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White…

Posted in Blogroll, prose poétique on May 3, 2007 by clartedubois

Yesterday,

On the dirt road,

There, where days after days,

Ben is frolicking as much as can be,

And Camden the Wild, by the leash,

Follows us, somewhat subdue,

All the stones are shining white.

Just as I expected it.

The short letter I wrote…

Was bringing…

Far away and to you,

The hope of small happiness or great victories…

But also the wound of your sorrows in my heart,

Speaking of memories without too many plans.

The unrelenting sun has changed our countryside.

And the wind blowing incessantly since some days,

Carry over the earth reduced to dust.

I am thinking about my friends.

So nice and so lovely. So gentle.

And suddenly I see them!

Two “tufted” lapwings.

But nowhere I find their “tufts”…

Moved, I reflect, they must be fledgelings,

Nearly adults, maybe…

How white is their bellies!

Are they in full trial of their flies and…

Distressing cries.

No, they are fully grown.

Knowing dogs as their natural predators,

They, as usual, try to divert us.

Steadily, we go further.

They looping and “peewitting”,

Me, summoning Ben, to escape an unnecessary carnage.

Soon we are out of their territory.

But on our way back, confirmation.

Just the same sad and warning game…

Walking further, I turn at right angle on the metalled way,

All line up by umbellifers,

Or the wild chervil, if you prefer, which,

Calls me back into the white world.

The sky is blue, so blue.

White, white, white.

To my myopic eyes,

The gardens are patchworks full of colours.

And at the small chapel,

The tall horse-chestnut is blossoming red.

But the depth of my quieten heart,

Is white.

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Hier…

Sur le sentier de terre,

Là, où jour après jour,

Ben se dégourdit les pattes à qui mieux, mieux

Et, Camden, le sauvageon, laisse obligeant

Me suit un peu contraint,

Tous les cailloux blancs me font de l’oeil.

J’étais sûre qu’il en serait ainsi.

Cette petite lettre que je t’avais écrite,

Portait…

Au loin et vers toi,

L’espoir de petits et grands bonheurs

Mais aussi la blessure en moi de tes peines

En parlant de souvenirs sans trop penser à l’avenir.

Le soleil tenace a transformé notre campagne.

Et le vent qui souffle depuis quelques jours

Transporte partout la terre réduite en poussière.

Je pense à mes amis, si gentils.

Et soudain, je les vois.

Deux vanneaux huppés.

Mais de leurs huppes, je ne vois pas la trace.

Attendrie, je me dis que ce sont des oisillons

Presque devenus grands

Oh! Comme leur ventres est blanc, lui aussi.

S’exercent-ils au looping en poussant leurs cris…

De détresse…

Non, ce sont des adultes.

Reconnaissant les prédateurs que sont les chiens,

Suivant leur habitude, ils essaient de faire diversion.

Vaille que vaille, nous avançons,

Eux, volant en criant

Moi, appelant Ben, pour éviter un carnage inutile.

Nous dépassons assez vite leur territoire,

Mais en revenant, le scénario repart de plus belle.

Á l’identique.

Continuant la promenade,

Je tourne à angle droit vers le chemin en béton…

Bordé d’ombellifères.

Le cerfeuil sauvage, en l’occurence,

Il me rappelle au monde blanc.

Le ciel est bleu, bleu.

Blanc, blanc, blanc.

Mais les jardins, à mes yeux de myope,

Sont pleins de taches multicolores.

Le marronier est rouge.

Pourtant le fond de mon coeur

Calmé, est blanc.

To a poet.

A new sound

Posted in Blogroll, prose poétique on February 2, 2007 by clartedubois

Days after days,

Walking the dogs is a must do.

The day is today.

The sun has chased some mist.

Misty evening, mysty night,

Misty morose evening.

The twins were on my mind.

Not the dogs, no.

The kids come tomorrow.

Yet, the dogs are a twin too.

Then the promenade was monotonous:

Apart the crows or ravens, I don’t know.

Nothing really to tell about.

……………………………………..

Here, after the right angle corner

Is the pasture of deer’s.

And they are very near.

The pair of them

Approach us step by step by step

So slowly, slowly slow…

Camden moans, Ben is unmoved.

The young stags show interest

And I am a-waiting, waiting, ting…

I hear a sound.

Is it a bird?

No.

Slowly and slowly and slowly

Moved the sweet-eyed animals

Away of the indifferent dogs

To tame to know

They are natural enemis.

