the flamboyant shields

 Adorned with their flamboyant shields
the knights of Elianthe landed
of colored vapors of perfumed essences
the powerful breath
the flexible amble
capturing with their hooves
the energy of things covered .

Weapons Click Point
no fierce faces
point of medieval accoutrement .

Just a light breeze
puffing out the tulle veil
at the chapter entrance .

Asked who was there
of the order of ceremonies
from the depths of secret things
from the light mist of the eyes
of the demand of the forgotten of life .

The steeds reared up
in front of the inter-living platform
finely threaded
laughing skewer
passing travelers
haves of grave icon blessing .

flowers and words
laughter and black eyes
the human cohort of broken hearts
was shaking
light marouflage on our mother earth
twirls dances in wide dresses
music made and unmade
the established order of things .

We were entering the night of the soul .


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( painting by Elianthe Dautais )

The dragon of the soul

 Mascot of curved horizons.

 Of the luminous dream of the woman 
 the star sifts to its quintessence
 the missionary man.

 Long is the way
 sand wrestlers
 duty is chap
 freedom seekers
 no exchange of words
 just the reflection offered
 to what is .

 garden of your face
 momentum of our mingled hearts
 honey spring home
 between my consumed soul 
 and the shadow of the dragon .

 I make and undo the scattered
 for this exposed body
 measure of the mystery that has arisen
 during
 emergence of the mists
 let dawn
 the trick of words.

 I blinke the eye
 gentle embrace of torn veils
 evocation of love
 top hearts
 times to come.


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at 42 there is the door of the industrious

     At 42 there is the door of the industrious .
Here no beautiful letters ,
nothing but a parabola
in the sense of the good Samaritan .

Collapsed ,
he was lying on the pavement ,
passed the passers-by from oblivion ,
even disappearing
in the contractions of our soulless hearts
drip
glances
thrown into agreed affliction
like time on an empty shell .

Then ,
turnaround ,
the door opened ,
insistently
this hand reaching out to him ,
l'unique .

Poor man ,
beaten ,
he was lying ,
covered in sores ,
devoured by the stigmata of his imperfection ,
weakness he didn't want to see or name .

Pierced ,
humiliated ,
bare ,
at the bottom of the hold ,
he was gripped by the freshness of a balm .

Finally he obeyed ,
he was free ,
out of person ,
out of all other mingled .

He was coming back to him ,
he was born ,
he was giving birth ,
he knew .

standing up ,
he took his clothes ,
inquired where he should go ,
face in light ,
the generous look ,
the sure step ,
to offer people to meet ,
the sweet smile ,
of those who know ,
than behind surpassing oneself ,
hides the beauty of the beauty ,
the amber of the sperm whales of the spirit .


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As light as a feather

 As light as a feather
an angel passes
at the edge of the forest .

In the depths of waiting
lis not precise
panting
the void is there .

The halter unties
the beast points its muzzle .

An aurora borealis in acme .

A flock of wild geese
lift the clouds .

The risk is pressing
the heart beats against the ribs
a heavy rain calms our ardor .

It could be that succeeds
to the terminal momentum of our calls
the song of our infallible loyalty.


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as light as a feather

 As light as a feather
an angel passes
at the edge of the forest .

In the depths of waiting
lis not precise
panting
the void is there .

The halter unties
the beast points its muzzle .

A flock of wild geese
lift the clouds .

The risk is pressing
the heart beats against the ribs
a heavy rain calms our ardor .

It could be that succeeds
to the terminal momentum of our calls
the song of our infallible loyalty .


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live in the shadow of what is

 Living in the shadow of what is
living without a head
soft abscissa
against the elegant order
of the increasing curve
the space of a breath .

Open the closet
Enter into the unbinding of being
objects standing guard
out of their meticulous utility
without the offer being made .

Let's not eat our white bread
let the pigeons descend into the arena
between concrete walls
to peck the Viennese crumbs
to cross the worry
phone stuck to ear .

Pregnant
her hand against her hair
she causes
then sits down
fingers
hidden by the metal upright of the canopy .

I get confused
this twist
seated
hand to temple
the bag at the bottom of the chair
immobile .

She will tidy up
vials and jars
without forgetting the tea bags
then close the door
in a silent spring afternoon .

That a vapor covers the glass
that arises the ooze of a vision
may the master turn off the light
we can then
live in the shadows
the calm delight of an endless day .


