Build the unthinkable
Build what connects your heart
to your soul
Build what puts you
an arm’s length ahead
of love, of kindness
and inspiration
Simply build
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Person of inspiration: thanks for making me smile, Carlos Arturo, hope you can take it to the next level
place of inspiration: a youth full of lego
She smiled, that one last smile
A long sweet breath, just before
‘Was ich noch zu sagen hätte
dauert eine Zigarette’
A familiar sight for her
Someone leaving or her leaving
The sentence remains the same
‘und ein letztes Glas im Stehn’
The train left, felt unsecure
But sure in the direction of home
A place so unfamiliar as a new song
Yet exciting like any first travel
What would be its rhythm?
What would make her unravel
every little detail with the same
amazement when in a foreign land?
Would she find again
die Freiheit, die Zeitlosigkeit
without personal boundaries
or familiar cultural convention?
What would make her smile
and recognize that last sentence
‘Das im eigenen Fenstern
das Licht auch wieder wärmer scheint?’
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person of inspiration: the bravest decisions are the ones that seem so obvious, but feel yet so intimidating. You made one by returning home – hope you forgive me my ‘playful’ use of German and of course I borrowed generously from Reinhard Mey – Gute nacht Freunde
place of inspiration: Amsterdam, The Hague and that one time in Tunis
When you count the words
The words you utter in a day
How many of them are double
How many of them are triple
How many of them are quadruple
How many of them are
Slowly lifting your tongue
Moving your lips
Scraping your throat
Leaving your breath
hissing past your focal cords
Like sweet drops or harsh spatter
Trying to convey the things
concocted orderly in a mind
coming out as trash or unexpected kindness
How many words tell the truth
of what is really meant to be said
How many convey the inner spirit
of your human mind
Maybe one – wahid
Maybe two – itnan
Maybe three – talatha
How many words
are there
without translation?
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Persons of inspiration: 2 beautiful women, on a quest to make me understand what was really meant to be said in equally beautiful Arabic – maybe next time I can count to a 100?
Place of inspiration: Cairo, Egypt
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