Monday, December 31, 2018

To Torsten

New Year's Eve a lovely dinner
with friends and one foe
a darling host - a daring lady
with the others - hum ho
We ate and drank delightedly
food-wine-the faces glowed
our host cooked a reindeer
Rudolph tasted -chapeau
to the cook and much more
we ate with a healthy gusto
His wine was just superb
it just kept on - a flow
of friendship and delight
Sweet Torsten a grand amigo.

Sunday, December 30, 2018

Voila un an en poésie

L'année dernière
dans la soirée de nouvel an
décidée de faire
un poème journalier pensant
et
c'était une première
dure et  en même temps
je fus comme mercenaire
incroyablement satisfaisante
et
de partout - outre-mer
ici - là-bas - defendant
seul - terre et mer
plus autres sujets important
et
je finis sans œillère
pour dire très tendrement
une idée requiert
des pensées inconsciemment
et
semblant une mousquetaire
qui s'amuse dans le vent violent
j'ai fait un réverbère
voila tout - mes chers enfants

Tanker om historisk sandhed

En historisk sandhed
er som bekendt bestemt
af dem som skriver
den fantastiske fortælling
ligesom de nyheder
vi får ind hvert sekund
filteret bliver større
fordi vi ikke kan nå
at gisne om hvad
der er virkelighed eller ej.

Hvis Piet Hein skulle skrive
om dette ovenforstående
ville han sige:

Den historiske sandhed
er hørt
den er kun af sejren er
berørt
ej filter eller sund fornuft
er kørt
igennem hjernespindets
honnør

En anden moderne
dansk digter:

Sandhedens historie
om farlig er
endnu værre
fordi vores verdens
velstående fylder
alskens papirkurve
med løgne og
allemand bliver
fortryllet med
dens evige
edderkoppespind.

Mig selv igen:

Historiske sandheder
er som løgnens
usandheder og skrevet
som bombardement
ved Københavns havn
uden tilsyn eller opsyn
med gitterets størrelse
i filterets lærred

Saturday, December 29, 2018

une rêve randonnée

Tentée par le temps
Du passé et du passage
Je réaliserai  une résolution
De mes envies enivrées
 Dans l’année annoncée
Je vais voyager
Avec ma valise sans valeur
Partout dans un pays
Incroyable et inconnu
Pour savoir surtout
Connaître les contes
Et les idées et idéales
De ledit  endroit
Voilà et voici
Une résolution réelle
Et irréelle instantanée

Friday, December 28, 2018

Recall - not

Phenomenon well- known
at least to me at some instances
You  meet a new unknown
A ressemblance of someone
then you unmeet a second later
but wheels start churning
film- neighbor-where- when -who
work - print - friends
Cogs truly begin to go haywire
ok then film - then - an actor
again the name escapes
catching two movies - id'ed
he has a younger brother
also in the sixth art form
when I return to the sources
then of course I met
a spook of Ralph Fiennes
today - yet could not recall
at that moment in time   

La defense d'une année en poésie

Trop de mots
trop de poèmes
trop de pensées dangereuses
une années poétique

Trop de ridicules
trop de l'haine
trop de guerres
Une éternité sans fin

Seulement avec
les paroles fortes
je peux subir
les idioties de l'homme

Sans les allegories
sans les histoires
sans les contes fées
il n'y a pas l'espoir

Thursday, December 27, 2018

Marcher de vivre à mourir

Marcher c’est de vivre 
Librement dans
Les garrigues 
Avec des oliviers 
Et des petites fleurs
De l’anonymat 
Ou pour moi
SanS nomenclature.
cet escapade journalier 
Évidemment devient 
Un devoir aimé et
Surtout nécessaire 
Pour mon esprit
Pas déprimé mais 
Dans quelque sorte
Une fuite de l’âge 
Et de cette. Mort
Qui m’attend doucement 

Et tendrement 

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Again and again

Anti-semitism is
No lackadaisikal
Lefty meaning
It is a hate-belief
A prejudice
Like blacks hating
Whites and  vice versa
Can be found
Everywhere with
Anywhom
Just like hate
And fear of
Other religions
It is just that
The twentieth C
Has seen a
War of extreme
Extermination
Haven’t we
Learnt anything
Even in the year
2018 -
 Nope

On Richard Cohen’s article
In the Washington Post
Of the New York Times’
Interview with Alice Walker

Monday, December 24, 2018

Windows close/open

Another window
a different view
with blossoms
whirlwind and
falling leaves
it is very healthy
to force yourself
to change views
an alternative opens

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Une nuit à oublier

Après une nuit
en enfer
Comme d’habitude
D’autrefois
Le corps règne
Suprême
Épuisé et
anéanti
il n'y a rien
sauf la survie
et petit à petit
le cadavre
se renait
si lentement
sans il soit
assuré que
cela ne se passe
encore
des nuits
suivantes

Chaleur douche

La chaleur de décembre
reste plus fervente
que la canicule de l'été
car elle est douche et
m'embrasse vivement
de donne envie de vivre
plus longtemps qu'avec
la foule d'estivale folle
elle est par contre saine
d'un corps durement taillé
et voila elle m'inspire
de la suivre et me soigner
de ne plus tomber
dans la déprime et de voir
cette terre éblouissante
me sauvant violemment
et je sais qu'ici en hiver
au milieu des vignes
dormantes je suis heureuse

Saturday, December 22, 2018

When in Rome

When you're in Rome
...
you are at home
...
if you are not
...
where is your lot
...
will you change
...
or will you remain
...
the same as before
...
change Rome or
...
change you in a Roman
...
it's easier than a no man


Thursday, December 20, 2018

Le mensonge montagnard

Sur mon banc habituel 
Je revois la montagne 
Fantôme et lointaine
Le soleil du décembre 
Me chauffe et me remplie
De vitamine D vitale
Pour mon corps épuisé 
Sans - je crache petit à petit 
Et je deviens une femme
Vieille et déformée 
Avec mes rides profondes 
Et cela est la vérité 
De la vie car chaque jour
Elle  court vers la mort
Et comme les contes fées 
C’est dans la vrai nature
Qu’on voit passer le temps
Intemporel sans lèse-majesté 
Et les ombres sur l’herbe 
Deviennent de plus en plus 
Longues et sont cachées 
Comme le Canigou spectral 
On peut juxtaposer les deux
La colline magnifique avec
La vie d’une mémé âgée 
Voilà les mensonges sont vraies 
Car la hauteur est  naturel 
Et nous les humains les feront 
grandir et ce sont nous
qui tombent vers les dégâts
et nos rêves sont rompues
même si nous agrandissent
nos faits sur la terre vive
c'est elle qui resemble à
une vieille - en train de mourir.

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Un petit poème matinal

Le matin en hiver d'un froideur
le coeur a l'intérieur se chauffe
en même temps
le dualisme dans un être vif
est impressionant
encore ici dans mon village
je vois les nuages très gris
en me régalant

Sunday, December 16, 2018

The Greek myths forever

Prometheus - a firebrand
of slashed hopes
with Pandora's help -
we all are boxed in
the strongest of trade:
knowledge for power -
identity searches plus
all-consuming love
are still humanity's
everlasting quests -
but Sophia not Zeus
would be my guide

(on reading about AI-
artificial intelligence)

Saturday, December 15, 2018

I have the I-es

Do I have everything ?
Living between two
Leaving tomorrow
For the other one
What one usually needs
On a trip between two
Households two distinct
Diverse different worlds
À small roll-on bag
Filled with needed stuff
Without which we
Cannot function famously
Especially the I-es have it.


nightly nonsense

Nightide awakening
Brutal for the body
Once more brainwaves
Blame the clock’s
Inner workings so
Just maybe it is not
The cuckoo’s fault
But my own anticipation
Of what now where
Whom with or why
Clarity and variety
Is still a dictum
Needed to be answered
For my own sanity
I shall try to sleep
Once the phone is out

Friday, December 14, 2018

Busses

In a bus in DC
Seeing another bus company
Reminded of kids
And their band trips
Alas it is gone
And so are we

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Curious history

the modern 20 century history
a strange land filled with fascists
demagogues - nazis
and hope for newfound freedom
so now in the 21 century
is another step back to strongmen
power hungry egomaniacs

a person urging for destruction
of others and disrespect for humanity
it must be an ego trip of
a lost childish soul for attention
- still - add sex or lack thereof -
as well as stupidity and naivety
of believers of father/mother figures

it feels easy to follow a great leader
regardless of the dictum -blindly
jump off the cliff - seen in
secret cults or strict religious practices
at the waning crescent or the waxing
gibbous filled with fool's gold -
alas the dictum holds only too well



(Power, money, sex, religious equals history
 that's all -  folks_)     

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

New Me??

