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LOngfellow bridge
Was it the Longfellow Bridge? Massachusetts?
One night we crossed a bridge on foot,
Dominique, my travel friend this summer 1989,
And seated we contemplated Boston at night,
Summer was hot, the city friendly and joyful,
We talked two hours about this new country,
The lights of Boston were full of...

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Categories: cet, adventure, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Le Rat Noir - Translation of Iris Clayton's the Black Rat By T Wignesan
Le Rat Noir – Translation of Iris Clayton’s « The Black Rat » by T. Wignesan

(Iris Clayton of the Wiradjuri tribe in New South Wales was born in 1945. One of nine children, six of the elder children were forcibly removed by the authorities and...

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Categories: cet, discrimination, hero, political, war,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Death In France
So shocking was that news from France,
we stared at TVs in a trance;
no way to understand.
Those young and old without a chance
were taken down in wide expanse.
Such horror had been planned.

Who could have then foreseen the fate
upon them cast by those who hate?
Just gathered there...

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Categories: cet, death, grief, war,
Form: Tail-rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Le Probleme Avec Des Blancs - Translation of Jim Everett's the White Man Problem By T Wignesan
Le Problème avec des Blancs – Translation of Jim Everett’s « The White Man Problem » by T. Wignesan

(Jim Everett, Mawbana Pleregannana, b. 1942 on Flinders Island, Tasmania, has had a chequered career and like almost all the aboriginal poets and writers in English of...

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Categories: cet, discrimination, power, prejudice, racism,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Daisy Bindi - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Daisy Bindi By T Wignesan
Daisy Bindi – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s « Daisy Bindi » by T. Wignesan

L’esclavage à Roy Hill, quelle honte profonde misère:
Les noirs obligés à travailler sans paie l’année durant,
L’esclavagistes encouragés par la connivence policière
Avec la bénédiction subreptice du gouvernement.
Mais une femme guerrière sans aucune aide
Conduisait...

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Categories: cet, discrimination, freedom, inspirational, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Klacatoo - Translation of Kevin Gilbert's Klacatoo By T Wignesan
Klacatoo – Translation of Kevin Gilbert ‘s « Klacatoo » by T. Wignesan

On nous avait coincé sur la rive de Lachlan
un endroit qui s’appelle Klacatoo
là où nous rassemblions au coucher du soleil
quand nous entendions le cri de la Mort du courlis
les femmes appelaient leurs enfants...

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Categories: cet, death, discrimination, grandmother, grief,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Have You Been Hurt By Religion
Have You Been Hurt By “Religion”?

Are you tired of “religious people”
 knocking at your door?
You wish they’d leave...  “You can’t take it anymore!”

Have you been hurt by “church people” sometime in the past?
Somehow they hurt you...  And the pain continues to last…

Have you...

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Categories: cet, brother, confusion, daughter, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
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: cet, ocean, pollution, sea,
Form: Free verse
Arranging On My Canvas, Colors Inhabited
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The window opens on our secret travels

Mist of saline uproar raids on the space

What keeps us awake and makes us sagacious

Under this afternoon luxuriously blended,

 

The addition and ebb, mineral materials

To leave the sea , invade us of yesterday:

The small square of ocher resists ,...

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Categories: cet, art, mythology, sea, summer,
Form: Quatrain
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: cet, adventure, beautiful, blessing, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 3 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Three by T. Wignesan

"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an awareness of the imaginative possibilities of relationship between particles”. 
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Categories: cet, art, literature, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 2 With Commentary By T Wignesan
Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 2 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry 

Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eric Mottram’s poetry” by Clive Bush, Director of American Studies, King’s College,...

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Categories: cet, america, angst, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Je Bois Du Café
Je bois du café
Chaque journée
Pour que je me réveillée
Mais cet été
Je dois gagner
Plus l’argent pour payer
Pour tout le café
Que vous voulez 
Boire. Je ne peux pas m’arrêter
Essayer de me lever
Sans un peu de mon bois préféré...

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Categories: cet, funny, me,
Form: Rhyme
Tantine
Ne t’inquiète pas, un jour tu les retrouveras
Ceux qui nous ont quitté et qui ne sont plus la
Dis-toi que tu as gagné un ange gardien
Qui te protège dans cet environnement incertain 
Ne verse plus des larmes de tristesse 
Ça ne sert à rien de pleurer...

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Categories: cet, angel,
Form: Free verse
Sel Et Sucre
combien de temps cela prend-il pour une connexion
entre deux personnes à se gâter?
de la déshydratation de la
dépression qui a conduit l'un à cet endroit
où l'électricité d'une nouvelle personne
fait ressortir le meilleur de vous
vous envoie dans un nouveau lieu
de sucre sweet sweet,
et ensuite revenir au sel,
la...

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Categories: cet, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things