Long Fille Poems

 La Fête foraine de Scarborough (La Version complète)
 
      For the medieval English poet and Simon and Garfunkel 
-	In admiration -

Allez-vous à Scarborough fête foraine ?
(Sur la côte d'une...

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Les Protecteurs – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “The Protectors” by T. Wignesan

(Note: Oodgeroo never claimed to write poetry à la manière des poètes occidentaux; she said - without mincing words – her lines were sheer...

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She wades in until the water reaches her waist,
looks out and continues into the endless sea.
Her imagined long gown floats behind her.

Her little girl shoulder blades 
become hidden beneath the water.
Each time she raises her...

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Klacatoo – Translation of Kevin Gilbert ‘s « Klacatoo » by T. Wignesan

On nous avait coincé sur la rive de Lachlan
un endroit qui s’appelle Klacatoo
là où nous rassemblions au coucher du soleil
quand nous entendions le...

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Ever the gracious recipient of largesse!

Estrangement swiftly harries stylishly tailors
mine psyche courtesy family of origin, plus
eldest daughter, whose doth rage against this
human machine, albeit yours truly, beatle
browed, black crows, foo fighter (biological
daughter), a presumption aye...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 3 Dolores Huerta by T. Wignesan

3. Dolores Huerta

aucun coq n’y annonce la reveille:
les étudiants et les dirigeants des travailleurs 
font partie du piquet de grève contre les...

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A game of musical chairs has just begun in earnest. A pot and kettle band arrives 
through the dining rooms’ French doors following the Valentine Queen. A putrid pink 
flamingo with a croquet ball stuck...

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Neptune: 
I believe what I endowed the earth
with the swashing foreland when
the arogant waves strikes and take birth
of gentle ripples while flashing back
To the oceanic abyss, the sapphire peace. But
Where are you my marine fille?
Come...

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Natural Finery

Gazing out the window from a coffee shop, came an image that changed the world.  Like a breath of fresh air, light and refreshing, that could be immediately enjoyed in the lungs and...

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Les mots se heurtaient incapables de s’ordonner
Je ne me force pas oui je me force de m’exprimer 
Je sens ma main flétrie par un silence impérissable 
Est-il venu le temps de me venger ou d’extérioriser...

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La Fête foraine de Scarborough

    For the anonymous medieval poet

and Simon & Garfunkel - in admiration

                ...

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VERSET 1.

And I do, I do love you, and I do love you;
Quand je regarde dans tes yeux, je vois au fond de ton âme, ton âme;
Est-ce que cela vous surprend que je vous aime...

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Birds open the dawn with an offbeat show
Drop a many colored cherry at my window

I pick it up and look at it with a great surprise
It is purple, white and blue, -- with vivid eyes

I...

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Le Jardin De Ma Mere.


      A frayed straw hat protecting silvery grey,
      my mother got outside today!

      Yellow, green, and...

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Anna et le BAISER FRANÇAIS
 French Verse  Anna and the FRENCH KISS

Ahhh !! Ooh la-la-moi dame,
Pipi ah, madame.
 Fille, dis-tu nous.
 Poisson-langue.
 Un vœu profond.
 Un bonheur préféré, collant et concis
 En combinant cela....

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Ma langue française n'est pas assez bonne pour 
te dire ce que je veux tellement à dire. 
Les mots sont nécessaires pour tout l'amour, 
surtout pour le français: il va tiédir 
sans confessions très chaudes....

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Fair skin, light hair, bright eyes,
A future full of success and excitement,
A life of fulfillment, friends and family of adornment,
Where to go after school, what to do as an adult,
College parties, turning twenty-one, a future...

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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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J'entends encore votre voix 
Quelques nuits quand il pleut
Et quand tu parle, vos paroles sont plus belles
Que ceux de Dumas et de Voltaire

Je n’avais pas une chance avant vos yeux miroitants 
Votre petit sourire timide
...

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I’m drifting away from who I once was
Being a quick silver,
Turning into a hypocrite
Carping about the sense of becoming void
And contorted of turning pedantic

But then I sense a chime
A drone reminding me of the propaganda
Realising...

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Well now, beneath the darkest realms
In nightmarish gists, I am the one
Who instills fear and in putrescence I dwell
In variety, isocheimal ulteriority is all I've done

Laureled with the metallic lustres of death
And shining with the...

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FILLE JOLIE

I see the tall apartments as we pass
We all shudder, slowing to a halt
The bus conductor turns and stares
As he stops to collect more fares
This stop-start ride is not his fault
The Place d’Etoile packed...

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When I feel not equal to people
Should I of not wished to be different from day 1
The wave of acceptance the wave of feeling of being how
How I reveal my feelings or why and figure...

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A Girl on a Bridge

There she was, staring into the night
Paris lights shimmering in a soft glow
Her mind lost, twirling in tears
Confusion wrapping her in a warmth of fear

She dreams of a knife threw her...

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Translation



               ~Her Attentive Daughter~



Before winters sun; she awakes.
A nice, warm, shower, is her habit.
In plaid slippers to the kitchen she 
then...

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