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Posted in Blogroll, answers on October 28, 2007 by clartedubois

Well, some news.

Many news!

A lot of news.

First of all,

I want to say,

that when I decided,

because I decided it in full consciousness,

to give my love to the Starchild,

I was aware that some youths are playing games.

Some warn me

but after some time on the net,

I already knew that.

And that’s a fact 

that even many so-called grow ups behave like kids in need of attention.

Or diva’s!

Even if nowadays not many diva’s act that way!

All the same,

I didn’t want to take a risk.

I didn’t want to run away,

like I have done many times in front of a child,

an adolescent asking for help.

O! Don’t judge me!

I was not exactly running away!

At first, I always did what was to be done.

It was later, I had to call it quit!

As I was often not in the position to be able to be or stay efficient on the long run.

To be around meant most of the time, conflicts with the person in charge.

And I always quited because I thought it was better to do so for the child.

To prevent him or her to be in a pulling “game”…

So, how did it start?

When first I get irritated and told it to my golden child

(yes, I will never call him by any real name)!

I found it terrible that people,

mainly young girls and gays,

kept on telling him how handsome he was,

while he looks so sad and lonely on those pictures,

And I realised very quickly, I had open a gate there.

As he expressed his true loneliness.

And despair.

And if I understand well, he told me then he is an orphan.

I don’t know if it is true,

but what I know now for sure, is that he feels destitute.

That whatever his true mother is or was,

the person in charge in that kind of role isn’t fulfilling his needs or expectations.

He seems to feel betrayed.

Anyway, for a long time,

I kind of felt nor his name, nor the place he says he was from were true.

What I knew for a long while too, was that 

his avatar and pictures are from a young American actor called Sandvoss.

Steve Sandvoss.

And also, nearly from the start, I thought that he is autistic.

I am not sure, now.

But why would I think that?

Because there was a picture of a red-haired boy on the ground,

the grind in fact, outside, in front of a car,

and that guy was in a kind of fit…

And the man who was pulling him looked very much like his supposed (killed) father.

As to explained things to me, he did put pictures of “his” family.

Well, now of course, I understand why he chose this kind or type of family!

They have to be in the likeness of Sandvoss, of course.

Dumb me!

But why the guy on the ground, supposedly him, was having a fit,

was a kind of mystery!

Or not.

Sure enough,

I had that picture on my desktop from the moment

I realised his avatar and pictures were Steve Sandvoss.

I was probably not wanting to see eyes to eyes the true him.

Because at every turn there were give away signs.

Anyway, I think it is nicer that he told me himself.

His name.

After giving me an address.

Then he acknowledge his place of birth and living.

His faith.

And showed me a way to his picture.

Where I can’t see more than a hand, his nose and a knee.

Has he is in profile and wear a low hat.

But I am already overjoyed just to see his hand and the way he sits.

Well, all wrapped in himself up, if you see what I mean.

Is he my child?

Will he accept that?

He was afraid I wouldn’t love him anymore after he told me the truth.

His secret as he said.

And well, somehow,

even if I understand him, as his opinion of himself is so low,

I don’t.

And I can’t…

As for me that he told me is a gift.

Well, I said so to him.

And kept writing it.

So, Long, this is it for today.

It happened between midnight and one o’clock…

I had one of the strangest night of my life…

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Posted in Blogroll, answers on March 18, 2007 by clartedubois

 Thinking again ofthe boys of war

See the original post at:

http://dragonpoet.wordpress.com

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I don’t know, but war seems always…

As you write it, I can imagine it.

As it seems the only way to see it.

Yes, absolutely, as you say!

But how can I be sure?

I have not one single memory of it…

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Today is St Patrick’s day, not a significant feast for a Belgian.

But with so many Americans around me, I was tempted…

So, yesterday, I decided to go Irish.

Went to YouTube and mySpace for Luke Kelly and Paddy Reilly.

Now Paddy is my “friend” at mySpace…

However, by a strange turn of events,

As my research of joyous or nostalgic songs brought me to Joe McDonnell,

Today, I feel again the rage, the revolt and the sadness of 1981,

When Bobby Sands and his pals died.

