Long Eric Poems
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Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 by T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan
33. on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime un homme est maintenant en train d’aider/ la police avec...
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Categories:
america, conflict, culture, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
eric, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 by T WignesanTranslation 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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Categories:
america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's 28th Legal: Letter Jan 2, 1966 by T Wignesan
Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)
January 2,...
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Categories:
america, art, creation, culture, music, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentythird Legal by T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s Twentythird Legal by T. Wignesan
Le vingt-troisième légal
pendant la guerre le peuple devient obéissent de nouveau
plein du respect (et) de la confiance les enfants naïfs dans la foi
la gouvernance nécessaire ...
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Categories:
america, anti bullying, anxiety, military, war,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part 1 by T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part One by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...
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Categories:
eric, imagery, introspection, literature, philosophy, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Two by T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Two by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...
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Categories:
eric, art, creation, literature, philosophy, word play, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's A Faithful Private - 7 -excerpts from Notes on Poetics by T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan
(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...
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Categories:
eric, england, poetry, political, power,
Form:
Free verse
The Canopy and EconomySun and traffic - day economy.
Six a.m. drive to plywood mill. Too tired
to be angry. Each day a step
toward death. What is being accomplished? The
small satisfactions
within each day. Book consciously read.
And frustrations. Package dropped, honey...
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Categories:
eric, baby, day, history, jobs, teacher, tree, wind,
Form:
Verse
Is there an Exclusive All-in-One Principle
‘ In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes...
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Categories:
eric, philosophy, death, art, dark, art, dark, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Translation of Eric Mottram's TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part 4 by T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN - Part Four by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis,...
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Categories:
eric, literature, political, rights, society, time,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's 1922 Section 1 in Earth Raids 1976 by T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan
for David Attoe
Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’
Wittgenstein in Zettel
laissez pendre la graisse sans cou
où la tête...
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Categories:
america, culture, earth, word play, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
Letters To The LadyTroop ships loading, crowded docks
Mums and sisters waving off
Go with keepsakes, golden locks
Some men hug while many doff
Eric, soldier single stands
Beryl, lonesome widow cares
Many kissing holding hands
Eric stands and Beryl dares
Bump the soldier, make excuse
Apologizing...
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Categories:
eric, mother son, war, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's HOMAGE TO PAUL ELUARD by T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s HOMAGE TO PAUL ELUARD by T. Wignesan
(Note: Here, I retain EM’s translations into English from Paul Eluard’s poems and his source language quotations from “this vital spirits…” onwards, for, according...
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Categories:
eric, devotion, eulogy, french, relationship, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's A Faithful Private - 1 with Commentary by T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 1 by T. Wignesan
...
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Categories:
addiction, america, freedom, political, war,
Form:
Free verse
A View From A WindowThe dawn unfolds beyond my fractured windowpane
and breezes tease while drapes, like serpents, slip aside
exposing worlds that race and run aground, insane,
displaying scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and hide.
Outside, the streets are stark...
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Categories:
eric, society,
Form:
Rhyme
force for gooda force for good
(for john coltrane and ahmed obafemi
based on ‘trane’s treatment of ‘nature boy’)
“…I wanna be a force for good…”
-John Coltrane
…there was a man…
a very brave, enchanted man…
and he spoke of many things…
peace...
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Categories:
eric, appreciation, dedication, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's TWENTYEIGHTH LEGAL by T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s TWENTYEIGHTH LEGAL (Part One) by T. Wignesan
N.B. If any one is interested in reading the continuation of the extracts of letters that Eric Mottram wrote from America during 1965-66 to...
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Categories:
america, creation, culture, film, race, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The True Story Of ArielThe True Story Of Ariel
You know the story 'bout Ariel
The one that’s on the Disney cereal
Who came to the happy soppy ending
With the prince and herself winding up kissing?
Well, it’s about time you knew the...
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Categories:
eric, funny,
Form:
I do not know?
Stop writing Literature, You garrulous Indian for Eric Mottram (1924 - 1995)*
a life of toil for the man in the centre
a hub in the peripheral tireless wheel
where he go then where he go this...
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Categories:
eric, celebrity, people, words, work, , literature,
Form:
Elegy
WELL WORTH WAITING IN PART 2 - COLLABORATIONEric’s revitalised me and my home
Over his body my fingers would roam
He’s great at fixing and gluing
Expert at banging and screwing
I’m so happy that I sparkle like chrome
All my friends are pretty jealous of...
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Categories:
eric, boyfriend, humorous, jealousy,
Form:
Limerick
To those that say All Lives Matter when we say Black Lives MatterYou say all lives matter
Bringing up all these colors
Like red, white, orange, and blue
But when a black life is taken, where on Earth are you?
Where's your sympathy and support when the takers of our...
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Categories:
black african american, life, poetry, race, racism,
Form:
Rhyme
damn this is hardMy mirror breaks, I pick up a shard,
But find it bizarre that all I see is nothing but scars,
My veins filled with black tar, shaking, beaten and starved,
I carve your name to my arm,...
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Categories:
eric, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Classic Vinyl Love Poem
The radio plays their song
And two hearts beat as one
To the rhythm of a tune they call their own.
The gold and platinum vinyl spins
Creating the sound where love begins.
If only for the moment, they have...
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Categories:
eric, hope, love, music,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part 3 by T WignesanTranslation 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 discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...
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Categories:
eric, art, literature, metaphor, philosophy, word play,
Form:
Free verse