L’indolent

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Je suis celui qui vit sans jamais vraiment vivre

Celui qui fait la fête mais n’est jamais ivre

Celui qui voit le monde avec un cœur d’enfant

Mais un esprit d’adulte en le philosophant,

Je vis la vie et je la chante et je la danse,

Je mesure mon sort, je mesure ma chance,

S’il est bonnes ou mauvaises situations

Je vogue entre les vagues sans grand prétention,

Et parfois l’on me félicite de mon flegme

De ma vision des choses, mes mille apophtegmes,

De mon calme impérial, ma patience infinie,

Mais je ne suis qu’humain et ma science finie,

Je ne sais d’où je viens, je ne sais ou je vais,

Je ne vois que trop bien tous mes côtés mauvais,

Oui, ceux-là diront flegme ou bien calme étonnant,

Et les autres que je cache en me retenant

Or je ne mâche mot car je suis insolent,

Je dirai donc ‘flemme’, que je suis l’indolent.

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Mouais.

Amorous hapless

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Truth be told, if it must, anything that he does,

Whether smart or stupid justifies easily,

All this running around… It is simply because

He cannot stand to be away, not joyfully,

It is but poor excuse to spend some time with her,

See her smile, hear her laugh, get to know each other.

If you were then to ask him what lies in his heart

His eyes would shine and his mouth, in a smile, would part,

For him then to explain that for a single chance

To spend a day with her, talking, laughing, sharing,

Anything he would give, he would be so daring,

Anything to be close, to admire her dance.

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Anything to admire her beautiful life-dance.

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A small alternate ending, because why not?

Sort of a sequel to : Hopeless romantic

The power of silence

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Silence is not empty

It is full of itself,

As discrete as an elf

And surely as witty;

How it can help gleaning

Many a strand of calm

But also of meaning,

Feel them pulse in your palm,

The meanings and desire,

Silence tells of a world

So big and much higher

Than the one that is pearled

In a glass quite precious,

You cannot understand

Though somehow comprehend

Through something unconscious…

Don’t think, don’t fight against,

Simply feel and let go

Only then will you know

All that’s in it condensed.

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Not quite but almost.

If only I could enhance

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I revel in the silence

Reflect on my existence,

I wonder about my stance

How I should move forward hence,

Should I have taken this chance?

Or am I not for romance?

I feel like I want to dance,

Moved by a strange, weird trance

At an unearthly cadence…

I long for more than a glance

But can’t manage to advance

In this wide, unknown expanse;

Can I change my circumstance?

Make these dreams to me bechance?

How long ’til like Bagger Vance

Fades away my sufferance?

There’s not point in resistance

If you have broken my lance…

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Not really satisfied with this one, I feel it could be… enhance(d)…

From A to Z

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Amber could keep my being from ever feeling lost

Both in heart and in mind but, my dear, at what cost?

Challenging the heavens, that which is called fortune,

Defying the wide world, not dancing to its tune,

Endlessly going forth and writing your own fate

Freeing body and soul from this low, earthly state,

Granting yourself power to achieve what you seek,

Hear carefully my friend for it comes not with ease,

It is a timeless quest born long before the Greek,

Jealousy of the gods bringing us to our knees,

Know life will tear you down, happiness has a price,

Lucky are those who have looked upon it but thrice;

Maybe you shall succeed on the first of your tries,

No one can say for sure, but maybe you shall fail,

Oh my friend keep your hope and listen to your cries

Perhaps you shall find strength where you see yourself frail,

Quivering in the cold; a lion lives inside,

Roaring deep in your heart, you do not have to hide,

Stand your ground, lift your chin, look ahead with a smile,

Though life is not all kind it is worth the effort,

Unknown and long the road, and hardest the first mile,

Veer off but keep your course and hide not in this fort

Which you have built around yourself for all these years,

X marks the spot; listen, the call to adventure!

You must answer at once, jump through the aperture,

Zero doubts in your heart, oh let go of your fears…

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A fun and short project, really pizzazz!

I like me better

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What is this obsession

I feel rising afar

With some apprehension?

