4261 poetry

photo: Christchurch, after the February 2011 earthquake. This scene vaguely reminded me of a photo by Lee Miller, ‘Portrait of Space, 1937’: do your best to avoid feeling pity for the most vulnerable, they can sense it and they resent it.

she did not like misery

that was laid in her gaze

she preferred the warrior hostility

of brave adventurers

when she scratched the leatherette of her dusty armchair

she remembered that once

she had defied the gods

#4261 poesie

photo : Christchurch, après le tremblement de terre de février 2011. