Long Tribune 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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A Place Not Meant To Be
           
PART: II            (699 of 1487 words)

#9: Days of...

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Translation of Eric Mottram's The Nerves of Proust and Sitting Bull by T. Wignesan

Excerpts from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eric Mottram’s poetry” by Clive Bush,...

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One day Dragon had an epiphany, Super Heroes NEVER work alone.
And there are just too many bad guys, for him to do it on his own.
True, he had never actually seen a bad guy, he...

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The sunset is beautiful thing
About it sonnet they can sing
But this sunset is of ancient king
And his eerie persona changes everything

The golden army he would create
But to disappear long before Christ was born was his...

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Diminishing virtues stripped away
From the flesh
By the fierce brined rods that freely 
Course thy hot crimson blood; 
Dry cracked lips attempting to
Fashion broken words of compliance
That so must needs to be spoken...
But...Ohhh, Meretrix...
My foolish and...

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I’ve a vast store of mem’ries about Chicago
as I’ve lived there for a couple of years
helping out in the parish of many immigrants,
especially Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.

I’ve made friends and a number of them
still continue...

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I know too much about racism, from folks like you and folks in our governments, of all colors. Yes, power corrupts anyone and everyone, but there is no TRIBALISM LIKE European and Caucasian tribalism. Unlike...

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The 9-11 terrorists are lowest scum, for they did their evil against USA and the innocents of this world, in the name of their god. George Floyd and I are as much their victim as...

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smeltering a soveriegnty sent forth from the center of 2 + 2
and branding beliefs with the benefits of interstellar iron,
smoke waving wakefully from flesh feeling fresh from a firefight with Freedom,
unlatching the lock of Liberty...

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The dedication of this journalist gem
Whose writing, brought down
Drug dealing men
 
Eire's Sunday Tribune
And Sunday's Business Post
Newspapers of note, for in them she wrote
 
But it was the criminal world
And her writings so splendent
That craved...

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In a beautiful church holy picture stands against altar wall
The beauty of women on it can and should move the soul
It is the mother of Jesus himself who’s visage is on that wall
As a barer...

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They sent Jamal to detention
for saying "erection"
yet he saw a billboard of the "KKK
with the president"

Maria cried when Emily told her
"If you say "f*** again, we won’t be friends"
but Maria heard that "they’re building a...

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Why does USA still protect the Saudis whose travel documents - in some cases to learn flying in the USA but not to focus on landing skills - allowed the 9-11 terrorists to kill 3000...

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Villanelle: Crooks leaders and louts do they sing the same tune

Crooks leaders and louts do they sing the same tune
Does he who strums vocal chords show them the ropes
Whoever wields the baton sure calls the...

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When it rains
You either heal or be ill-ed.
Water; a symbol of tranquility,
or catastrophe.

I'll buy the sky 30 billion colours
So she may party with the rainbow,
and leave my city on her negative film.
Because I have seen...

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Wake Up My Children! Wake Up!
A creature of many faces stalks you,
A human chameleon devoid of soul.
He hides not in the shadowy corner,
But among you, under the unwary eye.
Do not be fooled by this great...

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Dear Father who art in Heaven if it be thy will, 
On my blessed wedding day bid me to fulfill, 
Each vow I take with humble heart and grant me to intrust,
This man I choose...

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"There were at least 15 conduct complaints against him, the Star Tribune reported, citing records from the Minneapolis Police Department's Internal Affairs. Most of the complaints were closed without discipline.

Mr Chauvin's personal files were heavily...

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*Image of Presentation on Three Stooges by Coshocton Tribune.

Curly and Shemp

*Jerome Lester Horwitz,
often dimmer than your wits,
famously known as Curly Howard, one of the three stooges,
his slapstick comedy split our sober from laughter like being...

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On Saturday or Sunday B-4 the fourth of July ,

Paperboys wood deliver the day of the dead book & I doent know why !

It had the names and addresses of everyone hoo died in the...

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My maternal grandfather died when I was just seven!
Most certainly he is honored with special joy in heaven.
He left his art work at the Basilica of Notre Dame in Indiana

Those artistic, lighted fixtures you see...

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How long will I be free?
In this great county of sovereignty.

Will my rights be taken soon?
Or, will we the people; sing our last tribune?

Will I still have a right to choose?
Or, will we be puppets...

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#9:  Days of Paper Roses

Do the numbers--dogs don't count--just survives!
Then everything, be as close enough, still,
of this and that, thoughts begin and end, thrives,
truth betold, none were measured boundless will.
There's a bold statement, typed...

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1905
Geronimo went to Washington
to meet the Great White Father
(where he hoped to bury the hatchet)
and save his Indian Nation...
checking into his hotel, the desk clerk asked,
"Do you have a reservation?"
The perfect poker face when playing...

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