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Premium Member 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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vos, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Human Rights Charter For Australian Aborigines By Oodgeroo Noonuccal
La Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan


Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vos, 3rd grade, abuse, discrimination, humanity, language, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan

(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vos, england, poetry, political, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 4 By T Wignesan
 Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN - Part Four by T. Wignesan


"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vos, literature, political, rights, society, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Aboriginal Charter of Rights By Oodgeroo Noonuccal
La Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan

Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vos, political, prejudice, racism,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Le Vieil Identique Probleme - Translation of Kevin Gilbert's Same Old Problem By T Wignesan
Le vieil identique problème – Translation of Kevin Gilbert’s « Same Old Problem » by T. Wignesan

(For Kevin Gilbert – cf. the introduction to Inside Black Australia (1988) – as quite obviously for Oodgeroo, too...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vos, abuse, crazy, death, freedom, hate, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member C'Est Bientot L'Aube - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's the Dawn Is At Hand By T Wignesan
C'est bientôt l’aube – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “The Dawn is at Hand” by T. Wignesan

(Note : In this poem - the title poem of her second collection - Oodgeroo has come full circle, la...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vos, best friend, celebration, devotion, friendship, peace, rights,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Klacatoo - Translation of Kevin Gilbert's Klacatoo By T Wignesan
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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vos, death, discrimination, grandmother, grief, memory, racism,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Kout Gogga Mogga
we saw nothing
but elbows
and heard the fist pounding 
the skin.
their long black and brown
leather coats hide what they
were doing
the cries of the men
on the ground
could be heard all the way
at my room
when I got their
the...

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Categories: vos, culture, guitar, music, slam, sports,
Form: Ballad
the most beautiful girls
The most beautiful girls,
Are those we imagine to love,
The ones we would like to invite to the restaurant
To drink champagne and grands crus,

The most beautiful girls, I know some,
Are the ones we imagine loving you,
They...

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Categories: vos, beauty, girl, love,
Form: Free verse
Muguet De Mai 2
Ce sont de grosse perles tombées à l'envi du paradis,
Grain à grain, plus luisantes que tout superbe satin.
Leur fraîcheur et délicatesse proviennent du séraphin,
Qui dit: jamais ses qualités ne deviendront ni taries ni décaties.
Tant qu'il...

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Categories: vos, flower, may, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member La Civilisation - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Civilization By T Wignesan
La Civilisation – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Civilization” by T. Wignesan 

Nous qui sont arrivés en retard à la civilisation,
Une lacune des siècles que nous ait laissé tomber,
Lors de votre arrivé à nos terres nous...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vos, conflict, culture, happiness, humor, race,
Form: Free verse
Only birds tell the truth
Only birds tell the truth,
They hear our little fears
And lay them in their nests,
They know when we cry
And tell all their friends, in heaven,

Only birds tell the truth,
Better than the great poets, 
Better than the...

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Categories: vos, appreciation, bird, truth,
Form: Free verse
Sommeil
Sommeil, vient à vous que vous fermez vos yeux. 
Dérive dans les profondeurs de votre esprit. 
Flottant dans de nombreux endroits. 
Toucher sur aucun. 

Soudain, je suis devant vous. 
Comme, je marche vers vous, 
vos...

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Categories: vos, love, sleep,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Shine On Darling Morning Light
SHINE ON DARLING MORNING LIGHT

Shine on darling, right;
Morning you're light;
Burgundy beautiful woman
Passionate are you my flower;
Purposely I shall plant in my heart forever;

Your crimson surpasses my desires;
I am enthralled by your fires;
Burning effortlessly ever bright;
now...

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Categories: vos, assonance, beauty, i love you, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Le Vrai Et Nouveau Hymne National - Translation of Kevin Gilbert's the New True Anthem By T Wignesan
Le Vrai et Nouveau Hymne National – Translation of Kevin Gilbert’s « The New True Anthem » by T. Wignesan

En dépit de ce que Dorothea a dit
sur le sujet de la terre brûlée au soleil
vous...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vos, abuse, anxiety, environment, eulogy, irony, trust, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Tacto Significativo---French Verse
tacto significativo---french verse
toucher significatif


Ah! un tel sens
   toucher significatif
comme la pluie au printemps plongeant sur mon corps
comme le vent frais souffle me touche la peau se lève se sent comme la chair de...

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Categories: vos, appreciation, desire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Un Appel - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's An Appeal By T Wignesan
Un appel – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s « An Appeal » by T. Wignesan

Les hommes d’Etat qui ourdissent les lois de la nation
Munis du pouvoir pour contraindre ceux qui résistent,
Guidez nous réaliser le but de...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vos, hope, inspirational, rights, voice,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Oeil Bonbons
THAT WHICH PROVOKES OUR INNERMOST
     lèvres pouty luxuriante et les hanches 
CRAVING---THAT WHICH SENDS US INTO A
     qui demandent une attention,
FRENZY---THAT WHICH WE CANNOT REALLY
  ...

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Categories: vos, life,
Form: Free verse
L Amour D Un Legionnaire
Je m'appelle Ivan
Je ne suis pas un étudiant
Je suis un garçon solitaire
Et un Légionnaire de la France. 

J’ai écrit ce poème
Parce que je sens quelque pour toi
Avec le temps tu es devenue
Une grande personé pour...

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Categories: vos, passion, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Pour Une Fille Que J'Ai Aimee
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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Categories: vos, love,
Form: Free verse
Haiti, Le Monde Vous Ecoute
Proud people of the Haitian Ile,
Stand firm with head held high.
Though days may last for a while,
The world has begun to hear your cry.

Le monde ecoute les voix criant;
On voit et meme se sent votre...

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Categories: vos, community, courage, inspiration, international, natural disasters, strength,
Form: Rhyme
merry christmas
Merry Christmas, my poet friends
Nicaraguans or Spanish
May God love you tomorrow,
That cats purr in front of the tree,
American or Iranian, Portuguese
That Santa drops off gifts
In your shoes or socks,
Make a good meal of foie gras
Grilled...

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Categories: vos, christmas, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
In Old California 6
Then Margarita gave her father mind,
for she was very happy being home.
Hence three years placed in a covent confined
where she's had little use of brush and comb.
Removed from places she loved most to roam,
the fields...

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Categories: vos,
Form: Rhyme
Pain De Peche Pentagonale
De la croûte à la mie 
Parvient l'essentiel de l'ambroisie;
De la préparation à la fourniture 
Tournoie la belle tournure.

Miettes pêche en poudre, 
Saupoudrées à la surface, 
C'est son coup de foudre
Tout à votre chasse.

Taro, crème,...

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Categories: vos, fashion, food,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs