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À Madame *.

Il est donc vrai, vous vous plaignez aussi,
Vous dont l'oeil noir, *** comme un jour de fête,
Du monde entier pourrait chasser l'ennui.
Combien donc pesait le souci
Qui vous a fait baisser la tête ?
C'est, j'imagine, un aussi lourd fardeau
Que le roitelet de la fable ;
Ce grand chagrin qui vous accable
Me fait souvenir du roseau.
Je suis bien **** d'être le chêne,
Mais, dites-moi, vous qu'en un autre temps
(Quand nos aïeux vivaient en bons enfants)
J'aurais nommée Iris, ou Philis, ou Climène,
Vous qui, dans ce siècle bourgeois,
Osez encor me permettre parfois
De vous appeler ma marraine,
Est-ce bien vous qui m'écrivez ainsi,
Et songiez-vous qu'il faut qu'on vous réponde ?
Savez-vous que, dans votre ennui,
Sans y penser, madame et chère blonde,
Vous me grondez comme un ami ?
Paresse et manque de courage,
Dites-vous ; s'il en est ainsi,
Je vais me remettre à l'ouvrage.
Hélas ! l'oiseau revient au nid,
Et quelquefois même à la cage.
Sur mes lauriers on me croit endormi ;
C'est trop d'honneur pour un instant d'oubli,
Et dans mon lit les lauriers n'ont que faire ;
Ce ne serait pas mon affaire.
Je sommeillais seulement à demi,
À côté d'un brin de verveine
Dont le parfum vivait à peine,
Et qu'en rêvant j'avais cueilli.
Je l'avouerai, ce coupable silence,
Ce long repos, si maltraité de vous,
Paresse, amour, folie ou nonchalance,
Tout ce temps perdu me fut doux.
Je dirai plus, il me fut profitable ;
Et, si jamais mon inconstant esprit
Sait revêtir de quelque fable
Ce que la vérité m'apprit,
Je vous paraîtrai moins coupable.
Le silence est un conseiller
Qui dévoile plus d'un mystère ;
Et qui veut un jour bien parler
Doit d'abord apprendre à se taire.
Et, quand on se tairait toujours,
Du moment qu'on vit et qu'on aime,
Qu'importe le reste ? et vous-même,
Quand avez-vous compté les jours ?
Et puisqu'il faut que tout s'évanouisse,
N'est-ce donc pas une folle avarice,
De conserver comme un trésor
Ce qu'un coup de vent nous enlève ?
Le meilleur de ma vie a passé comme un rêve
Si léger, qu'il m'est cher encor.
Mais revenons à vous, ma charmante marraine.
Vous croyez donc vous ennuyer ?
Et l'hiver qui s'en vient, rallumant le foyer,
A fait rêver la châtelaine.
Un roman, dites-vous, pourrait vous égayer ;
Triste chose à vous envoyer !
Que ne demandez-vous un conte à La Fontaine ?
C'est avec celui-là qu'il est bon de veiller ;
Ouvrez-le sur votre oreiller,
Vous verrez se lever l'aurore.
Molière l'a prédit, et j'en suis convaincu,
Bien des choses auront vécu
Quand nos enfants liront encore
Ce que le bonhomme a conté,
Fleur de sagesse et de gaieté.
Mais quoi ! la mode vient, et tue un vieil usage.
On n'en veut plus, du sobre et franc langage
Dont il enseignait la douceur,
Le seul français, et qui vienne du cœur ;
Car, n'en déplaise à l'Italie,
La Fontaine, sachez-le bien,
En prenant tout n'imita rien ;
Il est sorti du sol de la patrie,
Le vert laurier qui couvre son tombeau ;
Comme l'antique, il est nouveau.
Ma protectrice bien-aimée,
Quand votre lettre parfumée
Est arrivée à votre. enfant gâté,
Je venais de causer en toute liberté
Avec le grand ami Shakespeare.
Du sujet cependant Boccace était l'auteur ;
Car il féconde tout, ce charmant inventeur ;
Même après l'autre, il fallait le relire.
J'étais donc seul, ses Nouvelles en main,
Et de la nuit la lueur azurée,
Se jouant avec le matin,
Etincelait sur la tranche dorée
Du petit livre florentin ;
Et je songeais, quoi qu'on dise ou qu'on fasse,
Combien c'est vrai que les Muses sont sœurs ;
Qu'il eut raison, ce pinceau plein de grâce,
Qui nous les montre au sommet du Parnasse,
Comme une guirlande de fleurs !
La Fontaine a ri dans Boccace,
Où Shakespeare fondait en pleurs.
Sera-ce trop que d'enhardir ma muse
Jusqu'à tenter de traduire à mon tour
Dans ce livre amoureux une histoire d'amour ?
Mais tout est bon qui vous amuse.
Je n'oserais, si ce n'était pour vous,
Car c'est beaucoup que d'essayer ce style
Tant oublié, qui fut jadis si doux,
Et qu'aujourd'hui l'on croit facile.

Il fut donc, dans notre cité,
Selon ce qu'on nous a conté
(Boccace parle ainsi ; la cité, c'est Florence),
Un gros marchand, riche, homme d'importance,
Qui de sa femme eut un enfant ;
Après quoi, presque sur-le-champ,
Ayant mis ordre à ses affaires,
Il passa de ce monde ailleurs.
La mère survivait ; on nomma des tuteurs,
Gens loyaux, prudents et sévères ;
Capables de se faire honneur
En gardant les biens d'un mineur.
Le jouvenceau, courant le voisinage,
Sentit d'abord douceur de cœur
Pour une fille de son âge,
Qui pour père avait un tailleur ;
Et peu à peu l'enfant devenant homme,
Le temps changea l'habitude en amour,
De telle sorte que Jérôme
Sans voir Silvia ne pouvait vivre un jour.
À son voisin la fille accoutumée
Aima bientôt comme elle était aimée.
De ce danger la mère s'avisa,
Gronda son fils, longtemps moralisa,
Sans rien gagner par force ou par adresse.
Elle croyait que la richesse
En ce monde doit tout changer,
Et d'un buisson peut faire un oranger.
Ayant donc pris les tuteurs à partie,
La mère dit : « Cet enfant que voici,
Lequel n'a pas quatorze ans, Dieu merci !
Va désoler le reste de ma vie.
Il s'est si bien amouraché
De la fille d'un mercenaire,
Qu'un de ces jours, s'il n'en est empêché,
Je vais me réveiller grand'mère.
Soir ni matin, il ne la quitte pas.
C'est, je crois, Silvia qu'on l'appelle ;
Et, s'il doit voir quelque autre dans ses bras,
Il se consumera pour elle.
Il faudrait donc, avec votre agrément,
L'éloigner par quelque voyage ;
Il est jeune, la fille est sage,
Elle l'oubliera sûrement ;
Et nous le marierons à quelque honnête femme. »
Les tuteurs dirent que la dame
Avait parlé fort sagement.
« Te voilà grand, dirent-ils à Jérôme,
Il est bon de voir du pays.
Va-t'en passer quelques jours à Paris,
Voir ce que c'est qu'un gentilhomme,
Le bel usage, et comme on vit là-bas ;
Dans peu de temps tu reviendras. »
À ce conseil, le garçon, comme on pense,
Répondit qu'il n'en ferait rien,
Et qu'il pouvait voir aussi bien
Comment l'on vivait à Florence.
Là-dessus, la mère en fureur
Répond d'abord par une grosse injure ;
Puis elle prend l'enfant par la douceur ;
On le raisonne, on le conjure,
À ses tuteurs il lui faut obéir ;
On lui promet de ne le retenir
Qu'un an au plus. Tant et tant on le prie,
Qu'il cède enfin. Il quitte sa patrie ;
Il part, tout plein de ses amours,
Comptant les nuits, comptant les jours,
Laissant derrière lui la moitié de sa vie.
L'exil dura deux ans ; ce long terme passé,
Jérôme revint à Florence,
Du mal d'amour plus que jamais blessé,
Croyant sans doute être récompensé.
Mais. c'est un grand tort que l'absence.
Pendant qu'au **** courait le jouvenceau,
La fille s'était mariée.
En revoyant les rives de l'Arno,
Il n'y trouva que le tombeau
De son espérance oubliée.
D'abord il n'en murmura point,
Sachant que le monde, en ce point,
Agit rarement d'autre sorte.
De l'infidèle il connaissait la porte,
Et tous les jours il passait sur le seuil,
Espérant un signe, un coup d'oeil,
Un rien, comme on fait quand on aime.
Mais tous ses pas furent perdus
Silvia ne le connaissait plus,
Dont il sentit une douleur extrême.
Cependant, avant d'en mourir,
Il voulut de son souvenir
Essayer de parler lui-même.
Le mari n'était pas jaloux,
Ni la femme bien surveillée.
Un soir que les nouveaux époux
Chez un voisin étaient à la veillée,
Dans la maison, au tomber de la nuit,
Jérôme entra, se cacha près du lit,
Derrière une pièce de toile ;
Car l'époux était tisserand,
Et fabriquait cette espèce de voile
Qu'on met sur un balcon toscan.
Bientôt après les mariés rentrèrent,
Et presque aussitôt se couchèrent.
Dès qu'il entend dormir l'époux,
Dans l'ombre vers Silvia Jérôme s'achemine,
Et lui posant la main sur la poitrine,
Il lui dit doucement : « Mon âme, dormez-vous ?
La pauvre enfant, croyant voir un fantôme,
Voulut crier ; le jeune homme ajouta
« Ne criez pas, je suis votre Jérôme.
- Pour l'amour de Dieu, dit Silvia,
Allez-vous-en, je vous en prie.
Il est passé, ce temps de notre vie
Où notre enfance eut loisir de s'aimer,
Vous voyez, je suis mariée.
Dans les devoirs auxquels je suis liée,
Il ne me sied plus de penser
À vous revoir ni vous entendre.
Si mon mari venait à vous surprendre,
Songez que le moindre des maux
Serait pour moi d'en perdre le repos ;
Songez qu'il m'aime et que je suis sa femme. »
À ce discours, le malheureux amant
Fut navré jusqu'au fond de l'âme.
Ce fut en vain qu'il peignit son tourment,
Et sa constance et sa misère ;
Par promesse ni par prière,
Tout son chagrin ne put rien obtenir.
Alors, sentant la mort venir,
Il demanda que, pour grâce dernière,
Elle le laissât se coucher
Pendant un instant auprès d'elle,
Sans bouger et sans la toucher,
Seulement pour se réchauffer,
Ayant au cœur une glace mortelle,
Lui promettant de ne pas dire un mot,
Et qu'il partirait aussitôt,
Pour ne la revoir de sa vie.
La jeune femme, ayant quelque compassion,
Moyennant la condition,
Voulut contenter son envie.
Jérôme profita d'un moment de pitié ;
Il se coucha près de Silvie.
Considérant alors quelle longue amitié
Pour cette femme il avait eue,
Et quelle était sa cruauté,
Et l'espérance à tout jamais perdue,
Il résolut de cesser de souffrir,
Et rassemblant dans un dernier soupir
Toutes les forces de sa vie,
Il serra la main de sa mie,
Et rendit l'âme à son côté.
Silvia, non sans quelque surprise,
Admirant sa tranquillité,
Resta d'abord quelque temps indécise.
« Jérôme, il faut sortir d'ici,
Dit-elle enfin, l'heure s'avance. »
Et, comme il gardait le silence,
Elle pensa qu'il s'était endormi.
Se soulevant donc à demi,
Et doucement l'appelant à voix basse,
Elle étendit la main vers lui,
Et le trouva froid comme glace.
Elle s'en étonna d'abord ;
Bientôt, l'ayant touché plus fort,
Et voyant sa peine inutile,
Son ami restant immobile,
Elle comprit qu'il était mort.
Que faire ? il n'était pas facile
De le savoir en un moment pareil.
Elle avisa de demander conseil
À son mari, le tira de son somme,
Et lui conta l'histoire de Jérôme,
Comme un malheur advenu depuis peu,
Sans dire à qui ni dans quel lieu.
« En pareil cas, répondit le bonhomme,
Je crois que le meilleur serait
De porter le mort en secret
À son logis, l'y laisser sans rancune,
Car la femme n'a point failli,
Et le mal est à la fortune.
- C'est donc à nous de faire ainsi, »
Dit la femme ; et, prenant la main de son mari
Elle lui fit toucher près d'elle
Le corps sur son lit étendu.
Bien que troublé par ce coup imprévu,
L'époux se lève, allume sa chandelle ;
Et, sans entrer en plus de mots,
Sachant que sa femme est fidèle,
Il charge le corps sur son dos,
À sa maison secrètement l'emporte,
Le dépose devant la porte,
Et s'en revient sans avoir été vu.
Lorsqu'on trouva, le jour étant venu,
Le jeune homme couché par terre,
Ce fut une grande rumeur ;
Et le pire, dans ce malheur,
Fut le désespoir de la mère.
Le médecin aussitôt consulté,
Et le corps partout visité,
Comme on n'y vit point de blessure,
Chacun parlait à sa façon
De cette sinistre aventure.
La populaire opinion
Fut que l'amour de sa maîtresse
Avait jeté Jérôme en cette adversité,
Et qu'il était mort de tristesse,
Comme c'était la vérité.
Le corps fut donc à l'église porté,
Et là s'en vint la malheureuse mère,
Au milieu des amis en deuil,
Exhaler sa douleur amère.
Tandis qu'on menait le cercueil,
Le tisserand qui, dans le fond de l'âme,
Ne laissait pas d'être inquiet :
« Il est bon, dit-il à sa femme,
Que tu prennes ton mantelet,
Et t'en ailles à cette église
Où l'on enterre ce garçon
Qui mourut hier à la maison.
J'ai quelque peur qu'on ne médise
Sur cet inattendu trépas,
Et ce serait un mauvais pas,
Tout innocents que nous en sommes.
Je me tiendrai parmi les hommes,
Et prierai Dieu, tout en les écoutant.
De ton côté, prends soin d'en faire autant
À l'endroit qu'occupent les femmes.
Tu retiendras ce que ces bonnes âmes
Diront de nous, et nous ferons
Selon ce que nous entendrons. »
La pitié trop **** à Silvie
Etait venue, et ce discours lui plut.
Celui dont un baiser eût conservé la vie,
Le voulant voir encore, elle s'en fut.
Il est étrange, il est presque incroyable
Combien c'est chose inexplicable
Que la puissance de l'amour.
Ce cœur, si chaste et si sévère,
Qui semblait fermé sans retour
Quand la fortune était prospère,
Tout à coup s'ouvrit au malheur.
À peine dans l'église entrée,
De compassion et d'horreur
Silvia se sentit pénétrée ;
L'ancien amour s'éveilla tout entier.
Le front baissé, de son manteau voilée,
Traversant la triste assemblée,
Jusqu'à la bière il lui fallut aller ;
Et là, sous le drap mortuaire
Sitôt qu'elle vit son ami,
Défaillante et poussant un cri,
Comme une sœur embrasse un frère,
Sur le cercueil elle tomba ;
Et, comme la douleur avait tué Jérôme,
De sa douleur ainsi mourut Silvia.
Cette fois ce fut au jeune homme
A céder la moitié du lit :
L'un près de l'autre on les ensevelit.
Ainsi ces deux amants, séparés sur la terre,
Furent unis, et la mort fit
Ce que l'amour n'avait pu faire.
Sarah Jan 2019
oh dear Silvia
why have you left us
dragging on the days you disappear
oh the nights go by and i stare at you why
comatose they call it
slipped away from these hands
Silvia made me take a stand

