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Le mystère d’amour. Love’s Mystery. Poem.Translation.Jo-Elle

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Le mystère d’amour
Jo-elle
  Ils se parent de couleurs,
  de leurs plus beaux atours
  pour montrer leur valeur,
  se promènent alentour.

  Il semble que leur coeur,
  amoureux pour toujours,
  veut montrer sa vigueur
  en chantant ce beau jour.

  Avec quelque impudeur
  ils arborent leur amour,
  et affichent leur ardeur
  comme de vrais troubadours.

  Alors ils passent des heures
  à danser, faire la cour,
  sans soucis des rieurs
  vers leur but sans détour.

  Pourquoi vont-ils sans peur,
  comment savent-ils toujours
  où trouver le bonheur,
  c’est le mystère d’amour.
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 Love’s mystery

They dress in colour,
in their best finery,
to show their valour,
and walk without hurry.
 
It’s their heart’s nature
to be in love always.
To show their vigour
they sing throughout the days.
 
Like real troubadours
they display their feelings,
express their ardour,
immodest little things.
 
That’s why they spend hours
court without any shame,
coloured like flowers,
flying straight to their aim.
 
Why they go fearless,
in complete liberty,
how they find happiness,
that is love’s mystery.

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Jo-Elle (re-)discovered writing very recently, when an accident put her professional career on hold for two months.  She has been writing poems since, mostly to learn English as a member of AllPoetry.com, but her best poems are in her mother tongue.


An analytical mind and an eternal learner, she writes about any subject, from nature to the human condition, which she observes from a detached point of view, and even more so when the subject is close to her heart.




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Life Collects. Poem. Scott Hastie.
		

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Life collects, pools around you.


It paints its highlights,


Nothing there you can destroy


Or begin again.


 


Calm in aquamarine beauty,


Barely a hint of surf’s snowy trim.


Today the sea is out 


But will come again.


 


For the moment, 


On the beach,


My love and I, 


Naked and blissful as can be.


 


In the soft, sun baked sand


History between my toes.


 


Sense how 


Even the smooth stones ache


With stories of their own


In the shuddering light of day. 




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I am a full-time writer and poet, based in the UK– fortunate enough to be living and working in tranquil surroundings of the English countryside, some twenty miles north of London. Sparkling new poems & images at www.scotthastie.com




This poem is copyright of the author and appears by permission, and for the sole purpose of the marketing and promotion of, The Poetic Bond III, prior to publication on 30th September.  All rights reserved; all applications for use in any media should be addressed to the author, and all applications for use in any media of this poem in conjunction, or in connection with, The Poetic Bond III, in any media, should be addressed to Willowdown Books.


 


PRESS RELEASE


THE POETIC BOND III


Publication date 30th September, 2013


Contact; Trevor Maynard, editor, thepoeticbond@uk2.net


The Poetic Bond III is the third anthology of poets from new media, social and professional networking, mainly garnered from the professional networking website, LinkedIn, but also through performance and word of mouth. The Poetic Bond is about exploring, sharing and encouraging poetry from all over the world.


Thirty-six poets from 11 countries were selected through a submission process in which there were no restrictions on form, style, length of subject; instead the choices made were on the basis of emergent themes and congruency in the pool of work; a snapshot of the poetry of new media NOW, seeking to capture the zeitgeist of the moment.


Editors’ Notes


1. THE POETIC BOND III (2013) (edited by Trevor Maynard) ISBN  978-1492384199 will be published by Willowdown Books and will be available on Amazon from 30th September 2013 for $19.99/£14.99.


2.  Copies can be pre-ordered for the pre-publication offer price of $10/£7 from http://www.thepoeticbond.com


3.   Biographies  of the poets contributing to the anthology can be found at http://www.thepoeticbond.com/IIImeetthepoets.htm


4.  Trevor Maynard is a UK based poet and writer, manager of Poetry, Review and Discuss Group; his second poetry collection is KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON is published by Willowdown Books and further details are available at www.trevormaynard.com



 


 


 


 


 


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Tingling Point. Poem. Simon Miller
		

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For blank hours our bus had swung,
Steadily grinding down parabolas
Against the wheeling empty sky.
Riding a sluiced track of decaying tar
An extenuated rattling afterthought,
A tattooed apology to progress.


