Searching for the soul of the city
CityPoem 58 - Dublin (8)
By Hans Karssenberg
17-06-2007 /views: 1026 in past 12 months.
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Some of those poems left anonymously in the urban landscape.

Photo: Lisa Buttenberg

Dublin CityPoem: Open Your Eyes, anonymous

I open my eyes
and that is what I see
a land of fearful people
still struggling to be free

they hearts are full of hatred
their bodies full of shite
with no thoughts of tomorrow
they are.... [we cannot read, unfortunately] ... and fight



See more Dublin CityPoems:

  • Dublin (1) - Cafe Zanzibar
  • Dublin (2) - internet poetry
  • Dublin (3) - community gain?
  • Dublin (4) - Guinness
  • Dublin (5) - commemorating the Great War
  • Dublin (6) - only dull people are brilliant at breakfast
  • Dublin (7) - blogger's poetry
  • Dublin (9) - politics or poetry?
 

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