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stretch a quarter of an hour of waiting

      Stretch a quarter of an hour of waiting
from tiling to bluish fresco
chalk cooled hot lips
bath
toothbrush
somersault of reflections
at the leap of the Unknowable
the forger's bulbous haunts with his rough paw
wall wounds
nonchalant banality
rustling source of graphics
Fans of Dreams
by a spring sun
where the old-red bus brushes past me
shadow and light
between the dog and the rabbit of the dashboard
the roar of cars
immobilize the gesture
parents crossing the street
their babies in hand
a woman pushes the pram
hints of voices behind the closed windows
this tendonitis at the base of the neck
forces me not to back down
a roaring scooter
a couple walk holding arms
a boy on his scooter
and then silence, a few seconds
Otherwise nothing
The pharmacy sign flashes its green cross
once the cross was red
a wall painted in trompe l'oeil
with the steeple of a church
I go


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the smile of the cast iron plate

     Passers-by passing by
 buy the item ,
 go through the door
 then disappear
 the time of a time that thickens ;
 ~ temptation of a key to turn .

     Slap ,
 adamant answer ,
 simply designated skin ,
 velvet tongue ,
 It'sshovel of the carnival float the consonants that have happened .

     The manhole cover
 was ,
 in its tar ,
 décation ,
 an indentation of gaiety on its moon face .

     Don't imitate him ,
 Do not transform his cement suit 
 in celestial identity . 

     Be the receptacle of his chaos .
 
     Dissent .

     Have the courteous gait of a chance salute .

     Respect his silence ,
 what the tales say
 don't choose .

     Know how to be courteous .

     have the word of peace .

     be the good one .

     Be the bright .

     Have a crooked smile 
 behind the Venetian .

     And if the step hurries ,
 give importance only to your body which thinks .

     Be foot by foot the shortcut of the soul .

     Climb the slope ,
 for a fair look at the auction ,
 explode with beauty .

     It could be that your legs ,
 without cutting yourself off from your being ,
 get out of the trap of a changing space .

     Divine rose descended from the ceiling .

     To be the spirit of this lay of love .
  
     That a passerby passes ,
 the shadow moves ,
 the breath gathers the energies ,
 a voice points the way .

     " Walk between heaven and earth "


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how old are you my son ?

  To tell me that the child has grown well
that it is eternal
Like the eternal youth of the world .

From another land
You came
And I ask to hold you back
Out of chimeras
Out of the times when the force no longer prints .

You took me by the hand
Without question
Without certainty
With just the need to live your time .

You didn't need any help
To affirm your identity
A dose of absolute animated you .

I had already accompanied your hesitations
Your heterodoxy seemed to me inextinguishable
Without assigned domain
You could harm the institutions .

You could laugh at my senility
Things in place you didn't care
You were widening the existing gap
Between the official company
Of the man covered with medals
Of man in the secret dungeons of the mind
Working out at risk of being hurt
The endorsement of false protections
The Wallpasser of Stellar Chaos .

It was not the first time
That there was disagreement
It was all about roots
Of those that the established order reinforces
Of those who passed through the sieve of the crisis
deserve to resurface .

You my child-apprentice
Shards of the Spirit
You engrave the symbolism of our relationship
In the land of the Fertile Crescent
You spell fasting
The text of foods to come
where to meet .

You knew how to read the esoteric cipher
From everyday life
You knew how to decipher the cry of children
From among the bells of societal rhetoric .

you were arrogant
But without arrogance access point to the kingdom .

You knew how to bring out the sheaf of sparks
On the stone of sacrifice
And wield the sword of decision
Individual and collective .

Your words were simple
Girded with this ability
To get literature out of its ruts
To spell out fundamental data .

You knew
And yet
Humble
You invited us to detention
On this land among the ruins
Where to collect the immemorial humus of the devastated crypts .

You picked up what was lying
You the incarnate
Anxious to discover the alphabet
In the palm grove of an oasis without injury .

You were embarrassed
By the shackles of certainties
You
This storm's end light
Carrying far the purpose of your trip
Initiation Marker
Printing on the pediment of temples
tolerance .

My future
My son
Ma congruence
my eternal child
You came
And hold you
in rebellion
To tell me
casualness
From this laminated era
By great pain .

My strength
I'm sorry
able to gather
The scatter of our rags
At the heart of discernment .

You renew the secret of the creators
Your peregrinations are the shattering injunction
To be the whole being .

you the bridge
You the door
you the way
You the necessity
You knew how to find the trace
To disembark by breaking and entering
Unheard Origin Messenger
And live between these unlikely relatives
The rest of your age .


Shakes
Get out of your cave
And come twist my arm
On the anvil of worldliness .

Be the inflexible transgression .

Libertarian wanderings .

be quick
The amazed comet of summer nights .

Be the leap out of the trench
Hit by a sharp arrow

Drunk from a sepulchral stupor .

And if sometimes you were the child-apprentice
It was only for laughs
Leaning on the curb
fiery epiphany
Out of the fountain's ultrablack waters .

