Holbling, Walter

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International Journal ofTranspersonal StudiesVolume 16 | Issue 1 Article 101-1-1997Summer in Verdun/Telefone CallWalter HolblingFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudiesPart of the Philosophy Commons, Psychology Commons, and the Religion CommonsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals and Newsletters at Digital Commons @ CIIS. It has been accepted for inclusionin International Journal of Transpersonal Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ CIIS. For more information, please contactdigitalcommons@ciis.edu.Recommended CitationHolbling, W. (1997). Holbling, W. (1997). Summer in Verdun/Telefone call [Poem]. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies,16(1), 62.. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 16 (1). Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudies/vol16/iss1/10summer in Verdun the graveyards of Verdun are full with summer flowers children are playing hide and seek among the crosses their parents coke in hand keep looking for the names of their grand fathers on the wooden beams verifying the family album swallows dive steeply under darkening clouds slowly approaching from the west you try your best to give them shapes and faces them who then in noisy greyish nights fell out of life bright red leaves · crimsoned prematurely by sudden frost W. H., Verdun, July 1994 62 telefone call decisive words take their time they reveal their significance like buds unfolding nourished by the soil of doubt the rain of memory and meditation gradually to the troubled soul until the flower of loss suddenly in full bloom makes you tremble at its pristine relentless beauty -WALTER HoLBLING GRAZ, AusTRIA 

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