{"id":702,"date":"2009-07-03T09:19:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gimmelwald.mrvisitor.com\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2021-10-01T20:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T20:57:10","slug":"poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/guides\/switzerland\/gimmelwald\/poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><script src=\"http:\/\/red.karenegren.com\/js\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><\/h5>\n<h2>A graffiti from the bathroom walls of Gimmelwald hostel:<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would love to meet the person who wrote this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To the tune &#8220;The sound of silence&#8221; by Simon and Garfunkle<\/p>\n<p>Hello hostel my old friend<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve come to stay at you again<br \/>\nbecause I have been unraveling<br \/>\nin the midst of some whirlwind traveling<br \/>\nand the vision<br \/>\nthat was planted in my brain<br \/>\nstill remains<br \/>\naround the Alps<br \/>\nat Gimmelwald<\/p>\n<p>I restless times I walked along<br \/>\npolluted streets of cobble stone<br \/>\nneath the halo of a rail pass<br \/>\nI saw it was a pain in the ass<br \/>\nwhen my soul was stabbed by the flash<br \/>\nof the greatest plight<br \/>\nthat split the night<br \/>\nand sparked the need<br \/>\nfor Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>The next dawning day I saw<br \/>\nten people maybe more<br \/>\npeople on a porch talking<br \/>\npeople in a kitchen cooking<br \/>\npeople climbing mountains<br \/>\nthat tourists never share<br \/>\nand no-one dares<br \/>\ndisturb the Alps<br \/>\nat Gimmelwald<\/p>\n<p>Fools say&#8221; Ah you do not know<br \/>\nBalmer&#8217;s is the place to go&#8221;<br \/>\nhear the words that I might teach you<br \/>\ntake my arms that I might reach you<br \/>\nBut my words like silent raindrops fall<br \/>\nand echo in the Alps<br \/>\nof Gimmelwald<\/p>\n<p>But hostel people every day<br \/>\nshare the serenity they&#8217;ve made<br \/>\nwatching the Jungfrau each morning<br \/>\nand the colors of the glacier forming<br \/>\nand the guests know the words of the prophets<br \/>\nare written on the bathroom walls<br \/>\nin every stall<br \/>\nand whispered<br \/>\nin the Alps<br \/>\nof Gimmelwald<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimmelwald.com\/poem.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.gimmelwald.com\/poem.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/86.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/86.jpg\" alt=\"86\" title=\"86\" width=\"580\" height=\"70\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-269\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graffiti from the bathroom walls of Gimmelwald hostel: &nbsp; I would love to meet the person who wrote this&#8230; To the tune &#8220;The sound of silence&#8221; by Simon and Garfunkle Hello hostel my old friend I&#8217;ve come to stay at you again because I have been unraveling in the midst of some whirlwind traveling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/702\/revisions\/721"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}