Hazarding a guess
he holds onto his inner rake
like a shining crucifix
raking leaves in his Autumn years
he considers poetry
keeping bees in their hives
is just as sweet as honey
a joy to convert
his favourite hidden hobby
he considers french slang
expensive bonbon candy,
then, next page, he reads:
"les bijoux indiscrets"
ravenous,
he psalms within the margin
Candide Diderot. '24
Categories:
bijoux, satire, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Tell you this again,
When you see
A shooting star,
Someone loves you,
Someone tells you
“Eat chocolates”
Offer jewelry,
Think of me, then,
Pineapple flavors,
Mango flavors,
On a distant island
There is happiness,
Tell you this again
When you see
A shooting star,
There’s someone who loves you.
Dites-vous ceci,
Quand vous voyez
Une étoile filante,
Quelqu’un vous aime,
Quelqu’un vous dit
Mangez des chocolats
Offrez des bijoux,
Pensez à moi, alors,
Parfum d’ananas,
Parfum de mangue,
Sur une ile lointaine
Il y a du bonheur,
Redites-vous ceci
Quand vous voyez
Une étoile filante,
Quelqu’un vous aime.
Categories:
bijoux, cute love, peace, star,
Form: Free verse
On the tides of words,
The eyes too light,
In the running of zebras,
I’m looking for it,
Under the wool, night dreams,
On the precious jewels,
The faces without worries,
I’m still looking for it,
On the torn heart,
By the Mayan treasures,
On the sleeping sun,
I’m looking for it,
In my nervous city,
In the fields of olive trees,
On the softened glass,
I’m looking for it,
In the bed of sources,
On the stopped trains,
On the docile clocks,
In the riddles of heaven,
I find it,
The happiness you’re running from.
Sur les marées de mots,
Les yeux trop légers,
Dans la course des zèbres,
Je le cherche,
Sous la laine, rêves nocturnes,
Sur les bijoux précieux,
Les visages sans soucis,
Je le cherche encore,
Sur le cœur arraché,
Par les trésors mayas,
Sur le soleil qui dort,
Je le cherche,
Dans ma ville nerveuse,
Dans les champs d’oliviers,
Sur le verre adouci,
Je le cherche,
Dans le lit des sources,
Dans les trains arrêtés,
Sur les horloges dociles,
Dans les énigmes du ciel,,
Je le trouve,
Le bonheur que vous fuyez.
Categories:
bijoux, appreciation, encouraging, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Have you ever met a creature of the swamp
the kind that makes his home in the DC bureaucracy
I hear there are hundreds of thousands of them
I shop at Macy's, so why haven't I met one
Perhaps I should visit them at home, I've thought
but getting soaking wet, I'd have to remove my ascot
(Perish the thought!)
O, what's the use? I just can't find this alleged 'swamp creature'
I'm off to see 'Alligators & Crocodiles' at the Bijoux ~ today's double feature
Categories:
bijoux, fantasy, humorous, political,
Form: Rhyme
Churning ominous dust, an angry sky pounded it's fists that ferocious afternoon.
Draping a charcoal blanket, brooding air suddenly darkened all brightness.
Threatening winds whipped thrashes on boulders and branches,
Spinning madly around, dizzy in it's vortex,
a tornado descended from funnel clouds.
Destruction everywhere, in vengeful rage
trembling trees uprooted, blown far away.
Rainsoaked birds fluttered, hurled at an insane trail
in malefic power and speed, Earth was decimated.
A wild pirouette storm, dancing and swirling
in turbulence of downpour, at last is calmed.
A carnage of broken pieces
in shattered shards of shrapnel...
But after a haze of hangover,
spreads again a bijoux night of fairy tales,
hiding behind those stars we count.
A new day again drips from the sun.
In a soft rustle of morning breeze
leaves again dance in little spirals.
13th June 2020
Sponsor Kai Michael Neumann
Contest Name Spiral
Categories:
bijoux, storm,
Form: Free verse
"Bijou"
Let me count the ways
Love translates in waves
108; Lovers duplicate
(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
"Blue & Green" / Virginia Woolf
https://youtu.be/csgUaZKtY7U
108
https://www.thezenlife.com/blogs/news/the-significance-of-the-number-108
Bijou
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bijoux
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bijou
Blue & Green / Woolf
https://interestingliterature.com/2019/08/a-short-analysis-of-virginia-woolfs-blue-and-green/
Categories:
bijoux, blue, green, romantic,
Form: Romanticism
Raindrops freeze in rainbow of opulence,
gracefully strung in finely-stranded rows.
Dressing branches in frosty ebullience,
crystal beauties, bijoux vibrancy glows.
Gracefully strung in finely-stranded rows,
lavishing tree limbs in prismatic gifts.
Crystal beauties, bijoux vibrancy glows,
careless light captured does heighten their risks...
Lavishing tree limbs in prismatic gifts,
generous brilliant facade they bequeath.
Careless light captured does heighten their risks,
soon they will deliquesce and fall beneath.
Generous brilliant facade they bequeath,
dressing branches in frosty ebullience,
soon they will deliquesce and fall beneath,
raindrops freeze in rainbow of opulence.
Susan Ashley
July 16, 2017
Written in prose: 12/10/07
Categories:
bijoux, imagery, nature, winter,
Form: Pantoum