Long Ans Poems

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, the last act
Happened to be miraculously on...

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The Deception of Free Verse: Dreams I, Translation of Etiemble’s L’imposture du vers libre by T. Wignesan 

(From René Etiemble’s only poetry collection: le Coeur et la cendre: soixante ans de poésie (the heart and...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s KRIM: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 - II by T. Wignesan

( This poem is from the collection, ESTUARIES: Poems 1989-91. Twickenham: Solaris, 1992, 62p. Pub. by Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt. Back...

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Nothing to hide*, Translation of a poem: “A coeur ouvert” by (René) Etiemble

		For Jeannine

(Later in life, Etiemble suppressed his first name, ostensibly on account of the accented “é”
 ending his first name and preceding the...

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There once existed, upon this  earth.
a people, happy~ not possessed with
Depravity, destruction of cities, murder 
and dearth.

But an evil being, infected fear mixed
with venom….arrogant, atheistic mankind.
He nuked their souls with fear, they became
both mentally...

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Than sings my soul my Savior God to Thee
How Great Thou art repeat 3X

Than sings my soul of joyful peaceful melodious harmony
Unto my Lord and my Savior God unto thee, how truly
Great thou are always...

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I was sitting there when I saw 
you looking my way. All I could 
do was blush and turn away. 
When I turned to look upon 
you, you had disapeared. I 
turned the other way...

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I was fed a brain scorpion tonight.
Small sting...  but a cute glimmer of the things to come.
Hypodermic needle pinning point blank on my frontal lobes-  
and other places deep and hidden between the...

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The Hay Meadow Creek divides my Parent's land
Its waters run clear and true
It then flows into the Prairie
Along untended Lincoln County lands.

The Prairie is a little wider
A little deeper too
Its banks are a little more...

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Choose,
Said the fairy,
As she glared at me
With disdainful eyes!

Choose to be saved
And to live here forever,
In a Christmas globe
Or to keep on agonising
In a world which gives no clues
As to when it can open its...

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For the 80 million Kyrgyz’s people
who had lived ever before
since the beginning of life, 
and for the 5 millions who are living now in our land,
for the immense number of others our relates
who continued lived,...

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As time slowly passes each day
While moments drag on every night
I sit here thinking how I can't do it
I can't just give up this fight
Wondering why I'm the one left here standing in the rain
Facing...

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Did you know that God has performed many miracles?
Quite the sight I bet, parting the Red Sea must have been a spectacle'
He did this so Israel would pay homage,
For God taken them out of bondage.

After...

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my wonders wonder how would it be
if God had made me an insect a flea
how short of life would life be
and all of God's creatures
i'd fear and flee
so small and fragile
not easy to see
crushed by...

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(TW : Abusive marriage )

So we are here in this garden less green than the ones you promised .

Oh you say this ? 
you the girl with eyes browner than the skin , 5 feet...

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Don't forget to remove the Bay leaves from the
pot.
Make it easier on yourself
put the bay leaves and rosemary sprig
in a cheese cloth.
I'm in most incline to agree
yet some deemed them useless
almond ash and hickory ash
was...

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Haikus by René Etiemble, with commentaries,  Translated by T. Wignesan 

(Taken from Etiemble’s only collection of poems (out of thousands which he burned in a fit of rage against the university in 1983): le...

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The Tree of
Knowledge 
So there's
electricity like
force fields around
the earth
Stemming from the
Earth's inner core
Where outside on the
grass in bare feet
Back to basics
having the Earth's
inner core recharge
you
To get into your own
inner core
To grow
Ans spread out ward
and up...

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A road to nowhere

A picturesque scene of trees turning bare


Fresh autumn scents filling the air

And a young woman on a journey traveling from here to there

 

With a slow, steady pace and tapping shoes

She...

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Seven Years Rachel*, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Sept ans Rachel by T. Wignesan

For seven years Rachel remains sealed
By the kiss she received from Jacob
For seven years she keeps her eyelashes lowered
Under the impact of their...

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You are shouting your complains,
While I'm screaming out of pain,
you are taking things for granted,
While I beg just to have it,

One ,two, and three,
I lived in a dilapidated shanty,
Three,four and five,
She was in white painted...

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I was standing in front of 
A small roadside tea vendor,
In a city called Guwahati.
It was a pleasant morning,
In that otherwise dusty metropolis.
While I was enjoying a cup of ginger tea,
Under an exceptionally clear blue...

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SURREAL ANS DAFT

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"Egin superbe a la robuste echine, par toi Marseille a pu au prix 
       d'un long effort, retirer des flots bleus, la celebre sardine 
    ...

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Oh!Sweeping tornado !A strong whirl wind of no descent.A subjugation from the 
devils realm.Your extent of destruction to lives and properties is inestimable.
Sweeping tornado!We are still thirsty for a suitable explanation of your source, 
course...

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