Best Ou Poems

there is a never after
where words are lost 
     and colours fade
but perhaps we won't let go
  in dreams and voices
     there will be one more story from me
you'll be attentive
  one last time
yet the...

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The name 
mistakenly saintly, 
the other one 
a rite-of-life, 
a gauche passage 
for some, for most
the contract costly,
imprints its meaning 
post firey baptismal dive
to rise again somehow
from each our own
calamities, the personal
cataclysm we confront
or shun in a parallel life 
of optimism, there each one 
observes...

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Constance, this is a song with dance that we as children use
to sing and dance to the “Ring Around The Rosie’ game. I wrote
This poem(SONG) using Nette‘s:  ALOUETTE meter and rhyme scheme.
Meter: 5, 5, 7, 5, 5, 7
Rhyme Scheme: a, a, b, c, c,...

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Una or Death, Life : 42, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Una ou la mort, la vie : 42 by T. Wignesan

To love words is to love life itself
As early as when he could speak, he understood this
Each vowel took on the form of a fruit
And...

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 Una or Death, Life: 43, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Una ou la mort, la vie: 43 by T. Wignesan

As they used to say and keep saying still
Nobody ever takes poetry seriously
They would like to say that after a long life
You have provided us always...

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Una or Death, Life : 1, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Una ou la mort, la vie by T. Wignesan

Sometimes he wonders what good a poem can be
Of course in his case doubting is blasphemy
An absurd benumbing of life
In truth, what good can a poem serve
Where...

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Où allons nous? Translation of Oodgeroo  Noonuccal’s “Where are we going” by T. Wignesan

Ils sont venus dans une petite ville
Une bande à moitié nue soumise silencieuse
Tout ce qui restait de leur tribu.
Ils sont venus à leur vieux territoire bora 
Où beaucoup d’hommes blancs maintenant...

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Renmen moun ki renmen ou
Apresye moun ki apresye ou
Chyen pa janm mòde mèt li
Si yon chyen fè sa, se metel nan dòmi
Mesye, rinmin fanm ki rinmin ou
Medam, renmen nonm ki pran swen ou
Si yon moun pa rinmin ou, pa fache
Yon moun gin dwa pa rinmin...

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Be elegant
Hold your chin high, posture!
Always strive to be relevant
With those who lie low, do not bother

Embody allure
Be a symbol of affection
Keep up with the best couture
Be of fair complexion

Resemble a painting
Hold ‘good-selfishness’
Never be close to fading
Never succumb to pettishness

Live as perfection
Show it to be...

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Who would ignore a giraffe?
Place it off-centre and 
perhaps I would, on a particularly grey day
where I was all but disappearing myself

"Please point it out to me," I might say,
all the colour returning to my face,
joie de vivre leaping into the essence of me
as you...

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chats rugissaient
ombres dans la
riviere retreci
trognes
unarming lignorance
laisse echanger nos yeux
et examinir scruter
les secretes de nos ames
submerger
vers lenfant a naitre
demain
ou es-tu...

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Lè yon fanm renmen ou
Ou pa ka fè anyen mal
Ou ka chame li ak yon ti chanson
Nan men ou, li pa bezwen anpil.

Lè yon fanm renmen ou
Mond lan sanble li trè bèl
Tout bagay anfò, an pinpan
Lè yon fanm adore ou.

Se tout ane a ki printan
Ti...

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Me ame agora enquanto
Eu posso te amar de volta
Me ame agora quando, à vontade
Eu posso acender e apagar o fogo da lanterna
Me ame agora enquanto, novamente
Eu posso expirar, inspirar e respirar facilmente
Me ame agora enquanto
Eu posso ver sua beleza claramente
Não espere por amanhã ou outro...

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Aqui ou ali,
diz a história:
ou se tem chuva e não se tem sol
ou se tem sol e não se tem chuva!

Diz a história 
Ou se calça a luva,
ou se põe o anel
um ou outro!


Diz a história 
Quem sobe nos ares
não fica no chão,
quem fica no...

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Domingo, Sol ou chuva

Empreendedora 
com garra 
e motivação,
mostra que 
na venda,
sempre tem
uma solução,
e assim, 
com paciência 
e determinação,
sol ou chuva,
sempre tem 
disposição
para fazer 
com um 
pouco
a mais,
mais e mais....

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