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"sortie" poems
Black, Swiss cheese hulk on horizon The James Longstreet immobile old freighter of the bay Towed to the ignominy of its last commission in the curled arm of The Cape Tides flex their muscles against it But The Longstreet is steadfast in its dark purpose Standing target for practice A sortie if planes home in on its bulk Honing their skills on this “fish-in-a-barrel” Thunderhead-etched pyrotechnics Booming follows the miles over water Against The Longstreet’s silhouette enduring even God fixes sights firing bolts across its bow taking aim at our futures Standing targets for practice Vietnam? Cape Cod? No difference to teens before life’s ocean of conscription Sand is cold beneath dunes Beach grass rustles to the pulsing surf to the wind’s whispers just below hearing as if there’s a secret that must be kept We are targets for practice We are meaningless din Pulling our sweatshirts and blanket closer The Supremes sing thinly from transistor “Stopped for a moment in the name of love— Thinking it over”
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Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 2:14 PM UTC
Cape Cod Target Ship
<•> BusBusNYC (A Live Love Bus App) •<>• if you made it this far, so fare one, be undressed with thyself and impressed as well, for thou joints me in holy matrimony upon a living map where our presences can meet in virtual real time as if eye new what that meant but that blue dot is where this body possessed can be located by the nearest satellite finger snaking down from the heavens to Cain mark my foreheads location, just like on Game of Thrones don't you desire me, or rather, the knowledge of mine whereabouts? the who of me, that very useful information, can best be seen moving crosstown on the M72, which is a mythological bus for in twenty years eye never seen it come, go, though all its stops clearly marked see me moving in fits and spurts of bursts of movement, leaping streets and avenues in a single unbounded, unstoppable superbus leap in a city of anonymity where all who walk it streets,   ride the tides of its buses, all ask a single Job-like question, regardless of age, "I am desirable, do you want me?" eye say the ayes have it, no, this is not a great poem but! this live bus map app is the dating site ever created by geeky human cells alll this virtual meeting possibly leading to coitus   with a stranger while Pandora serenades with perfect synchronicity, playing and plying us with Romance for a Violin and Orchestra in F Minor, a combination musical **** work of Dvorak-Mehta-Midori this bus app is the social media's most immediate, so meet me on the bus at Broadway and 86 Street where our metro cards can be merged and we will be recognized as a legal couple(ing) in the eyes of MTA, a multi-state agency and be bound in bustrimony (legally married when riding on a city bus, only) jeez, a crazy poem, not just, not a good one but a true tale from the one who rides the buses and only alights and delights with regaling tales and tellings of love sortie sorrow maybe tomorrow the busbusNYC app wil apply itself a smidgen better and let me love you even with a good under the hood bus poem but! someday we will, this, thy poet, who does desire youalone, will hijack you and a NYC bus, and visit the poets from India and the Great Northwest won't that be a fabulous poem!
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Jul 17, 2017
Jul 17, 2017 at 6:16 PM UTC
BusBusNYC (A Live Love Bus App)
<•> BusBusNYC (A Live Love Bus App) •<>• if you made it this far, so fare one, be undressed with thyself and impressed as well, for thou joints me in holy matrimony upon a living map where our presences can meet in virtual real time as if eye new what that meant but that blue dot is where this body possessed can be located by the nearest satellite finger snaking down from the heavens to Cain mark my foreheads location, just like on Game of Thrones don't you desire me, or rather, the knowledge of mine whereabouts? the who of me, that very useful information, can best be seen moving crosstown on the M72, which is a mythological bus for in twenty years eye never seen it come, go, though all its stops clearly marked see me moving in fits and spurts of bursts of movement, leaping streets and avenues in a single unbounded, unstoppable superbus leap in a city of anonymity where all who walk it streets,   ride the tides of its buses, all ask a single Job-like question, regardless of age, "I am desirable, do you want me?" eye say the ayes have it, no, this is not a great poem but! this live bus map app is the dating site ever created by geeky human cells alll this virtual meeting possibly leading to coitus   with a stranger while Pandora serenades with perfect synchronicity, playing and plying us with Romance for a Violin and Orchestra in F Minor, a combination musical **** work of Dvorak-Mehta-Midori this bus app is the social media's most immediate, so meet me on the bus at Broadway and 86 Street where our metro cards can be merged and we will be recognized as a legal couple(ing) in the eyes of MTA, a multi-state agency and be bound in bustrimony (legally married when riding on a city bus, only) jeez, a crazy poem, not just, not a good one but a true tale from the one who rides the buses and only alights and delights with regaling tales and tellings of love sortie sorrow maybe tomorrow the busbusNYC app wil apply itself a smidgen better and let me love you even with a good under the hood bus poem but! someday we will, this, thy poet, who does desire youalone, will hijack you and a NYC bus, and visit the poets from India and the Great Northwest won't that be a fabulous poem!
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Lazy seems the sun today helped aloft by a flight of pelicans in formation like B-52s returning to safe haven after a sortie Inland they go with the gulls during this calm before the storm The smell of a slowly swelling angry sea awakened drowning out the roses by the garden path soon to be scattered petals across the village The morning calm belies the night to come. r ~ 7/3/14
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Jul 3, 2014
Jul 3, 2014 at 7:27 AM UTC
calm
On Monday I will wear my uniform - A blazer from Goodwill, old khaki slacks - Knot my made-in-China patriotic tie And verify that my papers are in order On Monday I will sortie through the candidates  - I’m important to them on this one day - Then work around their signs all slogan-trapped And rush the doors through a hail of cliches’ And watched by comrades with their helmets blue Vote for a Merovingian or two
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Oct 21, 2018
Oct 21, 2018 at 8:51 AM UTC
Voting in my Primitive Village
To those men who are always behind us, though sometimes we may not see them. To those men who are too busy flying fighter jets to teach their daughters to make paper planes. To those sons who will point at every aeroplane that skims the horizon to proudly claim, “that’s my father!”. To those women whose hearts will return wrapped in the tricolour and chipped aluminium; Who will place dented helmets beside faded polaroids of days gone by. To those youth who will break solemn promises- “I’ll come back soon.” To those families that will stare out of windows, refusing to draw down curtains as they hope against hope. To those men who can truly say the sky is the limit. To those men who fly above us yet are so rooted to the cause of their motherland. Those brave hearts whose faces are lined with sweat and determination as they kiss the ground beneath their feet before they embrace the heavens for the last time. To the men who take every sortie with a last salute. To the white saris and navy-blue shirts stashed away and medals hung on rusted nails. To survival and martyrdom and the presence of absences. To commodores and flight lieutenants and wingmen. To parades and memoirs and sacrifices and soldiers in the sky. The Eighth of October is for them. To those men who are always behind us, though sometimes we may not see them. To those men who are too busy flying fighter jets to teach their daughters to make paper planes. To those sons who will point at every aeroplane that skims the horizon to proudly claim, “that’s my father!”. To those women whose hearts will return wrapped in the tricolour and chipped aluminium; Who will place dented helmets beside faded polaroids of days gone by. To those youth who will break solemn promises- “I’ll come back soon.” To those families that will stare out of windows, refusing to draw down curtains as they hope against hope. To those men who can truly say the sky is the limit. To those men who fly above us yet are so rooted to the cause of their motherland. Those brave hearts whose faces are lined with sweat and determination as they kiss the ground beneath their feet before they embrace the heavens for the last time. To the men who take every sortie with a last salute. To the white saris and navy-blue shirts stashed away and medals hung on rusted nails. To survival and martyrdom and the presence of absences. To commodores and flight lieutenants and wingmen. To parades and memoirs and sacrifices and soldiers in the sky. The Eighth of October is for them.
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Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018 at 11:24 AM UTC
paper planes
To those men who are always behind us, though sometimes we may not see them. To those men who are too busy flying fighter jets to teach their daughters to make paper planes. To those sons who will point at every aeroplane that skims the horizon to proudly claim, “that’s my father!”. To those women whose hearts will return wrapped in the tricolour and chipped aluminium; Who will place dented helmets beside faded polaroids of days gone by. To those youth who will break solemn promises- “I’ll come back soon.” To those families that will stare out of windows, refusing to draw down curtains as they hope against hope. To those men who can truly say the sky is the limit. To those men who fly above us yet are so rooted to the cause of their motherland. Those brave hearts whose faces are lined with sweat and determination as they kiss the ground beneath their feet before they embrace the heavens for the last time. To the men who take every sortie with a last salute. To the white saris and navy-blue shirts stashed away and medals hung on rusted nails. To survival and martyrdom and the presence of absences. To commodores and flight lieutenants and wingmen. To parades and memoirs and sacrifices and soldiers in the sky. The Eighth of October is for them. To those men who are always behind us, though sometimes we may not see them. To those men who are too busy flying fighter jets to teach their daughters to make paper planes. To those sons who will point at every aeroplane that skims the horizon to proudly claim, “that’s my father!”. To those women whose hearts will return wrapped in the tricolour and chipped aluminium; Who will place dented helmets beside faded polaroids of days gone by. To those youth who will break solemn promises- “I’ll come back soon.” To those families that will stare out of windows, refusing to draw down curtains as they hope against hope. To those men who can truly say the sky is the limit. To those men who fly above us yet are so rooted to the cause of their motherland. Those brave hearts whose faces are lined with sweat and determination as they kiss the ground beneath their feet before they embrace the heavens for the last time. To the men who take every sortie with a last salute. To the white saris and navy-blue shirts stashed away and medals hung on rusted nails. To survival and martyrdom and the presence of absences. To commodores and flight lieutenants and wingmen. To parades and memoirs and sacrifices and soldiers in the sky. The Eighth of October is for them.
