Rene Poems - Poems about Rene

My boat sails off on a lovely day, the future unknown as it drifts with the tide. A storm rises, ferocious and unrelenting, dragging me to the bottom of the sea. I feel the weight of the water, the finality of sinking— I believe I will never rise. Out of nowhere, a brush appears, a great, shimmering stroke of light. I grab it, and...

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If you tried to describe heaven could you find the words to explain, How perfection looks Personified in your beauty every single day. Can’t take my eyes off you like a sunrise reflecting off a crystal blue sea. You captivate me leave me speechless jaw dropping you will always be Your like a blanket that warms me...

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If you tried to describe heaven could you find the words to explain, How perfection looks Personified in your beauty every single day. Can’t take my eyes off you like a sunrise reflecting off a crystal blue sea. You captivate me leave me speechless jaw dropping you will always be Your like a blanket that warms me...

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Eyes and mind work in tandem To make sense of confusion Inaccuracies become compelling You do not wish to see it any other way For you are the first eye witness Your account is key "Confirmation bias" your exotic perfume Or so I hear Fill in the blanks Interspersed with solid truth Join the dots To paint a picture It doesn't look right But it feels right Oh occultations...

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Do you believe consciousness a free state Choice empowering the moment strong Neurons firing at your discretion Time unencumbered —reality won (The New Room: August, 2022)...

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Denying the soul… all words are in vain a verbal inherence —spirit proclaims (Dreamsleep: October, 2021)...

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I don’t care where I’m going I know where I am I’m not worried about the future I’ve never been to the past I’m not sad about what’s missing only joyful for what’s present I am here and not there —and my words make it last (Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)...

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(Based on the painting “The Treachery of Images” by René Magritte) If you label symbols traitors Since they’re only indicators Rather than the actual things they signify, Then you’re logically unable To affirm your very label Is a truth and not a metaphoric lie....

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The deception of “free verse”: Dreams II, Translation of Etiemble’s “L’imposture du vers libre” by T. Wignesan “Free verse, free not to be verse” – Audiberti My love is not blue like a lake my love is not blue like a sky but red swollen with blood and of ire No lapping sounds of oars playing out a nocturne Bienne lake or...

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The Offering, Translation of “Offrande” by René Etiemble (Quatrains rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, ghgh, each line made up of eleven to thirteen syllables. Etiemble is wary of free verse as we shall see in the next posting. From his only collection: le Coeur et la cendre: soixante ans de poésie (the heart and the ash:...

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A French Narrative Poem: A wren comes to rest on a reed after the storm – Dialogue between the bird and the shrub. Translation of Rene Etiemble’s poem: Narration Française (The very first poem composed by Etiemble while a student of Class 5A at the Lycée de Laval on Octobre 14, 1921, i.e., when he was...

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Nothing to hide*, Translation of a poem: “A coeur ouvert” by (René) Etiemble For Jeannine (Later in life, Etiemble suppressed his first name, ostensibly on account of the accented “é” ending his first name and preceding the accented “é” of his surname. The poem is dedicated to his second wife: Jeannine Kohn who taught literature at the...

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Your skin glows like the strawberry, blossoms perfect as the black rose in the purest hope of spring. My yearning heart rises to your calming voice and leaps like a cat at the whisper of your name, Rene. The evening ascends in on a great raven wing. I am calmed by your touch that I carry into the...

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I miss you babe,.... I really do, it's true.... But time severed our love, And now I'm alone and blue... I miss you, babe.... I miss our kiss goodnight... I miss you, babe.... And those times that felt so right... I miss you, babe, Your tender kiss to my cheek... I miss you babe,.... My reasons for living are growing, oh, so weak,...... I miss you , babe, Your...

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I left my home, it wasn't so gorgeous, but I knew I could no longer stay I had nothing to live for, seemed like only sadness would come my way, headed for any deep water bay, sitten' on the edge of sadness,... wasted by time.....time... on the bay of grief and sadness I sat and wondered aloud.... how can I feel so...

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