Lure of less winkles
the empress new clothes
did not really do the trick
psychedelic experience
let me see tomorrow
and days ahead
alas the screw in my head
must be loose but
it was nice while it lasted

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

all is related

Relative relationship
Upon meeting
Upgrades or
Downgrades
To something in
Between reality
And irrelevance

Monday, December 10, 2018

Die Sachen

Die Sachen lassen nichts
denn die Leuten finden sie
nachher -
der Tod ist nur
wie die Ofen und deshalb
waren die Objekte hier noch
am Erde - ohne etwas anderes
als die Geschichte eines Teils
der erjagteten Mennschen

Die Kleinigkeit gibt nur
unser Lebensraum ab.


To commemorate:
Nelly Sachs
Chor der verlassenen Dinge

und Schindler's List von Patrick White
Der Film von Steven Spielberg

Sunday, December 09, 2018

Sharpen haiku

Rosebushes need cut
for winterizing to spring
sharpen the scissors

Saturday, December 08, 2018

Humbling

reading Shakespeare's sonnets
makes me humble and timid
a walk taken along with the bard
respect for his writing
with pen and on parchment
this English beguiling tongue
still amazes - for its stretch
its depth - its fantastic width
and I shall only know so few
of these idioms and patois
of the lingua franca even today
it adds a word or three -
just look at the urban vernacular
no other language is so
beguiling - except of course
the French - but none of these
is what my mother spoke to me
so flustered I still stand in front
of the words - and their significance
because without words
we cannot think in concepts
without words we cannot live


Thursday, December 06, 2018

Alit

A light far away
Can be an end
Of a cigarette
A glow closer by
Must be an old
Sixties neon sign
A beam close up
From a phone
Will shut the lids
Only the day
You go blind or
Die will the gleam
From your own
Two striking eyes
Close the camera’s
Budding receptors
And you will see
Neither  the glow
Nor the beam’s light


Wednesday, December 05, 2018

30 years plus

In Japan the elderly
reign supreme
a quarter of the country
are senior citizens

It will be their food
or the modesty of it
the fish the rice
the tea - not sake

The respect for age
maybe a key or not
but if not the aging
must respect themselves

I know I will not last
as long as 30 plus
yet I shall try to laugh
be healthily unwise

Yet to me it is genes
food socially fun
and just plain old love
for everyday from today

Tuesday, December 04, 2018

My father’s daughter

Being nothing like my father
Growing up to hate him
Cheating on my mom
I took a step back
Beginning when I was
But fairly young
Finding myself now
Appreciating him
more understanding
His time and what drove
Him along his path
Looking at my youngest
Over a dinner at a place
Reminding me of
Restaurants we ate at
During my childhood
And I truly grasped
His way of thinking
A little too late perhaps
But unconsciously
I must have emulated
Him somewhat when
My kids were growing
So I now appreciate
A refined repast at
‘The tasty table” tonight

Monday, December 03, 2018

Frame works?

Taking truly care of myself
I have never done
my poor body tries to serve
I just ignore me
So tonight I shall start
knowing so deeply
I shall not follow through
only when feeling
doomed and bodily tired
will the instinct
to survive better kick in
applauding the frame

Sunday, December 02, 2018

Klimakterium delendam

En dag i det grå
i december
et år er væk
en rosenknop
i blomst ser
ud og dropper
site kronblade
det er trist
som klimakteriet
breder sig
til naturens alter
kun en ny
indstilling
kan redde den
gamle rosenbusk

Saturday, December 01, 2018

A cup that broke

-
we drop things along the way
accidentally or not
some like to throw in anger
some will cast in frustration
some will just destroy because
but this morning I dropped
a cup with memories
and for a moment I was sad
yet -
the mind's eye still see
the daughter and friend
somewhere in Firenze
so next time I open my cupboard
I shall not see the beaker
only its invisibility coat
-

(With apologies to J.K. Rowling)

et kort tak

Jeg fik et kort som gjorde mig glad
og senderen af dette pip
skal have et knus i et bad
af smil fra en gammel spir"vip
så vedkommende kan vel forstå
at modtager dansede ud i det blå

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Shall I Dance

Shall I swing
With a dreamy dancer
Swirl in a dancing dream
One day with
A steamy cavalier
Who has both both
The footwork and rhythm
So swaying becomes
The actual path
To Nirvana embracing
Endless fathomic hope

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Need for sugar - alas a battle not won

Sweet tooth - oh please
I last until after dinner
but then ...I succumb
to needing the sugar
the chocolate - the licorice

Strange because during
the day my mind is onto
life in general - but come
evening tide and darkness
the lure of comfort:

succulent rhum of cane
of my feverish brain
to become my bane
of my fight in vain
hubby  - go to the store -again


Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Hour glass' counts

Yawning before bedtime
seeing somebody gaping
before work today
will be the sign of a boring
slightly forgettable interval
tomorrow shall be filled
with seconds, minutes, hours
of remembering to live
instead of just exist and breathe
because the hour glass
shreds its sand and it runs
faster and faster
and soon enough one day
its gliding small specks
will have stopped running
since its upper chamber
has emptied itself of
non-perpetual motion

Monday, November 26, 2018

Pain gain?

Shoes that you know
you should not wear
you do in spite of
health  and comfort
you do it to send a
strong message
here I am - today
I am a professional!
What a pro of what
of pain and in vain
Nobody is looking
at you - kiddo
you are a keyner
Old and irrelevant
But I do it for me
to portray a role
of someone of
somewhat importance
once upon a time
Get off your heels
A waste of pain!

Sunday, November 25, 2018

Controlling what?

For umpteenth time
Will humanity not learn
That war and strife creates
Havoc and mayhem
At the moment only locally
These kerfluffles are
A mean to keep
The wheels going
And tyrants and spheres
Dreaming of more
Or at least status quo
The little people suffering
Do not bother them on iota
The world is complicated
And what goes on in
The back rooms of
Kremlin - White House -
In Beijing or elsewhere
We will maybe know
In 50 years time then
It will be too late
And another greater war
Of ressources and climate
Would have taken place


Friday, November 23, 2018

Name your price?

Who is up for sale?
The US and who else?
Poland or Greece,
Turkey, Saudi Arabia?
Russia and China are buying!
Who is flirting with
autocracy or strongmen?
Brazil, and the rest?
Dangerous tendencies
Of  mediocrity and fear
And not to be despised
Human stupidity and angst
The bystander’s effect.
Poor democracy and its price
For freedom now is
Complacently too low!

Jalousie - même

Jalousie existe au fond des gens
qui aiment violemment et  trop
qui veulent avoir pour eux
les sentiments totals de l'aimé
sans regard pour l'autrui et soi
mais de temps en temps même
dans les gens qui sont sans ire
elle se monte à cause de l'envie
et là c'est à la vexation pour moi.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Point to point

A pointisettia
Set in a pot
filled with joy
Is the point


Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Recipe for Turkey day???

Got a recipe
something new
gotta try it
not a difficult brew
just for everybody to taste
so I should be careful
not in haste
and actually follow
the directions
if I do not then
accuse me of
dereliction!
Bon Appetite to everyone
trying this new
wonderful concoction
this day and age
it is filled with
special toxins!!

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

to the young maidens in awe

Red orangey lips
Trembling tempting
You beyond ecstasy
Your libido rising
Risking nothing
Because you’re in
Power - playmate
Your so called partner
Young maybe in awe
Or just enthralled
You irresistible male
To their soul’s dream
Their phantom’ lover
Only for you chance
Of not being found out
And for them  a life
In bitterness and self- rebuke.

Monday, November 19, 2018

Overalt

Overalt finder en ordsmed
(direkte oversat - javel)
ideer til en ideologi
eller en kønsutopi
som nu da jeg sad
og kedede mig og læste
Huffington Post paa tysk
"dieses Wort diskriminiert
Fraun" af dr. Gunda Windmueller

Schamlippen - er den officiøse term
og det er paa tysk og paa dansk
skamlæber
og ja hun har ret den kloge kvinde!

