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Nigel Morgan Nov 2013
Think of an imagined orchestra. But there is no resonance hereabouts, so the imagination gives next to nothing for your efforts, and even in surround-sound there’s so little to reflect the dimensions of the space your walking inhabits. Sea hardly counts, having its constant companionship with wind, and sand hills absorb the footfall. A shout dies here before the breath has left the lungs.

Listen, there is a vague twittering of wading birds flocked far out on the sand. The sea rolls and breaks a rhythmic swell into surf. There’s a little wind to rustle the ammophila and only the slight undefined noise of our bodies moving in this strip between land and sea. Nowhere here can sound be enclosed except within the self. There’s a kind of breathing going on, and much like our own, it has to be listened for with a keen attention.

There is such a confusion of shapes making detail difficult to gather in, even to focus upon, and to attempt an imagined orchestration – impossible. We’ll have to wait for the camera’s catch, its cargo to be brought to the back-lit screen. Once there it seems hardly a glimmer of what we thought we saw, what we ‘snapped’ in an instant. It’s too detached, too flat. So thankfully you sketch, and I feel the pen draw shapes into your fingers and their moving, willing hand. On your sketchbook’s page the image breathes and lives.

You can’t sketch music this way because the mark made buries itself in a network that seems to defy with its complexity any image set before you. Time’s like that. You end up with a long low pitch, pulsating; a grumbling sound rich in sliding harmonics. You see, landscape does not beget melody or even structure and form, only tiny, pebbled pockets of random sound. Here, there is no belonging of music. Only the built space can adequately house music’s home. We might ****** a few seconds of the sea’s turn and wash, a bird’s cry, the rub and clatter of boot on stone, and later bring it back to a timeline of digital audio and be ‘musical’ with it, or not.

Where we hold music to landscape is something we are told just happens to be so; it is the interpretation’s (and the interpreter’s) will and whim. It is an illusion. The Lark Ascends in a Norfolk field. We hear, but rarely see, this almost stationary bird high in the morning air. We can only imagine the lark’s eye view, but we know the story, the poem, the context, so our imagination learns to supply the rest.

What is taken then to be taken back? On this November beach, on this mild, windless afternoon,. Am I collecting, preparing, and easing the mind, un-complicating mental space, or unravelling past thoughts and former plans? I can then imagine sitting at a table, a table before a window, a window before a garden, and beyond the garden (through the window) there’s a distant vista of the sea where the sun glistens (it is early morning), and there too in the bright sky remains a vestige of a night’s drama of clouds. But today we shall not put music to picture from a camera’s contents, from any flat and lifeless image.

Instead there seem to be present thoughts alive in this ancient coastline, abandoned here the necessary industry of living, the once ceaseless business of daily life. Instead of the hand to mouth existence governed by the herring, the course strip farming below the castle, the herds of dark cattle, the possible pigs, some wandering sheep, seabirds and their eggs for the ***, the gathering of seaweed, the foraging for fuel: there is a closing down for winter because the visitors are few. We need the rest they say, to regroup, paint the ceilings, freshen up the shop, strengthen the fences, have time away from the relentlessness of accommodating and being accommodating. Only the smell of smoking the herring remains from the distant past – but now such kippering is for Fortnums.

We step out across and down and up the coastal strip: an afternoon and its following morning;  a few miles walking, nothing serious, but moving here and there, taking it in, as much as we can. We fill ourselves to the brim with what’s here and now. The past is never far away: in just living memory there was a subsistence life of the herring fishers and the itinerant fisher folk who followed the herring from Aberdeen to Plymouth. Now there are empty holiday lets, retirement properties and most who live here service the visitors. Prime cattle graze, birds are reserved, caravans park next to a floodlit hotel and its gourmet restaurant. There’s even a poet here somewhere - sitting on a rock like a siren with a lovely smile.

Colours: dull greens now, wind-washed-out browns, out and above the sea confusions of grey and black stone, floating skeins of orange sands and the haunting, restless skies. Far distant into the west hills are sculpted by low-flying clouds resting in the mild air. Wind turbines step out across the middle distance, but today their sails are stationary. As the bay curves a settlement of wooden huts, painted chalets then the grey steep roofed houses of stone, grey and hard against the sea.

Does music come out of all this? What appears? What sounds? What is sounding in me? There is nothing stationary here to hang on to because even on this mild day there is constant change. Look up, around, adjust the viewpoint. There’s another highlight from the sky’s palette reflecting in the estuary water, always too various and complex to remember.

Music comes out of nothing but what you build it upon. It holds the potential for going beyond arrangements of notes. Pieces become buildings, layers in thought. My only landscape music to date begins with a formal processional, a march, and a gradually broadening out of tonality the close-knit chromatic to the open-eared pentatonic. There’s a steady stream of pitches that do not repeat or recur or return on themselves, as so much music needs to do to appease our memory.

In this landscape there seem only sharp points of dissonance. I hear lonely, disembodied pitches, uncomfortable sounds that are pinned to the past. The land, its topography as a score grasping the exterior, lies in multi-dimensional space, sound in being, a joining of points where there is no correlation. There’s a map and directions and a flow of time: it starts here and ends there, and so little remains for the memory.

Yet, this location remains. We walked it and saw it fortunately for a brief time in an uninhabited state. We were alone with it. We looked at this land as it meets the sea, and I saw it as a map on which to place complexes of sound, intensities even,. But how to meet the musical utterance that claims connection? It is a layering of complexes between silences, between the steady step, the stop and view. There is perhaps a hierarchy of landscape objects: the curve of the bay, the sandhills’ sweep, the layerings of sand, and in the pools and channels of this slight river that divides this beach flocks of birds.

Music is such an intense structure, so bound together, invested with proportions so exact and yet weighed down by tone, the sounding, vibrating string, the column of air broken by the valve and key, the attack and release of the hammered string. But there is also the voice, and voices are able to sound and carry their own resonance . . .

. . . and he realised that was where these long drawn out thoughts, this short diary of reflection, had been leading. He would sit quietly in contemplation of it all and work towards a web of words. He would let their rhythms and sounds come together in a map, as a map of their precious, shared time moving between the land and the sea, the sea and the land.
Donna Aug 2018
I woke this morning
and looked at my ring and I
smiled all of my smiles :)))))

The sun is shining
Bumbles bees like big full stops
Buzzing in the air

But these wasps are a
pest they want to attack me
So I got a bat

But I haven't used
it as yet,  I think they know
I'm ready to bite

Some of the chalets
have England flags upon roofs
Some have twinkled lights

Me and dean have had
such a relaxing time , we've
ate slepted watched tv

We've danced drank and hugged
lots of family , his dad
stayed with us until

Monday , then he flew
back to sunny Spain with a
cherished memory

We took time out to
recharge our batteries as
life just gets better

We bought new blinds to
make our Chalet feel homely
and a table cloth

It's beige with white spots
O it's so pretty I love
it..dinners look lush

We took our dogs for
a beach walk , the oceans is
windy gently soft

Trees so pretty , I
saw Jennifer the fairy
riding a wagtail

They were running so
fast on a field the daisies
giggled in the breeze

My daughter came down
last night to spend time with us
Tomorrow we shall

go for lunch next to
summer trees and a blue lake
filled with ducks and swans

But best of all I
get to make more memories
I feel like a bird

flying high in sky
as my heart and mind bind
as one big love heart :-)))))
I'm loving being down Chalet with dean we had a such a wonderful relaxin time except the wasps and there loads of them I think august is the main. Season for wasps  xxxx
Inspired :)
Tina Fish Jun 2013
Senseless living in Beirut. Disconnected from routine, from drama. Disconnected from passion and compassion in a stagnant, stagnant, stagnant place. No reassurance for tomorrow, and definitely no reassurance today.

And it all sounds so disheartening, even to yourself. So you put those thoughts on a dark shelf, resting in the cavities of your mind, only to find them oozing out again.

