18 September 2002

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                                                      on 11 Nov 2008)

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      Wild ducks,
      and gentle wind,
      play on and ripple soothingly
      the surface of the water.

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      Red bricks form walls,
      when up they rise from water's way
      to pave a quay - aged centuries by now -
      for barges to unload,
      where waterways are major streets,
      and move the town with life.

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      Behind the quay, the bricks rise up once more, to wall,
      and then – much higher up – lie down again, to pave,

      becoming streets, that now can look below and
      see the quay that hugs the waterway, 'the Old Canal.'

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      Along the narrow streets now paved, above,
      some bricks a third time reach for heaven, where

      they build the typical facades of Dutch,
      and often narrow, houses.

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      Yet other bricks are stretching flat to pull the streets along,
      and where they meet the waterway again,

      they arch to bridges – old a thousand years by now.

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      That's where I walked,
      embracing thousand years of people living there
      in Holland
      ...embracing them with one glance of my eye.

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      And on her bicycle, a woman passed me by.
      She looked me in the eye and asked:
      "Are you a real angel?"

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      This was on Christmas Day,* so people are
      more curious to see and feel who's there:

      Allowed they feel
      to be the love they are
      ...so natural.

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Koos Nolst Trenite "Cause Trinity"
human rights philosopher and poet

                                            'God gave Solomon wisdom
                                              and very great insight,
                                      and a breadth of understanding
                                                      as measureless
                                         as the sand on the seashore.'

                                                        1 Kings 4:29

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Footnote:

(*)   On Christmas Day, 25 December 2001

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Issue Note:

      Taken from a draft version of 'Where Angels Dare'
      - by Koos Nolst Trenite

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References:

     'A Poem of Our Love, and Our Adventures'  (POLA)
      {HRI 20020717-V5.6}
       (17 July 2002 - Version 5.6 on 9 Nov 2008)
http://groups.google.com/group/Koos-Nolst-Trenite/msg/002d47728580cbae

     'What is Love, and Three Parts of Love'  (WIL)
      {HRI 20080428-V2.1}
       (28 April 2008 - Version 2.1 on 9 June 2008)
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.military.naval/msg/3b9bc7aec31c8364

     'Your Love For Me is uniquely respecting me - and should inspire
      your Love for others, to be respecting others uniquely as these
      are'
      {HRI 20081003-V1.3} (Issued on 15 Oct 2008)
       (3 October 2008 - Version 1.3 on 15 Oct 2008)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.men/msg/edc14e604043ca99

     'Plato On Making Love - And Defining Loneliness'  (POML)
      {HRI 20041114-V2.2.1}
       (14 November 2004 - Version 2.2.1 on 28 May 2007)
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.politics.misc/msg/fcb838f7c6a1e346
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