Hvor er skammen om vulvaen
er det en synd at have en kusse?
Et kønsbegreb som jo bare
fortæller et hvilketsomhelst menneske
at der er en skam at havldelen
af jorden befolking har nogle sådanne
smukke - funktionelle kønsdele!

Hun og dermed ogsaa denne poet
vil herefterdags kalde dem
ved deres rette navn: vulvalæber

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Back to normal

Back to normal whatever it may be
on a Saturday noon tide -
sitting wondering what will happen
I do not know - but my guess
is to eat a lunch quietly while pondering
and musing slowly - if retirement
is like this - I'd rather hit a fit!
So back to normal crazy like
move - body and soul
for if not I shall surely die.

Help I needed a poem - yesterday

what woman would not like a hat
to top off her outfit like that
so that's what I did a Friday night
and oh what a crazy sight

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Whiskey tango foxtrot

Whiskey tango foxtrot
wonderful military alphabet

Oscar Mike is on the move
dancing tango in the street

our commander-in-chief
is an oxygen thief

and clusterfucking the US
I am gonna rack out

so repeat the first line




                                                                                     

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

cold à la dr. Seuss

Modus vivendi à la snot
A nose from which I cannot
Breathe even lightly
So my choice diminished
Of speaking while blocked
Remains - and that’s enough!

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Mystiske møder

En nordmands møde med en dansker  i Paris
en sommeraftensstund
et skæbnespift fra virkelighedens verden
en sommereftermiddagsblund
sådan cirka tooghalvtres år senere
i en fransk have - er der en grund?

Et sted i USA en aften for mange år siden
en efterårsmiddagsinvitation
faldt jeg over et dame som var friet til
i københavns  levende circulation
en ekssamlevers paramour og sådan
er en sammentræftsapplikation

De pudsige snublen over  fæ og folk for foden
er som runde perler i østersskal
hvem ved hvad dagen bringer imorgen
et sammensurium eller et fald
så længe jeg er levende og siger pip
er nysgerrigheden min katedral.


Monday, November 12, 2018

Mon spectre de novembre

Je te perds de temps en temps
dans la brume de novembre
tu es là dans ma chambre
dans mon cerveau brulant
mes sentiments restent encore
mon homme je t'adore
mon spectre d'été permanent


Dog’s Christmas story in November

My small Tuscan hamlet
the Christmas Eve
My owner walks to the might mass
I sniff
Every stone every tree and pine cone
All over the smells
from holiday cooking
are totally divine

We enter the church
My mistress crosses herself
From the water bowl
Always meant to ask
Why the fountain was so high
When really it should be
a dog's water dish

I lie down but the priest
starts to preach
mumbles and squeaks
his voice is droning

I start to close my eyes
But about half an hour
Into the performance
The holy man starts to give
Out wafers during
The Eucharist

About twenty souls to get
The month old dried round
Tough dull biscuit

Alas  I was the only one who
Did not receive the hardtack
And would have liked it

Sniffing I look pleadingly
At mistress Giovanna
when she sits down
She mumbles something
About her teeth and slowly
brings out  half of a gnawed cracker
and on the sly drops it
motioning me to not get excited

praised be St Francis

(Inspired by David Zee's story)


Sunday, November 11, 2018

In retrospective

A sentence in the newspaper
Struck me this morning
On this eleven eleven a hundred
Someone in an army hospital
Gassed but recovering
Swore that if he got out
He would revenge the abasement
Alas Adolph did just that.
The case point is as follows
History knows not how or where
It meets The Who
whose ego has been traumatized
And is in line with
Evil and sad forces of man’s
Brushed off tenderness for
Fatherland and search
For power over others
But given the same kinds
Of political climates or
Hatred of feeling hemmed in
Or being snubbed by society
The time and place
Will come once more.

Inspired by Michael E. Ruane’s
The day the guns fell silent. Washington Post
11/11/2018






Saturday, November 10, 2018

Daily darkness constitutional

Dog walking aka
a daily darkness constitutional
sniffing dog
November duskiness
stiffing woman
a darkened daily constitutional


Dystopia

Dystopia causes dyspepsia
more than once

either you mollycoddle
or you underindulge

the pain becomes dulled
your worst nightmare

and you accept your fate

Thursday, November 08, 2018

après moi

Après moi le déluge
Louis XV a dit
Dans son splendeur royale
Après moi le délire
Le 45 a expliqué
Dans son grandeur illusoire
Les mots trahissent les acteurs
Et les spectateurs applaudissent.

hellish and heavenly

The wages of sin
Are coming to haunt
You - sinners-
Deserve death
According to Paul
Heaven help the believers
Hell awaits you
What more ?

Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Les pensees errantes

Les pensees de mes envies
sont secretes et vivantes
et des fois elles courent
comme des foumis errantes
sans que je puisse les
controller ou les tenter
de rendre hommage
a la sagesse augmentee.
Car dans la folie individuelle
il reste un peu de betise
un jugement de plasticite
ainsi qu'une confiance exquise.

Monday, November 05, 2018

History according to me

Power, money, sex, control of others and religion
then you have made the world's history books
nothing more nothing less

take the Egyptians - power of pharaoh
golden tombs - marrying sisters and brothers
slaves or freemen toiling for years to build
monumentos monuments
oh and the pharaoh was the god

want to talk about the Greeks
apart from 10 years of democracy
it was city state versus city state - slaves -
sex - the women did not have a lot of power
(yes there are exceptions)
control of others and the Gods were doing
their own thing mimicking the citizens
of the polis

The Romans had power, had money,
devised a thing about the females should
not be free - hence the Roman family structure
slaves, of course,  control the  gods and then
came the belief from the East about
only one God....

The Holy Roman Empire and before that
the Celts - the Picts  - the Vikings
again why did they go and plunder
Money - Power - needs of the tribes -
add slave and use of women for sex
plus the beginning of the Catholic faith
ending during the Napoleonic Wars

Let's not forget Persia and the Asian Steppes
as well as closed China -
Tribes moves or get closed in - powers
hungry - insurgency we need food - money
oh and slaves to do do some work,
if not slaves - then women,
different gods but still used for the powerhungry

Tribal wars in Africa and in the Americas
needing feed for the people - money -
power - sex -and slaves and religions that follow the kings
or sometimes the kings (and queens on rare occasions)
are the gods themselves

Moving happily along up the history's path
to more modern "civilized" times
The Islamic world of yesteryear
anything different than power, money,
sex, and control especially over the minds

Japan with its shogunate for about 700 years
of power in one man almost godlike
dictatorship  - land belonging to the emperor
 - slaves ( peasants)- sex scandals (geishas)
control of their own - piracy of undesirables
tolerated to make life difficult for China and Korea

Let's see - well Russia - serfs -czars-
Catherina - up until the last emperor
power money sex control religious
need I mention scandals galore

What about the Papacy - a state within a state
murder and mayhem - selling of cardinalships
collection of tithes - control of the minds
and bodies of clerics and nuns - power
over  vast lands and yet so small a state

The renaissance - let's see any thing but
power, sex, money, control and curiosity
about the world and how it is screwed together
however it is done with Medici money
power murder and sex stories plus religion

The reformation - power over minds
Calvin - money non olet - therefore the Swiss
seriousness and banking beginnings
is about power, money, sex due to control
of the women's role - a belief

The British and the Dutch and the French
empires of the 15-19 centuries - same old story
with regional variations of money or lack thereof
power, sex and control - sometimes
pretending the religious wars to be something holy
for instance Napoleon who started out as a corporal
and ended as crowning himself as emperor

The Russian version of fascism - communism
the Italian ditto with the Spanish Francoism
and then of course the archetype of dictatorship
Hitlerism all these after the first World war
was the epitome of power and control
leading to the second world war and killing
millions and millions of Jews and others
just for control and power and a belief system
of superiority and hate of otherness.

Leading to the US of Trumpism whereby
in a democracy you can have fascism growing
slowly but truly because of the people's
need for money, power, sex and mind control .




Sunday, November 04, 2018

You never know

You never know
what comes out
when sitting down to type
a gripe a sin
a hype a fling
a term totally unripe
just floats about
be friend or foe



Sunscreen

My screens are down
the sun is up and glaring
November coolness
will forever be airing
and I must go out
and  heal my swearing:
votes and lack thereof
cause it is so despairing

Friday, November 02, 2018

Lost the thread

Lost the thread
lost
lost
lost
lost the thread

Lost the gist
lost it completely

Lost the marble
lost
lost
not  found

lost the way
lost
lost it to another

Lost the thread
and never found it
within me

Thursday, November 01, 2018

New window

A window of change
a change of window
no more howling wind
a winding howl or more
So the change is good
the goods have changed.
A warm window with double pane
no more cold pains from a window!