I was 30, but mark my words, it seems so long ago,

That I thought I was 16 when it happened.

As I felt so utterly powerless.Then.

And so, believe me, I wonder if I will ever hear an Irish song in innocence again.

The Wolfe Tones.

If I was a true Aisling, would they not be my truest friends?

I went wikipedia to see the meaning of this word.

Three days ago, yes, three days ago…

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Tell me, what are we supposed to feel

when we come across Bobby Sands‘story,

Or the Fenian’s, deported to Australia.

Or the Palestinians?

Who had tend their hired farms for centuries

And from one day to the other? were chased from it

Because the owners mostly Syrians sold them to Jews,

Themselves victims of pogroms…

And so many more…

Are we not supposed to do something about it?

 But what?

My dear Long Shiren, would you not feel like me…

Powerless and utterly mixed up.

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Meanwhile, I remember another kind of story, also started in innocence…

If you are a childless woman, once in a while, you will meet children and think…

It happened only once to me.

He is New Zealander, he was then 18, like you and your friends, then.

Coming from such a peaceful country, you would not imagine…

As you may know, things can happen in childhood and they too leaves scares.

The fact is that we recognized something in each other

And that scared the rotary family (the woman) he was staying with.

So, the date we had was cancelled, if you can called that such an innocent meeting.

As it was the 11 November, birthday of armistice, guess what happened?

They went with him to the Anzac cemetery in Flanders.

So once again the purest love was killed by a “war”.

La petite guerre.

And disgustingly on the back of dead men. Dead soldiers…

Life is such a mixture…

When the war in Iraq started, I read for the second time

A book of James Michener about the VietNam’s called : The Drifters…

It was uncanny how it felt like the same story.

Now,  a day after the first post,

The Wolfe Tones are my friends.

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As the Yellow Drake, I feel…

Posted in Blogroll, answers on March 10, 2007 by clartedubois

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For today, I put it in French…

Posted in Blogroll, answers on March 10, 2007 by clartedubois

Je ne peux pas résonner dans ceci,

car pour moi,

ce n’est pas la femme universelle.

Ou alors, il ne me reste plus qu’à dire:

Je ne vis pas ma féminité de la façon dont elle est comprise ici.

Pourquoi certaines paroles de ce texte

Provoquent-elles une répulsion en moi?

Dans ce contexte, la femme qui n’enfante pas

 Apparaît comme inachevée.

Alors que je vis cela comme un soulagement et depuis quelques années déjà.

Au fond, c’est comme si j’acceptais ne pas avoir reçu cette vie-ci à cette fin-là.

Bien que, si je m’attache à un enfant

qui n’est pas le mien – forcément -

Et qui n’est pas lié à moi par des liens de sang,

Si pour une raison ou une autre, la mère ou la tutrice nous sépare,

Je ressens ce qu’un homme vit

Quand une femme prend avec ses armes et bagages,

Ses enfants, leurs enfants, avec elle.

Souvent sous le prétexte qu’elle les a portés, tacite ou explicite.

Il y a dans l’amour féminin qu’il soit maternel ou autre,

Beaucoup plus d’égoïsme,

De narcissisme et d’arrogance que nous voulons l’admettre.

Je n’ai pas de résonance avec ce que l’on appelle dans ce cas-là,

L’amour inconditionnel.

Sauf, s’il a une valeur plus cosmique

Et je regrette de le dire,

Jj’ai rencontré cette qualité chez les hommes

Bien plus souvent que chez les femmes…

Que beaucoup de femmes,

La plupart, je crois,

Se retrouvent dans ce texte, est tout à fait compréhensible,

Mais cela me rappelle aussi

Que les minorités ne sont pas entendues

Et que parfois la lassitude les gagnent

Et elles finissent par se taire complètement…

En fin de compte, à ce niveau-là,

C’est important

Que tu aies placé un texte que tu aimais

Et que dans l’honnêteté,

Je puisse te dire ceci tout haut.

La seule chose que je souhaite,

C’est que ma franchise ne nous sépare pas…

Claire, (commentaire d’une autre femme sur le mien)

Je crois que toutes les femmes sont “mères”…

Etre mère n’est pas seulement enfanter,

Car cela est donné par la nature,

Certaines peuvent et d’autres malheureusement pas….

