This evening I saw a bright lightning show on the way home.
This evening I'm going southbound on this crowded bus home.
This evening I'm once again leaving my lover at his own home.
I swallowed
Your decision
I’m leaving
The mansion
I accepted
The defeat
And I acquitted
All debts
I loved you too much, darling
Oh! You forgot everything.
The surprises
Of life
Are not sweet cherries
I’m leaving my heart
For peace
This is a required part
I depart
This evening.
P.S. Translation of ‘Je Pars Ce Soir’ by Hébert Logerie.
Copyright © September 2002, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poetry.
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Will you love me this evening
midst twilight’s returning
as snow flurries play
on the edge of the night
Neath evergreens swaying
in cold winter breezes
where soft woolen mittens
make everything right
Now walking a pathway
of frosted encounters
adrift of the season
when hearts come to sing
As icicle kisses
on lips warm and tender
provide every tingle
the moment can bring
Where shadows are dancing
in search of a moonbeam
as clouds slowly wander
and stars now appear
While gazing the distance
this hillside of splendor
with crisp winter air
making everything clear
Beyond the horizon
as city lights flicker
enchanting our view
on these December skies
Will you love me this evening
alone here together
and love me again
in the morning sunrise
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Whispered sighs and twilight dreams,
the stars reflecting
in your eyes
Evergreens and maple leaves,
a harvest moon in
autumn skies
A quiet night, a chilly breeze
October heavens
up above
You in my arms, a tender kiss
this evening as we
fall in love
~
All alone this evening
Following a moonbeam
glowing brightly in the sky
Strolling down a pathway
as we watch a firefly
Listening to a melody
sung sweetly on the breeze
All alone this evening
underneath the maple trees
Hand in hand we wander
on this chilly winter night
Dreaming of tomorrows
filled with everything that’s right
Pausing in the shadows
where we share a tender kiss
All alone this evening
in a moment just like this
Gazing on the beauty
that my eyes have come to see
Lingering my vision
when your smile is close to me
Standing in a clearing
counting every star above
All alone this evening
just the two of us in love
Good night Soupers
This evening called passion
“Moonbeams now blushing ‘pon soft heavens ashen,
love flowing deeply, this evening called passion”
Ensconced in effervescent lingerings
sifting through moonlit seams
Soft flavored drippings of ecstasy
melting slowly within the fever
dancing across my skin
as your fingers trace
the outline of my deepest secrets,
mysteries lodged in seductive breaths
Your love my opiate, addictive enchantment
Stimulated senses heightened
Moon drenched quivers, silver lined
adrift on satin sighs
Floating delirious within
hypnotic eyes,
seducing my mind in eternal desires
Trance infused emotions
cling to each nuance of mesmeric longings
Swirling smoke ringlets
penetrate stardust cosmos,
culminating in sensual motions
atop gilded sheets
drenched of our rapture,
etched in euphoria
Two silhouettes entwined
on this evening called passion
Good night Soupers
Have a great weekend
See you on Monday
Upon this evening I will writ
My joy I gained as my merit
I talked to him with conscious words
And with a keen, I struck the chords
I played the songs of tales we have
In countless forms of lovely tunes
The wondrous things on my behalf
Like holding hands beneath the moon.
Stand with me this evening
Precious is the light of every distant star we see
For they become the passageway that brings your love to me
Tiny points a’ sparkling upon the evening sky
Perfect constellations that we both see passing by
Miles lie between us as we stand upon this ground
Only in the evening when we can not hear a sound
Do we see the shimmering of heavens up above
Bringing to our very hearts our long desired love
Darkness now we find that it shall always be our friend
So that we may use the stars upon our love to send
Silent is the evening that our eyes do come to meet
Whispering affection over nighttime skies we greet
Beauty comes in many forms to lighten up our day
Only when the twilight smiles and sends the sun away
Will the stars come shining down from canopies of night
And we can find the love we seek now glowing in their light
Stand with me this evening even if the clouds exist
Shower me within your love for it I surely miss
Here beneath the galaxies and their most precious view
So that we may once again embrace our love so true
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