Paul Hartal Poems

What was the first poem ever created?
Now either in rain or in snow,
the answer to this no record can show
and so we probably will never know.
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His contemporaries called him "stupor mundi",
the astonishment of the world. Indeed, Frederick II
of Hohenstaufen (1194-1250) was an uncommon monarch.
This Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily and Germany,
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It was around nine o'clock
in the morning when he noticed
that his shadow faded away and vanished.
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A light vernal wind swept through the evening street.
They sat on the balcony drinking coffee.

"The conscious experience", he said, "the sense of self
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Yellow roses swing in the wind
Lonely dogs bark but the wolves prevail
The violin strings snap, protesting
The aloofly silent mind of the nail.
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Music mediates between Heaven and Earth.
It connects the spiritual realm with the mundane world.
But not all music is the same.
And Bartók's bounteous compositions are particularly unique,
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