Long Innocences 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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You can push me I will not fall
You can haunt me in everyway
I will never crawl through that door
As I am me the woman is full of spirit
If you can not see you are blinded...

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A hundred jabs demand a hundred more
but still you die and are mocked deplore
Restrictions to control every inch of your life
depression and loneliness from the strife
Faith is shackled churches, temples, mosque closed
worship and prayer marks...

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Young girl watches as her mother is raped
The blood in her body runs cold 
Her fear is shown with every tear
Noone there to stop the crulity that is taking over
A village being cleansed of culture
As...

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I see the tears
Falls from the eyes of the innocences
I see the guts 
It’s moving swiftly into waste

There’s no place to hide
The war has already begun 
It’s the rise and fall of a kingdom
The management...

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Heart to home the core is where the heart lays
As the music is played the moment of two a beating of souls
A time that is created of fated beings to be twined
A pull so strong...

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A girl with love a heart that lit all around
As the music played we see you still, in your dance
A spirit that was alive that was taken to soon
Your beauty that that still surounds stays...

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I hide behind a smile day by day
No way can I leave it away it has to stay
A fear of fear itself  means I will descend
The smile helps my being mend from torturous times
Crimes...

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I wonder why I wonder how 
You can abandon the child you made
His flesh is your flesh 
His mind is the innocences of you
His tiny hands never to hold you 

I can forgive what you...

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As we walk along the riverside 
A sound of the innocences of melody 
The waters that sing to the naked ear 
The colour of finest crystal sparkles to the eye
Stepping stones like a puzzle to...

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Take my hand and see what you have found
Run through the meadows with me
See me for how I am an innocences within
The spirit in me is wild and ready to flower
There is a light that...

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For what would be a life without a smle
A simple action denotes my miles of time
To hear the word mummy is a blessing I truely adore
To see my children grow to live with timeless joy
For...

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The wisdom of knowing a devil lies inside 
Just waiting to discover what lays ahead
Who lay upons your bed dressed in red
Black lace a powted smile dont deny whats deep inside
Temptation follows your hand 
Smile...

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A mind that drives choices on the crossroads 
A smile that captures the hardest of hard
A voice that calls your name
I have lived a lie and my heart did deny
I take control of my inner...

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Locked inside the song
I live to the writing on the wall
I sit and crawl through the halls
Run baby run baby 
Woman to child I take nomore
I am the girl inside I now find
I stare to...

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Not what it seems the ticking of the clock
A secret dream secret liason a secret to tease
I can not breathe till I feel your hands upon my skin
Your force against the wall that makes me...

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To love with an heart that gives boundless of adorement
To know that your love is being cherished with anothers heart
As precious as a smile that is smiled just for your eyes
To feel a warmth that...

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How I dont know 
I walk on my path 
I appear myself to the unknown
A deepest dream I keep inside 
A moment of reflection I fight for my young
An innocences in my being
There is no...

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New minds attracting
A begining of something
A mystery of two
For me and you
Mystifying moments 
Timeless thoughts going round
You ask what has been found
An innocences of mind
Experience told of heartless cries
How the heart has died
Shared smiles of...

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She has wondered who she is 
Years have past and she has still wondered
One life but may pages turned
A script she has acted through and through 
Some shining some full of crying

A ticket paid for...

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Lazy I lingered on the porch of my terrace
a hummingbird was softly picking on a daisy
this reminded of the time when I lived at the coast
I use to watch seagulls as they dived into the...

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OH! boys ...
oh girls ...!
Why don't we preserve our friendship forever!
Why don't we  retain
the purity of our
Children's hearts ..?
Why do we must  lose
our innocences?
Before we were childish
and so friends ...!
Remember when
we were flowers...

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Inside this hard shell, I'm still the little girl, from years ago.
She's scared of the world and all that's inside it. 
Even the little noise makes her jump.
She has been hurt by those who was...

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An urgent breath upon my neck 
A innocences tied to me 
Clothes pulled from me 
Silk and lace have no grace
As they lay upon the floor
You close the door 
You lock it behind you 
Your...

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