{"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 von Jahren ihren Weg durch Berge und Gestein bahnend. Die m\u00e4chtigen Schiffe zogen vor\u00fcber, gefolgt von ozeangleichen Wellen, St\u00e4dten Leben bringend, heute wie vor hundert Jahren. Rhein! Schon als Kind tr\u00e4umte ich von dem Ozean, [&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"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Rhine River - Der Rhein - The German Poetry Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/the-rhine-river-der-rhein\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Rhine River - Der Rhein - The German Poetry Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rhein! 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