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Au feutré de l’imagination

 calmed down, open cage
from my pocket falls the little notebook, open page .

In the muffled of the imagination
the day after a delayed train
to the bravery of ideas to transmit
at the start of a work .

When definitely entered into rebellion
be part of the difference
without hurrying
from odd job to odd job .

And that in response
short of breath
enchant with conventional traces
a handful of talkative ears .

This implicit and distant plain
made of hunger and exhaustion
without taking our life plunges us into dependence .

let's become human
against the demons of permanence
apt to burst in and go wild
as soon as confidence is restored .

In addition to confinement in excess
on the brink of madness , dance
boredom , nausea , the doldrums , the reiteration
all critters dressing up the conscience .

let's be the right thought
by binding the named event
its process recognized with the emotion aroused by the opening .

Out of the tangle of crossroads
let's avoid the sweet twilight song
let's get out of the joke cage
let's be the children of the long-beaked oystercatcher .


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Tensions come

 Tensions come  
 emotional elements  
 the concrete screed  
 crush the ear of wheat.  

 Tensions come  
 new realities  
 in the hollow of the waves  
 une mousse superbe.  

 Tensions come  
 deep inside  
 a call  
 in more ways.  

 Tensions come  
 during the cycles of nature  
 a cool cloud  
 témoigne des migrations.  

 Tensions come  
 about surrounding yourself with friends  
 is only the germ  
 poor governance.  

 Tensions come  
 when the barriers of the heart  
 cèdent et déversent  
 absurdity and indifference.  

 Welcome these tensions  
 that they take place  
 those messy horses 
 come from the styx.   
  
 Let's stretch the tablecloth  
 on the festive table  
 let's crown real economic instruments  
 the productive swarm.
  
 Let's be the wick  
 of meeting each other  
 in wisdom  
 let's be the ledger of continuities.  

 let's be the call  
 open eyes  
 the impossible became possible 
 the marriage of our deep dispositions.  

 Let's be traces and light  
 in achieving our goals  
 the fair quota available  
 à notre vie quotidienne.  


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Je coupe l’herbe et le feu

 My body crumbles as   
 patches of light   
 erasing the end of the course.   
   
 I believe in the tricks of the immaterial    
 I stay.      

 I reap a trot-menu   
 nuts , almonds and berries   
 in the forests of the mind. 
    
 I welcome smiles and moving lips   
 I make tender encounters   
 a necklace that can be seen at night around the neck.   
   
 I cut the grass and the fire   
 with a caress of heart and soul   
 the marvel in pendant   
 I calm the untimely   
 and feed the vultures.   
   
 I am concerned by a filiation   
 me the link between the banks   
 I observe the inconceivable oblivion   
 paradoxes and myths.  
    
 My life is ability to believe   
 in the higher being   
 without the day joining.   
   
 Before the timorous thoughts   
 I propose radical subversion   
 in singular intimacy with the persecuted.   
   
 There is no relevant message   
 that referred to his free decision   
 as long as the deminer operates.    
  
 The Sunday market is no longer open   
 discounted stalls    
 between cauliflower stalks   
 remains the living water of cleansing.  
      
 The page is turned   
 carefully we climb   
 early morning    
 Sun brother   
 in the sheaf of instincts   
 towards the bright brilliance of metamorphosis. 

     
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I move forward and I believe





 Went away
the songs of our grandmothers
at sterile limits there is only the limit
out of the low works of dereliction
even a dog would find no fault .

He advances and crosses
moving slot in front of the path
who scrolls
illusory projection of the showers
of the why of infinity .

Hidden in the shadows
a future person
according to the inexorable
busy and buzzing with life
is provided hollow under the eyes .

She powders and assumes herself
hammer of the desire for possession
bumping the appetizer
with tragic lucidity
to the chariot of humanity .


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red string around dead pig's neck

   Tongues lick the foreshore
the clouds propose life disposes
in the hollow of the sad waves
sound the fog horn .

Red string around dead pig's neck
spin parade
the boors the belching the monsters
rebels in mind .

Amateurs of a désopilant chant
they organize the random affliction of the estaminets
terror mounts on the altar of abuse
those from elsewhere the purveyors of nausea .

Singing the surrender of thought
they go they come
young people with exquisite corpses
the lawless to the forced faith .

Pass the woman with the offered face
the living outside the cloisters
stretching out with her pleading hands
the eye of an afflicted sun .

Let's not mince our words
let's be strong supporters
so that in the rills of blood
followed by green energy .

Go out early morning
the rats of our cities
the hesitant fireflies
of our deserted streets .

The time against the nerves touches
with sustained attention
the offenses experienced
in the swamp of compromise .

Stand up
emit the limping sound of poor people
the damned to the toothless
that black gold despairs .

Be the verb on the communal desk
warm yourself to the wood of murderous sentences
save your games and your ointments
come out into the open and say the man is great .

Invective the remains
be the gall of the lords of the mind
dig the grave of those who have taken form
pass your way in front of the illusion .

And comes back to tell us
that life is desire
on a guitar tune
lovesick lily of the valley on the reverse .

So that the paper boat sails
at the Tuileries basin
one evening in december
on the ocean of truths .

child that we are
child that we were
for our forever children
let's be the salt and honey of the earth .


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the light in a satin dress

      The light in a satin dress  
quivering flowers
consumes with small jets of mist
the ending dizziness of an autumn day .

The page turned
reflected in the marble of the past
the worry too times blessed
of a failure to forget .

Emerges the hollow of the dry palms
in gentle caresses
on the rough of the tree
uncovered chest
exploded from a parasol
converging with the winds
towards the dawn of hemmed rice .

