#williams
Non, ce n'est pas une question rhétorique
Si tu es quelqu'un, dis-le à voix haute
Répète-le souvent. Sois heureux et fier
« Tu es quelqu'un ». « Tu es quelqu'un »
Ce poème est souvent récité par l'homme d'action
Notre regretté frère, le révérend Jesse Jackson
Un leader, une légende, un héros qui a lutté pour nos droits civiques et de vote pour l'égalité
La liberté, la justice, la démocratie, le respect, les opportunités et la compassion
Pour tous. Aux côtés de Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers et d'autres, il a combattu le racisme,
L’apartheid, l'injustice, les préjugés, l'inégalité, la violence, la brutalité, le sexisme et le cynisme
Frère Jesse nous a appris « À ne jamais abandonner »
« À garder l’espoir » et « À nous inscrire sur les listes électorales ». « Tu es quelqu'un ».
Le poème écrit par le Révérend William H. Borders Jr.
Les larmes aux yeux, je ne l'ai pas encore lu
Mais je ressens les émotions, l'énergie, la force et la passion qu'il dégage transmet et propage avec force
Je suis sûr que tu ressens l'inspiration, l'électricité, la chaleur qui brûle jusqu'au plus profond de mon être
Es-tu quelqu'un ? Oui, tu es quelqu'un
Lève-toi, dresse-toi et crie-le haut et fort :
Tu es quelqu'un. Lève-toi, et sois fier
Oui, oui, tu es un être humain magnifique
Oui, tu es un être fier et magnifique
Merci Jesse d'aimer tous les enfants de Dieu
Merci aux révérends Borders Jr. et Jesse L. Jackson Sr.
Pour ces mots simples et puissants. L'inspiration vient du Dieu Tout-Puissant
Qui es-tu ? Es-tu sûr d'être quelqu'un ?
Oui, oui, tu es quelqu'un, tu es quelqu'un
Moi aussi, je suis quelqu'un
Moi aussi, je suis quelqu'un. Je suis quelqu'un
Nous sommes TOUS ‘quelqu'un’.
P.-S. Traduction Du Poème « Are-You Somebody? » Par Hébert Logerie
Ce poème est dédié au révérend William Borders Jr.,
Au révérend Jesse Louis Burns Jackson Sr., à nos familles et aux enfants du monde.
Copyright © février 2026 Hébert Logerie. Tous droits réservés.
Hébert Logerie est l'auteur de plusieurs recueils de poésie.
Feb 22
Feb 22, 2026 at 11:40 PM UTC
Daughters of neighbors
pierced the skin of the skies,
riding chariots of fire,
floating nine months
in the arms of weightless stars.
They whispered to the void,
grew life where even breath
has no permission to exist.
But here —
our daughters sit behind locked doors,
trapped in silence at the end of the street,
where schools are closed,
where a blackboard is a battlefield,
and a book
a forbidden fruit.
They planted seeds in space,
in the soil of galaxies,
while we—
we could not plant
a single seed of mercy
in the hearts of those who breathe
oxygen too richly to share.
O Sunita!
You carried the prayers of science
beyond the blue.
But our girls?
Their wings were broken
not by gravity
but by impatience, by fear,
by chains disguised as customs.
How long?
How long will the stars sing
while our daughters are silenced?
The earth has already taken flight,
and we—
we are still
binding the feet
of angels.
Let us give them wings too.
Let them fly—
not to escape,
but to arrive.
Let them touch the sky,
and return
with the soft, burning realization
of their own light.
Because the sky
is not for a few.
It was made
for every dream
that dares
to open its eyes.
Mar 27, 2025
Mar 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM UTC
Even with a thousand heads and souls around me,
The thought of loneliness always resided with me
I did not intend to fit in everyone's sizes,
Nor was I proud of the bottle that shook with rage, ready to spill
My life disintegrates within a flash of a solution
I present myself and my energy to a dull audience
But the same smiles just stare speechless, gawking at me
I paraded willfully, expressing myself through art that was repulsive to many
Yet, there were a few eyes that presented a beacon, despite my addictions crumbling the floor beneath me
I reached out and touched the flames that singed my hair
Till I landed on flowers
They were not the gorgeous type,
But they were just like me:
Odd, beautiful, deterring, and tiresome.
One of them shared a joke about death,
It forced a laugh out of me, till I realized today was April Fools' Day
A skull-shaped bud cries in front of me, similar to that of a child
I take in the smell of the hole I've fallen in, though the fall was cushioned by giant red flowers
As pretty as they are, their smell is who I am
I look above and see a crucifix in the sky
Then the darkness falls in, and I accept the undeniable truth by closing my eyes.