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It's here! It's here! One of the Best And Brightest Days Now's the Time to rev-up our Ways. That Glazing Star, which spits the Rays Shone brightly through Helios, the Highest Display. Beaches un-roll their sleek-forming sands As Pools de-frost their blue-tanned waves. Swimmers do dive, and enjoy the Save In Iberia's Coast rescue in Grand. There are many Events in This Hot-Baste Holiday Worry not; For it will slowly Pass Away About a month-two - quill, quite awhilst Just enough for me to produce More Words in-rhyme. Writing on Holidays must always be fun For Experiences like these, pressed Under the Sun Tram-Tracked Thoughts, which does Hurt to remember Will be preserved - thanks to November. Family, Friends, Extensions and Strangers There the Bunch starts to get all blokey Boring Concepts, birth these Megaphone Chaps You world prefer to dance on their laps. Maybe what I said meant something else Those Words of mine touched Heart and felt Such gradual boredom - in time I agree For tunnelling Facts, with Evidence plead. Nevertheless, let the Holidays sing And let our Lives live that Full Extract. Be Happy, Gay and Humble in Kind For once the Headmaster whistles, you'll Have a Sortie ahead.
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Mar 21, 2013
Mar 21, 2013 at 12:56 PM UTC
SUMMER HOLIDAY
I've had enough Life's too difficult, A little too rough. Trying to find a way out Can't find an exit. Where's the sortie? Ausgang salida, Выход uscita. Help me find the utgang! Feeling trapped, As people worldwide do. I've been told before "This is no place for you!" I've finally listened, It's time leave. Friends tried to warn me, Oh I was so naive. Don't tell me I'll be ok Don't tell me it'll all work out This isn't worth it all. It'll be so much easier if I could find the exit. I'm with my son right now, He's trapped me in a ball pit, And I can't find a way out! What did you think I was talking about? Cheer up everyone! Yes I speak Russian (A little)
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 8:10 AM UTC
Time to Leave
O vraie et lamentable image de la vie ! La joie entre par où la douleur est sortie ! Le bonheur prend le lit d'où fuit le désespoir ! À ce qui naît le jour Dieu fait place le soir ; La coupe de la vie a toujours même dose, Mais une main la prend quand l'autre la dépose, Hélas ! et si notre œil pouvait parfois sonder Ces coupes de bonheur qui semblent déborder, Ne trouverions-nous pas que chaque joie humaine Des cendres et des pleurs d'un autre est toujours pleine ? Du village de sa naissance, le 20 juillet 1800.
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Jocelyn, le 20 juillet 1800
ma voix s'étrangle. les eus toujours, les crayons de couleurs, maladroite en matière de dessin. carrefour. quelle sortie prendre? la mer. le silence m'apprivoise. les cris des oiseaux de mer. mes crayons de couleurs, maladroits. ~~~ (Translation...) strangled voice, mine. always had them, the colouring pencils, unskilful in drawing. crossroads. wich way to follow? the sea. silence takes hold of me. the seagulls cry. my colouring pencils, unskilful.
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Aug 7, 2016
Aug 7, 2016 at 4:02 AM UTC
Hesperus
*I hope there's a place, way up in the sky For old aviators, when they say good bye! A place where a fella’ can get a chilled beer ‘Chug-a-lug’ for a mate, whose memory was dear A place where no doctor or lawyer can be a threat Just an aircrew rest room, reserved for the very best. A quaint little bar, kinda’ dark and full of smoke Where they sing loud, and guffaw at a good joke The kind of place where a lady could bravely go Feel safe amongst gentlemen she would know There must be a place where thoughts fly like an arrow When the sortie is over, for landing airspeed gets low. Where the whiskey is old, great are the ***** and *** The songs are about group combat and one versus one, Where you'd meet all fellows who'd flown the coop before They'd call out your name, welcoming you through the door Who would buy you a drink should your throat be parched And tell others, "Here comes a new lad, lookie ye! all starched!" Then through the mist, you'd spot a grand old guy The one missed for years, he taught you how to fly He'd nod his old head, and grin ear to ear, Saying, "Welcome, my son, I'm pleased that you're here I forgive you; you botched up the last landing But you led a life that was by far, outstanding”. "Guys, he has come here to let his spirits fly and not groan Skip the earthlings who lived lives like miserable clones Politicians, lawyers, the Feds, the guys with little poise Here, where it is ‘happy hours’ for our good ol' boys Pass on that glass of rye, for he deserves a well earned rest Cheers! This is ‘Heaven, my son’; this is your future nest!"*
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 5:45 AM UTC
Where do we go from here?