………………………………..

Returns the sound

Never heard before.

One of the twin harts

Does give it to me, today.

Tribute and anti-tribute to Marceline…

Posted in new vistas, prose poétique on January 18, 2007 by clartedubois
 
Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out.
Summers in your absence are as dark as a room.
I have closed my arms again. They must do without.
To knock at my heart is like knocking at a tomb.
                Do not write! 

Do not write. Let us learn to die, as best we may.
Did I love you? Ask God. Ask yourself. Do you know?
To hear that you love me, when you are far away,
Is like hearing from heaven and never to go.
                Do not write! 

Do not write. I fear you. I fear to remember,
For memory holds the voice I have often heard.
To the one who cannot drink, do not show water,
The beloved one's picture in the handwritten word.
                Do not write! 

Do not write those gentle words that I dare not see,
It seems that your voice is spreading them on my heart,
Across your smile, on fire, they appear to me,
It seems that a kiss is printing them on my heart.
                Do not write!

Ma chère Marceline,

Quelle tristesse…

Comme je les ai ressenties, moi aussi,

Tes paroles

C’était bien avant ma vie computer…

Quand j’attendais encore

Des réponses à ces lettres écrites 

Avec une telle certitude.

Le temps passant,

L’ amour s’estompant…

La douleur , là.

Restant.

    It has been a time,

My feelings had lot in common

With her’s,

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore…

Those are forgone

I am so happy to say:

“Do write…

Whatever, wherever…

Invent new words;

And sounds, and vistas… “

If love is that sad…

Is it love?

Is love not supposed to put butterflies

At one or more of our chakras?

Is it not in our power

To translate it in even more beauty?

If our feelings take hold on you,

Are we not slaves to them?

What about the free will

Which is supposed to put us above

The whole world?

From the stones to the Angels…

Then, love has many names,

Many forms

I will not deny it…

And from opposite to twins

From soul mates, sisters, brothers

To fellowship

The kindred spirits will reach

To each others…

To Lsr

A bathing bird

Posted in prose poétique on January 11, 2007 by clartedubois

surf1.JPGsomewhere near Doolin, Ireland 

Day after day, I walk the dogs.

Ben, Camden.

This morning the weather is exceptionally warm, exceedingly wintry.

Yeah! Superlatives!

The sun already oblique obliges me to lower my eyes.

In another time I dared the word delightful, has lost so much of his sense, now.

Hence: I see a sparrow bathing in a puddle.

It takes its time-I bet it knows the dog fairly well- and it goes on and on.

All sparks of water, all sparks of feathers!

What a vision.

That country road is in bad repair, full of birds’swimming pools.

Even the dirty road doesn’t hold so much rain after the downpour.

It is drained by earth and stones…

The lone bird of an otherwise social kind makes me reflect…

It has its right for some privacy, while washing away I don’t know what…

Or which dust.

Or for the pleasure, only.

As in a response to that regained purity, a white dove, lonely, appears.

It picks and feeds at the remains of the corn harvest…

But when it flies I see the extremity of its fan-shaped tail is dark.

So much for my purity melody…

That’s for sure a reminder of the Yin-Yang principle.

My dear friend, here we have no Cardinals, no Eagles…

The lover of birds is like the lover of words…

But you know that…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 at 8:36 pm

Winds without chimes…

Posted in prose poétique on January 11, 2007 by clartedubois

Did I say it was windy yesterday?

I did.

Forget it…

Today is the day…

First brown rain

Then storm, then rain…

Then wind.

And tomorrow maybe, I will

Did I say it was windy yesterday?

Very much more than being part of the picture…

Posted in prose poétique on January 10, 2007 by clartedubois

Strange feeling.

The land of all those famous Flemish painters is around me.

Of course the beauty is in the eyes …

And you must work on it.

It is a question of choice.

A collection.

A bird here, a cloud there.

Philemon is cutting his white hawthorn edge branch by branch.

What I have is the feeling of things.

The dew on the grass still so green.

Is a wink of Raziel, angel of sacred forms…

His color is crystal, his color contains the rainbow.

As it shines in the morning light, it is the Divine in the drop.

And the sky: clouds, blue, clouds, blue, clouds.

Sun…

And the wind in Camden’ s fur or fleece, nearly…

And the wind in the grass.

And the wind chasing my hairs…

And the wind.