Best Nouvelle Poems
Starbright
...Starbright
As I gaze into indigo skies,
Stars are brighter tonight,
Twinkling in the darkness
Of a new moon.
Orion's belt enchants
My impassioned heart
As my thoughts of you soar
I......
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Categories:
nouvelle, french, happiness, love, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Your Body, Your Touch
...Your feelings in a group of touring innocence
travel up North towards trust and sincerity
in sweet submissive care like a carefully rubbed suede.
You put day light into your entrapment
for noonti......
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Categories:
nouvelle, emotions, i love you,
Form:
Romanticism
Asian Epicurean Quest
...Asian Epicurean Quest
At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street.
Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors of street food, rude......
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Categories:
nouvelle, food,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Through Yonder Window Breaks
...Sure this is familiar, “I am one who loved not wisely but too well”
At times feel like Shakespeare, you make my lower regions swell
“What light through yonder
Window breaks” I ponder
Meth......
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Categories:
nouvelle, passion,
Form:
Limerick
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian Take
...Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*
In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Compar......
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Categories:
nouvelle, books, eulogy, french, poems,
Form:
Elegy
Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani By T Wignesan
...God ! God ! Why have you forsaken me ! Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani by T. Wignesan
Opening the eyes requires such an immense effort
As if the entire sky were their......
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Categories:
nouvelle, faith, jesus,
Form:
Elegy
If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxiv
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXIV
IF ever I had a country proud of its sacred Soul Patrie
And if ever by a long shot I was nominated - not spuriously elected - Chef Ministre d'Etat
Ple......
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Categories:
nouvelle, education, graduation, prison, religion,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Translation of Eric Mottram's 1922 Section 1 In Earth Raids 1976 By T Wignesan
...Translation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan
for David Attoe
Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’
Wittgenstein in Zettel
laissez pendre la ......
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Categories:
nouvelle, america, culture, earth, word
Form:
Free verse
When I Am Broke I Write a Poem
...When I am broke
I write a poem
I make myself the hero
In my poem, nobody can stop me
Out, I hop from my S-Class Benz
Into my waiting Lamborgini to my private airstrip
......
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Categories:
nouvelle, analogy, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Christmas Day In the Workhouse # 3
...It’s Christmas day in the workhouse
Just another grey day to endure
We have been promised nouvelle cuisine
So Oliver will be asking for more......
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Categories:
nouvelle, holidayday,
Form:
Bad News, Morose News
...It’s like being hit by a meteor
Where there’s no tomorrow
It is like doomsday, really
Where everything is ugly
And absolutely nothing is pretty
I just received the bad news
That my sister-in-la......
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Categories:
nouvelle, dark, death, death of
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's Krim: Autobiography To September 1989- I By T Wignesan
...Translation of Eric Mottram’s KRIM: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 - I by T. Wignesan
( This poem is from the collection, ESTUARIES: Poems 1989-91. Twickenham: Solaris, 1992, 62p. Pub. by Y......
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Categories:
nouvelle, america, angst, art, friend,
Form:
Free verse
My Beholding Eye
...Meeting a natural blonde with sparkling eyes,
With a kind of beauty no matter what she tries.
Whose smile is opened with glad expression,
Consigning my heart with a loving impression.
Just li......
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Categories:
nouvelle, emotions,
Form:
Couplet
Bilan Annuel
...Comme a écrit un grand philosophe,
Il y a deux tragédies dans la vie.
L´une c’est de réaliser ses rêves
Et l´autre c’est de ne pas les réaliser.
Ah! Comme le temps passe vite,
Une année s’est éc......
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Categories:
nouvelle, life,
Form:
A Lost Touch
...I touched her hand and the warmth of her soul
rushed my veins like a mad river,
obliterating all doubts.
Would that I survive the tumult, the undying desire
to touch her skin again, even for a mo......
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Categories:
nouvelle, missing you,
Form:
Free verse