Long Interned Poems

Translation of Mathieu POKORA’s « Je suis tombé, tombé, tombé » by T Wignesan

(NOTE : I just thought I’d translate the lyrics (see the French original herebelow) of this lilting catchy tune not just because...

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It has often been said that empires come and go
And from the beginning of time that has been so
Empires ruled with terror and an iron fist
Taking brutal action against those, who tried to resist.

On the...

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She pressed a button on the console, the Mighty engines roared, the computer monsters flickered
as Moonblaster 5 space  soared

She said,  Cat Squad Eleven of  Moonblaster 5 , its  "All Systems Go"...

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Lay down your old ink pen...
Rise from the table...
Push back your chair.
Gather them all up...
Put them out of sight now...
Place them safely in the cupboard 
Bare.
Wrapped in stiff brown paper,
Strung tightly together
With thin white string;
Turn...

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O Where O Where will we all be spending the very rest of our eternities?

O Where will all of God's children really be spending all of our eternities?
If we are children of The Most High...

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OUR TIN POT NAVY so THEY SAID in 1914 Sydney in the first World War 1

In 1914 German cruisers were cut loose 
and Emden she was one…………….…(fired 38lb shells)
the Indian ocean she did for hunting...

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You grew up knowing you would work,
for your dream job you made a search,
then went to school and took the tests,
burned the oil to be the best.

You interned for experience,
and developed good business sense,
got a...

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She woke this morning to the bird's celebratory song. 
A smile on her face, for their love could never be wrong. 
She wondered where he was this time, and if he would be long, 
She...

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Tutti sappiamo che la vita è un sogno.
Ora che dormo incontro tanta gente
Le cui vicende raccontare agogno.
We all know that life is dream
Now while sleeping I meet many people
Whose events to recount I covet
Nel sogno...

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December 14th a cold evil wind was in Play…
From what had started to be a most beautiful day.
It struck at the heart of Newtown, Connecticut
Twenty children and seven adults were struck.

The families grieve as the...

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At the edge of the old cemetery,
I found an unkept grave.
It was though the person interned there, 
Had a soul no one could save.

Her tombstone contained two dates 
That showed the term of her long...

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I REMEMBER THE LITTLE GIRL

BMWs shine on the lot, row after row,
reflecting the blinding summer sun of Pinedale, California.
Their windows blink back stories of 4,792 Japanese Americans
interned on this same lot seventy-eight years ago.

I remember...

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in the distance 
upon the wind 
are heard cries 
left unanswered 
against a backdrop 
of riotous color 
shimmering in emerald 
of pale eyes 

blinded to the black 
upon the soil 
treading on emotion 
and dreams...

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Phantom icons scratched on sterile walls
Where your spirit wrestles in anguish
Strewn upon the floors are the shards of yesterdays mirror
You…once castigated to remain pure in innocence
That zealousness now interned weights your pockets
Dwelling on the erudition...

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Martin was a man of mettle Kingly to the clan
Athletic in prowess the pristine preacher's son
Registered first as Michael, he heaven's rapturer
Templed his genius above the common A grader
Interned to Moorehouse, forsook a health degree
Nurtured...

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I used to be a U.S. delegate to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) – a branch of the United Nations dealing with air-traffic control technology.  We had a rule in our meetings and...

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Love of Life

As a child, I braved such illness of hurt and strife
Sequestered in pain with no where to go
I longed for that God would look upon me
And dreamt I would finally be free
To walk...

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After thousands of years
due to global ice melt in the permafrost
my carcass has been unearthed.

Not surprisingly I was hairy and
proto-Slavic.

Some idiot named me ‘Derick Specimen 974.2’,
My spirit watched as they soaked me in warm water
then...

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When I perish from this earth
Here is my last request
Do not stick me in a box
For all eternities rest

I want to float on oceans
I want to travel the distant sea
Cremate me very quickly then
And let...

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Creatures

By Nathan Hannen

Out they came from cover, Covert in every timed movement, Now they march
Smashed from previous melees, Just a faint shadow of the men they used to be
A heart of hearts, They remained collectively...

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Anglo-Saxon rulers were interned in the Orford castle.
Its polygonal edges secure the town's harbor from dazzle.
Many tallies of feral men caught in fisher webs hassle.
In 1826, Joseph Turner intended a hardcover poetry book.
On his trip...

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Are ancient domesticated cats from an Arabic land
Is it where they came from, as history understands

But this is not so, they lived and graced
For in Cyprus was found, a skeleton in place

Egypt was favourite, until...

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Deep down thighs, unhoisted,
what was there, harvesting the sperms ? At dusk
an inflorescence breaks into myriads
of fireworks, wrecked apologia,
interned unlikeness, insanity, kissing the goldenrod
to start the flow of bare grief.

I deserve no nobility, my moonscape
has...

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I am the one who feels the part
of dirty dog or mongrel cur,
for I am cool and peaceful here,
not having last week been interned.

My Missy girl is locked away;
I can’t retrieve her until morn.
She’s behind...

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When the ties dissolve at last
dreams put aside with full intent
to seek the dreams of vacancy
beyond the dross of everyday

the pressures sought to transform
coal to diamonds as a result
instead fine powder fills the air
blinding those...

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