*I hope there's a place, way up in the sky For old aviators, when they say good bye! A place where a fella’ can get a chilled beer ‘Chug-a-lug’ for a mate, whose memory was dear A place where no doctor or lawyer can be a threat Just an aircrew rest room, reserved for the very best. A quaint little bar, kinda’ dark and full of smoke Where they sing loud, and guffaw at a good joke The kind of place where a lady could bravely go Feel safe amongst gentlemen she would know There must be a place where thoughts fly like an arrow When the sortie is over, for landing airspeed gets low. Where the whiskey is old, great are the ***** and *** The songs are about group combat and one versus one, Where you'd meet all fellows who'd flown the coop before They'd call out your name, welcoming you through the door Who would buy you a drink should your throat be parched And tell others, "Here comes a new lad, lookie ye! all starched!" Then through the mist, you'd spot a grand old guy The one missed for years, he taught you how to fly He'd nod his old head, and grin ear to ear, Saying, "Welcome, my son, I'm pleased that you're here I forgive you; you botched up the last landing But you led a life that was by far, outstanding”. "Guys, he has come here to let his spirits fly and not groan Skip the earthlings who lived lives like miserable clones Politicians, lawyers, the Feds, the guys with little poise Here, where it is ‘happy hours’ for our good ol' boys Pass on that glass of rye, for he deserves a well earned rest Cheers! This is ‘Heaven, my son’; this is your future nest!"*
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joy is transient but its brief journey is golden to the hearts eyes in this place that must suffice for a reason to remain some come to bind themselves to some inglorious fate so that they may have that one moment in free fall where they may open up golden wings held quietly since childhood in hopes one day to shine once again may once more soar among the clouds light and free they come here to sing with the angels of a better nature or battle with the demons of a dark past she walks with slow care placing each step tenderly gathers her voice and mutters the words in guttural whispers to the soundtrack of her mad mind where the ashes of burned cities settle like snow on the image of a broken landscape she painted in dark watercolours i came to build temples out of the streets driftwood faces the nameless who wash up on distant mystery shores and leave intricate carvings in the minds scrapbook that show like a roadmap to one souls journey my coming to this tropical Christmas and cardboard cut-out hero sortie into your world if i could rescue you i would be there on a sterling english steed with a loud proclamation that only the prettiest damsels get fine young dandies she smiles for my soft approach as i glide in under her eyes joy is transient but its brief journey is golden to the hearts eyes
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Dec 12, 2013
Dec 12, 2013 at 5:43 PM UTC
jackknife affliction
L'amour fut de tout temps un bien rude Ananké. Si l'on ne veut pas être à la porte flanqué, Dès qu'on aime une belle, on s'observe, on se scrute ; On met le naturel de côté ; bête brute, On se fait ange ; on est le nain Micromégas ; Surtout on ne fait point chez elle de dégâts ; On se tait, on attend, jamais on ne s'ennuie, On trouve bon le givre et la bise et la pluie, On n'a ni faim, ni soif, on est de droit transi ; Un coup de dent de trop vous perd. Oyez ceci : Un brave ogre des bois, natif de Moscovie, Etait fort amoureux d'une fée, et l'envie Qu'il avait d'épouser cette dame s'accrut Au point de rendre fou ce pauvre coeur tout brut : L'ogre, un beau jour d'hiver, peigne sa peau velue, Se présente au palais de la fée, et salue, Et s'annonce à l'huissier comme prince Ogrousky. La fée avait un fils, on ne sait pas de qui. Elle était ce jour-là sortie, et quant au mioche, Bel enfant blond nourri de crème et de brioche, Don fait par quelque Ulysse à cette Calypso, Il était sous la porte et jouait au cerceau. On laissa l'ogre et lui tout seuls dans l'antichambre. Comment passer le temps quand il neige en décembre. Et quand on n'a personne avec qui dire un mot ? L'ogre se mit alors à croquer le marmot. C'est très simple. Pourtant c'est aller un peu vite, Même lorsqu'on est ogre et qu'on est moscovite, Que de gober ainsi les mioches du prochain. Le bâillement d'un ogre est frère de la faim. Quand la dame rentra, plus d'enfant. On s'informe. La fée avise l'ogre avec sa bouche énorme. As-tu vu, cria-t-elle, un bel enfant que j'ai ? Le bon ogre naïf lui dit : Je l'ai mangé. Or, c'était maladroit. Vous qui cherchez à plaire, Jugez ce que devint l'ogre devant la mère Furieuse qu'il eût soupé de son dauphin. Que l'exemple vous serve ; aimez, mais soyez fin ; Adorez votre belle, et soyez plein d'astuce ; N'allez pas lui manger, comme cet ogre russe, Son enfant, ou marcher sur la patte à son chien.
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Bon conseil aux amants
L'amour fut de tout temps un bien rude Ananké. Si l'on ne veut pas être à la porte flanqué, Dès qu'on aime une belle, on s'observe, on se scrute ; On met le naturel de côté ; bête brute, On se fait ange ; on est le nain Micromégas ; Surtout on ne fait point chez elle de dégâts ; On se tait, on attend, jamais on ne s'ennuie, On trouve bon le givre et la bise et la pluie, On n'a ni faim, ni soif, on est de droit transi ; Un coup de dent de trop vous perd. Oyez ceci : Un brave ogre des bois, natif de Moscovie, Etait fort amoureux d'une fée, et l'envie Qu'il avait d'épouser cette dame s'accrut Au point de rendre fou ce pauvre coeur tout brut : L'ogre, un beau jour d'hiver, peigne sa peau velue, Se présente au palais de la fée, et salue, Et s'annonce à l'huissier comme prince Ogrousky. La fée avait un fils, on ne sait pas de qui. Elle était ce jour-là sortie, et quant au mioche, Bel enfant blond nourri de crème et de brioche, Don fait par quelque Ulysse à cette Calypso, Il était sous la porte et jouait au cerceau. On laissa l'ogre et lui tout seuls dans l'antichambre. Comment passer le temps quand il neige en décembre. Et quand on n'a personne avec qui dire un mot ? L'ogre se mit alors à croquer le marmot. C'est très simple. Pourtant c'est aller un peu vite, Même lorsqu'on est ogre et qu'on est moscovite, Que de gober ainsi les mioches du prochain. Le bâillement d'un ogre est frère de la faim. Quand la dame rentra, plus d'enfant. On s'informe. La fée avise l'ogre avec sa bouche énorme. As-tu vu, cria-t-elle, un bel enfant que j'ai ? Le bon ogre naïf lui dit : Je l'ai mangé. Or, c'était maladroit. Vous qui cherchez à plaire, Jugez ce que devint l'ogre devant la mère Furieuse qu'il eût soupé de son dauphin. Que l'exemple vous serve ; aimez, mais soyez fin ; Adorez votre belle, et soyez plein d'astuce ; N'allez pas lui manger, comme cet ogre russe, Son enfant, ou marcher sur la patte à son chien.
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Vous a-t-on parlé déjà D’un temple sans nom - Sans mémoire et sans nom? Il fût oublié et pourtant Quelques-un croient encore Que le temple existe bel et bien; Qu’il se trouve juste ici, Entre le jour et la nuit, Entre le soleil et la pluie, Entre le silence et le bruit; Et que lorsqu’on s’y rend, Lorsque l’on ouvre, Lorsque l’on entre, On y entre toujours; Et que l’on vienne de **** Que l’on vienne d’ailleurs, Que l’on prenne son temps, On y est toujours à l’heure; Et quand enfin l'on s’y trouve, Quand enfin l'on y est, Entre et parmis ses infinis murs, On n’en sort jamais; Si l'on ose y discuter, Que l'on ne prononce qu’un mot, Celui-ci devient discours, Interminable fardeau; Et l'en son sein une seule pensée Bien que plutôt éphémère, Se transforme en grand brasier, En immense calvaire; Et que si l'on regarde, L'on peut voir très bien Que ce que l'on observe N’est à peu près rien; Et si l'on prête oreille, que l'on écoute, Qu’un seul son enfin résonne, Ce bruit sourd que l'on espionne N'est nul autre que l'écho du doute; Et quand finalement l'on oublie, Qu'à tout jamais l'on s’y perd, Lorsqu'enfin l'on s'y abandonne, Se trace béante le contour d'une sortie; Et que cela exige de souffrir, De s'y faire saint, s'y faire martyre, Qu’il nous faille le supplice d'y périr, Finira-t-on au moins par en finir; Et lorsqu'un jour l'on en sort, Lorsque que le voudra enfin notre sort, Ce n'est qu'alors, seulement qu'alors Que sauront coexister vie et mort. Et ce jour-là, cette nuit-là, dira-t-on, Que l'existence fût un temple - Un temple sans nom.
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Dec 16, 2019
Dec 16, 2019 at 5:45 AM UTC
Un Temple Sans Nom (2017) [FR]
Vous a-t-on parlé déjà D’un temple sans nom - Sans mémoire et sans nom? Il fût oublié et pourtant Quelques-un croient encore Que le temple existe bel et bien; Qu’il se trouve juste ici, Entre le jour et la nuit, Entre le soleil et la pluie, Entre le silence et le bruit; Et que lorsqu’on s’y rend, Lorsque l’on ouvre, Lorsque l’on entre, On y entre toujours; Et que l’on vienne de **** Que l’on vienne d’ailleurs, Que l’on prenne son temps, On y est toujours à l’heure; Et quand enfin l'on s’y trouve, Quand enfin l'on y est, Entre et parmis ses infinis murs, On n’en sort jamais; Si l'on ose y discuter, Que l'on ne prononce qu’un mot, Celui-ci devient discours, Interminable fardeau; Et l'en son sein une seule pensée Bien que plutôt éphémère, Se transforme en grand brasier, En immense calvaire; Et que si l'on regarde, L'on peut voir très bien Que ce que l'on observe N’est à peu près rien; Et si l'on prête oreille, que l'on écoute, Qu’un seul son enfin résonne, Ce bruit sourd que l'on espionne N'est nul autre que l'écho du doute; Et quand finalement l'on oublie, Qu'à tout jamais l'on s’y perd, Lorsqu'enfin l'on s'y abandonne, Se trace béante le contour d'une sortie; Et que cela exige de souffrir, De s'y faire saint, s'y faire martyre, Qu’il nous faille le supplice d'y périr, Finira-t-on au moins par en finir; Et lorsqu'un jour l'on en sort, Lorsque que le voudra enfin notre sort, Ce n'est qu'alors, seulement qu'alors Que sauront coexister vie et mort. Et ce jour-là, cette nuit-là, dira-t-on, Que l'existence fût un temple - Un temple sans nom.
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Légèreté Léger, léger, le papillon, Posant ses ailes de velours. Léger, léger, le cerf-volant, Que l'enfant lance dans l’air. Léger, léger, l'écureuil roux, Qui sautille d'arbres en arbres. Léger, léger le joueur de piano, Qui nous enchante par ses notes. Léger, léger les chevelures des belles, Qui nous donnent gratis, leurs sourires. Léger, léger, les feuilles d'automne. Qui tournoient dans le vent. Léger, léger les rossignols, Au temps des amours et des cerises Léger, léger celle ou celui, Qui a su garder son cœur neuf, Et conserver intact en lui, Les idéaux de ses vingt-ans. Léger, léger, ces champs de blés, A peine ridés par le vent. Léger, léger cette sortie en mer Qui nous donne à voir cette palette de bleus, Léger, celle et celui, qui gardent le goût de connaître, Les lieux nouveaux, surtout les êtres. Paul Arrighi
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Sep 9, 2016
Sep 9, 2016 at 5:33 PM UTC
Légèreté
An unkindness of Ravens circle in, Few attend this sordid sortie of crime, An unholy ceremony of sin, Her love lost and left with too little time, She lays still as Snow white, tale beyond Grimm, Encircled by loved ones in black fabric, One by one the Ravens march to the rim, Crowding and caging-in the small casket, And I in my soil bed laugh at a glance, As I look back and watch my razor dance.
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Jul 22, 2015
Jul 22, 2015 at 3:56 PM UTC
The Ravens march.
¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ please bear with me through these turns, for I believe it gets much better.. i need help. ..much better than this winding Caltrop Way please help me mind these twists no.. "not the TWISTS! the twists betwixt the ends gone listing on a list of modes or measures— lest my brooding BOOM. So vast, and so cosmic, so chasmic.. circumstasmic? Could any of this be happening? Happenstance? Perhaps a dance— a DANCE! of eloquence enlisting— of parables b'twixting between.. ..or was it betwixt? betwixt! the twist is a'mix the boundaries amidst the sounding absentees amiss and all their revelries gone missing, they're so lost among this misting lee." **i came upon this sanity. alas! this simple explanation, what has brought me to my knees at last—** for this hope so fixed to kiss me, as would bangles on the wrist be, then went "begging and dredging and picking and ******* through grand affair in blissful beds of rose and posey petals pushing hedgerows!! more and more a bushless exposé as days count down— a maze a'drowned in *thornful sortie*!! scornful, hastily adorned and full of fate-encrusted memories of a trustless misgiving. My sin has shone its boldness and has left me living cold. **please, god, don't let me die this way!" this heart, o lord, it yearns away..**
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 10:21 AM UTC
Prayer of the March
The warthog is terribly warty. It has a million and forty.      You might think it would seem      A dermatologist's dream To catch one while out on a sortie.
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Dec 3, 2016
Dec 3, 2016 at 2:26 PM UTC
I have wondered this
Moi qui ne suis qu'un brin d'hysope dans la main Du Seigneur tout-puissant qui m'octroya la grâce, Je puis, si mon dessein est pur devant Sa face, Purifier autrui passant sur mon chemin. Je puis, si ma prière est de celles qu'allège L'Humilité du poids d'un désir languissant, Comme un païen peut baptiser en cas pressant, Laver mon prochain, le blanchir plus que la neige. Prenez pitié de moi, Seigneur, suivant l'effet Miséricordieux de Vos mansuétudes, Veuillez bander mon coeur, coeur aux épreuves rudes, Que le zèle pour Votre maison soulevait. Faites-moi prospérer dans mes voeux charitables Et pour cela, suivant le rite respecté, Gloire à la Trinité durant l'éternité, Gloire à Dieu dans les cieux les plus inabordables, Gloire au Père, fauteur et gouverneur de tout, Au Fils, créateur et sauveur, juge et partie, Au Saint-Esprit, de Qui la lumière est sortie, Par Quel ainsi qu'une eau lustrale mon sang bout, Moi qui ne suis qu'un brin d'hysope dans la main.
