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can't stop thinking
I can’t stop thinking,
That the earth is round, round
Like African women,
That the seagulls are white,
That dogs are crazy,
They bark at poets, writers,

I can’t stop thinking,
That...

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Categories: trop, city, crazy, nature,
Form: Free verse



The Sadness of the Brazilian Forests
I write the sadness of the Brazilian forests, 
About modern centuries and glass cities,
Tattooed Indians who are murdered too,
For a handle of gold or green...

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Categories: trop, nature, sad, society,
Form: Free verse
Les Anges Ne Mentent Pas
J'ai appris que jamais, les anges ne mentent

Car tout ce qui est faux, emprisonne nos âmes

Loin d'un ciel bien trop haut, dans un destin infame...

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© Gg Jj  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trop, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Maybe Spanish
J'apprends le français en ce moment
parce que j'ai l'intention de voyager à Paris.
Je ne parle pas couramment le français.
J'ai découvert Le Lac il y a...

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Categories: trop, adventure, black love, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bye Bye For Now - Adieu Ma Dear
Adieu Ma Dear

Puisque tu es arrivée 
     trop tard dans cette vie
En trainant trop dans l’autre
			dans l’oubli

Arrivée seulement
	   ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trop, destiny, fantasy, farewell, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Les Protecteurs - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's the Protectors By T Wignesan
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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trop, bullying, character, conflict, culture,
Form: Free verse
It's Too Early In the Gray Sky - From French
No one in this morning
The road is deserted,
It's too early under the gray sky,

The veins of my hands,
Salient hands on the wheel
The look Elevated

The white...

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Categories: trop, anger, car, dog, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member L'Assimilation Non Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Assimilation No By T Wignesan
L'Assimilation – Non! Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Assimilation – No !” by T. Wignesan

Born Kathleen Jean Mary RUSKA on November 3, 1920, in the North...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trop, anti bullying, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan

Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trop, america, art, creation, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Voila Part Ii
Can intimacy be labeled as de trop?
I don't think. My sister offers me critique
Of such silly actions! But I still crave more!
Our nights together were...

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Categories: trop, adventure, journey, love, lust,
Form: Lyric
Looking For the Traces of Vanished Light
He searches in the shady sides,
traces of vanished light,
a drift of the felt,
all of nuances and transitions.

Perhaps is it too early;
cold dawn maintains suspended
the pulsation...

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Categories: trop, absence, emotions, heart, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Si La Vie Demande Ca By the Groupe Native
Translated: Si la vie demande ça by Laura and Chris Mayne by T. Wignesan.

If Life would not wish it otherwise
 
[Note: The two sister French...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trop, 7th grade, french, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Decisions Part 1
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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Categories: trop, life,
Form: Free verse
Une Grande Armee De Moi
Une grande armée de moi!


 J'ai été debout où tu m'as laissé
 Priant pour que tu viennes me chercher 
Mais maintenant, j'ai trouvé mon souffle...

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© Moein Jr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trop, depression, dream,
Form: Quatrain
La Guerre Folle
La guerre folingue a largué des bombes sur un cimetière
Les morts,trop absorbés à savonner leurs péchés d'hier,
Ont d'abord pris le bruit pour un tonitruant tonnerre
Nonchalants,ils...

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Categories: trop, abuse, allusion, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

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