Best Gens Poems

I don’t know if owning a beautiful home,
Facing the sea, makes happy,
There are people who do not manage their thoughts,
And that makes them dangerous,

There are...

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You’ll never be an Olympic champion, Cecile,
After your accident on the ice,
Just walk, only,
There are so many beautiful things to do,
While walking, only, doubly,
Walking makes...

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C’est derrière moi
 

j’aurais pu 
être plus gentille
possiblement
j’aurais pu
réagir avec plus de délicatesse

j’aurais pu
possiblement
fléchir à tes caprices
être plus sympathique
j’aurais pu
j’aurais dû
peut-être    ...

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"le temps est une invention des gens incapable d'aimer"

mine is a suspended time 
away from here and sublime. 
there are open doors and windows to my world. 
they...

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Les Protecteurs – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “The Protectors” by T. Wignesan

(Note: Oodgeroo never claimed to write poetry à la manière des poètes occidentaux; she...

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Les gens qui essayent peuvent échouer
Les gens qui n'essayent pas échouent


Translation

Those who try. may fail
Those who never try, are failures...

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The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s La soupe du soir

						To J.-K. Huysmans

(Verlaine here paints a stark tableau of working-class or peasant life shorn of...

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We found pearls,
She asked where are the diamonds 
Not knowing to me she's the finest diamond of them all  
The gold, the old story...

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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...

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Something I have long suspected
Might very well happen is in fact
Already moving full-steam ahead
Towards our seeming desolate shore 

But this bit I might as well...

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What has been done on heaven
Will be done on earth,
They coming, the new movement set,
The mass delusions created by the state
The lies that built the...

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Dear GreenKollar Peeplez



l' home qui doit nous unir
il rendra l' alliance
forte a nouveau
les promoteurs du monde
enteir le soutiennent
les gens doivent
les rende riches
levr arrogance sera
que de...

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tu as envie de parler je le sais
mais personne ne peut tecouter
personne ne te comprend
tu te sens isole
habitues toi mon enfant
ce sera la meme chose...

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e temps passe rapidement
Et vient le temps des decisions 
Faut-il quitter ou le Liban
Ou rester a la maison ?
Faut-il travailler
ou continuer mes etudes a l'universite?
je...

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Translation with commentary of an archetypal Wild West Classic : " Summer Wine "

(I'd wage my bottom diamond dime future generations will re-discover and treasure...

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