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Ü, Berlin

Vastness of cosmopolitan weaving over marshy spaces

Gathered in eclectic clusters of styles and tendencies

You’re like a poor chameleon, arduous to adapt and diversify

As soon as the onerous time passes you by with its spotlight.

Populous and popular in theme

Engraved by an unsettled history of three million heartbeats

They seem to have forgotten your etymology

Replaced by a hugging bear at your Ishtar gate of Greek virtues.

To complete history’s reminiscence with geographical cachets

Of twelve downtowns, fashioned from castles to Plattenbau

Your highlights display human vintage with glamour names

Smouldered by unknown juvenescent faces.

For you’re the city of Marlene, exhibiting a lot of Marilyn

Of high-avenue puppets against low-street mannequins

The big screen projecting Hollywoodian reveries

Directed with scripts and impromptus to cajole reality.

An idiosyncratic array imbues in colours all your limbs

But where lies the core of your luminescence?

Is it the high-tech Platz, the bourgeois play with lime-tree sceneries,

Or maybe the Funkturm film, with all social marks in one storyline?

The moonlit scene fumbles for your wells of passion

You, city of arts, motions, carnivals and cultures

Where the millions of eyes with peregrine curiosity

Don’t feel for the blueprint, rather live the pixels of your images.

In this amphitheatre of directors, visitors and actors

During the intermission, your lens may capture just one sparkle

Two eyes close-up, one love up-close, from the path of fate into your cityscape

Meant to portray a time-lapse glow, which will perpetuate

Your seed, your universe.

(June 2012)