All posts by Gael GERARD

your light hand nibbles the strings

 Your light hand  
nibbles the strings
raised hat
dressed in black clothes
my marine excess
my long fingers
on the terminal spear
without instinct .

Water sports
on a slight slope
papillotes and caramels
of their crystal stripped
for front teeth
hug the slack
vintage nights .

Decoction of your smile
under the warm duvet
can spin the galaxies
musical staves
in breath of feigned flight
mountebank
that a cloud erases
so early so late
the lock of hair over the eye
trouble the infinite .


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the stark quest

 Mind Sever
the current no longer flows
like many others
the escape .

From the same to the same
listening desperation
the throat swells
and is silent .

From Vincent to Toulouse
the mirror abolished
finger snap
on busy zinc .

Raw to dry
under the blood of hot lands
a charcoal between the teeth
the stark quest .


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my flower, my life, ma vibration

 As soon as I heard the word "amour" .   

Live voice and heart enamored with a burning ember,
untie the fibers of boredom
dived in their native waters
the essential chord of low and painful notes
my flower
my life
ma vibration
my panting adoration
mouth in breath of breath
my grace on tender grass
torn to the four limbs of your body so soft .
"I love you, you have to learn to say I." (Christian Bobin)


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( In homage to Saint John of the Cross)

note caress

 Caress of the note  
bodice cut-out
the sea on the horizon
a trailing sky.

Loose hair
striking night
flickering presence
the bird passes.

The bare shoulder
the shadow of the pines
face turned to the sky
a necklace of fine pearls.

sadness in the eye
swollen lips
the moon commas my soul
of a shell guitar.

The city in the distance
quivering saraband
take in your cats
it's already too late.

So slow so perfect
only at dawn
everything is in order
memory ecru.


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an island of high wings

  An island of high wings   
excluding travel
of sky and water
like a sleeping child .

Remembrance in Place de Grève
the cut neck
to the vociferations of the poor wretches
seeking bloody remonstrance .

erased insult
in the square of oblivion
cutlery set
in the rising mist .

Emerge lightly
wandering birds
than the deep sky
scattered .

Locate on the map
this immense memory
of laughter and tears decked out,
the romance of happy days .

Futile passerby
returned part
destination unknown
arm in arm .


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from sign to light

 Lightning pass
from sign to light,
shoulder recess
in the eye of the needle .


The invisible and the visible
favor each other
of the truth,
open shadow mouth .

Crown branches,
bondage that feeds
evil and turns gold into lead
at dusk, inexorably .

Singing awakens the virtues of silence,
the vertical silence is an incantation,
the encirclement goes after reason
in search of the first germ .

Warrior and Contemplative Monks
fight cowardice and lies
giving way to imaginary virtues
of utopia .

Here no normalization,
just the bad dream of the trip
where we destroyed
the northern lights of the sacred .

Pass the cartage in heraldic colors
without rehashing, without resentment,
no concessions offered,
in new humanity .


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the black cat in the grass

     In aromatic herbs
near the source
an enigmatic piece of wall
gaze from beyond
the black cat sees
shadow of souls
nullity of distinctions
the inconsistency of the world
stopping the poetic flow
a semblance of welcome
in the silence of contemplation
where the tallest branch of the great tree
crackle in the wind .

And if he pulls out his claws
in these root places
where mental strength
transforms into pure energy
the gaze of the Spirit,
it is to discern breaches,
cracks in these illusions
what are advertising, propaganda, ideology,
even science and technology,
elements that leave without nerve
the modern slave we have become .


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delicate presence

     Delicate presence
with little cries
man's song
in the mists of so much spirit
lovingly framed
by Beauty .

will never wither
cherry blossoms
on the wet rock .

Just my reflection in the dewdrop .

Immensity
a stroke of ink
an anonymous barrier lifted
the straight saber in front of the song of the lark .

make me walk
to the crossroads
the storm as accompanying warrior
of a flute evaporating the autan wind .

we are spirit
we are the power
we, Nature and Earth united
in the crevice of living connections,
our mother .


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immortalize the world

      Immortalize the world in the only truth .

The function of poetry is to go where our way is,
with perseverance, depth and faith .

Between practitioners of a good-natured art and the quest for " ever further beyond the known "
wouldn't there be the grain of mad wisdom
that makes us dig deep into ourselves
the reflection of the great absolute,
we invisible eagles circling around invisible peaks ?


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