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little conversation with Paul Eluard great french poet

...No, my friend Paul, it’s not about saying everything,
And we do not lack time,
But the point is to say what you love, to love what you say,
Like a saxophone solo in a New York club,

To say that...

Adolescent infatuations never consummated

...Adolescent infatuations...never consummated

Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; ...

about stars

...Who the hell are you?
Mysterious stars,
Are you friends or enemies?
Do we know that?

Who are you?
You who shine
In the night 
Wherever you go?

Who are you? 
Mysterious stars,
The univer...

Awaiting Rescue By Good Ole Extraterrestrial Homeboys

...Cuz existence among *****sapiens 
extremely intolerable prospect
particularly sharing planet 
with most violent species
courtesy hoodlums wielding
deadly firearms methodically gun down
men, wom...

Deux Oiseaux Sur Un Arbre

...Au début de février, le changement saisonnier a peu avancé, 
Le chaud encore timide, le froid à peine enfui,
Un arbre se ressent du manque de fleur et de fruit
Il n'y a que des faibles feuilles cl...

Translation With Commentary of On Est Les Oublies By T Wignesan

...Translation of « On est les oubliés » (They/We are the neglected and forgotten lot)
by the songster-poet Gauvin SERS
(For the last two years, this young unassuming Frenchman, full of verve and d...

Lily Bells

...How rainbows covet lily bells
that chime the dulcet birth of May
with murmured notes in fay pastels.

How rainbows covet lily bells,
mellifluous in shaded dells, 
to mime in tranquil bloom manq...

Translation of Marcel Moreau's Je T'Ecris By T Wignesan

...Translation of Marcel Moreau's " Je t'écris " by T. Wignesan

I WRITE TO YOU

I choose green ink to write to you
For Love does not prescribe any one hue
In the hope you might take shape
Whe...

Awaiting Rescue By Good Ole Extraterrestrial Homeboys

...Upon surrendering this self
hypnotized faux yes ("FAKE") Earthing,
I noticed nothing amiss
(which temporary state of transcendent bliss
twice daily meditation strives to attain),
ah...before you...

Le Jour Du Jugement

...Quand le jour se levera, la lumiere eclaira
la bonte divine nous reviendra et l'amour s'eclatera dans nous
voila les chemins menant de partout
les passagers et les amis de la mort sont la
les gar...

Life Vs Death

...La vie et la mort ont ete separes
Et ils ne pourront plus se cotoyer
ils crient de leur douleurs
sans pouvoir arreter leur pleurs

la vie lui envoie des ames qui quittent notre monde
pour lui m...

Inspired

...Oh! What happened to my muse?
       Taking a nap, no use.
Nothing comes up in my mind, its blank.
     Fed up, feeling like a manque.
What is there to write now?
        I really don't know
Sh...

Groucho's Gefilte

...date: Feb 15, 2017

Always the same little hash joint. 
For lunch, the identical dish - 
in Kremzer's, on Mott and Delancey, 
potatoes and yiddisher fish. 

His real name was Julius Henry, 
b...

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 ne l...

Looking For the Traces of Vanished Light

...He searches in the shady sides,
traces of vanished light,
a drift of the felt,
all of nuances and transitions.

Perhaps is it too early;
cold dawn maintains suspended
the pulsation of the hear...

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