Making arms feel heavy. In a city that’s the perfect size for strolling every step feels like a chore. Like why’d I walk out here on the streets for? There’s no room for me. Too many holes in the street, and I wore these sandals coz they feel light on my feet, but they keep ripping. Dog ****, low-class spit, and high-class ****. It’s **** I tell ya. No room, nothing.

Unless you’re on a list. Then you’ll find endless place for you, and mix with commoners on the dance floors. Rub shoulders with those struggling artists and hidden talents, photographers and such. More images, much.

But still that’s not enough…. if you happen to make it, that is… still not enough. Because that kind of comfort is tough on the soul, and it hurts that you didn’t just go home and save it. You know, save your money, save your time, save your self. Not become someone else. Not finish the night rolled up in bed and thinking over those million things you said, was that the right thing? Perfecting social awkwardness by living it again, but alone. Just let it go, the past is dead.

You think, ‘let me think.’ Let me sink into the things that stimulate my mind, that I find interesting, revealing, revolutionary. And re- re- the process. Reanalyze in a new frame of mind. This isn’t that time, it’s now. I’m all so much more grown up. I can deal with the higher material. My envelopes carry essays, and my mirrors reflect mantras. I use my blade to cut Mongolian chicken.  A unique recipe I found on Pinterest. I’ve got several blogs I read…I’m sure you don’t know them, they’re avant-garde…and I dedicate a hard process into selecting the right documentary, something that’ll illuminate me further. We apply this fervor into knowing more, only to realize how little we can move with that knowledge.

Killer of dreams, Beirut is. This murderer of hope. Like even if you got home, and plugged that DVD in to get your mind off with a laugh and a lay, the electricity finds its way to blast through and ruin a perfectly good evening for you. See it was feeding off your ****** energy and ran a little too highly, and now your wires shot. And somehow it burned through your generator heart. Could we somehow spark the cables with some electricity again? I don’t know…let’s check the trunk for monkeys.

Senseless. Not seeing, not feeling, not tasting, hearing, or smelling of sense. Honestly, just pushed beyond the limit of decent respect. Rather ******, crass, crude, no sense to reason, only nonsense, like gibberish, a terrible two tantrum, nothing to pacify, no milk of poppy or anything else. The alcohol is hit so we can’t rub teething gums. Instead plastic BB guns, manufactured with lead, which I’ve read shouldn’t be given to children under the age of two. But still, this is what we do in Beirut.

I want to root for a winning team. Something that’ll keep me on the edge of my seat so I can leap at the final score. Give me a winning team to root for. Instead divided, and individualistic, the secret to the American dream, that didn’t seem to work. Or collective, and fanatic, fundamentalist and bat-**** problematic, because of loss of self. Now, what’s the fun in that? If those are the teams, don’t put me up to bat. Let me stand in the back, and please pick me last.

Senseless and fast. Each day merges into next, and Lebanon is an eternal vacation. Cheap time chalets and happy time oil rubs. Under setting suns that morph into other ones, instagrammed and timeless on HD…not very revolutionary if we think within the context of things. But still, we never seem to, think.

Rather reignite the old patterns of thought. The ones that brought pearls and Switzerland’s, French nights and Brazilian beats. Ones that won’t have us marching on streets, but rather cater to the revolution of our hearts. It’s called the revolution of love. But I hope you don’t mind I’ve forgotten my glove in the other room… don’t worry baby…I’ll pull out if I feel that I’m cuming too soon… uh oh…(boom).

Was that a bomb? Or fireworks coz we were looking in each other’s eyes? Hide nonsense with senseless pastimes, de-synthesizing further. Falling deeper into this cataclysmic abyss, that leaves no space for sense.