did you have to fall
made me crawl to you
oh dear Silvia how can i make it
without you


Silvia I’m here right now, watching you
holding you hand, i know i may have made a mistake
just wake and forget it all
all those worries
all that pain
i will help you take it all way

I know these years have all flown by there isn’t anything i could try
i have made a mistake
through the years i was dull, cut you off and became cull
we had everything in common

now the only thing familiar is you
the air we breathe is the only we share
all the kids they have you, have left me
oh Silvia I’m sorry for everything


come back to me honey
come back to me my wife
its all become lonely I’m sorry it was rough
but I’m here now just open your eyes open your eyes
come on baby
come on hunny
its a bright new day
ill never make you regret you stayed.


oh dear Silvia, i still love you
but watching you is making me wanna ,fade away
come back to us
come back to me
based on the book “ Oh dear Silvia” by dawn french i wrote this song in a different perspective its not that great but with the tune it seems alright haha
doesn't make much sense but hopefully get the raw emotion.
Who is Silvia? What is she?
  That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
  The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admirèd be.

Is she kind as she is fair?
  For beauty lives with kindness:
Love doth to her eyes repair,
  To help him of his blindness;
And, being help’d, inhabits there.

Then to Silvia let us sing,
  That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
  Upon the dull earth dwelling:
To her let us garlands bring.
aldo kraas Aug 2023
Sweet silvia
You are my father’s
Oldest child
Sweet silvia
You younger days are over now
Because you already lived the
Young days
Sweet Silvia
Now you are aging gracefully
And we can’t stop that
Because you father made
Life to be that way
Sweet silvia
Are you praying for you father
Before you go to bed?
Because it only takes a couple seconds
To do it
If you don’t pray for you father
You father will punish you
Sweet silvia
You are not going to live
Forever here on earth
Because you only live once
And when you die
I will be there to say good bye
Sweet Silvia
And I know that you will rest in peace
In heaven
aldo kraas Sep 2023
Sweet Silvia
You are my father’s
Oldest child
Sweet Silvia
You younger days are over now
Because you already lived the
Young days
Sweet Silvia
Now you are aging gracefully
And we can’t stop that
Because you father made
Life to be that way
Sweet silvia
Are you praying for you father
Before you go to bed?
Because it only takes a couple seconds
To do it
If you don’t pray for you father
You father will punish you
Sweet silvia
You are not going to live
Forever here on earth
Because you only live once
And when you die
I will be there to say good bye
Sweet Silvia
And I know that you will rest in peace
In heaven
aldo kraas Sep 2023
Sweet Silvia
You are my father’s
Oldest child
Sweet Silvia
You younger days are over now
Because you already lived the
Young days
Sweet Silvia
Now you are aging gracefully
And we can’t stop that
Because you father made
Life to be that way
Sweet Silvia
Are you praying for you father
Before you go to bed?
Because it only takes a couple seconds
To do it
If you don’t pray for you father
You father will punish you
Sweet Silvia
You are not going to live
Forever here on earth
Because you only live once
And when you die
I will be there to say goodbye
Sweet Silvia
And I know that you will rest in peace
In heaven
Let us, though late, at last, my Silvia, wed
And loving lie in one devoted bed.
Thy watch may stand, my minutes fly post-haste;
No sound calls back the year that once is past.
Then, sweetest Silvia, let’s no longer stay;
True love, we know, precipitates delay.
Away with doubts, all scruples hence remove;
No man at one time can be wise and love.
Silvia, rimembri ancora
quel tempo della tua vita mortale,
quando beltà splendea
negli occhi tuoi ridenti e fuggitivi,
e tu, lieta e pensosa, il limitare
di gioventù salivi?

Sonavan le quiete
stanze, e le vie dintorno,
al tuo perpetuo canto,
allor che all'opre femminili intenta
sedevi, assai contenta
di quel vago avvenir che in mente avevi.
Era il maggio odoroso: e tu solevi
così menare il giorno.

Io gli studi leggiadri
talor lasciando e le sudate carte,
ove il tempo mio primo
e di me si spendea la miglior parte,
d'in su i veroni del paterno ostello
porgea gli orecchi al suon della tua voce,
ed alla man veloce
che percorrea la faticosa tela.
Mirava il ciel sereno,
le vie dorate e gli orti,
e quinci il mar da lungi, e quindi il monte.
Lingua mortal non dice
quel ch'io sentiva in seno.

Che pensieri soavi,
che speranze, che cori, o Silvia mia!
Quale allor ci apparia
la vita umana e il fato!
Quando sovviemmi di cotanta speme,
un affetto mi preme
acerbo e sconsolato,
e tornami a doler di mia sventura.
O natura, o natura,
perché non rendi poi
quel che prometti allor? Perché di tanto
inganni i figli tuoi?