May 12, 2022
May 12, 2022 at 3:53 AM UTC
This is just to say
when i gave you that poem
I had no inkling
Of what was to come -
all the pain awaiting us
The ancestral sin
Temptation, assured
We were manicured, shared prose
Dog-hungry for plums.
Apr 19, 2019
Apr 19, 2019 at 10:51 AM UTC
1. Jorge
still in the night he
does not remember why
—sounds of her sighs
her small ears
pressing into the tight
space of the day
or the tenderness between
him and her
held in the air
the repeated denial
of the time set chained
to hold their plans
were revolting against
trysts
spent in another’s gaze
2. Sebastian
the tenacious sense in
arrangement
lets slip imitation
how I could possess
your breath
and bear it
delicately freeing
my stances
I strained
in celebration
at the sanctification
that you’d
granted to Saint Sebastian
in Irene’s
blessing
will healing hands make
poetry
or trap the shaking
of my languid silver pens
taut but not
ready
3. Carlos
the sweet words
brought
for the lovers
that beats hard
each
hesitance
leaps
without fear
regarding
that
their time is
now here
the shape that
your
sighs take
suggesting
as if
limits don’t exist
Dec 4, 2017
Dec 4, 2017 at 4:41 PM UTC
sometimes happiness
doesn't smile
sometimes the face
of happiness is a
cry for help
sometimes laughter
is the soundtrack
to pain
sometimes a joker
is in fact going insane
sometimes your idols
are more then idols
sometimes idols are
just human
sometimes your idols
are more then idols
sometimes idols are
just human
- t.m
Jun 6, 2017
Jun 6, 2017 at 1:08 PM UTC
You ate them?
You ate the ******* plums
that were in the fridge?
God, you're a selfish *******
Oct 22, 2016
Oct 22, 2016 at 1:32 AM UTC
Of course you believe in magic.
What you pull from your hat is far from the tricks of a rabbit.
You've made being aware the least of your bad habits.
There is a light in your eyes.
A fiery summer sky.
One worth wishing upon the stars of your mind.
A galaxy worth marveling at beyond these times.
It takes courage to be strong; thank you for being courageous.
You are the example of what our ancestors wanted for us.
I hope you continue on with the spirit of change & may God see you through!
You're a King; a good thing & we need more like you!
Jun 27, 2016
Jun 27, 2016 at 12:43 PM UTC
And he wanted to join,
"the living poets society,"
because it was a club I was in,
and he wanted to hear my poems at my own will,
and write some of his own,
And he wanted to do it,
so he could get close to me,
*But isn't that one thing they argued about,
in the movie?*
May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015 at 3:48 PM UTC
Love
Love is twain, it is not single,
Gold and silver mixed to one,
Passion ‘tis and pain which mingle
Glist'ring then for aye undone.
Pain it is not; wondering pity
Dies or e'er the pang is fled;
Passion ‘tis not, foul and gritty,
Born one instant, instant dead.
Love is twain, it is not single,
Gold and silver mixed to one,
Passion ‘tis and pain which mingle
Glist'ring then for aye undone.
May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015 at 5:01 AM UTC
Arrival
And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a strange bedroom--
feels the autumn
dropping its silk and linen leaves
about her ankles.
The ****** veined body emerges
twisted upon itself
like a winter wind . . . !
May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015 at 10:03 PM UTC
Spring And All
By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast -- a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen
patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees
All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines --
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches --
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind --
Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined --
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf
But now the stark dignity of
entrance -- Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted they
grip down and begin to awaken
Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015 at 5:49 AM UTC
You brought us so much happiness,
You taught us how to laugh,
You brought us Mork and Mindy,
Didn't do comedy by half,
Popeye the spinach eating sailor,
Patch Adams' squeaky shoes,
Happy films made for kids,
Childhood's not to lose,
Things we didn't understand,
About your private life,
About the drink and drugs,
And depression that was rife,
The day that comedy died,
The day you took your life,
The family that will miss you,
The sadness of your wife.
Jan 11, 2015
Jan 11, 2015 at 2:48 PM UTC
My mentor was your friend
He spoke so animatedly of your passion and humor
You were the single light bulb in a closet of clutter
I wish I could've experienced your soul
I was told you were bright and kind like the morning sun
No one knew the dark cloud behind your golden rays
You were my father, though you never knew it
Showing me that father figures always had my best interest
Your shadow hasn't left us
We miss your smile, genuine or not
It hurts me knowing that I'll never get to make you smile back.
Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014 at 11:31 PM UTC
So much depends upon
The open sky cut open by the trees
By the rain by the lives that we led
Upside down we stood as if for years
Waiting to become the person
We were meant to be
On the back trails of our open heart
So much depends upon
Listening to Bach in the dark
How poets undressed our sympathy
In clothes of the absolute
So much depends upon
The sound of Mandarin like
Circumstance, and stillness that never dies
These were the cries that we reached
Out for, as if we could grasp the light
So much depends upon
The dreaming of what is possible
And prowling around the people
Whom we let hurt us in order to
Learn more completely how to feel.
Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014 at 10:26 PM UTC
In a cave by the ocean burned
A man's heart from his chest cavity
Carved open, froth from the sea
Slipping into his lungs and
Smoke from all the guns ever triggered
Seeped from behind his eyes,
Lips cracked with the truth but spoke
Only regret,
Mouth forever frozen in enlightenment
Sought but not shared,
And oh, how the ocean weeps,
For messages in bottles mean nothing
Without ink.
Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014 at 8:51 PM UTC
they say the saddest
are the most happy
how a comedian can
stand up on stage to
make himself the world’s fool
because he had never
heard of a joke like love
our lady of perpetual sorrow
grabs the fool from everyone
a leach of life that chooses
to choose a happiness like you
extracts all it can
like nectar to a bee
but it’s almost relieving when
it had no where else to be
i have begun to believe
life isn't about all the
joys to feel and
things to see
it's not about you and
it's definitely not about me
the illusion is that
greatness is up and
failure is down when
true progression doesn’t
care for dimensions
remember the comedian
who hates it all
who makes it funny
because he recalls
if i can’t be happy
everyone can
Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 5:07 PM UTC
Coming and going, like a lucid dream. Ebbing and flowing like a rolling stream. The good and the bad. All rolled into one. The happy and the sad. Give this life it's fun. It's hard I admit but its worth it. I swear. So grab your life by the horns and do what you dare.
-AJ
Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014 at 1:54 AM UTC
Robin, so richly,
You gave to the pour
Of talents, with which you
Would hold our rapport,
Until your last show,
With no more to give,
You took one last bow
And chose not to live;
Your legend lives on,
And we honor thy name;
For tho' you are gone,
You will always remain
A star in the night sky,
Your light won't e'er cease;
Oh Robin, dear Robin, fly
To rested peace.
Aug 15, 2014
Aug 15, 2014 at 10:13 AM UTC
Carpe Diem
funny boy
did you wait
till it was too late
hurry hurry
worry worry
you took life
in big giant bites
and then had to stop
to break
only when you
defeated yourself
hurry hurry
worry worry
but even then
after breaking
you got up and overcame
your life and art were amazing and never the same
race hard then fall or stall
and then
once again
get up
and give it your all
you did it
again and again
be extraordinary
hurry hurry
worry worry
never the same
look how you overcame
Good Will Hunting
Dead Poets
Jumanji
Mork from Ork
Patch Adams
Awakenings with De Niro
Aladdin
Death to Smoochy
Insomnia
Peter Pan
Mrs Doubtfire
Good Morning Vietnam
Jakob the Liar
hurry hurry
worry worry
I have to stop
not because I am out of art
there are many more
but because my fingers
are tired of typing titles
Peter Pan
you stayed young
fought the dark
and won many triumphs
again and again
hurry hurry
worry worry
you ran an amazing race
and a pace for two lifetimes
in the end the dark caught you
but you left behind
a mark of amazing art
"gather ye rosebuds while ye may" - Robert Herrick
Carpe Diem
Rest funny man
Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014 at 10:53 AM UTC
I want to write
About you
Your laughter, maniacal antics, wit
Witticism, whimsy
The way you made me think deep
Through the belly rolling, stomach cramping “please stop”
But not really…so much fun laughter…sent
To ponder the silliness of my existence
The absurdity of my serious self
Your fantastical smile and that particular sadness
In your eyes just beyond reach, casting a spell of
Connectivity
Humanity
…
I want to write about
The innumerable truths you spoke
Written in lines, given to you…owned by you
Known through you
“Words and ideas can change the world”
My world…
Why not your world?
**** it.
…
I want to write about you
But
I
Can’t…it hurts too much
Robin…
It hurts too much.
Aug 13, 2014
Aug 13, 2014 at 4:47 PM UTC