Long Decently Poems

Translation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan

Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et les adragans
accumulent leurs oeuvres et jours:
La toile noire de Courbet
un...

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Red light, the neon beer sign on the distant wall reflects off the long expanse of polished bar top, overpowering the quiet brown wood. It’s after lunch, only a few people in to stir the...

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This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education, 
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simple fright,
I use jasmine...

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Enktantas sat bolt upright,
in his hut near the temple walls,
he lived just below Olympus,
worked there beneath the mountain tall.

He worked to serve the oracles
who would augur the will of gods,
Enktantas was no holy man,
but paid...

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Now young ladies arrive at the meeting,
Now wearing clothes that are quite
 exposing bodily parts,
Now the chairman before he can tell them the agenda,
Now he is looking at them astonishing and he makes them sit...

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the wedding cake: $16,000-$80,000
cleaning of the streets after the wedding in london: $64,000
the flowers: $320,000-$800,000
pre-wedding hideaway (the goring hotel hosting middleton’s family & friends): $552 a night
for double rooms
middleton’s wedding dress: $64,000-$434,000
the engagement ring: valued...

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Jogging on the roadside,  
With my friends at my side. 
He moves every inch with us... 
I almost forget we were four. 
Seeing him as one; we discuss
Along the line to the very core
Before...

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Please read the rules above. Obey,
Lest you receive a quick “NA.”
So many fail to read my rules,
So many fail to heed them. Fools!

There’s quite a few, yes, I agree,
Take note of number fifty-three,
Which warns you...

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Well thank God they left. Nice local sports bar; I sat close to an elderly man, probably 80 years old, and a younger guy that was his son, as I gathered from their conversation. The...

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They suddenly barged in their tanks and trucks
Covered in various armaments of war.
Their vehicles droned, piercing the silence,
Cutting deep wounds in that fertile land,
And desecrating the once sacred ground.

Rockets flew like meteors across the skies;
Bullets...

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Lately I’ve been a little lost in crevasses 
And unable to stop the type of thought that crosses. 
Ashamed at actions recent, decently embarrassed,
Even though forgiven by those who are better than good and fairest....

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Have you ever watched your world turn on you in numbers,
take turns to put burns on you without slumber.
Observed true colours 
of sisters and brothers 
from other mothers
and your siblings too 
whilst you had no...

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My wonderful wife...

Since we married, our life journey sails smoothly
step by step with out any barrier or trouble
We walk side by side as a husband and wife
We know the day when we started our life
Those...

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(Dedicated to Oluyemisi Janet Akinwande)
 
God empowered you mother to be a channel
Through which I found my way from heaven to earth
What a great privilege to come to the world through you
What a great privilege...

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Shall I count the burdens? 
Shall I count the pains? 
A heart that is troubled 
With no one to call a friend. 

Shall I regret as accursed 
Or accept things in peace? 
A willful soul...

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How the police acted was a terrible thing 
to that unsuspecting citizen named Rodney King.
What they did on that video was definitely not right.
I don’t blame you for getting up to fight.
This incident has caused...

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Boko haram terrorists

Times without number
A neighbourhood unsettling with a bomber,
Their grabbed territories
Zones of a thousand worries!

A people in panic
Piteously plan their escapes route,
Their pursuers, a manic,
Who must them funnily shoot!

It’s a horizon of unthinkable sleep
And...

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My birthday my birthday, the day has come
On her own back, carrying little memories
The memories of angst, storms come home
My birthday precedes, the possible labour

Holding my tummy, turning to sob
Holding my back, anxious to rob
For...

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Abiding by the rules I comply
Believing they help every gal and guy…
Consider my excuse not a foolish alibi
Duty-bound, to policies I rely...

Efficient and effective driver can’t deny
Following orders does intensify
Great orderliness upon avenues long and...

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I’m blunt because The Universe rolled me up this way
Once you get a hit of this, your life will never be the same. 
It took a while for me to find the light, but I...

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Money when is greedily accumulated
Even though prosperity is created
We fail to enjoy the presence of it
We may not celebrate it even a bit

That attitude will grow like forest-fire
We may not stop firmly that desire
As our...

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Is this the land fit for heroes
Promised by the Great War,
Or, just one where those with
Take ever more and more.
I’m  just a working man
Brought up to accept 
My lowly role in life
To treat with...

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Intentions fall akin to ashes on the pyre.
Of our procrastination quixotic fire
We've got a penchant for delay and distraction.
A puerile fear of routine and reaction.

But in our deepest hearts, we glow.
Time is a precious commodity...

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I was paving towards the old banyan tree
Where the moonlight was cursed 
To these solitary paths my heart was unversed
Fear embraced and didn`t let me go free.

The hanging roots were a witch`s hair
The mournful leaves...

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Stomp Stomp 
Why are stomping?
You don't even live here!
Mutter Mutter
Would you stop muttering?
It's not making yourself look too sane
Stomp Stomp Skip
Watch out for that boot toe
We wouldn't want you falling on your crazy face
Mutter Mutter...

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