Category Archives: Year 2016

the one who passed

 The one who passed   
of her rosy steps
under the wisteria .

From his Gospel
hanging fiber bookmarks ,
injury to the little finger .

The trodden gravel
cleared his throat water lily
a few drops of nectar .

Did she enjoy
to open your taste buds
out of our hives ?

Will she be hatched ,
this sadness ,
against the nostalgia of our thoughts ?

What is it about ?
does life have a meaning ?
can logic flourish ?

Somehow
we were invited
to break the bars of our cages .


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Tears, alarm, in arms

 Tears
 soul violin
 waiting for knowledge .

 Alarm 
 against the one who lies
 this bit of seed .

 In arms 
 poured into this century
 stupid diktat .

 Tears 
 looking at the camera
 the tree is shaking .

 Alarm
 point revenge
 just the distance .

 In arms
 fundamentally cold
 deposited on the threshold .

 Tears 
 due to lack of heat
 a jelly on the ground .

 Alarm
 without that behind the hill 
 mount the officiants .

 In arms
 pass the mine train
 that the bikes follow .

 Tears
 in front of the mausoleum
 bloom the outdated years .

 Alarm
 without light or music
 flap the banners .

 In arms
 the chuckled epilogue
 turns into a mystery .

 Tears
 of a birth without wrinkles
 turns the Ferris Wheel.

 Alarm
 return to the land of the dead
 green herbs in open hand .

 In arms
 the eye slices the umbilicus
 with a virginal gaze.

 Tears
 already fat
 lowering of the eyelids .

 Alarm
 sooty flaming grasses
 death silver bubbles .

 In arms
 the dream of a funeral
 without moonlight .

 Tears
 scattered rubble
 under our leaden steps .

 Alarm
 early entry
 with logo cap .

 In arms
 girded with a wide belt
 go down the slope .

 Tears
 in the sun paradise
 the words collide .

 Alarm 
 sans repentance
 in the hollow of the white lands .

 In arms
 at the edge of the hole
 shovel this windfall .


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chatter of words in impertinence

 Jacassery of words in impertinence
to the ripe fruit of mutation
the modern parenthesis closes
then opens the step named.

From isthmuses to lagoons to the hollow sea
the kidneys of the dreamlike
sapience of a rationality
fallen into disuse .

Of God speaking by avoidance
brutalize what requires
senses and passions reflecting the chatter
to praise sensible reason .

Straw for the villains
without writing without speech
exemplary in perspective
the mule crosses the ford.

The imaginary and the sacred
take detours
in perversion the impulses swarm
capillarize the social body.

Follow the downward path
in the sacramental sporting events
at the enchanted zeniths
transcended materialism.

Organize the facts of reliance
in the odyssey of empathy
sans quantification
these forms better .

Ritualized by volunteering
in generosity
collective emotions
trigger liturgical paces .

Piano music with enchanting woodpeckers
the visible big of the invisible
recalls by digression
the deep sound of discernment .

Harmonious Growth of Monasteries
the great paradoxical silence
to the sound of protruding roots
renew the waters of youth.

At odds these two companies
the redundant official
and the unofficial pass-wall
out of step with unexpected intuitions.

To purge oneself of illusory words
sit down to find your words
the verb to carry
palliate the trivialized incantation.

words and things
relevance
the truth
fertilizing matrix
of the manifested paradigm
shaking
of poetry and mysticism mixed
the whole being .

The Mute of the Mystery
discovered
communion of silences
spread wings
in the compatible azure
this aspiration to be happy
in tender wandering
just the moment of our life .


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early prairie asphodel

 Early prairie asphodel
at the pace of a white horse
I dawdle and sign the wind
ancestors the breath .

Spring snow at the semaphore supply
the eponymous slide arises
to Caravaggio of afflictions
the momentum of silence .

Finely chiselled by the hunters horn
the grass bends
in the corridor of shiny rocks
the Spirit takes a dance step .

By the stream the white tent
through days and nights
pass the memory bird
hailing empty-voiced bear .

My hand on your bare shoulder
solar fleece late son
you handled the dague terminale
on the egg to be fertilized .

For in fullness
cut off from your back
reborn alone
le regard intact .

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And this wise listening

 Dry mint lozenge   
 Rebellious chord and rhythm hitch   
 on stage   
 belching specter .   

 Bad business   
 sleeve effect   
 exquisite corpse posed   
 on the words membranes . 
  
 What the bodies brew   
 to the tremolos of races in the forest   
 acquired - points acquired   
 it's getting late - we must return .   

 The quiet wandering   
 of a kind quest   
 moves under the starry sky   
 in foraging considerations  .  
 
 At the outdoor market   
 sell hats and shoes   
 under the pitfalls   
 over the vernacular welcome  .  
 
 The chickens are plucked   
 stripped rabbits   
 with drums and trumpets   
 fear and death visiting .  
 
 Apples , daffodils and honey   
 in circle - motionless   
 spring shower - folded knife    
 before cutting the ham . 
  