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Asperges me
(when living nightmare pierced real time thus engendering the following rhyme) adrenaline powered stealth bomb blast with the noggin of this, ah... ur... bane chap, which debilitating anxiety doth outlast means to cope (thunder and dumb struck) with stranger mental things at expressed vertigo, nausea, racing heartbeat ogres recreated tormented, torpedoed, tortured most decades from my yesteryear, which aye presumed long passed. now, within my head "guerilla" warring faction lobs a grenade followed by "bombs away" broadside finding this body electric doing a kamikaze nosedive into sick bay where major organs suffer direct hit analogous to a giant fist smashing pumpkins, sans thine flesh as if clay, which psychic sortie plagues my ability to function reduced tub bing bedridden one day approximately one week ago from this thirtieth of April tooth house sand ate teen gray ting, grinding, and grounding with figurative threshing blades employed to winnow chaff from hay literally crushing willpower, where invisible jaws of sharpened steel interlay atop pulling stalwart garrison strafed, (akin to a crash test dummy) named Jay Walking to become blindsided obliterating every last trace to stay alive hence, this emergency transmission, viz this bloke communicating desperate plaintive wail, that I haint okay with plea PLEASE HELP this tortured soul on verge pray begging tubby rescued before drowning like a panicky gull clay pigeon, and buoy albatross strangling me far distant from any quay quickly sinking spirits, abducted via fiendish runaway!
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Apr 30, 2018
Apr 30, 2018 at 5:42 PM UTC
A Worse Fate Then Death
(when living nightmare pierced real time thus engendering the following rhyme) adrenaline powered stealth bomb blast with the noggin of this, ah... ur... bane chap, which debilitating anxiety doth outlast means to cope (thunder and dumb struck) with stranger mental things at expressed vertigo, nausea, racing heartbeat ogres recreated tormented, torpedoed, tortured most decades from my yesteryear, which aye presumed long passed. now, within my head "guerilla" warring faction lobs a grenade followed by "bombs away" broadside finding this body electric doing a kamikaze nosedive into sick bay where major organs suffer direct hit analogous to a giant fist smashing pumpkins, sans thine flesh as if clay, which psychic sortie plagues my ability to function reduced tub bing bedridden one day approximately one week ago from this thirtieth of April tooth house sand ate teen gray ting, grinding, and grounding with figurative threshing blades employed to winnow chaff from hay literally crushing willpower, where invisible jaws of sharpened steel interlay atop pulling stalwart garrison strafed, (akin to a crash test dummy) named Jay Walking to become blindsided obliterating every last trace to stay alive hence, this emergency transmission, viz this bloke communicating desperate plaintive wail, that I haint okay with plea PLEASE HELP this tortured soul on verge pray begging tubby rescued before drowning like a panicky gull clay pigeon, and buoy albatross strangling me far distant from any quay quickly sinking spirits, abducted via fiendish runaway!
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Oh Lordy need a forty Going in the city on this sortie Making menace while speaking witty We're dead inside but make merry corpses dancing in the darkness between streetlights. The lights flicker fail and we gain new territory. Wolves in the night we cast long shadows stretching distortions of our inner demons. They claw and scrape over concrete to rake across dismayed faces. The sun rises too soon a cleansing fire that burns away the umbras but not our memories. We know the time after dusk and revel in it.
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Oct 29, 2017
Oct 29, 2017 at 10:45 AM UTC
Night Raids
Gray blur in my periphery Imagination or something real? Mystery solved within the hour 2nd gray form traveling far Home no longer sacrosanct refuge Peace and relaxation a distant concept Startled shrieks upon their bold forays Pervasive worry over their next sortie Fearful defense setting full of trepidation Will my fingers or their necks be snapped? Is electrocution—more humane? Or are they too obese to fit in the tunnel? How long will this battle perpetuate? Will the small hordes or large singularity win? Will peaceful repose ever be possible again? Or always interrupted by rustling, shrieks, and blurs?
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Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 1:59 PM UTC
Longing for peace
chattering like youths in undulating flight that looping the loop was an awesome sight your peers eat mostly worms and insect fayre yet you catch Damsels as they fly through the air! Then returning to patient stones in the loch to plan your next sortie and feed your young stock cataracts of grey in yellow cascade I appoint you Queen of the fashion parade.