Tu pria che l'erbe inaridisse il verno,
da chiuso morbo combattuta e vinta,
perivi, o tenerella. E non vedevi
il fior degli anni tuoi;
non ti molceva il core
la dolce lode or delle negre chiome,
or degli sguardi innamorati e schivi;
né teco le compagne ai dì festivi
ragionavan d'amore.

Anche peria tra poco
la speranza mia dolce: agli anni miei
anche negaro i fati
la giovanezza. Ahi come,
come passata sei,
cara compagna dell'età mia nova,
mia lacrimata speme!
Questo è quel mondo? Questi
i diletti, l'amor, l'opre, gli eventi
onde cotanto ragionammo insieme?
Questa la sorte dell'umane genti?
All'apparir del vero
tu, misera, cadesti: e con la mano
la fredda morte ed una tomba ignuda
mostravi di lontano.
Silvia, rimembri ancora
quel tempo della tua vita mortale,
quando beltà splendea
negli occhi tuoi ridenti e fuggitivi,
e tu, lieta e pensosa, il limitare
di gioventù salivi?

Sonavan le quiete
stanze, e le vie dintorno,
al tuo perpetuo canto,
allor che all'opre femminili intenta
sedevi, assai contenta
di quel vago avvenir che in mente avevi.
Era il maggio odoroso: e tu solevi
così menare il giorno.

Io gli studi leggiadri
talor lasciando e le sudate carte,
ove il tempo mio primo
e di me si spendea la miglior parte,
d'in su i veroni del paterno ostello
porgea gli orecchi al suon della tua voce,
ed alla man veloce
che percorrea la faticosa tela.
Mirava il ciel sereno,
le vie dorate e gli orti,
e quinci il mar da lungi, e quindi il monte.
Lingua mortal non dice
quel ch'io sentiva in seno.

Che pensieri soavi,
che speranze, che cori, o Silvia mia!
Quale allor ci apparia
la vita umana e il fato!
Quando sovviemmi di cotanta speme,
un affetto mi preme
acerbo e sconsolato,
e tornami a doler di mia sventura.
O natura, o natura,
perché non rendi poi
quel che prometti allor? Perché di tanto
inganni i figli tuoi?

Tu pria che l'erbe inaridisse il verno,
da chiuso morbo combattuta e vinta,
perivi, o tenerella. E non vedevi
il fior degli anni tuoi;
non ti molceva il core
la dolce lode or delle negre chiome,
or degli sguardi innamorati e schivi;
né teco le compagne ai dì festivi
ragionavan d'amore.

Anche peria tra poco
la speranza mia dolce: agli anni miei
anche negaro i fati
la giovanezza. Ahi come,
come passata sei,
cara compagna dell'età mia nova,
mia lacrimata speme!
Questo è quel mondo? Questi
i diletti, l'amor, l'opre, gli eventi
onde cotanto ragionammo insieme?
Questa la sorte dell'umane genti?
All'apparir del vero
tu, misera, cadesti: e con la mano
la fredda morte ed una tomba ignuda
mostravi di lontano.
judy smith Sep 2016
Paris has traditionally been the city where inter­national designers – from Australia and England to Beirut and Japan – opt to unveil their collections. However, Karen Ruimy, who is behind the Kalmar label, chose the runways of Milan Fashion Week for her debut showcase in September.

The Morocco-born, London- based designer hosted an intimate al fresco event in a private palazzo to launch her holiday line of fine cotton and silk jumpsuits, breezy kaftans, long skirts, playsuits and off-the-shoulder tops in tropical prints.

Ruimy had a career in finance before moving into the arts – she owns a museum of photography in Marrakech – and has become increasingly involved in fashion and beauty, thanks to her personal interest in holistic therapies.

These are clothes, she explains, that marry luxury and wellness, and are the things she would wear when she wants quality time by herself. The fact that they are made in Italy, convinced her that Milan was the right place for her debut – where she showed alongside the likes of Gucci, Prada, Verscae and Marni.

On fashion calendars, Milan has conventionally been the place where the runways confirm the trends and themes hinted at ­earlier, in New York and London. However, this season, the Italian designers did not speak with one voice, making Milan Fashion Week all the more refreshing for it.

Often, there might be an era or style of design that dominates the runways during a particular season, but for spring/summer 2017 in Milan, there was a standout showing of techno sportswear and techno fabrics employed in updated classics such as coats and box-pleat skirts, or with references to north African and Native American themes.

The Italian designers sent looks that would appeal to everyone, from the haute bohemian and athletic woman, to the cool sophisticate and the art crowd, as well as – as in the case of Moschino – to the iPhone generation.

Only three seasons ago, Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele was lauded for his complicated maximalist styling. Yet in Milan, Gucci channelled a dreamlike vibe with Victoriana, denim, athletic apparel and oversized accessories, thrown together in delightful chaos, making it difficult to predict the direction Michele is taking Gucci in.

Currently he seems to be in a holding pattern, hovering at once over 1940s Hollywood glamour, 1970s flared pantsuits, and ruffled party dresses from the 1980s, in a cacophony of ­colours and fabrics.

The feeling of joyous madness continued at Dolce & Gabbana, where street dancers emerged from the audience to start the party in the designers’ tropical-themed show. The clothes used some of their familiar tropes, such as military jackets, corseted black-lace dresses miniskirts. New, however, were the baggy tapering trousers redolent of jodhpurs, and the lavish and detailed embellishment the designers used to sell their story.

Wanderlust dominated the moodboards at Roberto Cavalli – rich patterns, embroidery and patchworks inspired by Native Americans – and Etro with its ­tribal themes on kaftans, duster coats and Berber-style capes.

Giorgio Armani, Agnona Tod’s, Bottega Veneta and Salvatore Ferragamo – with its stylish twisted leather dresses and crisp athletic sportswear designed by newcomer Fulvio Rigoni – all answered the call of women who want stylish but undemanding clothes.

Marni would appeal to the art world for its graceful, pioneering ideas. The label’s finely pleated dresses displayed a life of their own, and its micro-printed dresses were gathered, folded and distorted to walk the line between stylish and quirky.

In contrast, the sportswear at MaxMara and Donatella Versace targeted the dynamic generation of athletic women, with sleek leggings, belted jackets, power suits and anoraks. Versace has made it clear that she thinks this is the only way forward. She may be right, but there’s always room for the myriad styles displayed at Milan Fashion Week in all our wardrobes.

It was feathers with everything at Prada. Silk pyjamas, boldly coloured and mixed checks, cardigans and wrap skirts with Velcro fasteners show Miuccia Prada reinventing the classics. Most glamorous was the series of evening dresses and pyjamas with jewelled embroidery and feathers, worn with kitten heels that married sporty straps with heaps of crystals. Prada’s must-have bag of the season is a bold clutch with a long strap fastener, that comes in a multitude of geometric and daisy patterns.

Versace

Over the past three seasons, Donatella Versace has been carving out a new image for her brand – a shift from the luxe glam of red carpets and superyachts, although the inhabitants of that world will be sure to buy into the new Versace vibe. Donatella’s girls are both glamorous and empowered. The sporty look is tough, urban and energetic, judging by the billowing ultra-thin high-tech nylon parkas and blousons, stirrup trousers and dresses (the shapes of which are manipulated by drawstrings). Dresses, skirts and tops are spliced at angles and studded together. Swishy pleated dresses and silky slit skirts gave energy when in movement, and were as soft as the look got.

Bottega Veneta

Model Gigi Hadid and veteran actress Lauren Hutton walked arm in arm down the Bottega Veneta runway, illustrating the breadth of the Italian maison in Tomas Maier’s hands. This was a double celebration of the Bottega’s 50th ­anniversary and Maier’s 15th as its creative director. Menswear and womenswear were combined, and the focus was on easy, elegant clothes in luxurious materials, such as ostrich, crocodile and lamb skin for coats; easy knits and cotton dresses worn with antique-style silver jewellery; and wedge heels. Fifteen handbag styles debuted along with 15 from the archive.

Fendi

Silvia Venturini’s new Kan handbag was a star turn at Milan. The stud-lock bag dotted with candy-coloured studs, rosette embroidery and floral ribbons couldn’t help but charm every woman in the audience. It was the perfect joyful accessory for Karl Lagerfeld’s feminine vintage romp through the wardrobe of Marie Antoinette, with sugary colours, bows, big apron skirts and crisp white embroidery juxtaposed with sporty footballer-stripe tops – effectively updating a historical look.Read more at:http://www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/red-carpet-celebrity-dresses
Kathleen Dec 2010
I'm starting to dream in color
swimming in Silvia red night gowns
and dancing into silhouettes of purple and crimson.
psychedelic actually,
if you take the time to think within that perspective.
it's like a toned-down rave set in slow motion by overdose.
and where are you?
are you passed out on the lawn in front of some closed down swapmeet?
did the flicker of insomnia turn you off like a light switch you hadn't paid the bill for?
who now, will answer your phone or pay homage to your quips
or late night phone calls to God?
I wish I could say that I relayed the message
but my nerves never were enough.
I wonder if the angels ever picked up on the twisted games you played on their names.
Many people never bothered to decipher it all.
But on occasion I did.
When the time was convenient,
when the moments were dull.
I delved into it.
I tried anyhow.
Forgive me for never letting you pass.
For standing arms and legs wide apart to halt the inevitable.
I wish for so many seconds
that I was there to do something,
to show something,
some inkling of understanding through sarcastic grimaces.
To you, who will read this and play dead for flair,
may you call upon me from the imaginary casket when you get this.
Fore I do see that you could never leave like that.
creative commons
Mateuš Conrad Aug 2016
have you ever made a spider a Palestinian? i have, today, refreshing the paint-job on the back of my house, a whole family strutting away from fresh paint being applied (poets cure boredom, they simply don't know it), the cardigans erase & rewind, my uncle would be perfect with his age to work out the demographics - my age circuit, 30 and listening to the palette of those in full-throttle of the 1990s - anyway, refreshing the paint on the back of my house, not for dough, but for the sweat of my brow - learning i succumb to acrophobia on the ladder - but i did it anyway... i love phobias, they're not the fear, they're like a box of chocolates... you never know what will make you startle... it's not permanent, phobias shouldn't be considered permanent, they're too reflexive... and we all know that nibbling them in the reflective realm immediately suggests irrationality, not to a reaction, but to a continuum of a reaction: a ladder, a giant spider to boot. but i never watched a spider eat fresh paint... watched the ******* do the nibble on paint... ***** - a getty cardinal spider shooting paint pollutants with its leg, eating the Chernobyl cocktail, the rainbow melt in a puddle of oil spill... junkies everywhere; so that done, a beer and a quick look at the Olympics...

if table tennis was as relevant as table tennis -
i prefer table tennis,
judo is too cool too - classic Greek wrestling
with feet to match the hands -
i think in terms of the Olympics we're in
the Gobi desert - so many sports are shown only
once every 4 years, the once that don't make the dough...
i'd prefer the Olympics without the pop culture
exponents that keep us hungry for spectacles
during the 4 years apart -
hand-ball, Romania thrashed by Angola -
ladies first, of course,
and weight-lifting, weighs in at 48kg and lifts
80+kg... well Jihad John versus G.I. Jane...
a pretty match up... look, i came from a certain background
i won't be making politically correct statements,
if it weren't for my personal initiative i'd be scooping
grub from an industrial flat surface roof like my father...
i don't mind getting paid... i just love the fact that i will
and if ending up homeless, i have enough heart already
to start a religion, or something.
of course i'll miss my personal library of books and albums,
who wouldn't? i'll join the divorcee crew and it'll be
like it always was supposed to be.
but am i really that ridiculous? think about it,
i use ridiculous words in my vocabulary, after all i went
to a catholic school, it was bound to happen -
not true secular cool, sorry -
but is my usage of certain words completely penniless
more ridiculous in the form of an oligarch buying
a pearl entombed in a custard pie? of a yacht for a month
at Monte Carlo? seriously? if i utilise the words
Paraclete or Antichrist after just skimmed rereading of
a psychiatrist's religious venture in Jung's *answer to Job

