Long Sombre Poems
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Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T Wignesan
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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Categories:
sombre, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and leaves.
...maybe it's been a while since...
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Categories:
sombre, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Delight
At once she paid a visit. In her colorful dress, so revealing and appealingly suited to her slendern torso. I to gaze the door way, mine heart pounded viciously, a death knock. I was...
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Categories:
sombre, appreciation,
Form:
Prose Poetry
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe
From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive
He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus,
Ruler...
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Categories:
sombre, horse,
Form:
Narrative
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
sombre, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Robinson Crusoe
I killed my friend,
I never wanted,
Do not see me cruel,
I did it for love.
We both ran naked
Under this influential shower.
No one uncoupled his lips
Against this faint madness,
We were indebted,
Either had to earn the prize.
It was...
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Categories:
sombre, bereavement, betrayal,
Form:
Imagism
RED SEA
RED SEA
At the mouth I lay splayed
blood trickling, slowly dripping into soft mud or red Akashic ink
mud of my anus, ink of...
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Categories:
sombre, allegory, body, color, courage, deep, emotions, imagery,
Form:
Ballad
Asking the Way Part Two
"Well to a certain degree yes I really don’t want to impose.
I’m getting used to my deprivation." As...
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Categories:
sombre, age, art, creation, death, deep, imagination, mystery,
Form:
Prose
Liaison Dangereuse
“liaison dangereuse”
Tear a thin line
along my skin
softly velvet
finger tips
no nurses gloves
down my neck
along my throat
with something
sharp like words
on a tongue
like I’m
one of the
gentility heard
soft as a block of butter
hard from the fridge
I'll...
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Categories:
sombre, addiction, senses, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Miracle On Ford Street
St Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion mattered not
And every Christmas Father Angelo ensured presents they all...
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Categories:
sombre, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form:
Narrative
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:
sombre, devotion, eulogy, french, relationship, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
IN THE SHADOW OF SUNLIGHT
Pete Kovacs was a cop based in Cyprus, a small mid-western town
Nothing much happened with regards to crime from sunup to sundown
But on the 4th of June a couple came in to report their daughter...
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Categories:
sombre, america, child, fishing, missing,
Form:
Narrative
Cladestine
THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.
Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...
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Categories:
sombre, corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Reflection of Rain
October Rain
Is it
simply a case of precipitation,
moist warm air condensation or
are they God’s tears showering us with love,
as rain washes away our sorrows,
in the hope of brighter tomorrows.
Gloomy grey skies conceal a shy sun
with murky...
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Categories:
sombre, analogy, metaphor, rain,
Form:
Free verse
When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished
When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished
Mystical web spun memories of our sweet nights,
love began under stars and brightest of moonlights.
Hold onto that image, its joyous dreaming dreams;
fiery echoes, night trysts and...
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Categories:
sombre, art, beautiful, longing, love, passion, romantic, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Thrust In The Centre Of The Storm All I Could See Was You
Serrated swathes of overwhelming savage gusts without compassion,
directionless dilatory daydreamer that I am ostensibly vulnerable,
to the serendipitous intrusion at a wispy sapphire cloud flaccid noon,
the minimal load burdensome midpoint idle tranquil saunter,
meteorological...
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Categories:
sombre, angst, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, care, celebration, love,
Form:
Free verse
When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Mystical web spun memories of our sweet nights,
love began under stars and brightest of moonlights.
Hold onto that image, its joyous dreaming dreams;
fiery echoes, night trysts and pleasurable screams!
Love's greatest truth rests in thy bosom and...
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Categories:
sombre, fate, lost love, memory, passion, soulmate, true
Form:
Romanticism
Painter duo
Two painters
Two generations
Two minds
But one goal – to observe and to paint
Vincent’s Arles
20th February 1888
He left as snow fell in Paris
Seeking warmth, bright light and colour
Provence beckoned, Arles awaited
Cold welcome soon turned warm
Vincent keen to...
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Categories:
sombre, art, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Deer Hunt - La Chasse Aux Cerfs By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s DEER HUNT - la Chasse aux cerfs by T. Wignesan
“La civilisation...
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Categories:
sombre, america, film, freedom, humanity, patriotic, rights, war,
Form:
Free verse
lake of life
life is an inconsistent choreographer
shielded in stainless symphonies
composed with erratic patterns
curating colors seized ...
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Categories:
sombre, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Darkness In Her Dungeon
Darkness in Her Dungeon
No morning no bright sun
Just nuns all around
To recite bright light
For my freedom from
Fear and feeling off
But I would despise
In the outside those eyes
A black bundle in swirl
A hostile world looming
All conspiring...
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Categories:
sombre, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors,
illuminating like spring's moon,
who sunk like winter sunset,
but arose like summer sunrise -
my last...
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Categories:
sombre, analogy, how i feel, life,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
What are we?
As the midnight
sun cries sweet honey,
the mourning moon
croons caramelized deceit,
like toffee-speckled leaves,
whistling bewitching myths,
seducing silenced silhouettes,
engrossed in tangerine temptations,
and mundane...
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Categories:
sombre, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Masquerade
A colourful array of falsehoods
Intricately designed disguises
Fools, fortunes, phantoms
Masks clinging on their faces
Lives hidden away by an illusory veils
Veils that cannot be removed
Cannot be seen
Secrets tucked away in their eyes
Each a pair of...
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Categories:
sombre, extended metaphor, freedom, imagery, imagination, insect, judgement,
Form:
Free verse
Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant sun’s rays
The honey less flowers kiss the dying bees’ goodbye
Never...
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Categories:
sombre, environment, nature,
Form:
Rhyme