Living Life

Living Life

7 July 2016

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Soaring mind

Explores inner heights

Life ebbing

Slowly leaves

The chest flutters barely heaves

As the breath shudders

 

The whispers

Imperceptible

Wisps of smoke

Hanging low

The ash now dissolving slow

As the flame simmers

 

Journey’s sum

Fantasy of math

Where numbers

Fade in ink

Recollections of them sink

As the chords vibrate

 

Chests dilate

With every full breath

The periods

A mere stop

Where the life will meet with death

Suspended dreamtime

 

Living Life

In between hiccups

Lonely days

Pave the way

Into knowledge of the self

No thoughts on the shelf

 

The suns’ rays

Gather more than heat

Like clockwork

They whir soft

Seconds count pastime aloft

Journey of the light

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Experience – Ludovico Einaudi

Life – Ludovico Einaudi

Burning – Ludovico Einaudi

 

Vois le sort qui m’amène au pays du déni / See the fate that brings me to land of denial

Vois le sort qui m’amène au pays du déni

(Poème écrit sous la forme de Sonnet Occitan, traduit en anglais ci-dessous ou ici)

20 mai 2016

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Me vois-tu là œuvrer préparer le départ

Eriger mes flambeaux en vue d’un long voyage

Tu peux lors admirer le summum de mon art

De tanner oripeaux en un immense voilage

 

Le départ va sonner trois petits tours et un quart

Vois préparer les eaux insondable barrage

Miroir pour se mirer traversée de l’écart

Estampillés les sceaux de mon royal plumage

 

Je perce les flancs serrés d’un rideau de combats

Tréteaux blafards d’une scène où l’on vit l’ennemi

Coups en corps par milliers inlassables soldats

 

Vois le sort qui m’amène au pays du déni

Qui me fait retourner au ciel de mes abats

Où j’enfante Roi mécène Dieu des deux mondes béni

 

Lecture du poème:

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Je m’en vais – Miossec

Brest – Miossec

La Grande Marée – Miossec

 

 

See the fate that brings me to land of denial

(translation of a Sonnet written in french in Occitan Sonnet format. See original above or here)

20 May 2016

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Do you see me at work preparing departure

Erecting my torches for a very long trip

You can now admire the pinnacle of art

In tanning all the rags into an immense sail

 

The departure will ring three small rounds and quarter

See prepare the waters in unfathomable wall

Mirror to see oneself, the crossing of the gap

Well stamped are now my seals of royal heritage

 

I pierce through the tight flanks of curtain of combat

Pale trestles of a scene where we live enemy

Shots in body thousands from the tireless soldiers

 

See the fate that brings me to land of denial

That makes me return to heaven of my innards

I give forth King patron God of both worlds blessed

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Death is the road to awe – Clint Mansell

Xibalba – Clint Mansell

Stay with me – Clint Mansell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phX4z1uY55U

Children of the Suns

Children of the Suns

9 May 2016

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You twist turn

Your body’s language

Suppressed fire

The desire

To outrun fate’s marks dire

Palms’ consequences

 

Unwritten

Outcome of the Heart

Creation

Out of Blue

A pathway to elation

Stemming from the soul

 

You are mine

She claims her deathright

Hooded frames

Playing games

Between sparks of life and death

Unmuted the breath

 

Rasping voice

In countdown begins

The numbers

Coded thoughts

Series of forget me nots

Strewn through faded shapes

 

Explosion

Of coloured landscapes

The visions

Cascading

Heightened hues that the brush scrapes

From our life’s palettes

 

Invention

Within play of mind

The grey hounds

They wait dull

Minds where creation abounds

Canvas for their show

 

Time has come

Thinkers will create

Fearless roads

Carved in hills

Where the soul soars limitless

Before we need gills

 

We will swim

In deepest oceans

Blue memories

Misplacing

Every second of racing

Towards sunny skies

 

We shall fly

Birds of paradise

Hearts flowing

With the warmth

Of bright air infused in us

Children of the Suns

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Courtesy Jean-Luc on in5d.com