Give me a tissue to wipe it. Clear it away. There’s another day starting and I want to forget that even happened. That I tapped into something and remembered to care. That would make no sense, it’s senseless back there.
Iraira Cedillo Mar 2014
13.Travel Haiku - Harbour Island (Eleuthera, Caribbean)
Pink Sand Beach yoga
on and on I chant with the sea
seeking nirvana read more »

john tiong chunghoo
14.I Am The Beach...
As we walked along the beach, crashing waves
thundered in our ears and a light, salted mist,
dampened our lips. read more »

(brief renderings) Joe Fazio
15.The Power Of The Beach
As we walked along the beach, crashing waves
thundered in our ears and a light, salted mist,
dampened our lips. read more »

(brief renderings) Joe Fazio
16.Under A Blanket Of Stars
As we walked along the beach, crashing waves
thundered in our ears and a light, salted mist,
dampened our lips. read more »

(brief renderings) Joe Fazio
17.Under A Blanket Of Stars...
As we walked along the beach, crashing waves
thundered in our ears and a light, salted mist,
dampened our lips. read more »

(brief renderings) Joe Fazio
18.ON A ROCKY BEACH
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Aldo Kraas
19.Travel Indonesia Haiku - Batam Beach View Resort
Batam Beach View Resort
holding up the sky
the bull horn chalets read more »

john tiong chunghoo
20.On This Beach...
Life is a beach.
There are jellyfish. And sea urchins…the painful bumps along the road that we all encounter in life. On this beach.
In life..and on a beach there is warm water-like times, when we are happy, and have good times and enjoy living. On this beach.
We also have times, like a beach, when we have cold water times; when we are sad, or upset about losing someone or something. On this beach. read more »

Dark Fallout
21.Somewhere
Oh, to be lying,
On a beach,
Somewhere,
With sand in my toes, read more »

Linda Harnett
22.beach
BEACH

On the beach, egrets sleep, peacefully curled together.
Waves roaring and waves wildness wipe on the beach. read more »

Darryl K. Porter
23.HERE
I am here,
Sitting on the beach
Viewing the wave
Rolling up your name read more »

nice pinky
24.Shell in the Beach
a mother tells a story to her son
'there are three men
one of them went to the beach
and found a beautiful shell in the beach read more »
Le poète.

Du temps que j'étais écolier,
Je restais un soir à veiller
Dans notre salle solitaire.
Devant ma table vint s'asseoir
Un pauvre enfant vêtu de noir,
Qui me ressemblait comme un frère.

Son visage était triste et beau :
À la lueur de mon flambeau,
Dans mon livre ouvert il vint lire.
Il pencha son front sur sa main,
Et resta jusqu'au lendemain,
Pensif, avec un doux sourire.

Comme j'allais avoir quinze ans
Je marchais un jour, à pas lents,
Dans un bois, sur une bruyère.
Au pied d'un arbre vint s'asseoir
Un jeune homme vêtu de noir,
Qui me ressemblait comme un frère.

Je lui demandai mon chemin ;
Il tenait un luth d'une main,
De l'autre un bouquet d'églantine.
Il me fit un salut d'ami,
Et, se détournant à demi,
Me montra du doigt la colline.

À l'âge où l'on croit à l'amour,
J'étais seul dans ma chambre un jour,
Pleurant ma première misère.
Au coin de mon feu vint s'asseoir
Un étranger vêtu de noir,
Qui me ressemblait comme un frère.

Il était morne et soucieux ;
D'une main il montrait les cieux,
Et de l'autre il tenait un glaive.
De ma peine il semblait souffrir,
Mais il ne poussa qu'un soupir,
Et s'évanouit comme un rêve.

À l'âge où l'on est libertin,
Pour boire un toast en un festin,
Un jour je soulevais mon verre.
En face de moi vint s'asseoir
Un convive vêtu de noir,
Qui me ressemblait comme un frère.

Il secouait sous son manteau
Un haillon de pourpre en lambeau,
Sur sa tête un myrte stérile.
Son bras maigre cherchait le mien,
Et mon verre, en touchant le sien,
Se brisa dans ma main débile.

Un an après, il était nuit ;
J'étais à genoux près du lit
Où venait de mourir mon père.
Au chevet du lit vint s'asseoir
Un orphelin vêtu de noir,
Qui me ressemblait comme un frère.

Ses yeux étaient noyés de pleurs ;
Comme les anges de douleurs,
Il était couronné d'épine ;
Son luth à terre était gisant,
Sa pourpre de couleur de sang,
Et son glaive dans sa poitrine.

