L'aura del Campo

Berlin. Thoughts about cardinals and jays.

Berlin

And its summers of whores walking streets;
autumns of whores dressing windows,
rimmed with hoarfrost in winter.

Open bosomed lust in your twenties,
Crying the bust of the thirties,
followed by horrors of blood-lusty war.

How shall we remember you?

Walled in, a cankerous sore;
free, a cantankerous whore;
dressed up in flesh, frost and gore.

© Kåre Enga [164.149] 07-07-28

Sounds bitter? Well I'm not ... well maybe, but not about Berlin ... The images just came while thinking how a city of fun ('20s) became a city of pain ('30s-'40s), a city walled apart, ('60s, '70s, '80s) and how it must reinvent itself once more. What part of its past shall be remembered?

IMAGES:

KMA/Headhunters: white fragrant angel trumpets; rose prickles of ricinus; faint fragrance of sunflowers taller than me; dusky purple upright pods of okra; rose-colored coleus; white stars of tobacco; oak leafed hydrangea.

Today: pink Naked Ladies. Say what? Nice pics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaryllis

THOUGHTS:

About the cardinal: the cowbird's mother; red sentinel of snowdrifts and icicles; songsters of tall trees and lilac bushes; red ornament of the pine.

About the jay: blue-grey clad crow; eater of eggs; thief among fowl; noisy friend or foe; a genocide of jays (like a murder of crows ...).

NOTE:

If I become a tiny member of WDC on the 31st for a week do not despair! I'll just be renewing my account. Need to decide whether the upgrade or premium level is best. I could definitely use more storage for items and images. Speed and comfort are not an issue and although 'web-pages' would be nice, I haven't been impressed with what I see around here (I'd need to ask for technical help, too).

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