Mountain slopes pinned like curtains
Against our backs. White tooth-stones
Edging the dropped jaw of the road.
A lifetime below in the darkened creases
Of the earth, a secret string unravelled,
Melt water, in an unvoiced torrent.


Then in the crook of an alpine elbow
The world tipped upward into view
Yawning lazily like a stretching giant.
Tingling point.
A void of expanded air
Pulling saw-blade peaks white with snow
Out of a silent, breathless distance.


Only the ticking of the cooling engine
A bleating goat, some buzzling insect
Remind us that beyond the remoteness
Here, the world is still moving.


 


 Simon Miller teaches English and Drama at an international school in Thailand where he lives with his wife and three growing children. He has written several plays for young people. His own childhood was spent between Botswana and England and he has rarely stopped exploring since. Social history, culture and the natural world are his main fascinations, and particularly the points where all three meet.


 


This poem is copyright of the author and appears by permission, and for the sole purpose of the marketing and promotion of, The Poetic Bond III, prior to publication on 30th September.  All rights reserved; all applications for use in any media should be addressed to the author, and all applications for use in any media of this poem in conjunction, or in connection with, The Poetic Bond III, in any media, should be addressed to Willowdown Books.


 


PRESS RELEASE


THE POETIC BOND III


Publication date 30th September, 2013


Contact; Trevor Maynard, editor, thepoeticbond@uk2.net


The Poetic Bond III is the third anthology of poets from new media, social and professional networking, mainly garnered from the professional networking website, LinkedIn, but also through performance and word of mouth. The Poetic Bond is about exploring, sharing and encouraging poetry from all over the world.


Thirty-six poets from 11 countries were selected through a submission process in which there were no restrictions on form, style, length of subject; instead the choices made were on the basis of emergent themes and congruency in the pool of work; a snapshot of the poetry of new media NOW, seeking to capture the zeitgeist of the moment.


Editors’ Notes


1. THE POETIC BOND III (2013) (edited by Trevor Maynard) ISBN  978-1492384199 will be published by Willowdown Books and will be available on Amazon from 30th September 2013 for $19.99/£14.99.


2.  Copies can be pre-ordered for the pre-publication offer price of $10/£7 from http://www.thepoeticbond.com


3.   Biographies  of the poets contributing to the anthology can be found at http://www.thepoeticbond.com/IIImeetthepoets.htm


4.  Trevor Maynard is a UK based poet and writer, manager of Poetry, Review and Discuss Group; his second poetry collection is KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON is published by Willowdown Books and further details are available at www.trevormaynard.com



 


 


 


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Drunk Smile.Poem.Cigeng Zhang.
		

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The river is rippling like beer foams

 A slightly drunk smile draining away

 Everything turns as normal


The river is rippling like beer foams

 Moonlight joggling over the dim water

 Memory is broken into kaleidoscope


The river is rippling like beer foams

 A slightly drunk smile draining away


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I am from China with 15-year of freelance writing experience; graduated from the Beijing Capital Normal University. Now, work as a translator in a medical equipment company in Beijing. 


This poem is copyright of the author and appears by permission, and for the sole purpose of the marketing and promotion of, The Poetic Bond III, prior to publication on 30th September.  All rights reserved; all applications for use in any media should be addressed to the author, and all applications for use in any media of this poem in conjunction, or in connection with, The Poetic Bond III, in any media, should be addressed to Willowdown Books.


 


PRESS RELEASE


THE POETIC BOND III


Publication date 30th September, 2013


Contact; Trevor Maynard, editor, thepoeticbond@uk2.net


The Poetic Bond III is the third anthology of poets from new media, social and professional networking, mainly garnered from the professional networking website, LinkedIn, but also through performance and word of mouth. The Poetic Bond is about exploring, sharing and encouraging poetry from all over the world.


Thirty-six poets from 11 countries were selected through a submission process in which there were no restrictions on form, style, length of subject; instead the choices made were on the basis of emergent themes and congruency in the pool of work; a snapshot of the poetry of new media NOW, seeking to capture the zeitgeist of the moment.


Editors’ Notes


1. THE POETIC BOND III (2013) (edited by Trevor Maynard) ISBN  978-1492384199 will be published by Willowdown Books and will be available on Amazon from 30th September 2013 for $19.99/£14.99.