Je m'en suis si bien souvenu,
Que je l'ai toujours reconnu
À tous les instants de ma vie.
C'est une étrange vision,
Et cependant, ange ou démon,
J'ai vu partout cette ombre amie.

Lorsque plus ****, las de souffrir,
Pour renaître ou pour en finir,
J'ai voulu m'exiler de France ;
Lorsqu'impatient de marcher,
J'ai voulu partir, et chercher
Les vestiges d'une espérance ;

À Pise, au pied de l'Apennin ;
À Cologne, en face du Rhin ;
À Nice, au penchant des vallées ;
À Florence, au fond des palais ;
À Brigues, dans les vieux chalets ;
Au sein des Alpes désolées ;

À Gênes, sous les citronniers ;
À Vevey, sous les verts pommiers ;
Au Havre, devant l'Atlantique ;
À Venise, à l'affreux Lido,
Où vient sur l'herbe d'un tombeau
Mourir la pâle Adriatique ;

Partout où, sous ces vastes cieux,
J'ai lassé mon cœur et mes yeux,
Saignant d'une éternelle plaie ;
Partout où le boiteux Ennui,
Traînant ma fatigue après lui,
M'a promené sur une claie ;

Partout où, sans cesse altéré
De la soif d'un monde ignoré,
J'ai suivi l'ombre de mes songes ;
Partout où, sans avoir vécu,
J'ai revu ce que j'avais vu,
La face humaine et ses mensonges ;

Partout où, le long des chemins,
J'ai posé mon front dans mes mains,
Et sangloté comme une femme ;
Partout où j'ai, comme un mouton,
Qui laisse sa laine au buisson,
Senti se dénuder mon âme ;

Partout où j'ai voulu dormir,
Partout où j'ai voulu mourir,
Partout où j'ai touché la terre,
Sur ma route est venu s'asseoir
Un malheureux vêtu de noir,
Qui me ressemblait comme un frère.

Qui donc es-tu, toi que dans cette vie
Je vois toujours sur mon chemin ?
Je ne puis croire, à ta mélancolie,
Que tu sois mon mauvais Destin.
Ton doux sourire a trop de patience,
Tes larmes ont trop de pitié.
En te voyant, j'aime la Providence.
Ta douleur même est sœur de ma souffrance ;
Elle ressemble à l'Amitié.

Qui donc es-tu ? - Tu n'es pas mon bon ange,
Jamais tu ne viens m'avertir.
Tu vois mes maux (c'est une chose étrange !)
Et tu me regardes souffrir.
Depuis vingt ans tu marches dans ma voie,
Et je ne saurais t'appeler.
Qui donc es-tu, si c'est Dieu qui t'envoie ?
Tu me souris sans partager ma joie,
Tu me plains sans me consoler !

Ce soir encor je t'ai vu m'apparaître.
C'était par une triste nuit.
L'aile des vents battait à ma fenêtre ;
J'étais seul, courbé sur mon lit.
J'y regardais une place chérie,
Tiède encor d'un baiser brûlant ;
Et je songeais comme la femme oublie,
Et je sentais un lambeau de ma vie
Qui se déchirait lentement.

Je rassemblais des lettres de la veille,
Des cheveux, des débris d'amour.

Tout ce passé me criait à l'oreille
Ses éternels serments d'un jour.
Je contemplais ces reliques sacrées,
Qui me faisaient trembler la main :
Larmes du cœur par le cœur dévorées,
Et que les yeux qui les avaient pleurées
Ne reconnaîtront plus demain !

J'enveloppais dans un morceau de bure
Ces ruines des jours heureux.
Je me disais qu'ici-bas ce qui dure,
C'est une mèche de cheveux.
Comme un plongeur dans une mer profonde,
Je me perdais dans tant d'oubli.
De tous côtés j'y retournais la sonde,
Et je pleurais, seul, **** des yeux du monde,
Mon pauvre amour enseveli.

