Ulrich's books, poems and other writings!

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Eternal Cowboy

When then the grave me firmly holds,

I'd wish a horseman would come by,

-With a wide brimmed hat and pointed boots-

Who listens to my silent calls

Only to be heard by the wind so high:

"Do plant a tree down in my vale,

To grow for a thousand and one year

-You sing the eternal song I loved-

Each of its leaves tells you a tale

About my past, only for you to hear."

© Uli Krentz, Luxembourg 2015

When I then finally have to trade-in summer's hot days

For my, although self-chosen,

But - cooling comfort of the dark,

I'm longing for

-Full of expectations-

Lord Autumn with his powers!

© Uli Krentz, Trier, July 2015

Made by master craftsman's hand

Is the table I sit at every day;

Eat and drink, talk and listen, laugh and cry,

By the virtue of the tree it grew within its bole

-in the eternal fight against Earth' magnetic powers-

It comes towards me...

Me, granted to sit at it upright.

In Memory of my Grandfather Heinrich Hofmeister