My child of evenings spent by candlelight
You are manifestation of the invisible within the visible
Occurrence of between appearances
Nourishing expressions of openness .

You the founder of labyrinths
Drafts
The white horizontality of your cries in the hold
Evokes and contaminates
The floating enigma
Of the life of the moment
Escaping the nuclear flashes of disorganization .

You have no more limits
You are priceless
Hairline
Immaturely withdrawn into your haven of suffering
Glowing indentation in narrow rationalism .

You are reason and emotion
In burning letters
Written on the barn door
Between the bat and the rabbit's foot
Your vegetable puff pastry
spans the codicils .

You are the protruding belly
Of these rituals
Decors
Agapes
Where to melt the brass of our dazzling .

You got on your way
You aside
Clicking of your undone body
You who left
Moreover
A little
Who loses wins
You are the stake of the possessed of tradition
Searching for the original germ
you are above all .

You are dead and reborn
Spirally destined
Bypassing the ordeal
Offering on the altar of destinies .

I'll make good use of your fits
I would know how to drink from the murmuring springs
Like in the early days
In my wandering comrade
Steadfast thuriferous of our quest
My sea conch and my highlight .

My brother
My God
my disappearance
My eternal wound
My fresh mango
Under the fig tree of our expectation
I will start and start again
Of love and pain
A fourbir
The surge of joyful fraternity
Of all existence
O my companions .


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muted poetry

 Poetry rears the words  
 Elle  
 The multicolored skein  
 Torn by its own enigma  
 She blooms and is silent  
 She waves  
 Foam rolls   
 Elle s'amuse ruse abuse  
 She fuses  
 She ricochets  
 She sneers  
 she laughs yellow  
 Without denying oneself  
 She opens  
 She offers  
 She cannot submit to the established order 
 She's fooling around  
 She encarte by her fragility  
 The chiaroscuro of thuriferous glances  
 His organization is relentless  
 She is freedom  
 She spots  
 She punctuates  
 She squats in front of the toddler  
 She levitates beyond propriety  
 It cannot be satisfied with the curvature of time  
 She's falling off the ladder  
 The eternity of beginnings  
 She crowns the street child with a papal miter  
 At full throttle she laughs at the nuances  
 It contains the trolls and the leprechauns   
 She erects Calvaries with a caress of a feather  
 She embodies half-words  
 The daily mishmash  
 She is a flame sprung from the rustle of crepe  
 She is quiet  
 And then  
 Was  
 Backlog  
 She is ant  
 To make reality miserable  
 She is cicada  
 By its ability to marvel  
 From the worries of tomorrow  
 In high winds  
 Loose hair  
 It is sandy track by the sea  
 Sur un vélo bringuebalant  
 It is built along the way  
 Wandering to be  
 Elle 
 L'herbe folle des no man's land 
 The acclaim of the bud in spring  
 Along the road  
 It collects waste  
 It recycles plastics  
 Of the guttural roar of its pipes   
 Elle orgue le cervidé aux bois du Roy  
 she is music  
 And if the night surprises her  
 She becomes a glowworm in the eggshell   
 It culminates in end-of-life suspension points   
 It thins out the lump of regrets  
 Elle 
 Qui de fleurs vêtue  
 Cluttered the attics with his emotions  
 Become smile  
 In the light of an ultimate day  
 She cracks and bounces  
 Both look and experience  
 Perched on the master tree  
 To watch for traces of life  
 under the moss  
 She is a squirrel   
 Live and contemplative  
 Facing the pitfall of dry almonds  
 She is a must  
 From before to after  
 Out of safe shade  
 Exposed to scorching drunkenness  
 Visionary cavalcades  
 She is snow in the sun  
 Brown wingspan with giant wings  
 She scratches with an incredible cry  
 Le cristal infernal  
 Ageless melodies  
 She models  
 Of its shrubby caresses  
 The facial features of the ancestress  
 She raises the curtain of sap  
 Over the morning mists.
  
 It is meetings  
 Beneath the kelp brought by the tide  
 Where the smell of decomposition thrives  
 From germ to renewal  
 The clamor of the crowd towards loneliness  
 And the last thing to the mystery.
  
 She was and will be  
 My recognized wife  
 My cantor of evaporated nights  
 Ma distance  
 My failure  
 From between the tripod of the gods  
 To dig the unreason   
 Muted in soul  
 So filed  
 Grown under the shadow of a bloodless sun  
 My brow girdled with the last sweats.
  
 Palme sera la poésie du retour à l'esprit  
 Of my numb fingers  
 I would spread the earth  
 An insect will climb on the nail  
 Agile and restless .  

 It will be in the morning .  


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