The way closest to you

work by Sylvain GERARD
   Too often , do we hear , that :
" Follow the Way, the dream of being human, from
to be able to straighten the sinuosity of the heart is
essential intention . And for that is not necessary
not leave, to extricate oneself from the chains of the world " .

This is falsehood !

There is not life ,
to leave is to avoid the search for the Truth .
Chains only exist in oneself .

Rather than being drawn to mirages
exterior,
protect yourself from your own tricks .

Stop taking refuge behind a fake
humility .

Throw yourself into the ocean of providence .

Prefer what you don't know , ignore what you
know.

Don't fear the unknown .

The Truth is not veiled .

It's your eyes that wear the veil .

Your eyes ,
sails that you must open .

The wise man , his , breaks with his habits .

The miracles of the world are terrifying
purity ,
the only way is inner rectitude .

The light at the end of the corridor ,
the ultimate of the way ,
a beyond closer to oneself.


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Where to go ?

 Where to go ?   
 Face to face .   

 Listening to others .  
 
 Walk on a common path . 
  
 Jeter , as if by chance   
 a look to the sides ,   
 just enough not to harm   
 and make the company dance ,   
 as in past vigils   
 sort the pebbles in the dish of lentils .  

 Time eternally starting again,   
 under the pen ,  
 to the granting of a pouring rain ,   
 deploy its panoply   
 open door ,   
 on sung hugs   
 remembering drops of water.      
  
 There were not ,   
 clean , writing   
 under the bushel ,   
 than the smile that lends itself to saying . 
  
 There is a narrow passage between the safe interior
 methodically built to credenzas of knowledge
 and the circle of the children of joy .

 There are countries
 intertwining of achievements
 where the revelation filters .

 It happens that
 the apple falling from the tree is a marvel .

 Let's collect the fruit ,
 wipe it with the cloth
 unbleached canvas ,
 carry at eye level ,
 skin texture ,
 the graceful envelope
 the infinite expansion of the germ
 of its extension ,
 to its fullness
 until its extinction .

 In the palace of viscosities of the spirit,
 pome apple
 bitten
 allows the pleasure of taste
 by burial
 retrospective juices .

 The church bell rings .

 It is four o'clock ,
 teatime
 that the psychedelic cuckoo shells .

 Let it be known that with good intentions , Health ,
 with a pinch of judgment
 appropriate to the principle of normality .


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if the cart bends

 If the cart bends
and that pieces on the ground
disperse
the derisory brassieres of the mind .  

There would be that look
going through absence
catechumens in his extinct childhood
my mother the order of the dead mother.  

There would be pregnant
caresses under the canvas
that I never believed
soft on me .  

There would be dry grass
covered with crystal frost
under the severe burle
of a danced crossing of legs .  

Looks like affliction
tender and tender years of perdition
to co-opt carefree passers-by
without cries or rest .  

My heart is extinguished
he saddened the course of time
fragile bubbles
under the scratch of memory .  

The furrows turned cream
at the café des solitudes
the rotating hemming spoon
the reflection of the clouds .  

Putting things in place
with chairs and tables
glasses and cutlery
and napkin rings to match .  

Living in illusion
between pear and lemon
prayers
and days to come
ending in pumpkin slices .  

On the go
placed on bare ground
ran the saxifrage vermin
speechless speakers .  

Chin confronted
the accordions of reason
to avoid yours mine
positioned on the sidelines .  

Sagging figure
the glasses at the end of the nose
correct spelling mistakes
our little passing hands .  

Short-scale segmented
vertical horses
last lift of a smile
through the open window .
 
Spell straight out
with a tender apostrophe
glittery lips froze
the sound of churches .
 
Falsely monopolized
in a dumpster of manure
the body-to-body of thinking bodies
desperate embraces .  

Slipped under the antlers
autumn mushrooms
to dig the trenches of a war
from which no one returns .  

The thread of the sweater lengthens
the needles pass then iron
the fragile fingers
exposes itself without me intervening .
 
face down
let's be the rolling pebbles of the torrent
under the foliage of a becalmed willow
by what will be said of prosopopeia .  

My feather
without the callus of yesteryear
is heard to the east
dry blows on the skin of solicitudes
the small of the back in enjoyment
his hour and then mine
all things combined
rebelling my beautiful
in the offering of free-rider
to no longer hear the barbed wire
screeching under grapeshot .  


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His bird cage under his elbow

 His birdcage under his elbow
 and the rump in Lent 
 a horse passes 
 the horsewoman with the ponytail .

 The donkey brays
 the sheep are bleating
 a sound of sheet metal 
 padlock the space
 I call
 at the crossroads
 scents of wet grass
 the moonrise .

 without taking the time
 skinny appendages
 join
 to the lifts of balled wool
 a quarter lower
 wings in working order .

 Inquire
 finely chopped
 dusk
 in the weary fall of the day
 bitter fever
 than a finger of honey
 raises
 tender application
 of the flute
 with happy notes
 children's laughter .


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