am i as ridiculous as those barons?
i don't think so... i read that book like Flaubert instructed
concerning all books: read in order to live it -
a book is a transplant, some leave a heart, come a ****,
some a brain, some a pint of blood with a book...
i hope to leave the worm of hell licking your ear for a sloppy
Jim - read Jung... almost atypical German Christian
intelligentsia byproduct, neutral Swiss just after the second
world war... Freud read Nietzsche and so did Mussolini...
****** was very much Jung... it's a strange book...
we all know that the Greeks hijacked Judaism...
the Romans were like: whatever that meant...
shoved it into a cauldron of the prefix omni-
and attributed to the prefix geographies and geometries
all inclusive (herr deutsche came along though) -
but the Greeks hijacked the oddity of Judea at that
special time because they had scientific inclinations
rather than aesthetic inclinations of the Romans,
and they wanted answers... got **** all...
it's not the Jews that thought the Greek involvement
ridiculous, it was the Romans... hence the omni-
and -presence, -potency, etc. - the Greeks just had
those mythical names for ****... Logos, Sophia...
that's the funny thing with mythology and history -
the book of Revelation by the looks of it simply looks
like a redemption of Oedipus... mythology is a logic
of history where either none was recorded on papyrus
since no one required hush-hush intrigue talk and people
spoke to each other face to face rather than to a profile -
mugs and mustard seeds -
you can always buy the book, C. G. Jung answer to Job,
it's peppered with too much Greek, and very little
Roman care... the theological addition of a globalised world
(under monotheism, failed and thriving, whichever)
is bound to play the montage of omni- and simply add -
God = omnivocab - i have my limitations of words -
i had to censor or rather select a vocabulary in order
to process the interchanges to reach a conclusive churning
without an ultimate goal other than to preserve a continuum,
like Balzac boring everybody with the 19th instalment of
the human comedy. so after reading this book on religious
matters by a psychiatrists i'm sorta bothered...
i'm tripping... obviously not seeing any hyper-geometry
of your choice... i just think the Greeks did the most horrid
hoarding and looting know to man... which reflected
the looting of Byzantium and never reaching the Holy Land...
the barbarians never cared to be honest, they only
started caring when they started to castrate the boys
for the "holy" choir rather than circumcise them...
then they went Berserk... the book of revelation can only
mean the quantum mechanics of history, bound to
mythology - Oedipus was very real... the blackened
heart of Greeks even though Aristotle, Socrates, Plato...
that intellectual import and expression didn't help...
after all Eddie Gein gave birth to the latter part of the 20th
century pop culture... Texas Chainsaw... Haemorrhoid Hannibal,
House of a 1000 Corpses.. history and journalism
dismisses mythology, i dismiss journalism as simply
a hyper-sensitivity that keeps dialectics out of the picture,
a monologue of opinions... mythology just doesn't seem
that insensible given our perspective into history with Darwin
and millions of years ago with the sea-turtles... you know
how gossip works... it sooth the reality of it had happened...
because we prefer oysters and chicken thighs to digest than
the tales of Eddie, oh yeah... Fe Maiden... d'uh!
the Greeks looted the Hebrews to purge themselves of
Oedipus... the weakness came by keeping estranged with
Narcissus and iconoclasm... you want an extract?
bombshell blonde at your bidding -
assumptio mariae: mary as the bride is united with the son
in the heavenly-chamber, and as sophia, with the godhead
.
basically Mary is a schizophrenic ****-child of lust
for a Roman centurion who makes the story of a ****** birth
her wish to bed-wet her son (Jesus) into joining **** John
and Toe into her ****** (***** *****, like her already)
in heaven - she thinks her body will **** her "******-birth"
son and her wisdom (Sophia is her alias, or nickname)
will **** god in the head. oh hell this is sacrilege -
i'm not afraid of it... boo! ha! caught you mouth dry with the
boogie man. so this is a psychiatrist reasoning his religion...
as i said, the Greeks had no omni- Roman put the **** back
into his boots before he starts river-dancing...
all these quizzical ultra-mythical words that the Greeks
used starting with the Logos and Hippocrates were attached
to the failed Platonism of the unconverted Damocles principle
and the tyrant succumbing to drink and never bound to
a sober wish for anything more - (i'm guessing his intentions
were laid with Nietzsche as source of discipleship) - in short
let's just say that Platonism failed in practice,
and it needed a populist movement, a redemption from
the curse of Oedipus came from Hebrew with the schizoid-birth,
Joseph bin Adam was: better bite that ****** of the cow-fruit
and remind her of the stoning practices around here -
oh it's all pretty much Eastenders around here, it's
not the ******* Vatican marble corridors, we're talking
Gaza dust sneezing while whipping the donkey's *** to
move along... split-mind: beautiful metaphor... premature
dementia, obviously misunderstood... if premature "dementia"
while so much creativity among the split-minded...
it's like all the zodiac signs became jealous of Gemini,
incorporating Gemini-Solipsism... well, i have a neck like a bull
and a *****-count like a charging bull... but the thinking
behind the 3.a.m. is kinda staggering... oh right, you want
more quirky clues from Jung's book:
- silvia loret
- maritza mendez
- aria giovanni             (get a hybrid and i'll believe in Disneyland) -
****, that ain't what i was going to write, never mind,
you get a chance to see the palette of what's fudge for
fucky-fucky sized 16+ and what the Renaissance men
knew would be better than duck-feathers in pillows;
- meister eckhart: gott ist selig in der seele
- puer aeternus: vultu mutabilis albus et ater
    (of changeful countenance, both white and black)
- pius XII's apostolic constitution (munificentissimus dei)
   words like muni-imus really make you train in
    grammatical arithmetic, don't they? playing doctor with
   them as to where to cut them for a aqua format of rivers
   is quiet like reciting a 5x table up to 30 (sometimes)
- oportebat sponsam, quam pater desponsaverat, in θalmis caelestibus habitare (the bride whom the father had espoused had to abide in the heavenly bridal-chambers): st. john damascene (encomium in dormitionem);

summa summarum?
Nietzsche answered Job... this is my answer to Jung as also an answer to Lot - **** your daughters, your wife turns into a pillar of salt... and i equate that as a precursor to the man of sorrows on the ****** crucifix - salt is a metaphor for misery (that's etymology for you); and the Roman phonetic encoding survived over the fates of Egyptian and Babylonian is precisely why the adopted son of Caesar later made his uncle's adopted nephew his successor - as with the four dogma canon gospels, we're replicas of the tetragrammaton... well... i was never confirmed, i'm one short of joining the god-men that came out from catholic school after choosing a name for themselves they could have changed not having wished to be known by the two names given to them by their parents... few did... i just ended up an acronym of Einstein: M C E.
Silvia, rimembri ancora
quel tempo della tua vita mortale,
quando beltà splendea
negli occhi tuoi ridenti e fuggitivi,
e tu, lieta e pensosa, il limitare
di gioventù salivi?

Sonavan le quiete
stanze, e le vie dintorno,
al tuo perpetuo canto,
allor che all'opre femminili intenta
sedevi, assai contenta
di quel vago avvenir che in mente avevi.
Era il maggio odoroso: e tu solevi
così menare il giorno.

Io gli studi leggiadri
talor lasciando e le sudate carte,
ove il tempo mio primo
e di me si spendea la miglior parte,
d'in su i veroni del paterno ostello
porgea gli orecchi al suon della tua voce,
ed alla man veloce
che percorrea la faticosa tela.
Mirava il ciel sereno,
le vie dorate e gli orti,
e quinci il mar da lungi, e quindi il monte.
Lingua mortal non dice
quel ch'io sentiva in seno.

Che pensieri soavi,
che speranze, che cori, o Silvia mia!
Quale allor ci apparia
la vita umana e il fato!
Quando sovviemmi di cotanta speme,
un affetto mi preme
acerbo e sconsolato,
e tornami a doler di mia sventura.
O natura, o natura,
perché non rendi poi
quel che prometti allor? Perché di tanto
inganni i figli tuoi?

Tu pria che l'erbe inaridisse il verno,
da chiuso morbo combattuta e vinta,
perivi, o tenerella. E non vedevi
il fior degli anni tuoi;
non ti molceva il core
la dolce lode or delle negre chiome,
or degli sguardi innamorati e schivi;
né teco le compagne ai dì festivi
ragionavan d'amore.

Anche peria tra poco
la speranza mia dolce: agli anni miei
anche negaro i fati
la giovanezza. Ahi come,
come passata sei,
cara compagna dell'età mia nova,
mia lacrimata speme!
Questo è quel mondo? Questi
i diletti, l'amor, l'opre, gli eventi
onde cotanto ragionammo insieme?
Questa la sorte dell'umane genti?
All'apparir del vero
tu, misera, cadesti: e con la mano
la fredda morte ed una tomba ignuda
mostravi di lontano.
Anthony McKee May 2013
There are days where we meet up
To walk under cool crisp skies
Made up of indigoes, lilacs and light crimsons
Sunnier afternoons. Skimming to and fro
The slates of English Street. The plains of Sprucefield
Sprawling in front of us. Boulevards of Cookstown
That stretch far and wide, skirted with shops
Owned by unloved mannequins. We journey further
In our red Nissan Silvia, with the roll-down windows
With a pile of yellowed copies of the Beano in the back.
Mine, of course. I like to read. You taught me to.
Blur upon blur, we share whispers with each other
The alphabet, songs. I can count to ten, on my own. I did it once
In Marks & Spencer. Everyone was proud.
Taking our bag of tricks with us, we sup from place to place
Chicken nugget Happy Meals. Crumbs of a german biscuit.
Half of a sausage roll at the Trian. Twilight falls, the blurs
Become darker, curiouser. Soon I am home. The day is done.

There are other days where we meet up
Under a slightly greyer tinge. I laugh
I can’t change that, I tell you. The weather sometimes.
Less skimming, less journeying. Sometimes I’ll say
Remember that red Silvia? All the places we used to go?
But there’s no answer. The whispers have gone.
Sean Hunt May 2016
I am a single man
And there are some
Who cannot understand
Why
I don't want to fall
In love again
I hope my poem
Will explain

I keep telling everyone
I don’t want to take a chance
I’ll never be ready
For another romance
She held me so close
With her Latin hands
And we had such a wild
And a wonderful dance

I feel like I’ve climbed
The world’s highest peak
Already I’ve seen
All there is to see
Silvia’s her name
And drama her game
Every night and day
She took my breath away

I’ve been to the top
Of the world’s highest peak
And already I’ve seen
All there is to see
I’ll never forget
Our long goodbye
Ain’t it strange when you fall
You can climb so high

Sean Hunt   May 2016
Mateuš Conrad Sep 2017
and at the end of this session, i'm going to gorge on homemade banana cake, and a glass of milk; hmm, so that's that.

hannah hallysem, chloe vevrier, rosalia verne, dakota skye, nadine jansen, milena d., katrina jade, alison tyler, sasha foxxx, noelle easton, shay fox, kourtney kane, aletta ocean, lexi belle, aria giovanni, maritza mendez, silvia loret, laura lion, ashley graham, latex lucy, alexis texas,  dana dearmond, abella danger, karmen karma, jezebelle bond, keisha grey, karmen grey, jelena jensen, carmen croft, aneta buena, ines cudna, ewa sonnet, emma green, louisa marie, ivy nedkova, karolina pliskova, emma green, louisa marie, ivy nedkova, rooney mara, claire forlani, kelley scarlett, malina may, amirah adara, phoenix marie, foxy di., kenya lust, kiera winters, christy mack, paige delight, faith nelson, darya klishina, sand morris, alysha newman, silvia saint, adele stephens, deven davis, ewa wyrwal, tanya song, synn wagner, christina lucci, hunter leigh, lynda leigh, gemma atkinson, mulani rivera, sarah harding...
        
   all those "expectations" mingling with a *babuska
...
gotta have a babuska after a list like that...
      looks nice, doesn't it?
         see how honest other people can become...
      that's as honest as you're going to get:
i'm hardly an out-of-the-closet gay / intellectual...
and this is hardly the most desireds genetical "encyclopedia"
worth reciting...
      but at least there's no closet,
and certainly no skeleton in it...
  to be honest, i'd love to see a compendium of
a woman's favourite *****,
   oh sure, i can switch off...
    i just start thinking about cow *******
and milk sacks; not that hard;
  ugh... furr... itchy... stroking a cow is like
scratching your skin after the barbers...
milking a cow: ah... another subject
of investigation...
                        why do men not bother being
breast-fed, to out-compete the babe?
seems a shame to leave a vacuum for
capitalism to not investigate, don't you think?
Wanderer Jul 2013
Houston woke up early. Yawning. A cigarette away from just packing his meager possessions and leaving everything this dusty room did not have to offer. A spark of zippo flame had his lungs drowning in chemical filth. Sometimes it felt good to get *****. Often enough now that he had forgotten what it felt like to be clean. The yellowed pages of his favorite books stared back at him in a mismanaged pile on his writing desk. What few thoughts he had managed to scripple out kept them company on crumpled napkins and ink stained pages.The sheets a sweaty twist around his pale form. He knew something had to give or he really was going to go over to Silvia's to just "talk" but do what he had been thinking about more often of late and  drown her in the kitchen  sink sloshing over with ***** dish water she never drained. Gods but that woman drove him crazy. The clanging of glass every time he took a step a testament to those emotions. All he could do to cope with the damage she had wrought was lose himself in a bottle. Any bottle would suffice but his favorite was spiced ***. It used to burn going down but they had gotten so used to each other it was like old people having *** with the added bonus of actually reaching fulfillment.  The company he had kept last night lay sadly on it's side next to his worn mattress. It's cap somewhere in the wreckage of Houston's hundred dollar a month room. He looked down at it and sighed, picking up the neck and now stale sips left in the bottom. He knew that this one swallow would only stoke the flames of his desire for more yet he could not help himself. Autopilot had taken control weeks ago. The glass on his lips was comforting but the not enough taste left on his tongue was sour. Today. Cracking of his spine echoed as he stretched. Today he was going to get revenge.
Photographs of my family hang on the wall.
Some I know.
Some would recognize me.
Others I know only from the stories
that immortalize them.

There is a family portrait in the hall
it tells tales that great legends envy.
For the stories left by these faces
will never be forgotten,
retold at bedtime for generations
to come.

The portrait speaks of a time
before cancer and old age.
Back when Linda and Debbie ran the house
and Jorge still went by Georgie.
Kathy was falling in love with dirt bikes,
Joey had to take Jimmy everywhere
and Nena made everyone save food
for when Silvia got home from school.
All the while Papo sipped his scotch
and watched his legacy leave their footprint
in the sand.

Truth is I’ve always known
he’d live forever.
Long before he began his walk home
Papo was already immortalized
in our memories and spirits.

Now that you rest
I find comfort knowing that I
carry your story with me,
and have the honor of calling you
Grandfather.
For us, you will always be
the legendary
Vincent Joseph Schement.
I wrote this for my grandfather who passed away last week. I read it at his viewing and put the hand written original copy in his coffin. The people mentioned in the poem are my aunts, uncles, dad and grandparents. My grandfather was in the army during WWII and loved to read poetry. He was 94 when he passed away of old age a little over a year after his youngest child passed of cancer. Sleep well Papo.
Kathleen May 2011
Its getting about that time
that we all switch pictures
define ourselves in some new way
write plays about the years we didn't pay attention to whilst in them.

