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Mes chers amis, quand je mourrai,
Plantez un saule au cimetière.
J'aime son feuillage éploré ;
La pâleur m'en est douce et chère,
Et son ombre sera légère
À la terre où je dormirai.

Un soir, nous étions seuls, j'étais assis près d'elle ;
Elle penchait la tête, et sur son clavecin
Laissait, tout en rêvant, flotter sa blanche main.
Ce n'était qu'un murmure : on eût dit les coups d'aile
D'un zéphyr éloigné glissant sur des roseaux,
Et craignant en passant d'éveiller les oiseaux.
Les tièdes voluptés des nuits mélancoliques
Sortaient autour de nous du calice des fleurs.
Les marronniers du parc et les chênes antiques
Se berçaient doucement sous leurs rameaux en pleurs.
Nous écoutions la nuit ; la croisée entr'ouverte
Laissait venir à nous les parfums du printemps ;
Les vents étaient muets, la plaine était déserte ;
Nous étions seuls, pensifs, et nous avions quinze ans.
Je regardais Lucie. Elle était pâle et blonde.
Jamais deux yeux plus doux n'ont du ciel le plus pur
Sondé la profondeur et réfléchi l'azur.
Sa beauté m'enivrait ; je n'aimais qu'elle au monde.
Mais je croyais l'aimer comme on aime une soeur,
Tant ce qui venait d'elle était plein de pudeur !
Nous nous tûmes longtemps ; ma main touchait la sienne.
Je regardais rêver son front triste et charmant,
Et je sentais dans l'âme, à chaque mouvement,
Combien peuvent sur nous, pour guérir toute peine,
Ces deux signes jumeaux de paix et de bonheur,
Jeunesse de visage et jeunesse de coeur.
La lune, se levant dans un ciel sans nuage,
D'un long réseau d'argent tout à coup l'inonda.
Elle vit dans mes yeux resplendir son image ;
Son sourire semblait d'un ange : elle chanta.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fille de la douleur, harmonie ! harmonie !
Langue que pour l'amour inventa le génie !
Qui nous vins d'Italie, et qui lui vins des cieux !
Douce langue du coeur, la seule où la pensée,
Cette vierge craintive et d'une ombre offensée,
Passe en gardant son voile et sans craindre les yeux !
Qui sait ce qu'un enfant peut entendre et peut dire
Dans tes soupirs divins, nés de l'air qu'il respire,
Tristes comme son coeur et doux comme sa voix ?
On surprend un regard, une larme qui coule ;
Le reste est un mystère ignoré de la foule,
Comme celui des flots, de la nuit et des bois !

- Nous étions seuls, pensifs ; je regardais Lucie.
L'écho de sa romance en nous semblait frémir.
Elle appuya sur moi sa tête appesantie.
Sentais-tu dans ton coeur Desdemona gémir,
Pauvre enfant ? Tu pleurais ; sur ta bouche adorée
Tu laissas tristement mes lèvres se poser,
Et ce fut ta douleur qui reçut mon baiser.
Telle je t'embrassai, froide et décolorée,
Telle, deux mois après, tu fus mise au tombeau ;
Telle, ô ma chaste fleur ! tu t'es évanouie.
Ta mort fut un sourire aussi doux que ta vie,
Et tu fus rapportée à Dieu dans ton berceau.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Doux mystère du toit que l'innocence habite,
Chansons, rêves d'amour, rires, propos d'enfant,
Et toi, charme inconnu dont rien ne se défend,
Qui fis hésiter Faust au seuil de Marguerite,
Candeur des premiers jours, qu'êtes-vous devenus ?

Paix profonde à ton âme, enfant ! à ta mémoire !
Adieu ! ta blanche main sur le clavier d'ivoire,
Durant les nuits d'été, ne voltigera plus...

Mes chers amis, quand je mourrai,
Plantez un saule au cimetière.
J'aime son feuillage éploré ;
La pâleur m'en est douce et chère,
Et son ombre sera légère
À la terre où je dormirai.
rac1 Mar 2017
I love Lucie
and her amazing ***
Her beautiful backhand
and her movement on grass
She plays for her country
and has drank from the Cup
I love Lucie
So very very much
Heavy Hearted Jul 2023
and what lucie is what you get
or so a new voice, charmingly said
Puns profoundly... playful direct
pull me toward this new subject

less than a year is all I've got,
to see from such new eyes
absorbing all which might be taught
when my memory's a minefield...

I get so far ahead of myself
I wonder why I write
without the longing, without the lost,
how can we know how deep the cost?
to feel or not- Its a choice now-

& it's as it's always been
Ours to give,
and to receive.
written for, about, and then to, Dylan.
Happy 51st Birthday Honey-Bear
We meet so many years ago
through the web tv internet appliance

You made my life so bearable and so nice
You helped me to get through a difficult life
and
When we did meet I knew we would get along
so well and we had so much in common.
Even our little arguments we could mend
we would cry over the telephone when we
hurt each other.
I know throughout each other's life
we will always be there for each other
You are so special to me
so on your 51st birthday I want
to tell you only one thing
I will love you for the rest of your life
and how much you do mean to me.
Happy 51st Birthday, Dear Honey-Bear.

Love, Lucie

In loving dedication to Robert McIntyre
Born November 17, 1960
Simon Piesse Mar 2021
The ***-bellied Mercedes squealed
As Meursault withdrew and
Marvelled at the flames
Licking
The air
Like marigolds on Ritilin.
'Raymond would have no reason not to admire this act.'
He stopped by a shimmering sea of Ubers.
The scrape and drawl of siren made no impression on him.
Leaking smoke reminded him of
Snow White’s Cottage
Where he had taken Marie when Lucie was born:
The place where he would go out at dawn to chop wood.
He liked the way her roses played
With the restlessness of children.
Then he thought: 'if only mother could see me now.'
Inspired by Camus' searing sense of injustice in The Stranger, which I'm studying with my class at the moment and by the riots in Bristol, UK
Lucius Furius Aug 2018
How distant my Swabian* youth seems now.
I made a glider which really flew, you know.*
Not far, but yes, it carried me! I soared!
  
Some accused me of being a showboat,
of tooting my own horn. . . . I learned early
that the laurels don't go to the meek or the bashful.
  
Yes, I was a ****. Those aristocrats
on the General Staff* belittled the Fuhrer--
but where had they gotten us?
I liked his enthusiasm and optimism.
We were in a hole; he led us out,
got the economy going again,
restored the Sudetenland and Danzig.
(Danzig where Lucie and I had been married!)
  
I thought Poland would be the end
but when we attacked in the West
I didn't shrink away.
My troops and I were the very spearhead:
strike quickly; do the unexpected.
  
Who was I to deny
Germany's world-wide destiny?
  
The African war agreed with me.
The open space gave a latitude to my strategy
lacking in hilly, forested Europe.

The victory at Tobruk is often cited
as the height of genius, military.  
I, myself, prefer what preceded it:
the retreat into Tripolitania--
salvaging men and tanks, shortening supply lines,
lulling the British into complacency;
turning and stinging at Agedabia.

El Alamein: the Fuhrer and I part company.
"Victory or Death", he cabled me.
I disagreed: my men would not die senselessly.

We were desperate for gasoline.
Ship after ship was sunk trying to deliver it.
(Lax Italian security, no doubt.)
  
We were outnumbered five to one.
I favored withdrawing immediately,
consolidating troops in Europe.
The Fuhrer wouldn't hear of it.
  
I flew to East Prussia to confront him.
He'd grown pudgier, more strident--
wouldn't give an inch.
I sensed that not just Africa
but the war as a whole would be lost.
The weight of the forces against us was crushing.
The only question'd been their willingness to fight.
That had been answered at Stalingrad.
  
I fought on in Italy and in France,
hoping to convince the enemy
that the price of taking Europe--
especially Germany--
would be too high.

I really thought we had a chance
to stop them on the beaches.
But now that we've failed, our destruction's inevitable.
  
I've tried to make the Fuhrer see reason:
surrender to the British and Americans;
don't let our country be overrun by Russia.
  