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Naughty Halloweenie

Weenie vulva woombs away
for it is Halloween today
to-morrow it is all deads' feast
a member for the fuckin' yeast!

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Aesthetics

To what degree must artists go to create
what their audiences like?
What is beauty now
What was beauty then
What is "in" now
what was "in' then
Music, poetry, architecture, painting
sculpture, theatre, and film
(which has all the others within)
Words of critics - of philosophers
change the perceptions
so what is this poem?
- it is a cacophony -
a calamity of thoughts wrought
only from a sick mind
of an old woman who thinks
she can do what others have done
- nail with few poetics phrases
what aesthetics is all about
- how pathetic -
because there are no beautiful words
in this poem - a whim - a freak fantasy
that this tiny wordsmith begat
something of value. - Alas - not!

Monday, October 29, 2018

A day’s memorial

Another non-day
Nothing happened
A quiet day
So this Monday
Will remain
Anonymous
Although for
Others it was
A crime scene
A love match
A first step
A last breath
But without
Chocking events
It will become
A great time
Because I am
Still alive
Still kicking
Still screaming
From my inner
That I need more
A desire for life
Passionately
And at least
On Tuesday
My chance of
Seeing someone
Or something
Spectacular
May be the same
As today’s
And I will strive
For it - tomorrow

Sunday, October 28, 2018

old oven’s smell

Pittsburgh Jews
Moved down
All the orange
Does is spurting
More lies and
Need for arms
When will Americans
Wake up and
Smell the fumes
Of the old ovens?!

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Fall morn haiku

Warm glow of fall trees
on a cold and rainy morn
lightens the burdens

Friday, October 26, 2018

Solution? Ha!

Laughter is the best medicine
so "they" say
who "they" are
I don't know
but I do know that
laughter is good for the soul

Crying is not the greatest help
but "they"say
it is freeing
the tension but
my mom said- you feel sorry
for yourself

Alas to me crying is anger
"they' do not mention
anything but
the drips are spent
indignance
furiously fast

Laughter is catharsis
endorphins' exercise
healthy solution
to craziness
surrounding you
so hahaha


Thursday, October 25, 2018

Skin me

Skin is what you are
thick-thin skinned

Some ladies take truly care
oil and protect

Other women do not
save soap and neglect

Skin is a time bomb
thin-thick  no twinned


Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Turning a leaf

Coldness becomes her
She shreds her foliage
slowly but surely
she becomes naked
nude she awaits the heat
of warming her up
before she again dresses
herself in beauty
The chill is where she
contemplates her fate
trying hard to embrace
the dampness and finds
that iced temperatures
yield more warmth
than ever before!


Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Thursdays mullings

Existences on shelves
wonders of humankind
leaving the dirt
(pardon me) the earth
not a bit better
with a girth
of terrible junk
of wastelands
on earth at sea and in air
just a true debunk
of sad humanity gone
wrong - empty shelves

Monday, October 22, 2018

shakespeare’s modern defense speech

Hear my friends
Honest persons of Congress
Hear me loud and clear
Just like Brutus
In Shakespearés
Julius Cesar
I shall start slowly
And continue at
Soon excelled speed
He who directs
This country’s policies
Will be elected again
With applause from
The average American
He will start escalating
The confrontations
and He will not stop
A war that he willed
Because wars generally
Help the economy
Except that we did not
See this phenomenon
In the last gulf war
That gave a trillion deficit
So the model is outdated
But being an island
He thinks he can
Control the world
Not realizing that if he cannot
Curb his own tips
On Twitter's orb
He shall be unable
To stop a new world war.
But you are honorable
And wholesome humans
So you will do his bidding
And you shall regret!

Frosty haiku

First frosty morning
sunny day bundled up trot
dog rolling in grass

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Walking towards war (alternative tilte: it's all about money and power)

Walking towards war
surely but slowly
building beliefs
simple

Acting towards acts
surely but slowly
creating facts
simple

Setting the onset
surely but slowly
grounding grounds
simple

Positioning supposition
surely but slowly
conjuring conjectures
simple

Walking towards war
surely but slowly
building beliefs
simple

Friday, October 19, 2018

Hardened beliefs systems

Change of citizenship?
Can't be done
Why you ask?
Just because!

Why not? you may ask!
I cannot change
where I was born
and bred!

Other people do it.
Why not you?
It is a belief -
No discussion!

But I insist though!?!
You can insist
but have you ever
convinced?

Anybody truly firm
in his/her system
of ideas and
hopes and whatnots?


You - a repub or a demo?
why do you ask?
Because I wanna change
the way ya think

Nope, ain't gonna do it
Why or why not?
Because I believe
in what it is - isn't

So you can change
can't you  - truly?
You cannot convince
me about anything!!


You believe in G'd
or the likes thereof
May I tell you
there's a better way

Nope, you cannot
overwhelm me so
expecting me
to believe whomever

I refuse even to hear
what you say
cause you cannot
convince me

You can change?
Of course I can change
I am as open as
are you to ideas?



Thursday, October 18, 2018

Tide's turn

In a quiet street
on a quiet morn
a butterfly flew
fall was coming
coolers' air stopped
a flap of wing

In a quiet street
on a quiet day
a worm got eaten
fall had come
cool winds blew
a bird's breakfast

In a quiet street
on a quiet eve
a toad croaked
winter's advent
rain teared up
somebody's song

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Pic nix limerick

There once was a lady of Languedoc
Who for a long time needed a coq
But did not appreciate a fake
So said go and jump in a lake
Since a dick pic is not enough

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Missing Mrs Moet & Chandon

Life is too short - as "they" say
and only a glass of champagne
is needed to feel alive again

The "go" of floating bubbles
is my nose of diggin' for troubles
and dancing through dirt

I miss the Mrs Moet & Chandon
where did she go - the clown
of just living day to day

The 30's to the 60'es
they left like bubble gypsies
the wind blew strongly

No solution to be found now
so I  intermittently throw
a bubble here and there

 Which will be my swan song
but without regrets - ding dong
life is a fluffy figment

Voelva's will o the whisp

If the Voelva were a woman of whims
she would wail and wallop
she would whisper - whelping
why the poor world

She is not a woman of willfulness
she is just a will o the whisp
an imaginative image
of writer's worn thoughts

So she will  not do warring
with the willful powers
of money grubbers' vistas
what is it worth

Only she will persevere to survive
and seed wavering in believers
weigh the words and query
what why and how

The Voelva will live not to see
where her volition will take her
but mayhap she would have webbed
and wafted viewpoints' vacillation
 

Sunday, October 14, 2018

afar haiku

Voices from afar
Revive my dead gone spirit
A branch of friendship

Friday, October 12, 2018

frowning frozen forever

Returning to a place
Somewhat known
But have to dig deep
In the soil of my memory
Thinking it was
That terrible summer
Just after a lot of stuff
Happening
Buried so deeply that
Only its name remains
Frowning but the place
Of this time around
Is quaint and of quality
Frozen forever is
The dendrites and folds
Of my grayish brain cells
And that’s all
Delaware Water Gap

Thursday, October 11, 2018

L'amour défini

On aime des hommes
on aime des femmes
on aime des individus

Si tu es un homme
tu aimes une femme

Si tu es une femme
tu aimes un homme

Si tu es un homme
tu aimes un homme

Si tu es une femme
tu aimes une femme

La vie donne autant
des possibilités

Il y a même des gens
qui n’aiment personne

Il y a autant des combis
qui s'aiment entre eux

Qui veut décider qui
et avec qui tu fais l'amour

Une chose seulement
qui me tient au coeur

Ne fais mal et reste
honnête et sincère

Voila tout sur l'amour
entre les êtres humains

The Eyes have it

Rubbing my eye
Scratch
Knew
Uh oh 

Went to eye doc
It is a scratch, doc
It could be herpes
Uh no

We’ll treat it 
As a scratch 
Herpes - you’ll hear
So no






Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Bernstein revisited

Noteworthy memories of my first musical
Presented themselves tonight
Listening to West Side Story
Reminding me of an if not better time
Then just à dreams of optimism period
Where people seemed to have
Gotten the idea to love or try it
Instead of today’s scaremongering
Egotistical anti everything
The fluffy and poignant fugues
Recalled the flowers of love and hope.
What of tomorrow’s dreamers?

Monday, October 08, 2018

Health haiku

Crappy health today
not a happy camper now
nature's way of drill

Sunday, October 07, 2018

Repeat ad nauseam

Followers follow always
without thinking
Dissenters dissent often
within thinking deeply
History shows history upon
history/herstory
that we repeat the same
old story with variations
Critical thinkers think critically
without a hoot to political affiliations
alas in our educational systems
even though we try
thinking goes wayward
money money money talks
history/herstory is history

"Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it"

George Santayana (1863-1952)

Saturday, October 06, 2018

Artemisia

Artemisia:
you got even
in spite of being raped
drawn to court
tortured -
eventually
went away from
Rome - your father
and your rapist

Artemisia:
You painted
voluptuously angry
sly Judith -
killing Holofernes
several times
under different titles

Artemisia:
In your portraits
you managed to
show all victims of rape
what they should
- emasculate their rapists


Artemisia:
Your paintings
and your pain
live on - but the women
who are raped
know forever
the anger you portray

Observer's inner thoughts

Yesternight I observed
a comedienne at my table
and thought only one thing
she is lonely in her skin
funny as hell -
satirical as everywoman
but in my mind -
craving for attention
feeling of loneliness
had her viewer's rolling
but  - when she goes home
what is waiting for her?


Thursday, October 04, 2018

Tutoring on a Thursday morning

Student struggling with writing
suffering expressing what she feels
how difficult it is to truly know
what goes on in a brain and heart

Student battling with history
trying hard to get the concepts down
cannot remember and forfeit
the purpose of long-term memory

Student fighting with foreign language
knowing the words and grammar
just do not file the assignments
therefore fails miserably

Student warring with math and science
not my field of expertise
but imagining the tutors' frustration
all you need is patience

Wednesday, October 03, 2018

Culture versus society

Cultural rights
versus the societal rights
which to chose?

Cultural norms
opposite to society's norms
which to chose

Culture contrarily to society
meaning laws and doctrines
brings about change

Culture will move
faster than
society's mores

Eventually culture
will influence
the rights and change

Society's legislation
until a new cultural shift
comes about

Culture versus society
influences dance
around each other


Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Mon âme médiéval

Ma maison hantée en Occitanie
je n'ai pas besoin
d'un exorciste
parce que je veux être dans l'histoire
medievale
occidentale
me sentir comme d'une femme
du moyen âge
une chatelaine
désirante et obsédée par un rêve
Un jour je serai
le fantôme brûlant

chassant avec les âmes avant moi




Monday, October 01, 2018

Mes racines Aznavouriennes

Comme je deviens mon âge
plus que mes choix musicaux
reviennent à ma jeunesse bourge
quand un grand chanteur créateur
meurt un premier jour d'octobre -
voilà je me trouve devant l'ordi
pour l'honorer un âme en poésie

Le petit grand Charles comme ledit
vous me rapporte mes jeunes jours
avec vos sons des cinquantes jazzy
des soixantes avec leur rêves des fleurs
dans les années soixante-dix
je vous avais vu a Paris et admiré

Oui emmenez -moi encore
à ma jeunesse au voyage à Venise
avec la jiddische mama -
non vous avez raison -
je n'ai rien oublié




Epuration

Epuration cache le sceptisme
et  fournit seulement l'illusion

on supprime les crimes
on chante les fausses notes
on ment comme un president

cela prend du temps de decouvrir
la verite - les axiomes
chaque periode a sa certitude

Epuration ne sert a rien
dans l'histoire de l'humanite

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Dew photo haiku

Plastered dew drops
simple drap colored grasses
darlings of nature

(Ad)Venture

Just like her mom
she is venturing out
on trying to do something more

Just like her mom
she is going to sell
her ideas - her images - herself

Mayhap she will
be more successful
than her mom's adventure

the need to do
something other than
kids and home -singing

Scrapped for a while
she is hopeful - urging
her creative spirit - fingers crossed

Go girl try your utmost -
support from man
just like me - 2 generation tries

(To Emma)






Saturday, September 29, 2018

Caged birds

I know why the caged birds sing
a vernacular black poet rings out
singing is a poet's
turn to scream
turn to yell
turn to rage
and
turn to dream
turn to dwell
turn to wage
above all
turn to hope
I know why the caged birds wring
their souls' lining turned about

Paul Lawrence Dunbar 1872-1906


Friday, September 28, 2018

Morning after Senate hearings (anger)

Boring boring bored
Nowhere in sight
except in the fictionalized factuality
starting to watch CNN
escapism pessimistic view
of another day in a shit hole country
so now true flight
will be cleaning caring
nothing else odds are alas out of luck
boring boring bored



Thursday, September 27, 2018

A day's comment

Silence is the sexually
molested coping mechanism

Only the brave stand up
right away -
Others bury the trauma
deep until

One day the quietness
boils over and explode






Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Afar

A lump in my throat
longing to be
afar

A knot in my stomach
dreaming to rest
afar

A twist in my hair
needing to see
afar

A chunk of my soul
screaming to exist
afar

Engineers

Living with an engineer
a mechanical one
you never have to worry
most of the time
fixing whatever is broken
will be done

Living with an engineer
a stubborn one
you will have to worry
about how s/he
perceives the world
and the company

Living with an engineer
a wondrous one
you will have to worry
about yourself
and how you can live
without anybody

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Security

Blogger is not secure
what what
your normal website
not secure
oh my why why
ok calm down
just go in
the backdoor
with a lock on!

Monday, September 24, 2018

What is poetry?

What is  a poem?
Just because somebody
writes a sonnet or a haiku
is that  poem
with redeeming thoughts?
In my mind the bard
has to part with some kind
of thought valued by whom?

What is a strophe?
A Greek delimiting stop
due to this - stanzas galore
is a poem
with challenging ideas?
In the receiver's mind
the wordsmith has spoken
and opened a unknown box.

What is a ode?
A Keatian urn of pictographs
marbled men jump out
in the verse
with contradictory notions?
In the interpreter's mind
she will enter Pandora's
panoramic view forever.

Sunday, September 23, 2018

My carpet so far

Today I am having girls over
for tea and fizz and seventy ...
girls I have known for 20-30 years

They are part of my memory carpet
threads of youth - warp
threads of middle age - weft

They are part of my American blanket
Incredible and unbelievable
so many memories

Two weeks ago I had girls over
for dinner and fizz and seventy ...
girls I have known for 10-12 years

They are part of my memory rug
threads of middle age - warp
threads of my age - weft

They  are part of my French tapestry
Unlikely and awesome
creating new thoughts

Whether it is a wall-to wall or a runner
these females will encompass
part of my life's blood

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Le dé est fait

Le dé d'une vie
reste sans vigueur

si on ne le touche pas
c'est d'avoir le courage
de faire le saut

les consequences
viendront subitement

le dé d'une existence
reste en vigeur



Friday, September 21, 2018

L'apres-midi d'une faunette

L'apres-midi d'une faunette
là ou la brume part le jour
de la nuit - l'enfant reste
dans ses pensées uniques
et la mère le regarde -
éblouie de cet individu
le bébé est en soi seulement
et tout le monde autour de lui
est à lui -
reste comme cela, mon petit,
pour un moment précieux - car
la vérité n'est pas gentille
la vie est brutale et fatale
et tous se perdent dans l'ombre
du crépuscule gris et noir

Vølvens tabte paradis

Vølven var trist og traurig til mode
hun synes hendes verden var forsvundet
den hverdag et andet sted i drømmens
paradis og  det land som hun havde valgt

Langt borte i tågens nattelige saftighed
hvor livets erotiske nu kun var tilstede
hvor intet var som hun havde forestillet sig
kun en dugfrisk påskønnelse af kvindelighed

Fra elskerens varme strygninger til
lemmets søgen i hendes våde indsugning
- en forestilling af et livs begærlighed
kun en stakket tid forundt - som forsvandt

Vølvens spådom om intethedens tomrum
om livsmelodiernes forsvinden i havet
og om stjernehimlen  -selvom hun havde set
i år - var hendes hjernespinds selvpineri 


Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Birthday Haiku

Sixty-nine plus one
sunny roses blooming bright
healthy stubborn me

Alas I broke my vows

I knew it
I blew it
I couldn’t do it
My daily routine
Of dissing out
A poem a day
Got shot
By the shock
Of return
To normalhood
In the neighborhood

