Triumph

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The forest of freckles haloed by golden hair,

Those clear, cold blue orbs lighted by a bright smile,

So sweet and genuine; her soft voice for a while

Had me fully enthralled between the debonair

Aura to her being and it’s charming fumble,

Flying me up so high as her words might stumble.

O reader can you see? Oh can you comprehend?

The root of her beauty in the palm of her hand.

Unknowingly dazzling, delightful innocence

Of the power she holds over my core essence.

How to explain this feel in few rational words?

Is it love that I taste? Delicate, free as birds?

Much less of a puzzle than a lovely intrigue.

Her image in my thoughts, I never feel fatigue

For as long as I keep this wonderful token.

My heart does beat faster each time she has spoken,

And cannot keep away my mind from her features,

Might she be one of those pure, heavenly creatures?

Say, am I going mad? The pleasant obsession,

Should I make go away or should I surrender

To these wishes of mine wholly without question?

She has eclipsed my doubts but borne many other…

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If I were someone playful I would ask: “Guess who?”, but I’m not that playful. Or crazy.

Choice

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A flash at the edge of my vision

And roaring thunder in my ears,

I can feel welling up the tears

As comes the time for a decision.

I cannot, do not want to decide,

Wishing to fly away and hide;

I know not why heavens bring forth

Such a dark and twisted choice as this,

Adventurer lost in the wide north,

– From Scylla into Charybdis -,

For in pieces my heart will break

Leaving only sadness in its wake…

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Don’t ask me why. I let the words flow…

The Beast

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I cannot truly say that I, ever before,

Have witnessed such scene or will ever again:

Amidst fiery battle, blood and steel forging pain,

Suddenly rang her cry and then echoed his roar.

You cannot understand the feeling of despair

He cast unto our foes as well as our allies,

I saw the darkness grow and break beyond repair

His good mind, his pure soul, and madness cloud his eyes…

His spirit got so warped that his body began

To tear apart and grow into thing hideous,

The power is thrilling but the thirst, insidious;

Blood calls upon fresh blood and eats away the man.

He swore a sacred oath: to never surrender

To the darkness inside, to fight it with his life,

And He, in His great plans, did only consider

That he, never in time, could overcome this strife.

Evil looked down on us in His castle above,

Playing dark games with us, pawns trapped in a damned string,

His fateful error in all this careful planning

Was to not comprehend a little thing called love…

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Well that’s what you call self-referencing! (Will understand those who know…) // Voila ce que l’on appelle de l’auto-référence. (Comprendra qui pourra…)

À ma mort.

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Ma mort mortellement mortifère

Aux vieux os de cartes et d’argent

À la démarche de voile tissé dans l’orange

Ma mort à la manière des frères poètes

Ma mort sans caoutchouc mais rouge convexe,

À la chaleur péremptoire et en oubliant la croûte.

Ma mort Dantesque tu m’entends ?

Ma mort ou la tienne, ou sa mort, je ne sais plus,

Dans l’indivisibilité de la fracture olive et charpente

Ma mort à la moelle de sable et de chic

Sans aller direct par avion ou par bateau

Mais au tarif préférentiel de quatre-vingt-dix euros,

Ma mort sylvestre en patrouille d’Halloween

Ma mort alléchante pour un lion pause tartare,

Si pacifique mais aussi un peu atlantique

Qui veut voir virevolter vents violents et vivantes violettes,

Ma mort miroitant sans fève ni ceinture,

De clous goudronnés et de cuir instantané,

Ma mort couleur chips, couleur vol de perruque,

Ma mort interministérielle et solitaire

Mais sans jamais redire de gagnantes ellipses

Partenaire particulier cherche partenaire particulière,

Ma mort horizontale de miel et d’enclume

Sans voix mais avec réaction de force équivalente à polarité inversée

Sous le toit de mon cap sauce liquide

Ma mort alignée astralement avec bienveillance

Pourquoi pas en trois ou quatre temps méridionaux

Et à jamais signée de là-bas.

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Poème inspiré de L’Union libre d’André Breton, écrit au cours d’un atelier puis retravaillé légèrement.

Guitare couture

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Dance a couple of quiet notes

On the border of your window

As I pass by and my mind floats

I can’t help but smile, crescendo,

And whistle gently to your tune.

The reason it touches me so

Remains today a mystery,

Oh it is true, no flattery!

I cannot explain how you sew

Such wondrous sounds under the moon.

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The first death

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Welcome adventurer to this old sacred shrine,

You have successfully overcome the trial

Given by the lost one your potential to rile,

Oh you have been chosen, baptized by the grey brine.

Your life may touch its end, so far from completion,

But worry not my child your quest has just begun,

You shall receive this gift and use it preciously,

It will be your guardian until all’s said and done,

However dare believe not that it endlessly

Will make you powerful or rich or immortal,

Once you cross the threshold and walk through the portal

Both your life and your soul shall be lost forever,

Never surrender to the dark call, the fever,

For your own destiny from this day forth and on,

Belongs to another until comes his next dawn.

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The seeds of victory

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War

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The field is wide and deserted,

Deadly silence looms high over,

Ten thousand bodies lie in dust

Amidst the ruins of mankind,

“For greater crisis averted”,

Herd following a mad drover,

Ten thousand lives for duty must

Leave families ever behind.

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Anachron

Anachron, poème perdu des fleurs du mal.

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Les ombres et la brume épandues sur la terre,
Tels d’antiques brouillards, distordues et secrètes
Destinées à cacher la lumière éthérée
Aux yeux de ces gens qui, à tant la regarder,
En sont comme aveuglés et ne savent plus voir.

Tel est le prix que paient ceux qui veulent savoir.
Derrière ce rideau d’obscures vaguelettes,
Se cachent les desseins d’un immortel pater.

Nombreux sont les maris, les femmes, les parents,
Dont partent les amants, les cœurs de leurs enfants,
Happés par l’œil malin, si plat et solitaire.

Au travers du hublot, ouverte une autre terre,
Fenêtre sur un monde à la joie sans raison,
Fait de foudre et de son, de vives vibrations,
Quiconque au jeu se prend, par mégarde ou passion,
Tombe aux prises du vice ; Ah ! Ce sournois démon.

—– Alternative pour les derniers vers —–

Au travers du hublot, ouverte une autre terre,
Fenêtre sur un monde à la joie sans raison,
Fait de foudre et d’ondes, de lumière et de sons.
Qui donc se prend au jeu, par mégarde ou caprice,
De ce sournois démon, tombe victime au vice.

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Poème écrit il y a quelques années sur le thème de l’anachronisme et (humblement) inspiré de l’oeuvre de Baudelaire.

More

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Is he even human? Or does he even bleed?

Can this monster be hurt? Or be made to recede?

Will we be first to break, or instead to succeed?

What will lie in his wake once he has done his deed?

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