He condoned ******--
ordered me to **** the French Jewish soldiers
who'd surrendered at Bir Hacheim,* for instance,
(I didn't) -- and much more. . . . And yet,
and yet, I couldn't quite bring myself to wish him dead--
and certainly never took part in that plot--
though, yes, I knew of it . . . after a fashion. . . .
Defending myself to that group would be hopeless. . . .
Lucie and Manfred must be spared
the humiliation of hearing me declared a traitor.

I bestrode the plains of Africa--
Rommel, the invincible--
always with the troops where the battle was most critical.
I was crafty and brave,
dared to act when others shied away.
I was the apple of the Fuhrer's eye;
idol of the German people;
scourge of the British military.
All the world applauded me. I lost--
but only when outnumbered overwhelmingly.
  
Now I sit in the back of this Opel*--
an outcast, a criminal--
waiting to take a cyanide pill.

We failed to assess properly
the will of other nations to honor treaties
and preserve their freedom.
And, more basically:
Were we right to force our rule on other people?

Icarus-like, we flew too high.

We were bold and strong
but it seems, in the end,
in the end, not supermen.
Swabia: A region of southwestern Germany (around Stuttgart) which had been a dukedom in the 10th to 13th centuries.

glider: In 1906 Rommel, age 14, and a friend built a full-size, box-type glider.

General Staff: High-level officers with formal military education. Rommel, having come up through the ranks, lacked such training.

no doubt: Rommel was correct in thinking that the British knew the exact destinations and sailing times of Italian supply ships, but was wrong as to the source of their information: it was coming from German ("Enigma") radio transmissions which the British had learned to decode.

beaches: Rommel was in charge of the defense of the coast against British/American invasion.

Bir Hacheim: A fort at the southern end of the "Gazala Line" (in Libya) which Rommel outflanked in his attack upon Tobruk in 1942.

hopeless: The army's Court of Honor (Field Marshal Keitel, Generals Guderian and Kirchheim) had been presented with evidence of Rommel's involvement in the plot on ******'s life (false) and his attempts to arrange an armistice with the British (true). With ******'s approval they had given Rommel a choice of committing suicide (and having his treason hushed up) or of going before the court (and, no doubt, being hung in public).

Manfred: Rommel's son.

Opel: The car which the officers who presented Rommel with his choices had driven from Berlin.

Hear Lucius/Jerry read the poem: humanist-art.org/audio/SoF_020_rommel.MP3 .
This poem is part of the Scraps of Faith collection of poems ( https://humanist-art.org/scrapsoffaith.htm )
Heavy Hearted May 2023
Although I dont know her all to well
With a first impression flawed
Ive wrote this poem to show and tell
her happy birthday! I KNOW, this is odd-

Who writes a poem as a birthday gift?
So personal yet incomplete-
Its because im here so spirits lift
And to show remorse for my deceit

Im not really as rude as i was;
Not nearly as mean of a *****,
Still im unfiltered, simply because -
When around lucie hehe, sometimes I switch
So Shay,
im sorry
for unleashing my inner *****.

Happy 24th Birthday- from me, to you-
Im too poor to buy presents
So I hope this will do.
With words incandessence
Do you boo boo!
Shayshay
Could it be thirty-seven years ago nearly

that I held you in my arms

Could it be thirty-seven years

ago that I said you would make

a good young man

I never once thought

that you were to good

for this world and that

Our Lord would call you

home three months later

from me.



Not one tear did your father shed

I could not believe

He was a heartless monster to both

you and to me.





I watched them lay you in your grave

so small and tiny. I laid you in the country

that is now call Zimbabwe but always

Rhodesia to me.



I am glad that you did not live to

see its ruin and shame all the European

settlers had to leave and now it is a third world

country.



This was your home and where you were born

a proud once country and now the people starve

because it is a third world country.



I think of you often my son and how my life would be

if you had grown up and become a proud young man

I had hoped that you would be.









In Loving memory of my late son,

George Lincoln Rockwell Covington

born March 31, 1975 and passed away

on July 15, 1975





A mother's love never dies for her children.
By Lucie Elizabeth Ann Wesson, © 2011, All rights reserved.
My Beloved Cat, Daisy Mae,
was once my best friend,
and then one day
The Lord called her
home to a place
called
A  Pet's Paradise
for her to go.