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Au fond

Au fond de mon cœur
Je reste en pleurs
Pour l’humanité humaine 

Au fond de mon âme 
Je regrette les armes 
Pour l’enfantillage des enfants  

Au fond de mon esprit 
Je voudrais un répit 
De la vie vipère 

Friday, September 14, 2018

Alas I am gone

Looking at pics
from afar

of weirdness
(mine)
of joyfulness
(yours)

of happiness
(mine)
of awareness
(yours)

of sadness
(mine)
of ???
(yours)


Thursday, September 13, 2018

Thursday the 13th

a Wind from the South East 
Will blow its vile Way
Devastation predicted 
Wild thoughts encapsule
My Brain waves encroached.
Completely harrowing 
The hurricane will drown 
Whatever good thinking 
I might have had on 
One Thursday the thirteenth 

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Assise sur un banc

Assise sur un banc
Réfléchissante sur ma vie
A Paris j'étais jeune
changée - moi
pas la ville

Saint-Amour le café
auprès de la gare
Saint Lazare était
notre endroit préféré
Après nos cours -
Changé aussi -
mais le vin -
ah une madeleine

La beauté hausmannienne
des toits en zinc
avec leurs sixièmes

A l'ombre à l'abri
du soleil brulant
mes petits-enfants
ne vont pas avoir
la même ville Paris

Ils vont créer
leur Paris à eux
comme font les jeunes
d'aujourd'hui

La Belle Epoque
si ironiquement
Des impressionistes
(comme ceux qui ont fui
la vie Parisienne -
de 1870/71)
le temps entre les
deux guerres mondiales
L'age du Jazz avec
les expats de l"Amérique
Paris - inconnue mais
pour moi encore vivante

C'est bien de se dire
que les clowns sont nous
des bizarreries  c/est
aussi nous et surtout
une femme que se
rappelle de sa jeunesse

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Google warning

Somewhere in the world
clicking on my email
suddenly there is a warning
from Google
Someone wants to link his
address to yours
is that true?
Yes they have power -
those companies
yet they can be helpful!!

Monday, September 10, 2018

Soul split

My soul is split
into two parts
one is here
the other is there

When I am here
I am no more there
when I am there
I miss here so much

My soul becomes less
where it goes
is anyone's guess
I feel soul -less

The dichotomy between
the two sides of the sea
can I even swim
without drowning?

I run like a headless hen
the last day here
trying to do everything
nothing works

So if  I did less here
and more there
then maybe it would be
a stressless passage

across the wide ocean
an endless gulf
between there and here
I belong nowhere


Sunday, September 09, 2018

Le bonheur - c'est quoi?

Les nuages dans l'horizon un beau matin
le toit qui couvre ma maison
l'ordi sur lequel j'écrive mes pensées
l'ami qui est proche dans mon coeur
les clochers qui sonnent vivement
mes enfants qui sont sains et saufs
la fatique d'une journée plein de stress
mon mari lointain et éloigné
le travail qui attend sûrement
les amis qui dansent autour de moi
les murs moyenageux qui m'embrasse
et
les nuages dans l'horizon un beau matin

Saturday, September 08, 2018

Sartre - vraiment?

Laisse tomber tes désirs
des rêves impossibles
après tout tu n'es qu'un humain
tandis que sans tes visions
d'un avenir tu rentres
dans l'esprit mortuaire
et ta vie ne mène à nul part
là où se trouve l'enfer du néant
ton poussiéreuse existence!
La puissance d'un sourire
et de l'écoute de l'autrui
servent à maintenir seulement
l'espoir des gènes prochains
et j'applaudie quand même
le lendemain totalement inouï.

Thursday, September 06, 2018

No comment on this

No comments on an evening' tide
then why mention it at all
it was an accommodating ride
and the moon stood very tall
in the light of the morning sun
the greens are struck with dew
it is a memory of so many runs
my thoughts are for just you
a horseman's whipping tail
far into the sunset's rainy mist
a woman uttered a simple wail
was it a death or a true bliss?

Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Haven igen

Hvad er badeengel kunne fortælle
om sin sommers dans i paradis
er vidunderlige timers fordriv
om en frihed udenfor den celle
med diskussioner så seriøse
at det halve kunne være nok
og havens fornøjelige kok
muntert serverede i overøste
mål af vinens drukne druer
et kig af en erindringsbeskuer

Et forsøg på et digt som ikke er helt færdigt
til Torsten med TAK



Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Les chats d'ici

Les chats dans mon jardin
font caca chaque matin
hélas quand je ne suis là
il dansent le chachacha!

A box fish on the beach?

My little rucksack
Is on the sand
Next to my shoes
Its opening is tied
Imitating a box fish
Or an arsehole
But since we are
On the beach 
Me and my bag 
It has become
A creature of the sea
Instead of all the people’s
Rear ends at Valras Plage





Sunday, September 02, 2018

Aïe - litanie!

L'air frais matinale début Septembre
je respire vivement dans ma chambre
quand je dois partir dans une semaine
il me faut mémoriser cette haleine
de mon lieu préféré d'Occitanie
je dois finir mon éternel litanie!

Les toits et leurs histoires

De ma fenêtre je vois des toits
en tuile terre cuite
qui sont différentes et vivantes
comme mes mains arthrites
leur origines viennent
de si loin - avant les Grecs
leurs couleurs si calmants
des nonnes et des mecs
sous les couvertures anciennes
la vraie vie chuchote
les gens font l'amour ou pas
sans ou avec une bouillotte!

Saturday, September 01, 2018

Le bruit

Le bruit d'un avion
dans les cieux lointains
tombe très apropos
de mes oreilles d'antan
le silence après tout
donne cependant
la mort des hommes
trop vivement
cette sonorité muette
reste flambant(e)

Thursday, August 30, 2018

éphémère Arlésienne

Troisième fois Arlésienne
retourne pour avoir l'experience
de la ville et jamais
la ville me semble réelle
- bien sûr - des expos -
le mur - le Rhone - l'art
tandis que le personage
que je suis reste en dehors -
n'est qu'un éphémère -
mais j'aurais bien aimé
d'être dans la réalité
mais là-bas le mirage
se produise encore
et je ne retienne rien
de mon tour téméraire
alors je me résignerai
pour toujours à mon destin
d'être cette fois aussi
une Arlésienne en passage

Pointilisme à la Van Gogh

Vincent's special way with style
(never noticed it before)
he elongated the points
and pressed them forevermore
unto the canvas seriously
like a child - what a score
his palette imitated nature
nurture was not in store
still now I am enamored
by his realistic folklore
his uniqueness and sorrow
is eternally our uranium ore.



Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Arles je rève

Arlesienne d'adoption
pour deux jours
quelle chance de vivre
avec Vincent Van Gogh
et l'histoire ancienne

Monday, August 27, 2018

Emanation matinale

L'émanation matinale d'une bouche
n'est des fois que désagréable
tandis que la vrai boue de la nature
n'est parfois que épouvantable
alors nous sommes des naturels
des sediments tout comparables.

(La poétesse voulait prodiquer des louanges 
à la nature, mais désolée - son humour 
devient trop fort)





Une discussion sur la vie

Mon petit nombril reste
au fond du temple romain
Un jour frais d'août
la brise frileuse du nord
note le temps passé
ainsi que le moment
du moment auprès
d'un vieux batiment
humectant l'air douce
des vignes et des près
finalement je rencontre
et je t'envoie le bonheur
de la solitude consolatrice.

A Jacques

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Hommage aux Beatles

Hey Jude - Michelle -Yellow Submarine
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
All you Need is LOVE
les chansons de soixante-huitards
hier soir - on a chanté on a dansé
on a rêvé et cédé  - nous les vieux
les vieilles filles et garçons
des cheveux gris ou blanchis
ou les hommes chauves
revenant pour une seconde
dans notre tendre folle jeunesse
j'ai vu des sourires - des soupirs
j'ai regardé des couples dansant
j'ai remarqué les notes classiques
et jai su que - oui j'appartiens
à ma musique d'antan
sans que je le sache
pour une nuit - Yesterday

Merci à La Domitienne
pour faire venir les artistes qui 
a porté les chansons de Beatles
Stéphane Reusser, Jerôme Mayencon
Alain Perez Christopher Fraser en air et dans leur coeurs
Au Chateau Perdiguier


Une vielle prune

L'orage vient maintenant
avec un sûre éclatement
un coup de foudre de loin
dans mes veines un poing
et ailleurs surtout aussi
le fait est mon eau-de-vie
j'aimerais cela ait été plus tôt
au lieu d'être une vielle prune
faisant manger à la posthume
avec un verre d'un grand porto
Plus que la pluie tombe vite
mon corps danse et en profite
alors j'oublie mon âge élevé
mes poils sont pourtant épilés.
Le cyclone eut franchi ma porte
aprés il resta une feuille morte.



Friday, August 24, 2018

Hvad en støvsuger kunne fortælle

I årevis har jeg stået i en garage
sammen med alt andet
de havde ikke brug for mig
jeg larmede for meget - blandt andet

En dag kom min ejer og kiggede
tog mig til et andet sted
han købte poser til min indre
og hastigt på vilde fjed

Jeg blev sat i rigtigt byhus
og demontreret til fulde
hvad jeg kunne og mere
blev beundret i min hulde

Hver gang min nye ejerinde
tager mig frem og suger op
siger hun leende til mig
safterne løber i hendes krop

Og det synes  jeg er sjovt -
vil holde så længe jeg kan
tænk at jeg en støvsuger
kan føle mig som en mand!

Thursday, August 23, 2018

IM - a thought

On instant messaging
sometimes it is fun
just being there and here
with your own son
asking him how he is
ok mom doing well
without telling me
directly to go to hell
ah my youngest gets
away with true murder
I love him so and
am his greatest supporter.

Thanks Jacob for being you






Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Ein Sprichwort

Die Wahrheit ist unsicher
in dieser Zeit
und muss eben umklinget
sein fùr sein Dasein

Monday, August 20, 2018

Morning stillness

The still light colors
over the mountain
a peak fairly far
wink temptingly
telling that mayhap
my still mount is
awake almost
so the lull lightness
beckons its seeker.

Corinne et sa famille

Suite d'une journée extra
avec Issa, Theophile, Gabin,
Laurie et ma belle Corinne
dans la régie de la famille
que  j'aurai bien aimé avoir
( la mienne est si loin)
c'est une histoire d'amour
des mères et de leurs enfants
du respect du taquinage
de l'amour et humour
je vous remercie mes amis
de votre acceptance et
surtout de votre partage!

Sunday, August 19, 2018

Philo nightmare?

night tide near the ocean
invisible and yet my mind's eye
is clear as the half moon's shine
somehow the waves wink
at my interior telling me
what a fool
what a crazy broad
what a lunatic

night tide at my window
visible and so realistic
that in the half moon light
I am still me - not that dreamer
my exterior saying to me
what a nut
what a unwise softie
what a weirdo

Soon it shall be morn
with the sun or the rain
or the wind weasling
in and out between the wild
showing  my soul
what life is
what love is
what dreams are

Chansons d'un vllage

Les chansons gitanes
dansaient dans la nuit sauvage
la lune brilla tendrement
et je te pensai

Les melodies d'amour
glorifiaient les sentiments roses
le vent toucha mollement
et je te pensai

Les barcarolles d'autrefois
valsaient avec des spectres
l'air huma ardement
et je te pensai


Le concert de Los Harry's Pounchos
fit rêver la poétesse 

Saturday, August 18, 2018

A riddle

A riddle:
You cannot make this up
it is incredibly unbelievable
nobody in his/her right mind
would ever think this possible!
The answer
(ruling a country via twitter
using bigoted phraseology
bringing down the number one
free country in the world
creating division
it is horrifying
it is a shame
it is sad!)

Thursday, August 16, 2018

L'enterrement d'un Casanova

A l'enterrement d'un Casanova
ses petites amies suivaient le cercueil
Il les manquait et elles pleuraient
car il fut leur Supernova
même si la scène - un trompe-d'oeil-
montrait un  terriblement grand regret -
le prêtre les consola et sermona
en parlant de sa bonté - un casse-gueule -
faisant éloge de son fleuret
toute l’assemblée ses péchés pardonna

The Vølva's wool-gathering

Vigga the Vølva looked up to the skies
one morning in early August - the augurs
the first of the fall signs were finally here
she mulled over her wild weariness
thinking this was the last serious summer
not knowing where that thought threw itself in
her innards told her with an inkling
of preposterous permenancy that
no way could she have another heat days
like the ones that were just by her
she had seen shooting stars
hot summer eves of yore yonder
the youth of her dog days with Shmuel
it was a daringly daft dream - no nightmare
- just pure earthly delight - of Bosch' beauty
or rather of ironic iconic irascibility
a revel reverie to ponder about on
this mooning morn in her mind.

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Ma vue pour la énième fois

Éblouie par la beauté naturelle
d'un endroit en face de moi
seulement le silence d'or
est sûrement la réponse réelle

Chaque matin different s'impose
un nouveau jour sur terre
le paysage change avec les temps
ma vue dégagée se juxtapose

15 Aout

dans la rue une procession
auprès de ma maison
chantant l'éloge virginal
fut un moment médiéval


Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Une histoire d'amour un petit matin

Le "nous" dans un couple est important
de quoi il s'agit? demande l'amant
qui ne comprend rien.
Des pleurs d'un matin
d'une petite ruelle
la vie est des fois cruelle
car l'amour n'est pas facile
des instants même débiles
entre des hommes et de femmes.
Des odalisques persanes
disent dans la folie d'amour
prends des risques - accours
avec le vent d'un orage
il faut exercer du courage
pour qu'un ami comprenne
lui va te promener sans-gêne
partout dans le monde
ou bien tu le tombe
et reste chez toi en le lâchant
en avec larmes te détachant.







Monday, August 13, 2018

Newness of a day

New day - new woman
new morning - new everything
alas no new body - achy
but
New thoughts - new view
someone is burning - smoke
luckily it is controlled
so
new sky -new clouds
new time - new temp
what a way to - go
if
this was the day to die
I have seen everything new
with new eyes on my world.

Fear

Fear is anticipation
the worst is coming
but to spread fear
all over the world
is a demagogue's tool
hear

Fear is a scare
the worst is here
when you spread fear
all over the world
people cannot think
clear

Fear is a dare tactic
the worst is there
so if you spread fear
all over the world
war is the hammer
king Lear


About reading the book Fear 
by Bob Woodward coming out
about Trump's presidency


Saturday, August 11, 2018

en attendant les étoiles

Les étoiles déferlantes
Une nuit d’été aoûtienne
J’attends jusqu’à
Les laternes éteignent

Je suis impatiente - une fillette
Qui veut la gratification
Immédiate -  impossible

On ne joue pas avec le destin
Celui-là arrive même
Sans qu’on s’apprécie
S’apercevoie que déjà
L’explosion est une bombe
De la luminosité du ciel

Une nuit du calme noir
Un été en août dans le bourg
À l’instant d’une heure
Les pleurs de St Laurens

Friday, August 10, 2018

Lørdag morgens gruk

Et gruk en lørdag morgen
langt borte hjemmefra
er som en abe der kravler
og siger kysten er klar

Ej kan digters ord sige
mere om vyet her
en skōnhedplet at finde
er alt om hvad jeg be'r

I horizonten ser jeg blot
et soldisbeskinnent bjerg
et orgie i blåt og grønt
føler som en  lykkens dværg

At kunne vågne og skue
denne fantastiske plet
er en forunderlig ting
en blanding på kryds og tværs

Af glæde og jubel så
dansen til den nye dag
bliver en jive eller vals
og det er en ærlig sag





Petit paradis

Petit paradis de la terre
Décrit un vin et un jardin
Où on peut se soulager

Petit paradis sur la terre
C’est un amitié fortifié
De sagesse et d’humour

Petit paradis au fond de la terre
Reste pour la durée
De nos deux vies

Merci à Torsten




Thursday, August 09, 2018

Un été cool

Août - un mois chaud et chaleureux
hélas - je suis peu calme et pas cool
car je sais la vie bat foudroiement
sans que les hommes se rendent compte
avec Homère il n'y a aucun sens de la vie
sauf on vie - on aime - on perd - on meurt
et les dieux et déesses s'amusent
avec la fortune des mortels et jouent
importunément des dés en rirant
ah - quelle splendide ironie d'un août


