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Andreas Claßen
Apr 15, 2018, 10:29:01 AM4/15/18
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Elements of Summer by Andreas
Claßen
Earth
Hot rubber on dusty asphalt takes me away to parched lands
towards the unmarked end of the compasses needle
mastering distances in a vehicle of steel powered by petrol.
Air
Untill the fumes of machines and stenches of decay
give way to aromatic southern plants and that salty tang at last.
When my wheels finally stop my body may rest
and my spirit on a warm breeze is eventually set afloat.
Fire
Glare on wave glass and chrome bleaching leaf cloth and stone.
Gleaming colors are the scales of that lizard attracted by my sweat
that cools enflamed bulges of moskito bites.
Burnt by the radience of an unforgiving sun
I shiver under the falling veil of night.
Water
Towering clouds swallow the last light.
Around the rumbling circumference of the horizon
distant discharges of celestial weaponry flash.
As crashes are closing lifegiving liquid starts splashing the dust.
To gusts and flashes relieving torrents are soon gushing down.
The raging might of celestial forces puts mind and body in its place.
This poem has not been published yet in any form.
Bio
I, Andreas Claßen, am a German born in 1966 in Düren, in the extreme west of the country, and still work there as a geo-data-manager but I have alwas been artistically active besides school, travels, studies (geography / ethnology / meteorology / business / aministration), jobs, profession and family. I started with drawings and watercolours, then films and since 1992 radio-shows. Since that time I am known in the region for more than 2000 hours on air as anchorman and host with the non-profit radio. Besides that I have always been writing a little, mainly poems and lyrics, some of those in English. First to be professionally published has been "Small Minds", lyrics for a song by T.G.-Project that appeared in 2007 on the CD that came with Riddim magazine in Germany England and on Jamaica. Since 2010 I sometimes present and perform my texts on stage. In late 2011 I directed a theater project. In 2013 I contributed texts to the international art-project "What Color Is Abuse?". 2015-17 I returned to a movie-production this time as sound engineer. This year finally one of my poems in German was printed in a book.
Andreas Claßen ("Claßen" is the correct German spelling of my last name, but "Classen" will also do as an internationally more compatible spelling. The double s is also used in Germany whenever the name is written all in caps as e.g. on the flip-side of my ID.)
Frenkstraße 28
52393 Hürtgenwald (Hürtgenwald is the small town right next to Düren, in the county of Düren, where I live since 2014.)
Earth
Hot rubber on dusty asphalt takes me away to parched lands
towards the unmarked end of the compasses needle
mastering distances in a vehicle of steel powered by petrol.
Air
Untill the fumes of machines and stenches of decay
give way to aromatic southern plants and that salty tang at last.
When my wheels finally stop my body may rest
and my spirit on a warm breeze is eventually set afloat.
Fire
Glare on wave glass and chrome bleaching leaf cloth and stone.
Gleaming colors are the scales of that lizard attracted by my sweat
that cools enflamed bulges of moskito bites.
Burnt by the radience of an unforgiving sun
I shiver under the falling veil of night.
Water
Towering clouds swallow the last light.
Around the rumbling circumference of the horizon
distant discharges of celestial weaponry flash.
As crashes are closing lifegiving liquid starts splashing the dust.
To gusts and flashes relieving torrents are soon gushing down.
The raging might of celestial forces puts mind and body in its place.
This poem has not been published yet in any form.
Bio
I, Andreas Claßen, am a German born in 1966 in Düren, in the extreme west of the country, and still work there as a geo-data-manager but I have alwas been artistically active besides school, travels, studies (geography / ethnology / meteorology / business / aministration), jobs, profession and family. I started with drawings and watercolours, then films and since 1992 radio-shows. Since that time I am known in the region for more than 2000 hours on air as anchorman and host with the non-profit radio. Besides that I have always been writing a little, mainly poems and lyrics, some of those in English. First to be professionally published has been "Small Minds", lyrics for a song by T.G.-Project that appeared in 2007 on the CD that came with Riddim magazine in Germany England and on Jamaica. Since 2010 I sometimes present and perform my texts on stage. In late 2011 I directed a theater project. In 2013 I contributed texts to the international art-project "What Color Is Abuse?". 2015-17 I returned to a movie-production this time as sound engineer. This year finally one of my poems in German was printed in a book.
Andreas Claßen ("Claßen" is the correct German spelling of my last name, but "Classen" will also do as an internationally more compatible spelling. The double s is also used in Germany whenever the name is written all in caps as e.g. on the flip-side of my ID.)
Frenkstraße 28
52393 Hürtgenwald (Hürtgenwald is the small town right next to Düren, in the county of Düren, where I live since 2014.)
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