J'allais poser le sceau de cire noire
Sur ce fragile et cher trésor.
J'allais le rendre, et, n'y pouvant pas croire,
En pleurant j'en doutais encor.
Ah ! faible femme, orgueilleuse insensée,
Malgré toi, tu t'en souviendras !
Pourquoi, grand Dieu ! mentir à sa pensée ?
Pourquoi ces pleurs, cette gorge oppressée,
Ces sanglots, si tu n'aimais pas ?

Oui, tu languis, tu souffres, et tu pleures ;
Mais ta chimère est entre nous.
Eh bien ! adieu ! Vous compterez les heures
Qui me sépareront de vous.
Partez, partez, et dans ce cœur de glace
Emportez l'orgueil satisfait.
Je sens encor le mien jeune et vivace,
Et bien des maux pourront y trouver place
Sur le mal que vous m'avez fait.

Partez, partez ! la Nature immortelle
N'a pas tout voulu vous donner.
Ah ! pauvre enfant, qui voulez être belle,
Et ne savez pas pardonner !
Allez, allez, suivez la destinée ;
Qui vous perd n'a pas tout perdu.
Jetez au vent notre amour consumée ; -
Eternel Dieu ! toi que j'ai tant aimée,
Si tu pars, pourquoi m'aimes-tu ?

Mais tout à coup j'ai vu dans la nuit sombre
Une forme glisser sans bruit.
Sur mon rideau j'ai vu passer une ombre ;
Elle vient s'asseoir sur mon lit.
Qui donc es-tu, morne et pâle visage,
Sombre portrait vêtu de noir ?
Que me veux-tu, triste oiseau de passage ?
Est-ce un vain rêve ? est-ce ma propre image
Que j'aperçois dans ce miroir ?

Qui donc es-tu, spectre de ma jeunesse,
Pèlerin que rien n'a lassé ?
Dis-moi pourquoi je te trouve sans cesse
Assis dans l'ombre où j'ai passé.
Qui donc es-tu, visiteur solitaire,
Hôte assidu de mes douleurs ?
Qu'as-tu donc fait pour me suivre sur terre ?
Qui donc es-tu, qui donc es-tu, mon frère,
Qui n'apparais qu'au jour des pleurs ?

La vision.

- Ami, notre père est le tien.
Je ne suis ni l'ange gardien,
Ni le mauvais destin des hommes.
Ceux que j'aime, je ne sais pas
De quel côté s'en vont leurs pas
Sur ce peu de fange où nous sommes.

Je ne suis ni dieu ni démon,
Et tu m'as nommé par mon nom
Quand tu m'as appelé ton frère ;
Où tu vas, j'y serai toujours,
Jusques au dernier de tes jours,
Où j'irai m'asseoir sur ta pierre.

Le ciel m'a confié ton cœur.
Quand tu seras dans la douleur,
Viens à moi sans inquiétude.
Je te suivrai sur le chemin ;
Mais je ne puis toucher ta main,
Ami, je suis la Solitude.
Le long bois de sapins se tord jusqu'au rivage,

L'étroit bois de sapins, de lauriers et de pins,

Avec la ville autour déguisée en village :

Chalets éparpillés rouges dans le feuillage

Et les blanches villas des stations de bains.


Le bois sombre descend d'un plateau de bruyère,

Va, vient, creuse un vallon, puis monte vert et noir

Et redescend en fins bosquets où la lumière

Filtre et dore l'obscur sommeil du cimetière

Qui s'étage bercé d'un vague nonchaloir.


À gauche la tour lourde (elle attend une flèche)

Se dresse d'une église invisible d'ici,

L'estacade très **** ; haute, la tour, et sèche :

C'est bien l'anglicanisme impérieux et rêche

À qui l'essor du cœur vers le ciel manque aussi.


Il fait un de ces temps ainsi que je les aime,

Ni brume ni soleil ! le soleil deviné,

Pressenti, du brouillard mourant dansant à même

Le ciel très haut qui tourne et fuit, rose de crème ;

L'atmosphère est de perle et la mer d'or fané.