En lisant Un été avec Homère
de Sylvain Tesson m'offert par
Francine et Max


Wednesday, August 08, 2018

Summer afternoon

With a jazzy tune on a lazy afternoon
dreaming about my Copenhagen
knowing exceedingly well
that if I can I shall return to the festival
even though I said not gonna happen
but I need the fresh air of Nordic
je ne sais quoi

With a jazzy melody on a cooler afternoon
remembering my Cazoulian summers
realizing with a shock
that I shall be only here another month
and it is happening that I shall leave
but I need not pass my date
of expiration

Tuesday, August 07, 2018

Un rafraichissement

Une averse d'un soir été
rafraîchit subitement
l'air très lourd fut un coup
léger pour un moment
notre chairs et os sentaient
meilleurs maintenant


Un ombre feminin

Elle craint sa vie intérieure va craquer
là où sa journalière commence
là où son travail finit
là où ses nuits s'arrêtent
là où ses matins débutent
Elle reste inquiète même
c'est le geste maintenant

Elle apprécie sa vie extérieure va briller
si elle peut se tourner
si elle peut jouer la comédie
si elle peut rester debout
si elle peut éviter la conformité
Elle sait évidemment
c'est le mensonge au futur

Elle devient indécise - le fait qui triomphe
car elle veut vivre
car elle a des autres
car elle est une mère
car elle est une grand-mère
Elle reste sans la passion
c'est la mort

Mon désir


Un matin en lecture forcement beau
il me reste que du moment de berceau
dans les mots que j'avale avidement
d'un écriture d'imagination sûrement
incroyable de la poésie interne
les idées luisent mes lanternes 
Ach si je pourrai écrire comme celui-la
mon âme soit donné au diable - voila

En lisant Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Monday, August 06, 2018

A bitch in trouble

The bitch is sniffing 
cautiously
the hitch is alas
internally
she is not on her leash
yet
feels it coming - a
threat
to the freedom she
feels
she runs off and not
heels
so searching for her
self
while emitted a sad
yelp
she sits and ponders
surreptitiously
balking and shaking
helplessly

Sunday, August 05, 2018

un soir d’été

Un demeure et un vinoble
Les soirs chauds d’un été 
Un spectacle d’ailleurs 
Sans qu’on se rende compte 
C’est un déjà vu et
Les spectateurs y sont
Aussi - les plus évolués
Ou ceux qu’ils croient 
L’être - la haute bourgeoisie 
Ou les intellectuels 
C’est une expérience 

Pour la Voyeuse des gens

Friday, August 03, 2018

Scylla et Charybde

Mon corps me parle
physiquement
Mon âme me parle
intellectuellement
Entre les deux
il y a un désaccord

Mon corps m'avoue
sensuellement
Mon âme m'avoue
sentimentalement
Entre les deux
il y a un rupture

Mon corps physique
se montre sensuel
Mon âme intellectuel
se professe sentimental
- alors quel choix
trouverai-je?


Calypso parle à un mortelI

Chez moi un dinner
avec des divers amis
j'ai l'avait créé
avec intention
d'attraper encore
Ton âme  qui s'était fui
de longue date
Les êtres sont au fond
comme des oiseaux
ils reviennent à
leurs petites ruelles.
Un jour tu - Mon Cher -
faisant autant
pour ton village
de l'extérieur
renteras peut-être?
Calypso chante ses mots
À Ulysse un soir
Chez elle

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Mere om elverpigen

Elverpigens erotiske drømmeland
en blågrøn sø tæt ved en strand
hun fantaserede - en elvermand
en blidheds trøst og humørfyldte kys
fulgte hændernes vilde kropsdans
hendes brændende læber svandt
ind i en stadig rytme af glans
et svuldent bryst og uudtømmelig lyst
stoppede kun ved klimaksets vand
efterfølgende sødmens milde tand
og  omfavnelsens kærlige brand.

Monday, July 30, 2018

La parabole

Un mot cherché dans un dictionnaire
une conversation des voisines
on trouva le mot : la parabole
des valeurs de sens : une condamine
du seigneur et de seigneurial
l'allégorie et la vie d'une messaline
sans que dire d'autre chose
que la vie propose une gélatine
l'histoire sert pour comprendre
apprendre meme qui ça soit maline


Merci à Coco




Sunday, July 29, 2018

Conte de fées vivant

Ici dans mon conte de fées
il y a des choses du passé
ou les semaines "cluses"
on joue aux cornemuses
sans se rendre vraiment
compte des changements
dans les vies des personnes
aimant que des trombones
en trouvant leur propre notes
l'inconnu peux être un pote
alors si tu ouvres ton coeur
tu trouveras la inquiétude
t'es pas hanté de la solitude.



Saturday, July 28, 2018

Peintures ouvertes


Mes jours et nuits avec Picasso
tu m'as forcée de l'étudier
avec des yeux nouveaux
au lieu de le detester

du à son faim pour les femmes
merci de m'avoir obligée
d'encore une fois de l'apprécier
comme un génie et un djinn

dans son cerveau espagnol
brûle l'irreverence et une foi
qu'il était destiné à rendre
le monde différemment - 

comme un miroir spectral 
suivant des êtres éternels  
il nous a rendu nous-mêmes
sans qu'on puisse s'éviter 

Redonnée mes désirs
de voir et comprendre
chercher et réverbérer
ouverte encore une fois 

 Merci à Jacques Roumégas
pour dire il faut regarder
encore Picasso

Blodmåneskin

Blodmånens skin
over svømmebassinets glins
var lokkende speciel
urkroppens krav
skreg - bad om et kølende tarv
under dets himmelhvælv


Thursday, July 26, 2018

Un concert à Laurens

Les rythmes brésiliens
dans le soir languedocien
est un melange fort
Nos corps dansaient vifs
suivant le son expressif
des sambas en quatuor
Assis nos âmes volent -
un concert fût le polyol
comme dans un téléport.

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Vejret lige nu

Rosenfingerede dagning
som står i Illiaden
finder jeg ikke idag
den er lyslilla og nu rosa
breder en knaldstærk rødme
sådan er her et nyt lag
af varme og ros og ris
til jordens fortrydelse
manglende regn - et stort tab!


Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Lille sult

En norsk kiks forsvandt
I svælget på en dansk
For at stille ens sult
Nu er livet helt fuldt

Sunday, July 22, 2018

Afsked på ny

Afskeden venter ikke så længe
På sig - om føje tidstabel /grænse
Så skilles vi og skal utålmodigt
Finde os i ikke at mødes igen
Brændt er jo ikke jorden endnu
Og adelfruens afståelsesret
Blev lønligt næsten accepteret
Mens den halve sandhed er
Nok en mere helt anden
At mennesker kan fileres
Drejes  og er fleksible nok
De kan undvære så meget
Og en hjemstavn - en tilknytning -
Selvom jordens muld er ciseleret
Ind i barnets krop og det lys
Netop på nethinden glemmes ej
Men den luksus tilbageblikket
Giver styrke og glæde og håb
Om en forsvunden eller fremtid
Vil et farvel endnu engang blive
Båret nok så dybt med et blik
Fra flyets koøje for så at dreje
Hjernen mod nuets nødvendighed

Vølvens hjemland

Varsomt var Vølven Vigga
på besøg i sin barndoms bostad
under den nordiske nyhimmel
med sol, skov og strand
en særdeles usædvanlig sommer
det var ikke som hun huskede det
fra sine spædbarneår
Landet - et lille et - var havbrust
vindblæst vandsmykket
sommerlyst og vintermørkt
køligt svalende reflekterende
på alle måder simpelt - enkelt
indtil Sol skar og sled -
ej Thor som slog hammerslag
bare en gang imellem
brutalt brydende kœrrede
solvognen uden Skinfaxe
brændte uden skam det blege brakland
og indboerne skreg efter kort tid
at det var for forskrækkeligt
- enkelte svalende dage -
men den sommer ville Vigga
hin vølve - som var draget derfra
boede blot et sted i skoven
i et ubekendt underligt
stedsegrønt uperfekt paradis
- ville kunne huske -
havets saltbølger - øernes øjeblikke
- venskabernes vidunderlige bånd -
musikkens minder skabt af
intimøjeblikket nu - samtaler
der fortsatte hvor de slab -
endnu et menneskeligt farvel -
alt hvad Vigga hin Vølve så
således passere pludseligt
førend hun skulle drage
mod nye eventyr i sit
eget indre eden imorgen

Tilegnet Hanne og de andre med tak