slavic warmth and nordic light
and you recognize the value to be polite
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Rome
ciao bella
looking at your proud beauty alive
I am asking you which poem you like:
something from Dante or Leopardi
but first let me take you to the piazza Garibaldi
Oh, Rome, Rome aeterna
do all the roads really lead to you
or is this just a Bellevue