She glows.
Shifts in the distance like shifters do
mirrors the parts of me I cling to
splices in the new shade of blue

that some commoners cooked up one summer

I want to move like you do
I want to follow a tune that you grew
up out of that dangerous mouth of yours

I want to slip in unnoticed into your background
I want to leave you in the wake of a spellbound
insomnia silvia nightgown.

I'm a remix of secret decisions
that I would love to let you and your friend in.
Take the tour of the wicked and old sins
that I wrote when I worked for the lived-in.

But she's still staring loudly at the floor.
Forgetting what project I wrote for.
Forgetting what score I produced.
Forgetting why I haven't noosed myself quite yet.

She shifts in the distance like shifters do,
mirrors the parts of me I cling to.
annh Apr 2019
I wonder, when the apple fell from its tree did gravity reinvent itself?
Did the weight of scientific endeavour hang heavier on the branch?
Did the sun cease to affix the earth with his benevolent glare; the moon blush with shame for having - just once - wandered from her orbit, distracted by the stars? I think not.

Would Silvia have hesitated to tread through the unfrequented woods of Mantua, have declined to walk by silvered path to meet her Valentine? And what of Roxane? Could she have failed to be enchanted by the seductive stories spun beneath her night-time balcony, to be inspired by a shining artemisian crescent?

All of life can not be defined and quantified, expressed as an equation and mathematically declared a derivative of time, distance, and mass. We need no formula for beauty, heartbreak, commitment, and courage. For there are more things in heaven and earth, my dear Isaac, than are written in your philosophy. And - what’s more - you **** well know it!
‘I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.’
- Isaac Newton

‘Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine,
To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode;
And, for the ways are dangerous to pass,
I do desire thy worthy company,
Upon whose faith and honour I repose.’
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

‘Vous souvient-il du soir où Christian vous parla
Sous le balcon? Eh bien! toute ma vie est là:
Pendant que je restais en bas, dans l’ombre noire,
D’autres montaient cueillir le baiser de la gloire!’
- Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
RL Smith Aug 2014
She speaks to me
from the screen
of poets
passion
and poetry
The backdrop
a bookshelf
a piano
a nobel man
I listen from my couch
on the bus
from my bed on a Sunday morning
Mesmerised by the poetic of the speaker
The sound of a passing train on its way to Adlestrop
where Edwards captured a moment of ease
But moments can turn in an instant
like Sexton
lost in the obliquity of bad poetry
***
church steeples
Is poetry lost
out the window of the bus in the rain?
If I am a poet am I in danger
like Silvia
of dying in darkness
in the shade of the yew tree?
For she cannot hear me
though I speak to the screen
of my love for poetry and a dream
The silent piano
a ventriloquist
rescues the poet
and her poetry from the fishhouses of gods sea
Yet I cannot believe in a god
who leaves the beggar I see out the window of the bus
to sleep in the rain alone
In the mill
I grind words for politicians
who make the beds of stone
for the beggar to sleep on in the rain
whilst they fatten the pockets
of the privileged and the rich
I board the bus covered in flour
that sticks to me like guilt
for my part in the grinding
But once on the bus
I must follow my heart
unless it is broken
Then I must lead it to mending
through words tied together with strings and feeling
Los adjetivos que me sobran
van como siempre al cubo de desechos
más tarde llegarán
a la galaxia de los basurales

allí se encontrarán con un pueblo de cosas
cáscaras de naranja / de huevo / de discursos
mechones de peluca y huesitos de pollo
condones de prudentes sementales
promesas de almanaque / telegramas
de mal y bienvenidas / invitaciones rotas
nimios perforadores de la capa de ozono
boletas estrujadas con inquina
caspas uñas verrugas papilomas
fetos de mucamitas y señoras de pro
cucarachas resecas y sin deudos
paños higiénicos hollejos puchos
postales de un prehistórico año nuevo
mirko te quiero silvia
citaciones vencidas arrugadas
recibos de la luz / facturas de apagones
propuestas de asco siempre renovadas
un taco sin zapato y sin chapita
un decímetro / resto de algún metro amarillo
chau viejita esta noche no me esperes
un pescado podrido con bigotes de gato
un pie de inconsolable maniquí
un afiche político sin vergüenza y sin rostro

desde su infierno / desde la inmundicia
mis adjetivos sufren como verbos
no merecían semejante oprobio
juro no echarlos más a la basura
cuando me sobre alguno en buen estado
lo entregaré a las damas de la beneficencia
Jay Varner Apr 2015
Moss grows and gets frozen over
And I grow and slowly die
From the moment I was born

I don’t think this is very
Healthy of a viewpoint
But I don’t want to judge myself

Silvia Plath was depressed
I am just a little sad
A few moments of every day

I think of myself as creative
But I don’t consider myself
Anyone of significance

I can only complain
I can’t express the good
Things I see every day

Just because you call yourself
A poet, doesn’t mean
It’s true, you have to make money

I can have moments of brilliance
Sparked by nothingness
But really what is the point
Anita Feb 2019
Through our bloodshot eyes we watched,
Worried for our kin.
"Trust not thy neighbor"
We whispered prayers
Private misconceptions of lonely rattled minds
The 5th of November
Is the day we all remember
A slowing, the Slowing
"We have no way of knowing"
The man cleared his dry throat,
and swallowed what little Silvia left.
"But we suspect that it will continue"
In the beginning of the end of our world
I remember watching.
Stores were soon empty
People hear the news, and they wanted to move
They scurried like small animals suddenly under a light.
But, there was nowhere on earth to go.
A little poem
Blue Orchid Nov 2019
So I’m sitting here, partially feeling the sun caress the side of my face between the shrubs that grew to be pretty enough not to be a nuisance, the heat weakened to a point that could be considered enjoyable as it can only be at 4 in the afternoon, watching people lost in their comfortable moments, listening to jazz being released from the speakers across the room. The half lit cigarette on my fingers burning away with every drag, better relaxing my oh so anxious mind like a lullaby heard with a drowsy mind.

It makes me think of all writers with broken souls; Virginia Woolf who said “You cannot find peace by avoiding life”  And Silvia Plath who questioned “Is there no way out of the mind?”  And I wonder if their peace came from flashes of instances like these, where they could only lose themselves in a crowed of other people’s lost moments and be able to revere in them.
Michael John Jan 2022
i)


there was a blackcap
in the agave
a rambunctious chap
he cried as if to me
i want this and i want
that..!

(with a burning brand
eye
of tainted ruby)
and, i want it, now, see,
by the blasted horns of pan-
immediate..

ii)

(the language of the
total-
i
tarian
Id-
silvia atricapilla style..!)


iii)

i answered after a traditional
while-di nada di nada,
my feathery amigo!
o!

but what can he give to
me?
spellbound to beauty?
time,small rainbow..

— The End —