 Thin slices of life   
 essence much more than existence   
 wise listening   
 with friends in front of the fire .   


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word drop

 massive attack   
scraps of words
in birth of the day
arrows of truth .

bumping along the way
sand and dust
the cart hiccups
the mayonnaise takes .

What do I care about the keys
the future has no end
that this appetizer
shortened hope .

Well-timed spillway
the stream frowns thickly
in the walled ravine
in the flexible gap of a stream of May .

get back to life
take pride in the fact on purpose
ignore the office trap
to be the unknown elect .

A bag for that
the stitches letting through
foam and elixir
so much love .

Bareback on the back of the thug
kiss mickey tail
down the grassy slope
until the torrent of expectations .

Seal the letter and the spirit
ebony one night call
open the talented belly
... fine snow .


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the intelligence of the desire to live

  This coming night
to live in flesh and in thought
to knock down the walls
to be understood .

Refocusing is at the crossroads of great conquests .

Appearance is putrefaction announced ,
lifting of the infernal gate ,
artifact from ancient disasters .

Attention
the unpronounceable name
is this moving tomb with multiple entrances
upsetting scruffy man .

consciousness of existence
welcomes the approach of reality .

Let's give to love
how to make love .

Let's be transparent .

Let's empty our accepted tears
Let's stay in love .

humanity ,
the gods and their rites reminding us .

Have a keen eye
focused on a living world .

Let's get out of the abyss .

Let's create by shouting
new stars .

Our bloody wounds
we will lead to language ,
where to live sanity on the high seas
and deny all beliefs .

Before the intelligence of the desire to live
let's be the rooster of the pre-drawn horizons
than a lifetime
represented , fixed and unstable faith ,
healing our inner landscapes .

It is given to me to be .
At the modillions of the bedside the bestiary is offered to us
fresh and rustic in its floral arrangements ,
a single gesture ,

... finally listen ....

Have you thought about being free ?


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Right on time on the sidelines

 The cries of siblings hugging each other
in warm circles
on the summer fringes
skinny hands pomade the dough
field flowers
dappled clouds
ripping their raincoats
for a unique listening
and jump on the saddle
mineral churches
that the mirror auscultates
strange twist
on time
of the burning words
slow dust rolling down the sunbeam
the smell fills the room
there is no politeness
than living forms and bleeding wounds
sounds and lights in unison
the trinket eye delivering the cohort of language
gripping strap
enclosing the irrefutable mystery
unseen wandering
tracing black on black
at the crossroads of conquests
the sign of the sharing to come
on the canvas bag
held at arm's length
as a viaticum .


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Sylvain Gerard . work 4 – Andean flute for a cosmonaut

 Sylvain .
Andean flute at the exit of the garages
little man upright on his supports
the cheeky face
and yet unfailingly optimistic
it swings and it comes back
this wart on the nose
part in space
from his harnesses the air pipes
show the caravanserai trail
where the camels of obscure evidence stop .

They were sweeping outside their doors
the pointed arrows of derision
irresistible love
of your sensitive knees
O my sweet-eyed tamarisk love .

In conversation with laziness
we were naked
gasping for the great disaster
carnage to the marrow
over the chasms
in agony
filled ditches
by the acridness of the ebbing sewers.

Then time against the light did the rest .

The denied body took us away
on tip-toes
dead father and son
the birds folded their wings
more quickly followed one another
the form and meaning given to life
hands and lips pressed against the glass
whispering the multiplication table
on the mist of cold hearts .

My child
the doors and windows are closed
the abyss contains the germ
boxes without brake and without chorus
shattered with a chisel
my bloody fingers
grabbing the gutter
this tabernacle of woody waters
exposed to the flight of starlings
taken away dropped off
bloody beauty
powerful strides ending on one hop
under the Grenelle bridge
picking up a few balls of coal in the big black shopping bag .

O son
wire by wire
pillars of salt
that disturbs the lost word
between the visible and the invisible
a padlocked dry step
the pneumatic passage of your wheelchair .



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( Drawing by Sylvain GERARD )

Dis ! what do you live when you live ?

 I see, I hear, I smell, I touch, my throat is dry, it's warm .

 The day is wet with dew,
 the light is white,
 fresh leaves of trees in spring are hungry for beauty .
  
 And I change,
 every second I change .

 I evolve,
 I ride loud and clear the breath of the universe,
 and the world changes in me .
 
 I drink the resonant transparency,
 and I send .

 My mission is to convey what is
 at random from the building spark .
 
 Patience, patience,
 my bones are cracking
 the attics are empty,
 the word opens the orifice of the throat,
 I spread the sails of the princely coulter,
 and complete the given .

 My body .

 And it's lucky to have a body .
 
 The body of the ocean with air bubbles rendered,
 and it's a chance to be in tension
 to the estuaries of eternal dawn .
 
 It is through personal practice,
 contrary to the squatting in the shadows ,
 what to meet the cold of the morning,
 open the cry of life
 far from the love-nothingness that was ours .

 my dearest being,
 this world inside me,
 taller than me,
 the other me .
 
 I'm yours .


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