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Pour Juliette Girardot
Note: This is not a poem, just a riddle :)


Pour Juliette Girardot

Si vous me donnez 1000 essaie
Si vous me donnez 1000 valses
La réponse que je donnerai
Ca sera toujours la même
J’ai besoin mais une seule essaie!
Jacques Brel

La chanson "La Valse a mille temps"

Je pense qu'il n'y...

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Categories: besoin, muse, paris, romantic, riddle,
Form:
white pulp
We all need sun, O white pulp
Pineapple and soft light, mango
Me first, then the policeman, then Solène,
We need a long Brazilian nap,
in Bahia or on the fine sand of Copacabana.

The tanned skins are full of secrets,
Vitamins, pulp and sunsets 
The tanned skins know our defects,
The...

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Categories: besoin, 9th grade, feelings, sun,
Form: Free verse
Ode To My Son
Son,
these words of my heart 
will neither come out of pity
nor will go down the wind
nor, again, will build any city.
But lend me your ears, baby,
and listen to what an old man
can say despite the rods of men.


Live up to your own ambitions.
Keep your heart...

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Categories: besoin, childhood, heart, light, autumn,
Form: Ode

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Premium Member Les Souvenirs De Noel - Translation of Joy Williams's Memories of Christmas By T Wignesan
Les Souvenirs de Noël – Translation of Joy Williams’s « Memories of Christmas » by T. Wignesan

(Joy Williams, b. 1942 in Sydney. Since she was born « fair » of skin, the authorities forcibly removed her as a baby to be placed in a children’s...

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Categories: besoin, anxiety, baby, break up,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentythird Legal By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s Twentythird Legal by T. Wignesan

Le vingt-troisième légal

pendant la guerre le peuple devient obéissent de nouveau
plein du respect (et) de la confiance les enfants naïfs dans la foi
la gouvernance nécessaire     la responsabilité perdue
des serviteurs loyaux   ...

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Categories: besoin, america, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Emotions
The emotion of your call came over me and I can't stay impassible 
this silent keyboard which I can get wonderful sound
my fingers are moving, and can not resist petting and be sensible
the first notes escape and fly in dark night aground

The night is conducive...

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Categories: besoin, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Human Rights Charter For Australian Aborigines By Oodgeroo Noonuccal
La Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan


Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs, pas l’essor des Blancs :
Faites-nous des égaux, pas ceux dépendent...

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Categories: besoin, 3rd grade, abuse, discrimination,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 5 Homage To Humphrey Jennings By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 5 Homage to Humphrey Jennings by T. Wignesan

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Categories: besoin, ocean, pollution, sea,
Form: Free verse
Les Paroles De Mon Ame
LES PAROLES DE MON
AME!


Il faut que je reste
fidèl à mon âme
Meme si que tu pense
autre chose à l’âme

J’aime
chanter,jouer,danser
avec ta voix !
J’ai besoin de ton
souffle pour
éclairer ma joie !

C’est simple pour
toi,pense à moi ;
Ici,c’est mon âme
qui parle avec toi :

“Il dit que j’adore
cette oiseau blanche
J’arrete a
palpiter,si...

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Categories: besoin, adventure, beautiful, blessing, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Translation of Aboriginal Charter of Rights By Oodgeroo Noonuccal
La Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan

Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs, pas l’essor des Blancs :
Faites-nous des égaux, pas ceux dépendent...

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Categories: besoin, political, prejudice, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Marcel Moreau's a L'Amour By T Wignesan
Translation of the Elegy: On Marceline Desbordes-Valmore - À L'amour - Poem by Marcel Moreau Translated by T. Wignesan

Reprends de ce bouquet les trompeuses couleurs,      (Take back the dubious colours of this bouquet) 
Ces lettres qui font mon supplice, ...

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Categories: besoin, absence, hate, heartbreak, irony,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member La Civilisation - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Civilization By T Wignesan
La Civilisation – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Civilization” by T. Wignesan 

Nous qui sont arrivés en retard à la civilisation,
Une lacune des siècles que nous ait laissé tomber,
Lors de votre arrivé à nos terres nous vous admirions émerveillés
Mais nous ne nous sentions pas effrayer.
A l’époque...

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Categories: besoin, conflict, culture, happiness, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Homage To Paul Eluard By T Wignesan
 Translation of Eric Mottram’s HOMAGE TO PAUL ELUARD by T. Wignesan

(Note: Here, I retain EM’s translations into English from Paul Eluard’s poems and his source language quotations from “this vital spirits…” onwards, for, according to EM, ‘they are taken from an early draft of...

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Categories: besoin, devotion, eulogy, french, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Un Appel - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's An Appeal By T Wignesan
Un appel – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s « An Appeal » by T. Wignesan

Les hommes d’Etat qui ourdissent les lois de la nation
Munis du pouvoir pour contraindre ceux qui résistent,
Guidez nous réaliser le but de notre cause:
        ...

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Categories: besoin, hope, inspirational, rights, voice,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Wonderful Celebration of Saint Valentine's Day
It's the festival of the hearts
It's the festival of the Poets
The wonderful celebration of Valentine's Day
Let’s solemnize with everything and nothing this day.

Let's revere the Big Day
All year long, every day
The season of love with beautiful flowers
And hugs. Let’s enjoy the happy hours.

It's the celebration...

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Categories: besoin, celebration, feelings, happy, heart,
Form: Rhyme

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