{"id":500,"date":"2023-03-25T00:07:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T00:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brigittepoetry.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:01:25","slug":"the-rhine-river-der-rhein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/the-rhine-river-der-rhein\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rhine River &#8211; Der Rhein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Rhein!<\/em><\/strong> Schon als Kind haben mich deine Ufer magisch angezogen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sp\u00fcrte ich die Kraft deiner str\u00f6menden Wasser, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sich seit Millionen von Jahren ihren Weg durch Berge und Gestein bahnend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die m\u00e4chtigen Schiffe zogen vor\u00fcber, gefolgt von ozeangleichen Wellen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St\u00e4dten Leben bringend, heute wie vor hundert Jahren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Rhein!<\/em><\/strong> Schon als Kind tr\u00e4umte ich von dem Ozean, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">dem Ende deiner Reise, bis ich ihn erreichte,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">um dem Rauschen der Wellen zu lauschen, an jenes Kind denkend,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">noch immer zu deinen magischen Ufern gezogen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">stets zu dir zur\u00fcckkehrend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Rhine River<\/em><\/strong>, a child was I, magically drawn to your banks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">feeling the power of your streaming waters,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">carving their ways through rocks for millions of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw the mighty ships passing by, followed by ocean like waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought of the mountains you came from,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">imagined the cities you had seen already,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">had brought life &#8211; now and centuries before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until I reached the ocean, the end of your journey;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">listening now to the sounds of the waves,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">thinking of this child, sitting once by your banks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">still magically drawn, always returning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-ocean-gradient-background has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhein! Schon als Kind haben mich deine Ufer magisch angezogen, sp\u00fcrte ich die Kraft deiner str\u00f6menden Wasser, sich seit Millionen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}