Quick break-up Senryus.
Pick one to quickly, cut that old
relationship cord:
I'm sorry, say what?
I can't hear you (confused look)
- we’re breaking up.
You’re the guy that
every girl at our school wants
- it's their lucky day.
It's time that we took
our relationship to the
previous level.
I still cherish the
initial misconceptions
I had about you.
.
.
Songs for this:
Lovefool by The Cardigans
Nothing Can Stop Us by Saint Etienne
Forever by X-Cetra
Categories:
etienne, boyfriend, break up, humor,
Form: Senryu
I'm lonely; you too; Yet, this need not be the cause,
You love me, vice versa; We're a collage of art!
Hearts ours, hot magnets, get attracted; Pulled; no pause,
Sensations, like wild horses, gallop; Let us halt!
My being turns brutal; do not clutch my feelings!
Let us loot these locking looks that freeze our heartbeat!
Body less-touched; hearts-nursed; Platonic-pack-dealings,
Should be our love; not lava-violent lust-heat...
Let's love, like lovebirds; body-heart pure, genuine!
Love isn't a ferine impulse! Mars-Venus union!
Elemental! Masculine meeting Feminine!
Near-far; joy-pain! It's a symbol of full fusion!
Heart full; mind thrill; my life on lips to you I give!
My all, soothing my path, I know, for me you live!
(I have imagined a possible communication by Anna with Etienne before she implanted her First French Kiss. As far as I understand the novel, it's a gift given in totality)
24 August 2021
Anna And The French Kiss Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose
Categories:
etienne, feelings, kiss, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
Like emperor Constantine
You were a convert
to Catholicism on the deathbed.
Fascinated by Thomas Acquinas
and your other heroes:
Etienne Gilson, Jacqes Maritain,
Martin D’Arcy.
You considered yourself a pagan
and wrote a book,
“How to Think About God”,
as a guide for others.
You demonstrate God as the exnihilator
and you were not involved
with mixtures of truth and error –
particularly the moral
philosophy of Kant.
Categories:
etienne, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The last time I saw Paris
The lights had vanished from the skyline.
She sat quite calmly,
Speaking in a common tongue,
Words that soon dissolved like my intentions.
Her eyes met mine
Then turned away towards the moon.
I sat alone in midnight's room,
Lost in thought and memory;
Dreaming of what might have been,
Pleased with what will never be.
Copyright © 1997 -2018 by Benjamin Toney. All rights reserved.
Image credit: Etienne Laurent/EPA
Categories:
etienne, nostalgia, paris, woman,
Form: Free verse
(Dedication: For Sarah and Stephane Oudet
on the arrival of your baby boy. Congratulations!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Embrace fond grace in lovely feel,
Touch a warm light where beauty blooms;
Intent sweet space with love that heals,
Endear pure sight where rainbow rooms;
Now and here grow with truth that speaks,
Note splendour near where joy funds peace;
Explore life's show as grandeur peaks.
Decree bold cheer in gentle ease,
Opt in each page a life of zest,
Nurture the way of happy play.
Offer to stage what works kind fest,
Use then each day fine wit that stays;
Dream your own style in journey grand,
Exult bright rays where right prompts sway;
Trust in a smile to touch each friend.
Leon Enriquez
29 June 2016
Singapore
Categories:
etienne, allusion,
Form: Sonnet
A gasp for breath,
a silent moan,
burbled underwater tones.
My evil has of yet not shown,
but soon I shall be drowning Joan.
With constant pressure on her neck,
she scratches claws and tries to kick,
becoming underwater sick,
while wishing she were home.
My evil has of yet not shown,
but soon I shall be drowning Joan.
Flesh of pale to turn to blue,
flushing out all fear she knew,
something in this sick is true.
No tears for no more sadness.
Has of now she floats alone,
for I have finished drowning Joan...
*Posted with a special thanks to Janice Etienne*
saint cynosure ( Ken Bennight )
Categories:
etienne, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Blaise Pascal awaits his last call
beneath Saint Etienne-du-Mont's tall
columns and old rood screen. God's nature,
pray, ups the odds on his last wager.
Categories:
etienne, religion,
Form: Clerihew