He is great tits
with crackling chirps
without the curtain rising
wedding party float .

All romance is a rare pearl
all smiles in the grip of a ray of sunshine
retires at night
to the cry of the midwife toad .

Minuet of scattered roses
the shells snort
of tender processions
to consummated ecstasies .


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in self capture

 ebb of the sea   
before a last jump
the concrete is cracking
crack the veins of glass
under the salty claw
the fittings groan
the marram grass wanders
what sailors say
in the distant times of Newfoundland
bites of a tenacious cold
the wind tears the trees
sludge fills the ditches
the barges rise
buoys fly
in sprays of foam
along the foreshore
the waves slam the seawall
the heddles rattle
the sand fills every hole
the sky is hustle and bustle
in this feint of thrust
seagulls pirouette
deep in the blockhouse
nausea on the lips
a shout
unheard of
of silence
the hours are soap bubbles
frantic cavalcade
the horses prance
the pebbles are crumbling
overhanging the railing
correcting with the stroke of a pen
the eye of memories
the shadow is surfacing
the hollows fill with their slime hickeys
the flowerbeds of the beach
earth cracks are born
fangs of the beast
scarlet in its excess
curled up and unloved
dirty and pent up
rebellious and angry
exposed to the four winds
being nothing but breath
a carrion
the wound offered
on the edge of the bocage
with fossil veins
roll the drums
crack the fireflies
under the heel
bulwark against the collapsed bitumen
bitterness
black and white alternations
in self capture
The death in the soul .

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From both sides to the endorsement

From either side
accordingly
of a present participle
I do mine
the " what will they say "
things of the mind
but without harming others .

On the other hand
I scrape the pan bottoms
in credenza I put my vertigo
on the doorstep
I argue in rounds of leg .

I grumble
sometimes
without a shadow of a doubt
but choose my arrows for whom it may concern
upside down procrastination .

Time to say
I crepe the flouted nature in black
I shiver under the downpour
and fake company
to say little
with few traces
so as not to rust the future .

What would they say of me
half-words circled things
at the crossroads of vintage stamps
if I offered myself
at an accelerated pace
in the mirror of the goose step .

" go your way , Nothing to see " .

And if turning back
the thinking man is part of the romance
there would be on the lintel of my farmhouse
these icy words , these words of love :

" stop , take your time ,
there is everything to see , enter my cave
ear jug ​​and Holy Spirit of my belly in poetry
rebel
punch
apostrophez le patron
but never , oh never ,
do not miss listening to the verbiage of the mice of the place " .
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walk in truth

 A mountain circus
 with the unfolding of its history in front of you .

 From perplexity to dismay
 remains the vague to the soul .

 A melee disease
 with evasion
 this habit of not seeing anything .

 The tall pines inaccessible to a chainsaw
 graft musk from mouflons
 on the path traveled 
 of a bituminous morning .

 I know healing is not easy ,
 that to cure the evil by the source
 is strewn with pitfalls .

 We run the risk of postponing gross mistakes
 to reveal more insidious ones .

 There are prospects without a way out
 that the charm of a wandering idea seduces ,
 and makes it suitable for the researcher's consumption 
 more apt to pick the flower than to let it grow.
 
 The palm of my hand conceals in 
those days of mourning
 today's dew pearls ;
 transformation where the drops of water splash 
on the shepherd's houppelande .

 Access the limitlessness of his vision
 forces you to stop before your own limits .

 It is better to look for its flaws
 with small strokes of silky intelligence
 than to explode the padlock 
 invisible things ,
 which will be eternally veiled .

 The unmaking of a bed is reflected in a trailing sky ,
 backwards from worldly pleasures .

 On the pebble path , of plants 
 and puddles of water mixed together ;
 in the generous freshness of the undergrowth ,
 j'avançai  ...
 when suddenly branches cracked ,
 stones rolled ,
 time stammered ,
 a smell of wet grease arose ;
 the bear was running down the slope ...
 fleeing like a rampaging bulldozer 
 a cornfield .
 I was stuck in receivership .

 The seducer of the Invisible was giving birth
 what remained of his intention .

 Then passed the imps of pride, 
 envy, greed ,
 then that of the secret desire to be part 
powerful , 
 then again that of the will 
 to be recognized , to dominate ,
 to talk about subtle knowledge 
 and high ,
 in order to be able to transmit 
 our accumulated knowledge , to whom it May concern , 
 our blinded children .

 The procession never ended ,
 the moans of hurt people
 bent under their torn clothes
 came from the four corners of the forest
 to the body and the blood of regeneration .

 One and ultimate vision .

 Mourn our ancestors
 in the hollow of extinct memories .

 The apocalyptic breath
 tear down the temples .

 The soup of origins
 aggregates agreements in a prime way 
light music .

 New shape of atoms 
in their bath of light .

 The Truth is beyond yourself .
 She is waiting ,
 unheard of in principle ,
 and she's the one who guides you .


 244 

The Crying Heart of the Hummingbird

Say what the friend says   
my ally of fears and rebellions
Souffle
lips to lips
speech bubble
shows her generous hands
the doors that open .

Don't be surprised
it's day
the birds sizzle under the rising sun
no one else can give up
this nourishing flight
out of yourself .

Let the sap rise
from the depths of your roots
exchange the cup of wine until drunkenness
delivering us from reason .

Grab the talisman
no questions asked
tighten your fingers
on the neck of the demon
without taking your eyes off him .

Ain't that space
among beings
space for traveling souls
that everything ephemeral
requires
to whom smiles
the heart-cry of the hummingbird .


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