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Nov 2, 2019
Nov 2, 2019 at 5:10 PM UTC
For a Grey Wagtail
J'ai vu dans l'air passer deux ailes blanches : Est-ce pour moi que ce présage a lui ? J'entends chanter tout un nid dans les branches : Trop de bonheur me menace aujourd'hui ! Pour le braver je suis trop faible encore. Arrêtez-vous, ambassadeurs des cieux ! L'épi fléchit, que trop de soleil dore : Bonheur, bonheur, ne venez pas encore ; Éclairez-moi, ne brûlez pas mes yeux ! Tournée au nord une cage est si sombre ! Dieu l'ouvre-t-il aux plaintes de l'oiseau, L'aile incertaine, avant de quitter l'ombre, Hésite et plane au-dessus du réseau. La liberté cause un brillant vertige, L'anneau tombé gêne encor pour courir. Survivra-t-on si ce n'est qu'un prestige ? L'âme recule à l'aspect du prodige : Fût-ce de joie, on a peur de mourir ! Mais ce bouquet apparu sur ma porte Dit-il assez ce que j'entends tout bas ? Dernier rayon d'une âme presque morte, Premier amour, vous ne mourez donc pas ? Ces fleurs toujours m'annonçaient sa présence, C'était son nom quand il allait venir. Comme on s'aimait dans ce temps d'innocence ! Comme un rameau rouvre toute l'absence ! Que de parfums sortent du souvenir ! Je ne sais pas d'où souffle l'espérance, Mais je l'entends rire au fond de mes pleurs. Dieu ! Qu'elle est fraîche où brûlait la souffrance ! Que son haleine étanche de douleurs ! Passante ailée au coin du toit blottie, Y rattachant ses fils longs et dorés, Grâce à son vol, ma force est avertie : Bonheur ! Bonheur ! Je ne suis pas sortie ; J'attends le ciel ; c'est vous, bonheur : entrez !
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Un présage
J'ai vu dans l'air passer deux ailes blanches : Est-ce pour moi que ce présage a lui ? J'entends chanter tout un nid dans les branches : Trop de bonheur me menace aujourd'hui ! Pour le braver je suis trop faible encore. Arrêtez-vous, ambassadeurs des cieux ! L'épi fléchit, que trop de soleil dore : Bonheur, bonheur, ne venez pas encore ; Éclairez-moi, ne brûlez pas mes yeux ! Tournée au nord une cage est si sombre ! Dieu l'ouvre-t-il aux plaintes de l'oiseau, L'aile incertaine, avant de quitter l'ombre, Hésite et plane au-dessus du réseau. La liberté cause un brillant vertige, L'anneau tombé gêne encor pour courir. Survivra-t-on si ce n'est qu'un prestige ? L'âme recule à l'aspect du prodige : Fût-ce de joie, on a peur de mourir ! Mais ce bouquet apparu sur ma porte Dit-il assez ce que j'entends tout bas ? Dernier rayon d'une âme presque morte, Premier amour, vous ne mourez donc pas ? Ces fleurs toujours m'annonçaient sa présence, C'était son nom quand il allait venir. Comme on s'aimait dans ce temps d'innocence ! Comme un rameau rouvre toute l'absence ! Que de parfums sortent du souvenir ! Je ne sais pas d'où souffle l'espérance, Mais je l'entends rire au fond de mes pleurs. Dieu ! Qu'elle est fraîche où brûlait la souffrance ! Que son haleine étanche de douleurs ! Passante ailée au coin du toit blottie, Y rattachant ses fils longs et dorés, Grâce à son vol, ma force est avertie : Bonheur ! Bonheur ! Je ne suis pas sortie ; J'attends le ciel ; c'est vous, bonheur : entrez !
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She watches me with absolute curiosity, wiggling around without generosity. She acts like if she doesn't care but who knows her inner shares. Always ready to get around the place, with her weeks seem like tiny days. She's attracted by little things, walking around with grainy links. Laziness is all around her body, Just as if nothingness taking some sortie. She's like rain in famine drought, every time I look her I'm out of words. She's sometimes more human than us, expressing feelings in such a burst. She manages goals with utmost care, for us humans it's not fair. I think she has secret crush on rat, Oh how much I love this pretty little cat.
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Jul 5, 2020
Jul 5, 2020 at 7:13 AM UTC
She
A mission in law let a Quaker inside this forrest trough's gold where bold exhale made milk with insight while our community shone but austerity captured the bones that this lust was on the beat with fame and dilatorily wept till obverse set the tone even a sortie in the rain that kept this stony pillage with her tide close to home: still brimming in the wind and Goan was spattered and stave our fold though sudden a burst of incredulous sin made her beckon in the wings.
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Sep 10, 2017
Sep 10, 2017 at 9:57 AM UTC
My Punch On The Strings