Farewell, Goodbye -By Robert Fullarton copyright 2017

Farewell, Goodbye
-By Robert Fullarton copyright 2017

Breakfast in the Hofburg
Down the haunts of Klimt
And cafe soirée moments
Lunch under the lime trees
And the Charlottenburg’s
Prestige
here one moment
On the celluloid
Gone into the pits
Of the Verdun

Dreaming of those citron
yellow white nights
Magnolia and egg shell green
Fantasies
Books and symphonies
Imperial orchestras
Spectres and classes
Come and gone
The world of Tolstoy
And Rachmaninoff
The émigrés
Migration to Gog and Magog

Coffee was taken in the final hour
Bellow the Topkapí
By the Bosphorus
In the final hour of the night

A beast released from the earth
And a third of the world turned to blood
A beast released from the sea
And a third of the earth was covered in hail
Fire made of steel
But the whole of the earth was burning
And the memory set ablaze
The columns of those poignant
Moments are buried long since
Beside the monarchs