De la tour protestante il part un chant de cloche,

Puis deux et trois et quatre, et puis huit à la fois,

Instinctive harmonie allant de proche en proche,

Enthousiasme, joie, appel, douleur, reproche,

Avec de l'or, du bronze et du feu dans la voix ;


Bruit immense et bien doux que le long bois écoute !

La musique n'est pas plus belle. Cela vient

Lentement sur la mer qui chante et frémit toute,

Comme sous une armée au pas sonne une route

Dans l'écho qu'un combat d'avant-garde retient.


La sonnerie est morte. Une rouge traînée

De grands sanglots palpite et s'éteint sur la mer.

L'éclair froid d'un couchant de la nouvelle année

Ensanglante là-bas la ville couronnée

De nuit tombante, et vibre à l'ouest encore clair.


Le soir se fonce. Il fait glacial. L'estacade

Frissonne et le ressac a gémi dans son bois

Chanteur, puis est tombé lourdement en cascade

Sur un rythme brutal comme l'ennui maussade

Qui martelait mes jours coupables d'autrefois :


Solitude du cœur dans le vide de l'âme,

Le combat de la mer et des vents de l'hiver,

L'orgueil vaincu, navré, qui râle et qui déclame,

Et cette nuit où rampe un guet-apens infâme,

Catastrophe flairée, avant-goût de l'Enfer !...


Voici trois tintements comme trois coups de flûtes,

Trois encor, trois encor ! l'Angelus oublié

Se souvient, le voici qui dit : Paix à ces luttes !

Le Verbe s'est fait chair pour relever tes chutes,

Une vierge a conçu, le monde est délié !


Ainsi Dieu parle par la voix de sa chapelle

Sise à mi-côte à droite et sur le bord du bois...

Ô Rome, ô Mère ! Cri, geste qui nous rappelle

Sans cesse au bonheur seul et donne au cœur rebelle

Et triste le conseil pratique de la Croix.


- La nuit est de velours. L'estacade laissée

Tait par degrés son bruit sous l'eau qui refluait,

Une route assez droite heureusement tracée

Guide jusque chez moi ma retraite pressée

Dans ce noir absolu sous le long bois muet.
As perfect as a child's drawing,
a snowy mountain framed by
equally sloping, emerald foothills.

Only six chalets,
and soft-eyed cows meander,
their hand-hammered bells
the only sound.

It is early evening,
and a young family visits
the alpine botanical garden
in the center of the valley.

As the light fades,
the father crouches down
to photograph the hidden
worlds of these tiny flowers.
©Elisa Maria Argiro
Olivia Ventura Jan 2018
A porcelain landscape
Becomes the great escape
clothed in savory splendor
masked by sweet contenders
a pool of black greets its pallet
blue mugs are decadent chalets
A whiff of earthly mire,
Leaving no moments of desire.
Water gushing into large streams .
All one hears is loud screams!

Rain drenched koel fluckering her feather's clean.
A illusion that lasts only for a while ,turning it all futile !

Grating , highpitched trees swinging on drenched roads of foggy gloom ,
Downpours creating exhumes !

Thunderbolts scorching the bark of the trees .
Heavy spells hitting the red roofed chalets , chimneys turning into Adam ale goblets!

Inundate , outpouring of sparkling tears ,
Oblivious to the upcoming fears.
A little boy trails his paperboat on the gurgling brook , repeated efforts that never forsook .
When indulged in a game of own ,
Sudden , bleak streaks of golden ray's shone !

Nature indeed is full of mazes,
Every deluge has its phases.
Uprising against nature's spell ,
Each action has a story to tell!


© Mrunalini.D.Nimbalkar
28.06.2019
Every dark cloud had a silver lining
Credits for the title and the brief gist go to my son Upendra#Thanks for reading !!
Oh ! vous dont le travail est joie,
Vous qui n'avez pas d'autre proie
Que les parfums, souffles du ciel,
Vous qui fuyez quand vient décembre,
Vous qui dérobez aux fleurs l'ambre
Pour donner aux hommes le miel,

Chastes buveuses de rosée,
Qui, pareilles à l'épousée,
Visitez le lys du coteau,
Ô sœurs des corolles vermeilles,
Filles de la lumière, abeilles,
Envolez-vous de ce manteau !