She died within my arms,
my eyes did flow with tears,
I felt my heart break into a thousand
pieces, because she was so dear

She was my best friend for fifteen years,
I had her since she was a kitten, and
I was watched her grow up to be
a cat, and I loved her all these years
until the day she died and left me
heart broken.

Daisy was like family,
She was always near and dear,
and when her live came to an end
my heart broke apart.

Daisy is now at Rainbow bridge for animals,
happy and a new, but for me I am still
broken and my heart is broken still.

I know one day we will be together again,
oh what a happy day for me,
I Love you dear Daisy, and I Long to see you
once again.

Your crying owner,
Lucie
LewisVC Jul 2021
The quintessential fabric of life, to some: ambition, wealth, fame.

Gazing into my murky reflection dancing across the nighttime ocean, mirroring back a face of pure bliss, the answer becomes clear: love to last a lifetime.

And I lay steadfast in the certain belief that I've found the one to give it to me.

Nothing on this mortal plane can disuade me of that; not the distance of a hundred suns, the fists of a thousand men, or the coercions of ten thousand succubus.

Her name is Lucie, the one for me.
Truly my soulmate, for all to see.
No need for exaggeration, these words carry unfiltered truth. Dear Lucie, oh Lucie, I love you.
Happy birthday to the love of my life.
I sit here and remember your last words to me,
how can I forget
You told me that you would always love me,
how can I forget,
We had a special kind of love, a love
based on affection and honestly.
When I heard that you had died
it broke my heart in two
I remember the last three word you spoke
to me how can I forget
They were the words we always share with each
other and they were I love you.


Oh Roy, I miss you so much.  I don't know how
much longer I can go without you.  I loss everyone
I have loved and I am all alone now.

I will love you forever.  I had three husbands and out of
all of you it was you I loved the most the other two were dreadful
mistakes in my life but we were not a mistake.

Wait for me to come to you.

A crying,
Lucie
I asked the woman where she came from,
She didn’t utter a word,
But stood outside on the landing where
She wouldn’t be seen, or heard.
She glided into the bedroom then
And dropped her gown on the floor,
Then climbed up onto the four poster
A thing I couldn’t ignore.

The name embroidered upon the gown
Was one, a Lucie La Corte,
It lay there crumpled upon the ground,
A thing of beauty, I thought,
But far more beautiful, there she lay
Within the reach of my hand,
With silken skin that had reeked of sin
Inviting love on demand.

I caught the scent of wisteria
The fragrance rose from her breast,
I felt close to hysteria,
Like I was put to the test,
I lay and stared at her shapely form
And thought, how could I resist,
But then I noticed the branding mark
An ugly Fleur de lis.

It sat high on her shoulder there
To tell what she had done,
Some grim crime from another time
And an execution…
I heard her sigh as she raised one thigh
Then I saw her eyes had teared,
Her teardrops fell, and she broke the spell
For then she had disappeared.

If ever you’re visiting Paris
And those evil streets, and mean,
Beware, the hotel you stay is not
Called ‘Madame La Guillotine’,
Or you may lie in a poster bed
As I did, god help the thought,
And watch as the visitor sidles in
The one, a Lucie La Corte.

David Lewis Paget
Heavy Hearted Jul 2022
It happens just because we need
To want and be Wanted too
Serendipitously here, spontaneously there,
A true friend I've found in you.

Now friends will come and some will last, but in the end so few;
Are in actuality Ride or Dies
Disappointingly it's proven true.

Lucie my friend, has forced my hand
To write my words of feeling
For untill now there'd been no reason
To attempt a written healing.


Thanks lucie
Robert Brunner Dec 2016
Not so much
A pull on the
cigarette as
letting a drift
Of smoke be
A quiet companion.
Not so much
an indulgence
held as it is
lightly
felt in the hand.
My only baccarat
Around a few sips
Of lagavulin
Not so much
a vice as a
way to pass
some days
of sun on
the deck
alone with
pretty lucie.

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