But unable to bar

From my head or my chest;

Too late, I am taken,

My world ever shaken,

I pray, hope for the best…

It is sweet and bitter

Full of dark and glitter,

I can feel its cold heat

Now spreading through my soul

And the unsteady beat

Of my heart no more whole…

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L’âme haut

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Parfois

Un mot vaut mille lames

Une lame mille maux;

À tous ceux-là qui clament

Bêtement, fort et haut,

Que les bâtons et pierres

Peuvent briser des os

Mais que de simples mots

N’atteignent pas les fiers,

Je reponds “Venez voir

Dans les replis cachés

De mon âme épanchée,

Où reignent la nuit noire,

Les obscures chimères

Qui dansent sur les flots,

Et espoirs éphémères

Brisés par ces grelots…”

Il est donc nécessaire

Que mon esprit, mon coeur,

Face à cette souffrance

Qu’érige ton absence,

Choisissent de concert

Silences et pudeur.

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Introduction

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I once had a good friend

Who one day went away

Into the dark of night

As dawn was approaching,

I know not what became

Of him after that day

But sometimes I listen

In the wind, on the sea,

To the murmurs of birds,

To the whispers of fish,

For what?, I cannot say,

I listen nonetheless

For something ages past,

For something that will last

But always it falls back

Down after rising up,

The red leaf floats onwards

On invisible streams

Of glory and passion

To the ends of the world

And even though I know

I can never follow

The light in my heart burns

As my lonely soul yearns,

Sometimes comes a young bird

Whose song I recognize

And I smile for a time

Feeling luck in my veins

And I let myself bask

In such warm and sweet dreams

However in the end

I know this for a fact

The bird will fly away

And all will be quiet

Under the setting sun,

And I feel not content

Rather enthusiastic

As if as Hercules

I could now tame the world,

Oh more than that ! As if

I could go row my boat

Along the clear river

For years and years and years

Until the wise stars rust

’til diamond turns into dust

Until your presence fades

Until not time remains

I move without moving,

I fly without flying,

Until I reach myself

In this quiet garden

Until, with slow steps, it

Starts all over again.

I once had a good friend

Who one day went his way

Into the dark of night

As dawn was approaching.

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A poem without rhymes, is this real life? ._.

À Saavakineh

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Oh si tu savais mon frère

Tout le mal que ça me fait,

Oui si tu savais mon frère

Tout le banal que je sais,

Oh, si tu savais défaire

Ce noeud qui grandit en moi,

Mais il n’est pas fait de fer

Ce nouveau cheval de Troie,

Et si tu les voyais faire

Ces mains qui brisent ma foi

Non, tu ne pourrais te taire

Et laisser devenir roi

Le chagrin usant mes chaires,

Désespoir, mon noir émoi;

Mon âme dans les éthers,

Ma peau aux vives moirures,

Vois la fable délétère

Se parrant de cent dorures.

Oh si tu savais mon frère,

Si tu pouvais tout apprendre,

Oui si tu savais mon frère

Pourrais-tu donc me comprendre ?

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Oui.

Comme une bamba triste

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Un peu comme une bamba triste

Ou un puzzle à mille pièces

Dont il manquerait la dernière,

Comme au milieu de foules en liesse

Mais isolés d’une manière,

Ou juste après l’ultime piste

De votre disque préféré,

Un peu comme tombe la nuit

Ou se lève l’astre qui luit

Car pour les esprits éthérés

Souvent pleins de mélancolie

Il n’y a pas d’échappatoire

A cette mère évocatoire

De tous nos rêves et nos folies,

Un peu comme le doux amère

Sourire de l’homme damné

Qui, lorsqu’il se sait condamné,

Se rêve encor libre comme l’air,

Un peu comme cette chanson

Sous ses airs de lente balade

Vient adoucir chez le garçon

Les sombres maux d’un coeur malade,

Comme une douce comédie

Dont la grande harmonie tragique

N’est belle qu’au yeux du public

Qui voit de loin le coeur maudit,

Comme, enfin, cette vieille reine

Qu’est la Vie parmis les mortels,

Elle, de la Mort, soeur jumelle,

Celle qui cause tant de peines,

Comme un regret qui prend au tripes

Et qui fait de nous ses pantins

Lorsqu’à nos rêves enfantins

On repense encor, on s’agrippe…

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