Have you ever heard the poem rain ? I have never thought that the poems may fall from the sky like raining. Even if I heard about poem rain, it could not be in the real world, may be, in fantacy movies and stories. However, I have seen that it really happened.
At 8 pm on Saturday 28 August 2010 a shower of poetic rain fell on the Berlin Lustgarten. That day was "Long Night of Museums", that means you could visit every museum with a single ticket for the whole night. The regular fee was 15 euros and 10 euro for students. It was free for the children under 12 years old. There were many shuttle buses to save the time between the museums.
Fortunately,we were on the way to an another museum and so, we could have an oppotunity to see the poem rain. A helicopter circled over the Museum Island and for around half an hour let 100,000 bookmarks with poems by 80 poets from Germany and Chile flutter down on the square between the Berlin Dom, the Zeughaus and the Old Museum. The rain of poems was intended to make poetry accessible to a lot of people and sent out message of peace.
In the first poem I got, it is written a German poem which means "Happiness, good luck and success will come to you through the wind from the sky". I got 10 poems at that night.
This is my frist experiences about poem rain in my life. Now, you also have seen the poem rain and enjoy it.
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| The poems falling from the helicopter |
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| People who were longing for the poems from the sky |
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| Poems that I got at that night |
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