Always Mine – Thomas Bergersen

The Dance of Colours /Fearless – Thomas Bergersen

Children of the Sun – Thomas Bergersen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI2dCwr4BCA

In split particles

In split particles

23 April 2016

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Slow and sure

I see it unfold

Morrow’s mirth

Future birth

Small signs of recognition

Synchronicity

 

Never seen

Barely understood

Confusion

Of the mind

Stripped it of significance

The empty treasure

 

You saw me

In split particles

The light shades

Darkening

Impact of the heart’s features

Chest empty vessel

 

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I hold it

Like a precious bird

The future

Shining bright

Like a mirror in glazed eyes

When the light seeps in

 

Chosen path

Possibilities

Fate’s remnants

Event’s turn

Twisting through the true meanings

Known by pure of heart

 

We depart

With the day’s work done

You twin sun

My soul’s blood

I keep you within the core

Though fate never more

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Vide cor meum – Patrick Cassidy based on La Vita Nuova (A ciascun alma presa)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9mDu2jk9U

Come play Hyde and see

Come play Hyde and see

22 April 2016

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Do you sleep

Within waking Times

Unknown bliss

Slithering

Away from your withered hands

The shy bloom destroyed

 

Do you sleep

Between walking ghosts

They speak night

Bleak darkness

On the other side of light

They draw black patterns

 

Do you yawn

Waking up tedium

Tight eyelids

Ignorance

Sewn against the remembrance

For what the soul yearns

 

Do you yawn

Your emblem boredom

As world skids

Out of reach

Reality’s dead fragrance

Reeks morals you preach

 

Do you know

Pulling the carpet

Unsettles

Your kingdom

The smoke loses its high fires

Seeking a new Gray

 

Do you know

You see then forget

Amnesia

Forever

Your mind’s chosen Sisyphus

Come play Hyde and see

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Truman Sleeps – Philip Glass

Gone – Philip Glass

The Hours – Philip Glass

The Kiss – Philip Glass

The Light – Philip Glass

The Illusionist Suite – Philip Glass

 

The silence

The silence

23 March 2016

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The silence

It charges the mind

Loaded gun

Roulette spun

Inventing reasons to see

Beyond eye’s sight space

 

The silence

Like a stubborn child

It wriggles

Fighting back

Refusing to cut me slack

As I compress it

 

The silence

Looming like a cloud

It hovers

All covers

In icy understanding

Of oncoming death

 

The silence

It leaks from the roof

Into bed

And breakfast

Routine of a buzzing life

Filling emptiness

 

The silence

It pervades matter

Engulfs me

Like dark cloak

Erasing the words we spoke

In between phrases

 

The silence

It gnaws like a doubt

Its teeth firm

Its jaws set

Onslaught rising at sunset

It carves my time loops

 

The silence

I embrace its fog

It cajoles

Caresses

Within past weave frame dresses

As I tick seconds

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Silence – Vargo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEQ9yB4PHUQ

Lest you live as I would die

Lest you live as I would die

12 March 2016

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Hold the door

Its old hinges creak

Of lost time

They dare speak

Of slow walks in the moonlight

Of hope cloaked in sight

 

Hold the door

It tries to snap shut

Locking hurt

Deep within

Crushing rose petals that bloom

When sunlight drizzles

 

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Hold the door

It closes in tight

Reducing

Space of love

The chest caves in under might

Pressure of sorrow

 

Hold the door

It cuts through answers

To Questions

Lost inking

Connection’s tendrils sinking

Communication

 

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Hold the door

It would allow us

To glimpse light

Sea beyond

The nature of you and me

Sketched in wilderness

 

Hold the door

It is like coffin

Embalming

Pervading

Lest you live as I would die

Motionless, empty

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Come Heavy Sleep – John Dowland (Steven Rickards, counter-tenor Dorothy Linell, lute)

In darkness let me dwell – John Dowland (Andreas Scholl)

Flow my tears – John Dowland (Valeria Mignaco, soprano, Alfonso Marin Lute)

I saw my lady weep – John Dowland (Andreas Scholl)

