Best Une Poems
Thoughts froth, crest, and merge through ocean’s
indiscriminate wandering, no recognizable
beginning or end like smoke on the wind,
melding, melting, fusing coalescing.
Reality a fragile grasp held on
a two-dimensional canvas once white,
clean, stretching taunt, taunt as the
implausible reality of our existence-
existence standing, stranding, hair, fur, frond's
weaving about crowns of trees in rye fields.
Everything alive, writhing, wanting,
needing, thriving, dying-skin crawling reality
like orange oil on the hollow cheeks of despair.
Pain, defies, belies, confusion's frame stretching
upon illusion's claim-eye to hand, hand to brush
the clean, white, membrane between brain pan and
paint pan. No recognizable beginning or end
melding, melting, fusing, coalescing-gone.
Self-Portrait with Fur Cap, Bandaged Ear & Pipe
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890 Dutch)
First Published in Five Poetry Magazine 2013
Categories:
une, art,
Form:
Free verse
To a woman
(In this traslation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet : « A une femme »,
I have retained the rhyme scheme to the letter, I hope. T. Wignesan)
To you these lines in faith must console I address :
A sweet dream laughs and cries in your large eyes through
The purity of your soul which is wholly good, to you
These lines from the depths of my turbulent distress.
Just that, Alas ! the nightmare which haunts me hideous
Allows no respite and furious, mad and jealous continue
Multiplying themselves like wolves in a funeral retinue
Hanging on to my fate which at their mercy they harrass !
Oh ! how I suffer, I suffer hopelessly, so mean
That the initial whimperings of the first man
Banished from Eden a mere eclogue to the cost I wean. !
And the minor discomforts you may endure in comparison
Are like the swallows in the sky on an afternoon
- My Dear – make the beautiful warm September day a boon !
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Categories:
une, lost love,
Form:
Sonnet
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 blessé
Et ma seconde peau qui est déchirée
Eh bien, je sais ce que tu pensais
Quand tu m'as cassé en morceaux
Tu pensais de me regarder s'effacer
Mais j'ai donné chaque morceau un nom
Un de moi est plus sage,
Un de moi est plus fort
Un autre est un combatant,
Et il ya mille et un visages de moi!
Bienvenue sur ma révolution sacrée
Tous tes murs vont s'effondrer Cette fois,
tu auras un goût du perdre comlpet Cette fois,
la table va tourne en fait
Je vois un aperçu de la reconnaissance
Ta meilleure décision de l'heur
Il est désormais ta pire erreur
Oui c'est trop tard pour ton renaissance
Alors, comment tu te sens?
De comprendre que je vais te battre
Que je peux te vaincre
Que ce sont les plus doux pour moi
Maintenant que je suis plus sage
Maintenant que je suis plus fort
Maintenant que je suis un combattant
Et il ya mille et un visages de moi
Je me lèverai contre toi
Il ya mille et un visages de moi
Pourque tu m'as cassé chaque fois
Tu va affronter une grande armée de moi!!!
Categories:
une, depression, dream,
Form:
Quatrain
All I could afford
Was loitering at Stu Wards
Having a draft
Rooty tooty in beer craft
When suddenly
It was not funny
A feeling I was done
No longer welcome
It was twilight gleaming
Star struck with meaning
Then like it was on cue
Supporter fan Echo Zulu
Exclaimed Woo Hoo
Leaving these resentful two
Screaming critically boo boo
This attitude made me leave
After wiping my foul mouth on me sleave
Headed then to an Italian kitchen
Hour close to be witching
Stomach needing protection
Pizza Bianca was the late-night selection
Winning the food fetish election
Took some time
Enjoyed the dine
Before taking a joy ride
No needing a guide
Up the scenic rout
To the twin lights where I was going to shout
From the paved cliff viewing defined Corniche
Independent from any financial commitment leash
Making a wish
Dreaming a gigantic fish
Will work with my look
Baited on the photogenic hook
Still at peace
About the decision giving me a release
On their terms
Being concern
Staying firm
What was learned
Feeling burned
Interpreting the modern games rules
Written by fools
Stating to have success
Reported in the press
You need fortune and fame
For everyone to know your name
Standing here I do declare
Showing a glaring stare
Sending out a dare
Stating nothing can compare
Since success came to me fair
And square
Leaving power players professionally scared
Categories:
une, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
J'entends encore votre voix
Quelques nuits quand il pleut
Et quand tu parle, vos paroles sont plus belles
Que ceux de Dumas et de Voltaire
Je n’avais pas une chance avant vos yeux miroitants
Votre petit sourire timide
Et vos cheveux d’or comme une chute d’eau
Qui brille plus brillants que le soleil
C’est un mystère pourquoi personne ne voit
Comment chaque pouce de vous
Des cheveux d’or aux ongles de pieds rouges comme les rubis
Est plus belle que les paroles peuvent décrire
Cela, c’est vraiment un honte de chaque homme
Pour le soleil avec toute sa sagesse
N’est ni astucieux
Ni drôle comme vous
Et il ne peint pas les tapisseries
Que vous pouvez peindre sur le canevas
Et dans mes rêves
Où je souhaite encore que je
Puisse me souvenir ce que j'aurais fait de tenir votre main juste une fois
A caresser les rayons de soleil de vos cheveux
A goûter doucement les lèvres florales et à regarder aux yeux qui volent le cœur
Sans crainte, sans faiblesse Et maintenant, sans regret.
Mais maintenant je sais que je
Peux regarder vers le soleil
Avant que je puisse savoir
Vote beauté entière
Categories:
une, love,
Form:
Free verse
An older woman in theory only,
still fiery (I refuse to say Hot)
I've kept my looks, but my waist-
line? Not!
Categories:
une, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
A strange and powerful thing ----
to not know what shall come,
where winds shall carry thee,
and time turns many a calendar,
withered with wings of days
some
light, others
grey;
A Great Lover too far away....
(many venus' between)
to not feel their whisper
Save through the long-line
of cold techno-echoes;
A hunger shall not be filled,
lay me down with the voracious lion ----
eat my emptiness....
who can feast long and forever;
she is gone
Categories:
une, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Stylo à la main
Je n’écris pas mon destin ni la fin
Mais cette aventure dans le train
Ce train de la vie que J’aime à l’infini
Beaucoup de détours tous les jours
Mais il n’y a pas d’aller-retour
Alors je prends avec moi cet amour
Pour le partager tout au long de mon parcours
Cette envie de voir l’espoir danser
Dans les yeux de ce marginalisé
Ecoutez
Ne faisons pas de lui un expulsé
La vie vaut la peine d’être vécue
C’est pour cela qu’il a survécu
Donnons-lui cette source d’énergie
Qui fera de lui un homme pour la vie.
Maria Crown
Categories:
une, emotions, faith, love, men,
Form:
Rhyme
Les bras du cœur sont grands ouvert
C'est le temps dit chanté
Venez en profiter
Lance-moi vos sourires
Je vais même vous faire rire
Notre destin est libre
Voilà, l'équilibre
Dieu protège et rejoint
Seigneur, je te retiens
Au fond de mon cœur
Où demeures
La profondeur
Merci Seigneur
La suprématie
Bonjour mes nouveaux amis
Categories:
une, blessing, destiny, faith, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
The sparkling melody mirrors the waves
Of the peaceful Aegean Sea.
With notes floating to my rousing mind,
Sailing boats is all I see.
With winds flowing, boats sail forward
Towards cliffs of jagged rock,
From the town on the bluff I watch
Boats drift towards the dock.
That's the scene I always see
Hearing Ravel’s boat on the sea.
The memory is recalled so simply,
My summer in Santorini.
