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“I think I must be incapable in properly saying
That which honors the concern you show me.”
With that she placed her hand in his and in her
Best broken French she continued….
“Marcherez-vous avec moi avalez-vous mon chemin?”
(Will you walk with me my way?)
He replies, “Naturellement fe veux mon cher.”
(Naturally I will my dear.)

There is a time when a virtuous convention,
Once created betwixt a woman and a man,
Sanctifies even those most private of walks.
This walk being as it was – in the dusk of the evening
Had within it their roads laid out the same way.
Hand in hand in a shared silence both of them
Admiring the sky’s crimson closing.
With a small tribute to such as this toward virtue
He felt her cold fingers clutch together in his and
Just then she broke the daunting silence asking,
“La beauteu ciel est-elle suelement vue par ceux
qui choisissent de la partager?”
(Is the sky’s beauty only seen to those who choose to share it?)
His answer, “ Pas plus que l’amour, moncher. Pour garder
de lui est juste comme imutile. – Quel but est-il eoins
qui ‘il soit partage.”
(No more than love - for the keeping of it is just as useless.
Of what possible purpose is it unless it is shared?)

She seemed much affected with what he had said giving it a low sigh.
He was incapable of inquiring after the sigh so
He said nothing more ‘til they came to the corner of
Tomorrows' Road and Yesterdays' Pass.
That was where they were to part today.
Waiting for the path to clear he asked, “Est-ce
Que je dois vous server le reste de la mania?”
(Shall I attend you the rest of the way?)
She replied first with a look to his hand
And then to his eyes, “Pas du tout, monsieur.
Vous pouvez cependant me server toute la manua.”
(Not at all, sir. You may however attend me all the way.)

With this he seemed to loose his French verbs for a time
And it was not until they were steadfast alone in her
Bungalo that any French returned.
Yet the French that returned said not a single word.
She was most capable though the question
She answered was never asked.
If he had to have asked he would have asked,
“Cue ferai-je avec vous ?
Devrais-je vous aimer de tout mon cœur ?
Je crois que dans la route que nous prenons,
il cause l'intersection d'entre nous..”

Only the little French in her knows…..
Writing to me is about showing myself when and where it is proper to speak for "my characters"and when to speak in the first person. Here - using a narrative - I let the characters play their roles while giving them a first person feel. Is this a true story or is it just a story? Does it matter? No it doesn't because the point was settled between the characters leading the way.
Sally A Bayan Jun 2017
(A repost of an older poem, SILENCE, this time in french.
Please scroll down lower for the .english version...)


je
sentir
vous
tous

sur moi,
et encore, vous
un r e nulle part
n e r. C'est l'
q u i e u t d e que
b r i n g s à l'esprit tout
il est à propos de vous. vous
s'animer si je regarde vers le haut
le plafond, ou directement à travers
t h e murs, je ferme les yeux et je
vous trouverez toujours là. À ce stade, pas
la moindre s o u n d pourrait briser
le flux des souvenirs, ni ne pouvait distraire

la sérénité que j'ai toujours connu quand je suis seul,
pour, c'est dans le silence, que je vous trouve plus proche de moi ...

(Publié 1997)

Sally

Droits d'auteur 2014
Rosalia Rosario A.Bayan

:::::::::::::::::::


SILENCE...

I
feel
you all
over me,
and yet, you
a r e   nowhere
n e a r.  It  is  the
q u i e t u d e   that
b r i n g s  to mind  all
there is  about you.  You
come alive whether I  look up
the ceiling, or straight   through
t h e  walls,  I close my eyes, a n d
I still find  you there.  At this  p o i n t,
even the slightest  sound couldn't  shatter  
the flow of m e m o r i e s, nor could it distract
the serenity I have always  known when I'm alone,
for, it  is in  S I L E N C E  that I find you closest to me...


(Published 1997)


Sally
Copyright 2014
Rosalia Rosario A.Bayan
I had fun with google translate :))
Sarah May 2017
Everyone has secrets
Nobody can truly be an open book
But you turned through my pages
And started to read
Then handed me your story
Unfinished like mine
So let’s write them together
I trust you to be there till the ending
Promise we’ll make it there
Àŧùl May 2017
Knowing that it was at my home,
And right in front of where I sleep,
Now I hold her tight in my arms,
Under her chin I put my fingers,
Pull her blushing face upwards,
Reading her thoughts in her eyes,
I now peck her lips so delicately,
Yes I am going to remember this,
And I will not kiss anyone else.

Kissing for me was just pecking,
I'm thinking not of a French Kiss,
Suddenly I felt her mouth open,
Slithered out her tongue then,
Enjoying she is this moment,
Dry lips of mine felt her saliva.

My inexperienced self fumbled,
Enjoying she was but I pause.

Fix my eyes open on her shut ones,
I can't explain the feeling properly,
Remember the moment I'll forever,
Suddenly her eyes open on pause,
Till ages I'll 'member the look on her face.
Acrostic
My HP Poem #1549
©Atul Kaushal
Pagan Paul May 2017
.
J'ai amour, cela me preoccupe.
Avez vous un petit ami?
Non!
Vous avez maintenant ... s'il tu plait.


© Pagan Paul (14/05/17)
.
Je suis desole.
Je ne pas parle la Francais.
Mais ... Je essayer :)
PPx
AP May 2017
Un couloir de carrelage
Windows 95

Lumière turquoise
Mouette virtuelle

Soudain un glitch
Statue de marbre

Triste seul
Salle d'ordinateur

Il s'étrangle dans ses files
Si bien qu'il na jamais vu ses amis

Lunette de cristal
Serveur de ferraille

Larme du corps
Il y m'est tous ses efforts

Incompris lâche et tourmenté
Religion planqué

Tous à genoux devant lui
Hacker des PC inactif

Et modérateur soumis
Solitude parcourue de références

Incompris par les autres.
  Et admirer par les uns

Des yeux triste et pétillant le suivent
Pendouillent de droit à gauche

Le long de son câble Internet...
AP May 2017
Rentrez sortez discorde.
Je saigne du nez.
Et mes globules meurent en paix.
La fenêtre illumine ma corde.

Ma vie marginale.
Couleur rose de pastel.
Douleur du cœur mal réelle.
Lit pour faire du sale.

Je sais qu'on ne se connaît pas.
Sortez de ce salon.
Mon image mon rond.
Spam de panique je ne suis plus là.

L'ambulance arrive.
Je n'ai plus de vie.
Tout le monde crie.
Couleur vive.

Discorde rentrez sortez.
Discorde mort reporté.
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