Ruez-vous sur l'homme, guerrières !
Ô généreuses ouvrières,
Vous le devoir, vous la vertu,
Ailes d'or et flèches de flamme,
Tourbillonnez sur cet infâme !
Dites-lui : « Pour qui nous prends-tu ?

« Maudit ! nous sommes les abeilles !
Des chalets ombragés de treilles
Notre ruche orne le fronton ;
Nous volons, dans l'azur écloses,
Sur la bouche ouverte des roses
Et sur les lèvres de Platon.

« Ce qui sort de la fange y rentre.
Va trouver Tibère en son antre,
Et Charles neuf sur son balcon.
Va ! sur ta pourpre il faut qu'on mette,
Non les abeilles de l'Hymette,
Mais l'essaim noir de Montfaucon ! »

Et percez-le toutes ensemble,
Faites honte au peuple qui tremble,
Aveuglez l'immonde trompeur,
Acharnez-vous sur lui, farouches,
Et qu'il soit chassé par les mouches
Puisque les hommes en ont peur !

Jersey, juin 1853.
Mary Gay Kearns Feb 2018
The light is slowly dipping
Moving from bright to dull
We trip along the road
Mum ,dad, my brother and I
Reaching Freshwater Bay
As the windows of the pub
Turn on.

The pebbles drag themselves
Back and forth on the beach
Boats, far out in the Solent,
Hooting  and shimmering
As the red sunset fills the sky,
We huddle together hurrying
Before night fall completes.


A quick dash for home
Moving fast along the country lanes
Under the harvest moon
The warmth of the day lingers
And birds put their songs to sleep
At last the line of Chalets' appear
Tucked away amongst trees.

Unlocking the door
The smell of wooden floors
Hot tea, sandwiches
A biscuit or two.
Then to the comfort
Of soft sheets.

Love to my Mother,  Father and brother, Richard,
For all those lovely holiday spent together .
Love Mary ***
Ana Habib Dec 2020
I have not been completely honest
I know I am strong
but at the same time also vulnerable
I know this is not love
It cant be because I am afraid
you are a nice person
drama free and wholesome
pretty parents and manicured lawns
lexus rides and chalets
it all sounds so perfect
looks so great to the naked eye
but I still would not be able to fall in love
because I am afraid
if I begin to love then I will become attached
If i begin to love then I will stop being rational and aim for something that really is not there
if I begin to love then that means I will be free to get hurt
shed tears again
say self damaging things in the name of self defence
All things I know I am capable of
But this cant be love
because I am afraid
to love
to loose
to break and turn to dust
Yenson Jul 2020
You did not see the soul or the man
in owned centered affray you winded sailed
no hearing, no quiet to listen you sip the glint wane
you saw the title  in mirages of the shattering you scaled

You did not hear the voice sincere
as you floated and flirted with primed conceit
in altered minds, frozen senses you dimmed in sphere
to genuflect as belle of the traders ball and take a topping seat

You did not give room to a heart
in your chambers, nor wave a pout, a nod to another's
rather in harsh mellows, harried come tarried to sour depart
all in self glorifying tarry, to be the raconteur to else's duped bothers

You did not do as humanly right
in any which form or shape, 'cept to wear disquiet fair
lauding oppressive storms, shading demagogues verbose delights
languishing in the twisted seedy verses of misappropriation a-share

You cannot see the man or the soul
for in empty places the vacuous find whatever they seek
chalets for musings and notions best sparse yet their grounded soil
to fight vain skirmishes, inflamed pride of those perceived born un-chic

Why should we write a love story..............
Gord Dec 2020
If I could dream a thousand dreams
And make each one come true
I would not dream of distant lands
Or calm lagoons of blue

I would not dream of diamonds
Or other precious gems
Of chalets in the Swiss Alps
Or villas on the Thames

I would not dream of riches
Of silver or of gold
Or dream of lasting youth
And never growing old

If I could dream a thousand dreams
And make each one come true
I’d only need the first one
The one I have of you

Gordon Merritt

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