THE TUNE (ABI-Zeitungs-Version)
I have seen the sun rising,
I've heard it all in the tune.
I've seen it again and again;
I've heard it all in the tune.
I have seen the stars rising,
Like starlight the music was (I heard);
I've seen them again and again;
I've heard it all in the tune.
I have seen the sun rising,
I remembered I had heard it in the Tune before;
I have seen it again and again,
I have heard it in the Tune.
Annotations : The two first verses were written 1987 on a bike tour (with a group) in France, around the Atlantic Coast.
The last verse was written on October, 10th, 1990 in the House East Dene, in the village Bochurch near Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. This was the day after the German Unification. During this week and the ceremonies, me and my English learning class were living in that house.
I almost instantly fell in love with East Dene, which is a wonderful place. Unfortunately it is located so near to the coast that parts of the garden have already begun slipping down. I hope it will be helped one day.
House East Dene has been - as I found out afterwards - the home of a poet. Well, I I believed in reincarnation, I’d say this was me, because of the fact I fell in love with that house. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Unfortunately I don’t know any picture on the net showing the house. I would have to digitalise my old photos first. However, the *very* old church of Bonchurch and Ventnor itsellf rare on the net somewhere . I’ve seen pictures of both.
The Tune is the only piece of mine for which I developed a simple melody on guitar. I still have copies from that „Project time“, when I was trying to do so. If I could make a copy, I would be willing to send it out to whoever would like to hear it, but digitalizing would do as well, as long as someone tells me how to do it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
In the course of time, I wrote a few more parts of The Tune, variations of the main theme and a spin-off, so to say.
This version is kind of a compilation of my favourite parts of it : Verse 1-2 original, verse 3 from that part written on the Isle of Wight. This version was published in the so-called „Abi-Zeitung“, which means was produced during the finalization of the last year of my school time. The „Abitur“ is the last set of examinations before leaving school and if passed, it enables an individual to go to University. The „finalization“ is both a time of planning and developing kind of festivities by the classes of that year, and the exams before the final celebration. The English-learning class I mentioned above was one of the courses I was in : The Abitur consists of the 4 main courses in which the training is specially sophisticated, and the other courses. English was one of my main courses.
The „Abi-Zeitung“ is kind of a newspaper developed by the members of that year’s classes and contains for example all funny saying of a person recorded by others, funny saying of teachers as well, and articles about their tours and main courses. It’s like the destillation of all these school years.
I was very proud to get some of my texts printed there. (Some are in GErman, so I won’t quote them here, unless translated, which is nearly impossible for two of them, because they primarily consist of word-games I cannot translate.
This is my most dearest work ever.
Shadowman (Typoscript Version)
Man without Shadow.
Running through the night.
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You mustn’t see him, but when
You’ll have to be afraid of your life.
Will he come with a knive ?
But he’ll kill you, when you’re unlucky,
because you musn’t disturb Dr. Mabuse
at his destroying the world.
He has his helpers and accomplices
everywhere;
and so you must be careful that
you don’t * meet him.
Annotations from the Typoscript Version :
(* „don’t“ in the sense of „won’t“)
(First ever written poem. It was written under the impression of the ‘Dr. Mabuse’ serial in TV. Written 1983 or 1984 but I think that 1984 is more right.)