2.  Copies can be pre-ordered for the pre-publication offer price of $10/£7 from http://www.thepoeticbond.com


3.   Biographies  of the poets contributing to the anthology can be found at http://www.thepoeticbond.com/IIImeetthepoets.htm


4.  Trevor Maynard is a UK based poet and writer, manager of Poetry, Review and Discuss Group; his second poetry collection is KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON is published by Willowdown Books and further details are available at www.trevormaynard.com



 


 




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Spectre. Poem. Sara L. Russell
		

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 7th January 2013 02:04am


Like a child who fell through the cracks in welfare

 like a doll falling through a pit in a nightmare

 I am reeling in time and space like a lost satellite;

 drawn closer and closer to a swallowing void of dark matter


I am hopeless, futureless and desolate; abandoned in time,

 No-one reaches out to catch my hand in the darkness,

  Silence screams like tinnitis in the chasm of space

time lurches on and I am immobile


I am lost and broken like a shattering of dreams

 like a smattering of blood, a withering of roses

 there is no hope in me, there is no future, not even death;

 only the beckoning  spectre of age, that makes caricatures of us all.


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AKA @pinkyandrexa Poet, Artist, Cartoonist, Goth, Time Traveller. Friend of cats everywhere. Former Editor of Poetry Life & Times. Founder of http://thevideopoets.ning.com/ … See also http://creativethinkersintl.ning.com/profile/SaraLouiseRussell plus over a million poetry links online.


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Sara Louise Russell , whose internet name is “PinkyAndrexa”, is a UK poet who has earned a well-deserved reputation as a highly respected twenty-first century poetry publisher and poet. She was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Life & Times, one of the world’s premier poetry E-zines, which ran monthly from 1998-2006 under her tutelage. She has always been in on the scene with graphic design, animation, 3D art, web design, sign writing, photography, film and poetry recital videos. Sara is founder and current editor of Paper Li.  Poetry Lifetimes and the online  Ning network The Video Poets. Her poetry has been published in Artvilla, AuthorsDen, Hello Poetry, The New Pleiades Anthology of Poetry (Describe Adonis Press, Ottawa, © 2005), Sonnetto Poesia, Word Machinist and more, as well as in several e-books by Kedco Studios Inc. (USA). Her skills as a sonneteer are particularly remarkable. 


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Beyond the Writing on the Wall. Poem. Trevor Maynard
		

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Beyond the writing on the wall
There is brick and crumbling mortar
A sycamore stubbornly clings
Well, it took such a mighty effort to grow roots
Moss, on the other hand, seethes insidiously, in perpetuity
It survives even the most hostile of environments

Old Magic, the Goddess smiles
Mother Earth will ensure the wall will fall
But what will it reveal
A field of golden buttercups
Hawthorn caught up infernal bine 
Or land dead and polluted by indifference

Is there a clue in the writing 
Is our future writ large 
Bit like the dyslexic lovers we are
We only read what we want to read
And go hang reality, go hang truth


Doves, of all creatures alight,
Above the keystone and the founders plaque
Weathered almost away, I read
'This have I, Wall, my part discharged so,
and being, done, thus wall away doth go.'




This poem is copyright of the author and appears by permission, and for the sole purpose of the marketing and promotion of, The Poetic Bond III, prior to publication on 30th September.  All rights reserved; all applications for use in any media should be addressed to the author, and all applications for use in any media of this poem in conjunction, or in connection with, The Poetic Bond III, in any media, should be addressed to Willowdown Books.


Trevor Maynard


 Author of two poetry collections “Keep on Keepin’ On” and “Love, Death and the War on Terror”, a collection of one-act plays “Four Truths” as well as the plays “GLASS” and “From Pillow to Post”. All available at trevormaynard.com . 


PRESS RELEASE


THE POETIC BOND III


Publication date 30th September, 2013


Contact; Trevor Maynard, editor, thepoeticbond@uk2.net


The Poetic Bond III is the third anthology of poets from new media, social and professional networking, mainly garnered from the professional networking website, LinkedIn, but also through performance and word of mouth. The Poetic Bond is about exploring, sharing and encouraging poetry from all over the world.


Thirty-six poets from 11 countries were selected through a submission process in which there were no restrictions on form, style, length of subject; instead the choices made were on the basis of emergent themes and congruency in the pool of work; a snapshot of the poetry of new media NOW, seeking to capture the zeitgeist of the moment.


Editors’ Notes


1. THE POETIC BOND III (2013) (edited by Trevor Maynard) ISBN  978-1492384199 will be published by Willowdown Books and will be available on Amazon from 30th September 2013 for $19.99/£14.99.


