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grist for the mill

...O pure hearts, never forget my words,
When you listen to this pretentious, you give him
grain to be milled,
When you look at this fool, you give him
Grist for the mill.

Thus is the world made,...
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Categories: cet, 9th grade, appreciation, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Ship Came Like A Flying Horse or Homage to the Famous Poet Franketienne

...The ship came like a flying horse, at an inexact time
Our brother-sailor, from the Pantheon of Poets, was on board
Jean Pierre Basilic Dantor Frankétienne D’argent
Who wrote, in haste, ...
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Categories: cet, celebration, eulogy, farewell, journey,
Form: Free verse



LOngfellow bridge

...Was it the Longfellow Bridge? Massachusetts?
One night we crossed a bridge on foot,
Dominique, my travel friend this summer 1989,
And seated we contemplated Boston at night,
Summer was hot, the c...
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Categories: cet, adventure, confidence,
Form: Free verse

Deux Oiseaux Sur Un Arbre

...Au début de février, le changement saisonnier a peu avancé, 
Le chaud encore timide, le froid à peine enfui,
Un arbre se ressent du manque de fleur et de fruit
Il n'y a que des faibles feuilles cl...
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Categories: cet, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

A La Professeure Montespieu

...Sur les mêmes toiles, peindre les sentiments de souvenir.
Sous d'autres cieux, semer les espoirs d'avenir.
Quels que soient les environs, quel que soit le chemin,
On te voit toujours tendant sans ...
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Categories: cet, appreciation, eulogy, teacher, teachers
Form: Rhyme



Une Homme Pour La Vie

...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-reto...
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Categories: cet, emotions, faith, love, men,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTranslation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 5 Homage To Humphrey Jennings By T Wignesan

...Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 5 Homage to Humphrey Jennings by T. Wignesan

                                                             for Elaine Randell

à quoi sert le t...
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Categories: cet, ocean, pollution, sea,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTranslation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 2 With Commentary By T Wignesan

...Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 2 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry 

Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eri...
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Categories: cet, america, angst, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTranslation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 3 By T Wignesan

...Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Three by T. Wignesan

"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuit...
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Categories: cet, art, literature, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Tantine

...Ne t’inquiète pas, un jour tu les retrouveras
Ceux qui nous ont quitté et qui ne sont plus la
Dis-toi que tu as gagné un ange gardien
Qui te protège dans cet environnement incertain 
Ne verse plu...
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Categories: cet, angel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLe Rat Noir - Translation of Iris Clayton's the Black Rat By T Wignesan

...Le Rat Noir – Translation of Iris Clayton’s « The Black Rat » by T. Wignesan

(Iris Clayton of the Wiradjuri tribe in New South Wales was born in 1945. One of nine children, six of the elder chi...
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Categories: cet, discrimination, hero, political, war,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberLe Probleme Avec Des Blancs - Translation of Jim Everett's the White Man Problem By T Wignesan

...Le Problème avec des Blancs – Translation of Jim Everett’s « The White Man Problem » by T. Wignesan

(Jim Everett, Mawbana Pleregannana, b. 1942 on Flinders Island, Tasmania, has had a chequered...
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Categories: cet, discrimination, power, prejudice, racism,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberKlacatoo - Translation of Kevin Gilbert's Klacatoo By T Wignesan

...Klacatoo – Translation of Kevin Gilbert ‘s « Klacatoo » by T. Wignesan

On nous avait coincé sur la rive de Lachlan
un endroit qui s’appelle Klacatoo
là où nous rassemblions au coucher du sole...
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Categories: cet, death, discrimination, grandmother, grief,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberDaisy Bindi - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Daisy Bindi By T Wignesan

...Daisy Bindi – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s « Daisy Bindi » by T. Wignesan

L’esclavage à Roy Hill, quelle honte profonde misère:
Les noirs obligés à travailler sans paie l’année durant,
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Categories: cet, discrimination, freedom, inspirational, leadership,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDeath In France

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So shocking was that news from France,
we stared at TVs in a trance;
no way to understand.
Those young and old without a chance
were taken down in wide expanse.
Such horror had been planne...
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Categories: cet, death, grief, war,
Form: Tail-rhyme

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