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Another biographic poem for your consideration, may I have your comments please?

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Beginning of a Dream

With an easy mind I went to sleep

While the cat beside me her watch did keep

Not curled up on me in her usual place

To purr and nuzzle and kiss my face

But carefully guarding as sentinel

While soft night hours so gently fell.

All night through the waking dreams

Shined within me in brilliant gleams

Taking me over the world so wide

Showing each moment an angel beside

Patiently watching as silent guide

Never alone in trouble or victory'

My single made double,

Someone was with me.

I learned how some who with me walked

Through h**l had walked with others

In trials they never balked

For children without mothers

Facing death camps patiently

Children they held, led to safety.

I never understood the German they spoke

When at last I learned, my heart it broke,

That old nun in a garret so quietly sewing

Indeed was an angel without my knowing.

The teacher I had for high school German

Her last name the Estonian version of my own

Taught me much more than German

There was so much to be known

Teaching me history went with our name

Responsibility in both glory and shame.

Honour greater than patriotism

Generals faced death to end Nazism.

These angels father gave me with his name

Although he died, they are with me the same.

© Albert K. Jungers February 5, 2008 All Rights reserved

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  1. THAT is some cat...very well done.


  2. The only comment that comes to my mind is that I am extremely impressed, both by the content and by the words.

  3. This is just plain awesome in its content and finished product.  THIS is what writing is all about to me.  Beautiful work indeed.

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