2.  Copies can be pre-ordered for the pre-publication offer price of $10/£7 from http://www.thepoeticbond.com


3.   Biographies  of the poets contributing to the anthology can be found at http://www.thepoeticbond.com/IIImeetthepoets.htm


4.  Trevor Maynard is a UK based poet and writer, manager of Poetry, Review and Discuss Group; his second poetry collection is KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON is published by Willowdown Books and further details are available at www.trevormaynard.com


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www.facebook.com/PoetryLifeTimes

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PRESS RELEASE.THE POETIC BOND III.
		

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PRESS RELEASE


 


THE POETIC BOND III


Publication date 30th September, 2013


Contact; Trevor Maynard, editor, thepoeticbond@uk2.net


The Poetic Bond III is the third anthology of poets from new media, social and professional networking, mainly garnered from the professional networking website, LinkedIn, but also through performance and word of mouth. The Poetic Bond is about exploring, sharing and encouraging poetry from all over the world.


Thirty-six poets from 11 countries were selected through a submission process in which there were no restrictions on form, style, length of subject; instead the choices made were on the basis of emergent themes and congruency in the pool of work; a snapshot of the poetry of new media NOW, seeking to capture the zeitgeist of the moment.


 


Editors’ Notes


1. THE POETIC BOND III (2013) (edited by Trevor Maynard) ISBN  978-1492384199 will be published by Willowdown Books and will be available on Amazon from 30th September 2013 for $19.99/£14.99.


2.  Copies can be pre-ordered for the pre-publication offer price of $10/£7 from http://www.thepoeticbond.com


3.   Biographies  of the poets contributing to the anthology can be found at http://www.thepoeticbond.com/IIImeetthepoets.htm


4.  Trevor Maynard is a UK based poet and writer, manager of Poetry, Review and Discuss Group; his second poetry collection is KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON is published by Willowdown Books and further details are available at www.trevormaynard.com


editor@artvilla.com

robin@artvilla.com


www.facebook.com/PoetryLifeTimes

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MY BROTHER AND I.Poem.Robin Marchesi.
		

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Awaiting aeroplanes for separate destinations


 


My brother and I


 


Walk together


 


Through the old streets of Palma.


 


An advert tempts us toward an exhibition


 


Showing 15th century instruments of torture.


 


We visit, instead,


 


A commemoration.


 


Old photographs from World War Two.


 


This war began 1939 


 


Who cares now?


 


Aliens


 


We leave the cathedral gallery.


 


Born in another time, we fight another battle.


 


 


 


My brother and I,


 


Holding court on a park bench.


 


Two from one womb,


 


Immersed by our own private, interlocking, part.


 


The family from which we came,


 


And the families before us,


 


That keeps us a part,


 


Off springing our own branches.


 


It seems a miracle


 


And yet so common,


 


This touch of the centuries.


 


 


 


How many other brothers and sisters,


 


Together have trudged these cobbles,


 


Wondering if they have the where with all,


 


To sustain, their remaining years,


 


Without instruments of torture,


 


Or World War Two?


 


Neither pilot, nor inquisitor,


 


Knew of ‘crack’ ‘d ozone layers.


 


All the battles each generation faces.


 


It’s only ourselves we punish with oppression,


 


Not just the oppressed, but so too, the oppressor.


 


 


 


Cultures divide, civilizations decay,


 


But my brother and I, bonded in blood,


 


See colour beyond set definition.


 


Look at all the brothers and sisters


 


In the world, who stood their ground,


 


Countless times in countless years,


 


That we, two, at this millenniums end,


 


Can be united,


 


Awaiting aeroplanes for separate destinations



 

 



Me

 

Robin Marchesi, born in 1951, began writing in his teens, much to the consternation of his mother, the sister of Eric Hobsbawm, the historian.


In 1992 Cosmic Books published his first book entitled  “A B C Quest”. 


In 1996 March Hare Press published “Kyoto Garden” and in 1999 “My Heart is As…”


ClockTowerBooks published his Poetic Novella, “A Small Journal of Heroin Addiction”, digitally, in 2000. 


Charta Books published his latest work entitled “Poet of the Building Site”, about his time working with Barry Flanagan the Sculptor of Hares, in association with the Irish Museum of Modern Art. 


He is presently working on an upcoming novel entitled “A Story Made of Stone.”

 




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