LITERARY ART BY PAUL HEIDELBERG

 (This poem was read by Mona Golabek on her THE ROMANTIC HOURS nationally-syndicated radio program.)

SACRAMENTO STREET

A flowered curtain

rests

in front of

the street-light.

It's midnight's

witness

to taxi-sounds

and smoldering

cigarettes.

In this quiet

we all

should be loved.

In this quiet

we all

should be friends.

You can count

the foot-steps

between the late-night

pavement

and the beginning

of the ocean,

between the vacant

street-corners

and the roughness

of the kiss

upon the stones,

between the cheap talk

of the alleys

and the lovers

beneath the sand.

PH

(WRITTEN IN SAN FRANCISCO)

And, in French

RUE DE SACRAMENTO

Un rideau fleuri

se repose

devant de

le réverbère.

il est minuit

témoin

aux bruits de taxi

et qui couve

cigarettes.

Dans ce calme

nous tous

devrait être aimé.

Dans ce calme

nous tous

devraient être amis.

Tu peux compter

les pas

entre la fin de soirée

trottoir

et le début

de l'océan,

entre le vide

coins de rue

et la rudesse

du baiser

sur les pierres,

entre le bavardage bon marché

des ruelles

et les amoureux

sous le sable.

pH

(ÉCRIT À SAN FRANCISCO)

   

UNTITLED (all (c) paul heidelberg '21)

New work for Jeanette Heidelberg

 GO BACK TO THE STARS

Go back to the stars

moon and star

moon and star

Go back to the stars,

Again.

PH

9/26/21

(From memory -- may differ from original. THIS IS FOR MY SISTER JEANETTE HEIDELBERG.)

POEM FOR SPRING 2021

 SACRAMENTO STREET

A flowered curtain

rests

in front of

the street-light.

It's midnight's

witness

to taxi-sounds

and smoldering

cigarettes.

In this quiet

we all

should be loved.

In this quiet

we all

should be friends.

You can count

the foot-steps

between the late-night

pavement

and the beginning

of the ocean,

between the vacant

street-corners

and the roughness

of the kiss

upon the stones,

between the cheap talk

of the alleys

and the lovers

beneath the sand.

(C) Paul Heidelberg   

Climate Change Arte Moderna Take Two; Western U.S. Burns

and hurricane activity and weather extremes greatly increase. You had better believe Climate Change is Real: ALL THE WORLD MUST ACT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. PH

(ALL ART ON THIS BLOG IS COPYRIGHT (c) Paul Heidelberg.

Visual Arte Moderna By PH: "A Game Of Sorts IV"

(c) Copyright Paul Heidelberg (PH)

Literary Arte Moderna By Paul Heidelberg

The poem "Buzzards"
written late March 2020
in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
(A greeting in Spanish: Salud a Todos!)


BUZZARDS

Buzzards on
a day of Death
circling
not far away --
they are not ravens,
but first appear
as the ravens
flying over Weimar
the day before
Winter began.

Buzzards on
a day of Death
circling
not far away.


PH
..................................................................................................
Buses

Buzzards sur
un jour de la Mort
Encerclant
pas loin - -
ce ne sont pas des corbeaux,
mais apparaissent d’abord
comme les corbeaux
survoler Weimar
la veille
L’hiver a commencé.


Buzzards sur
un jour de la Mort
Encerclant
pas loin.
............................................................................................

Düsen

Bussarde auf
ein Tag des Todes
Kreisen
nicht weit entfernt - -
sie sind keine Krähen,
aber zuerst erscheinen
wie Krähen
über Weimar fliegen
am Vortag
Der Winter hat begonnen.


Bussarde auf
ein Tag des Todes
Kreisen
nicht weit entfernt.
.................................................................................
Ugelli

Buzzard su
un giorno di Morte
Cerchi
non lontano - -
non sono corvi,
ma appaiono per primi
come corvi
volare sopra Weimar
il giorno prima
L'inverno è iniziato.


Buzzard su
un giorno di Morte
Cerchi
non lontano.
PH
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Buitres


Buzzards en
un día de Muerte
Dando vueltas
no muy lejos --
no son cuervos,
pero primero aparecen
como los cuervos
volando sobre Weimar
el día anterior
El invierno comenzó.


Buzzards en
un día de Muerte
Dando vueltas
no muy lejos.
PH

Late March, 2020

….………………………………………………………..
Photo: PERRY AS THE RISING PHOENIX

Y, FELIZ CUMPLEANOS, JS BACH, THE FIRST JAZZ MUSICIAN, PH HAS WRITTEN OFTEN.