“Etre femme, être mère”,

C’est se battre pour des enfants,

Pour des causes,

Pour des humains,

Avec notre sensibilité, notre intuition…

J’ai eu 3 enfants, mais j’en ai élevé … beaucoup…

Chaque fois qu’un enfant meurt,

Je suis mal, chaque fois qu’un homme,

Une femme est enchaîné, torturé, martyrisé,

Tué, assassiné, j’ai mal…

Et je suis certaine que toi aussi….

Alors tu vois, “être mère et femme”

C’est aussi et avant tout cela,

Refuser l’inacceptable,refuser la guerre, refuser l’injustice….

Enfin je crois….

Pardonne-moi cette parole de “vieille sorcière”

LOL

Bisous à toi et à vous toutes en cette journée

Là, je me suis vraiment sentie mal,

Et de plus avoir le culot de terminer par lol,

Déjà que dans le vrai cas de lol,

Je ne trouve pas ça si lol que ça,

Ici, c’était vraiment la cerise sur le gâteau…

J’ai eu par cette réaction,

L’impression à 55 de me faire donner des leçons,

Une fois de plus:

Après que tant de mères m’aient dit ou laissé entendre

Que je ne savais pas ce que c’est d’avoir des enfants

(merci de l’information)

Voilà que quand cela les arrange,

Elles me font mère malgré moi…

Merci, mesdames. Non!

If words are stones, what is silence?

Posted in Blogroll, answers on February 28, 2007 by clartedubois

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Answer, I do try! Not always on target, I dare say.

Posted in Blogroll, answers on February 28, 2007 by clartedubois

Here follows the answers

I have tried to give…

They costed me.

As they left me feeling

Like in a desert…

Were the stones

Have the shape of words.

That’s why I consider

Them

Now as mine,

Very much.

Even if inspired

By someone else.

Reflections…

If not perfect,

They are honest.

Of course, for a young medic,
War is about the worst thing.
As for the same man,
Many, many years later.
And it is.
For a girl of seventeen
Learning the job of nurse,
At a special unit for cancerous,
It might be the same.
Why didn’t she quit?
Pride? Yes and no!
How to admit,
When you fight hard for it,
You were as wrong
As your parents were right?
Except, that not for one moment,
The thought and even the desire
To call it a day enter my mind.
Now, I think,
Why on earth did I did that to myself?
Seeing people of all ages
Dying of that so mysterious disease
Is putting your mind
Into just doing your damned best.
Or in such a kind of oblivion,
People think you are very shallow.
Some are dupe.
Others?
My dear unforgettable patients.
Meeting mute autistic children,
Some few months later, yet,
Makes you enter an inscruptable world.
Without speaking about cerebral palsy,
Epilepsy, and so many, yes,
Uncountable pains and illnesses.
Are we ever going to understand all that?
When later, I worked as nurse,
Again in a dying cancer unit,
My apartment was full of cats
And very much like a green house.
To compensate, I always thought.
I have been on and off from nursing.
The last places were:
A multisclerosis hospital:
I adore those patients. Yes, I do.
Adolescent Unit in Glasgow
Where young girls are starving
Themselves to death by all means.
How clever they are to do it,
You will never imagine.
And the very last time,
I was working with Hasidim’s
At their nursing home for the elderly,
The doctor there, was so obsessed by life,
You could call it therapeutic harassment.
So, maybe, it is the reason why now,
I rejoice in simple things.
And while I was plodding to find a new way,
I have been help greatly by a certain poet.
And I try too
To give mere love and friendship…
As a nurse,
Better to achieve
A kind of distant compassion.
Never was I really able to feel
That healthy form of indifference.
But it is self-destruction
To go on in that job
With your heart on your sleeve.
So, as I say.
Flowers, birds, dog’s and some humans.
Yes, of course.
Some humans.
I love humans.
O! Should I dare to say?
I don’t understand the title very well.
For the rest, my answer may not be on target.
What I try to say is that many of the diseases
Are also related to the dangerous enterprises of humans.
Many doctors nowadays will tell you about:
Why cancers, why autism, why anorexia nervosa
And so forth and so on.
The terrible thing, Poet,
Is that even if people are still killed in war,
Many more are by hunger or
The mismanagement of our resources and
Of this patient planet.

