Long Cinq Poems

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...

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* For basketball legend Kevin Garnett *


Intensity ... defined
excuses were for gods and gamblers
(lesser giants with fairer feuds)
HE ... was of a wholly-invested mettle and mind
the conscript of a checkered court
dauntless defender of glass and...

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Un bruit si plaisant

venez de la petite fontaine,

Je regarde dehors au-dessus du côté du balcon, 

cinq histoires du sable mou ci-dessous,

au-dessus de la courbe douce de l'horizon,

au delà de ce que mon oeil peut voir,

un...

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Je m'appelle Ivan
Je ne suis pas un étudiant
Je suis un garçon solitaire
Et un Légionnaire de la France. 

J’ai écrit ce poème
Parce que je sens quelque pour toi
Avec le temps tu es devenue
Une grande personé pour...

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63        The noises of Paris


There comes an age and wisdom,
When it is more interesting 
To listen to Shostakovich’s symphony number five,
Than to be interested in the noises of...

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Dream of 
cotton candy 
and ticker-tape parades 
when we finely win this grievant 
long war.

Do it! 
But how can I! 
There has been no training, 
no understanding of what I 
must do.

One pie? 
Just one...

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Let’s not make this so little mistake,
We don’t have to agree with Marie or Catherine,
To love a girl, she has other assets,
Her tantalizing lipstick, I think so much of her,

We don’t have to agree with...

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MY IRRESISTIBLE BROWN COFFEE 

I will drink to your love. 
Start with my brown coffee some forehead kisses
just to show you my abundance of respect
till my lips hyperbolically becomes crested on it. 
I will drink...

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Paris by Learjet

Not to be provocative with opulence would be preposterously insane
Being obscenely wealthy makes one open to more fun and games
Embrace the pompous lascivious life style with me once again
If you are going to...

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THE Union Fruitful,Four Before HIM TWO Boys TWO Girls.                          ...

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Travel     
          this garden path
        grown in pixelations 
 worldly colors lain before me
 ...

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With whole heart, I wish to impart
warm feelings, from across the many miles
as I tickle your funny bone with voice.
Laughter? You haven’t a choice
So, my dearest friend, just smile!

I need to mention with good intention
that...

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