Categories:
une, imagery, sea, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
The fragrant air settles
Overtaking us
The sun behind us
The sound of water
Ripples and waves
In our ears
As we sit
On the wooden dock
Darkness surrounds
Leaving us
Alone with the stars
Midnight sky
Shiny starlight
Brings us heaven
Beneath
A cover of velvet.
Categories:
une, emotions, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Against light source well crafted
tubular structure appended with eyepiece gazing
offers viewer eye-opening, mind boggling
instantaneously birthing then vanishing
resplendent myriad colorful
geometric awesome shifting shapes
hypnotizing sight seer into a whirling gigolo
where multifaceted fractals display pin-wheeling
arithmetically perfect triangulate squarely
with proportionate arcs astounding
blind faith on microscopic scale
analogous to cosmic big bang spellbinding
mankind from time immemorial
when her/his gaze turned heavenward
peering into azure vault –
one macrocosmic hint
per origin from when on-looking
proto-humans ruminated inscrutably
enamored at the spectacular eminence grise
forever holding mystery of universe
evolution in shroud of secret
continually mystifying one generation
after another until...
twenty first century astrophysicists
begin to unravel evolutionary tale
writ small on planet earth yet storied tome
pried open from scientific revolutions
enabling birth of cosmos honed with more
fine tuned precision to zero in
precise second, whence explosion filled void
nebulous material coalescing
into rudimentary galactic masses generating
vast surfeit of globular structures evincing
conically swirling
millennial futuristic clear cut entities
upon which one – namely gaia
finds this sole member *****sapiens
reveling in his makeshift primitive contrivance
teasing ocular sense with visual orgasms
begetting thought provoking questions
into this eternal wonderment
that perchance some intelligent deity
willfully rotates planet like some plaything
synonymous with mere mortal
peering into magic of kaleidoscope
whereby generic one primate in love with words!
As subtle obvious
from above and bellow doth burst
this non quitting chap doth tick cursed
with avidity, cupidity, electricity durst
flickr ring, google ling, and high five ving first
to flout conformity, and will when
coffin doth bear me away,
lest cremation mine ashes get disbursed
aspiring to wax poetic fur better
or hud duh livery wurst.
Categories:
une, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
WE KNEAD SUCH & SUCH:
TO COME DOWN HERE
AND SERANDE THESE
DRIFTING LOVERS
MAYBE THE SWEET SOUNDS
OF MUSIC
MIGHT INSPIRE THEM
TO IRON OUT THERE
DIFFERANCES
BASSOONS
OBOE
FLUTES
DRUMS
GUITERS
KETTLERS
CONGO'S
CLARINETS
VIOLENS
CHELLOS
PIANO
SWEET RANGES OF BACKGROUND SINGERS
SUCH AND SUCH A PLACE
AT SUCH AND SUCH
A TIME
TWO WILLINGFUL LOVERS
WHO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
OOH OOH, OOH
SUCH AND SUCH A PLACE
AND SUCH AND SUCH A TIME
SUCH AND SUCH A PLACE
AND SUCH AND SUCH A TIME!
Categories:
une, guitar, music,
Form:
Ballad
sorry to say but you know the way
que les choses viennent voler à vous
like glass shattering upon hitting a tree
tout en volant très rapidement afin dans votre voiture
slamming into a tree & just barely
vous traîner en sortir vivant.
what you do know is this: that this
n'est pas une sortie. ce que vous irrite, c'est ceci:
that you have no exit except the last
& une finale. ce que vous irrite, c'est que
all the attempts at escape which this
monde ne peut vous donner ne vous prendra que
you just so far before you have to
s'écrouler tout de suite à la très
beginning.
Categories:
une, life,
Form:
Free verse
Une rose
Et une promise
Toujours dans l’amour
Les honneurs
Et des gloires chantaient
Toi… chérie, j’attendrai
Categories:
une, hope, life, lost love,
Form:
Lyric