And of course, here follows exactly what I try to do…

But, as always I did the things in reverse…

Here at leastt, they are in the order

They should be…

About Diversity and distant Worlds

The contrasts or differences between our places are infinite,  

I never realised before how Minnesota was close to Canada…  

Compare: the tardily storms raging in your Northern Country

And the Gulf Stream which as always is warming our shores…

The Ice Queen visits you still, here, Scotch mist is outpouring,  

Or simply” brown rain” as they describe it in the verdant Erin…

Those showers are lush and abundant in our youthful spring.

As much in mine than au Beau Pays des plus Grands Bardes.  

Do I tell you I was so obsessed that I possess a Celtic harp?  

Does it come from the Mists of Avalon and Morgan le Fey?

Or is it by reading and reading, the Mary Stewart’s version?  

She is the voice of Merlin, called by her, yet, another name…

If you don’t know, would you trust me when I enlighten you?

How many times, does she not make the poor guy drew rains?  

Quite a lot! As it is required of him to be where he had to be.

Cruelly, she deprived him of witchcraft or his gift of ubiquity!

Ireland! My Enchanted Country, how I do long to be with you…  

“Wake up! Clarté! Where have you been? What the matter with you?”

“O! Poet, I can’t help it! Pardon me! From Bantry Bay to Dublin city,

I am enthralled or spell-bound; the conjuring words are not too strong.”  

Please, Clarté, this is no proper job, you can better, give it a finer try”  

“Yes, Poet! You are honest! I can better; I have that curious tendency…”  

Another divergence is your grass so dead when it shows at all.  

Now it plays hide and seek under the so cold and virgin snow.

I dread and fear the cruelty of your everlasting blasting winds…  

But then, the men, there, are so sweet; they enfold their ladies   

With woven woollen plaids or handmade Hamish patchworks…

Meanwhile, our buds bloom in forests, gardens, groves, lanes.

Our fields shine green emerald, other by now are ploughed up,

Waiting for crop growing or cattle’s, mainly cows, to pasture!

Poets, for me –don’t ask me why –the first flowers are yellow.  

Not true! To proof me wrong: Here is the orchard of Philemon!

Trees “whitening”, his meadow is whitish-green by snowdrops.  

If some crocuses are of gold, others are pale or violet. Violets?  

Are violet! In a few weeks, at one of the nicest neighbourhood  

Of Brussels , at a stone toss from where Marco, the dear friend  

Lives, the Japanese cherry trees will blossom so exuberantly or

So deliriously, they’ll paint the streets all pink with their petals.  

But, forsythias and how do you call those little round flowers?  

Are they Bamboo bushes? And do agree, buttercups of all kind,  

Are they not yellow? Do you know that magical, musical piece  

From Sir Edward William Elgar? Titled: “The Starlight Express”.  

It is all about fairies and children’s dreams. There, the song of  

Dandelions and daffodils comes to the tune of the goats’ bells!  

Sure, here are the culprits that are colouring my spring yellow!

It could have been the end, then dog and hen food were needed

At the supermarket, how to resist those multicolour primavera?  

My heart was full of a gentle and silent joy, but blood and joy…

O! Please, dear Angel, heal broken hearts, I hope and pray and …  

Many of the bulbs I chose had to be like the vital fluid: scarlet.

Except for the lilies, they are such a pure gift: White lilies! But

The only ones were called Oriental or Cassandra! Yes! Dragon!

I don’t know why! And what a name for such a pristine flower!  

I prefer the like of Canna’s or Calla’s also said Zantedeschia’s…

For Primavera, I buy a red Shirley and a few pompon Dahlia’s!

Coming happy from the shop; I heard the joyful trills of a bird!

Is it a Merlin call? I searched, watched: there on a cypress’s top.  

O! What a small one! O! Bliss! I fetched the binocular! Too late!  

A turtle-dove! Yes, dear, he was all alone, perching in its place.

Believe me; all in all, I was comforted it was not the Peregrine.  

To LSR