In Darkness let me Dwell – John Dowland (Ellen Hargis, soprano; Jacob Heringman, lute; Mary Springfels, viol)

Come again – John Dowland (Paul Agnew, tenor, Christoper Wilson, Lute)

Weep you no more, sad fountains – John Dowland (Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano, Jakob Lindberg, lute)

 

As leaves shrivel brown

As leaves shrivel brown

15 February 2016

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Rasping breath

I barely control

Life inches

Away slow

As I gift its every glow

Consumption my deed

 

Waiting death

She pays never heed

To self-pity

Her mouth grim

Her face marble as eyes swim

Serendipity

 

We once could

Be token of hope

Building light

Heart of might

I stumble more than I cope

With weight of wording

 

Literal

Prose and poetry

Woven bright

Through the night

The wand of age old wisdom

Words raising kingdom

 

Emerging

Two towers creep slow

From sands’ depths

Into skies

They bring truth where there were lies

End blood spent in waste

 

Burning trees

Within my bosom

Speak of fires

And wasteland

Oxygen for volcanoes

Disrupt blood and air

 

He whispers

Of breath that will cease

His hand soft

His cheek gaunt

His very touch daily taunt

As leaves shrivel brown

 

Reading of the poem:

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Pergolesi – Stabat Mater (complete/full) – Nathalie Stutzmann & Philippe Jaroussky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzOmPUu-F_M

The Devil is in details

The Devil is in details

14 February 2016

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Courtesy Tomasz Alen Copera on artodyssey1.blogspot.com

 

The vultures

Tired dark buzzards

Hungry pair

She had hair

He had all but a tight crop

More akin to a mop

 

They flew high

On their senseless greed

Death doth feed

These creatures

Hidden in despair’s darkness

Black words their prowess

 

Drip by drip

Intelligence fed

In doses

With slow words

Dictation manure for bred

In pots with roses

 

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Ink to dry

Faces sweet that lie

Grimacing

Rubbing faults

In misheard treasures hunted

Off the grammar’s scales

 

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The fools’ vain

Interpretation

Intent slain

The pair split

Twice the share’s unholy kit

Bleak fraternity

 

He went North

She headed down South

Where her mouth,

She belonged

The Devil is in details

Sadness wails me pails

 

Three can play

Only one can rule

In valleys

Of the blind

They say the subject is fool

One-eyed King scurries

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Courtesy Tomasz Alen Copera on pinterest.com

 

Everybody’s fool – Evanescence

Going under – Evanescence

Driving with the Devil – Brasher Bogue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrpIXzdWtKA

Les danses solennelles insipides à plaire / The solemn dances insipid to please

Les danses solennelles insipides à plaire

(English translation below)

12 février 2016

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Mémoire de pâleur visiter Honfleur

Définir sous vide de loi de cœur pris

Dormir sous l’égide d’un esprit farceur

Inaltérable fleur démise en survie

 

Un soupçon de leurre attiser clameur

Etouffer le guide de mes folles envies

Enlacer les rides surprendre douleur

Faire de spleen tuteur éteindre chaleur

 

Il n’est point de sœur à l’âme qui s’élève

De sueurs mortelles naît abécédaire

Frapper pour des heures sur i qui se lève

 

Rengaines éternelles oublis suicidaires

Raconter le cœur et vivre comme je crève

Les danses solennelles insipides à plaire

 

Lecture du poème: 

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Rough translation into a sonnet in English

 

The solemn dances insipid to please

February 12, 2016

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Memory’s pallor visiting Honfleur

Defining under vacuum of law of heart taken

Sleeping under the aegis of a prankster spirit

Unalterable flower dislocated survival

 

A hint of misguiding to stir outcry

Smothering guide of my wildest desires

Hugging wrinkles and surprising pain

Making spleen a tutor and dowsing warmth

 

There is no sister to the soul that rises

From deadly sweats definitions are born

Hitting for hours on the i that rises

 

Eternal tunes suicidal forgetfulness

Speaking the heart and living the way I die

The solemn dances insipid to please

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Camille Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM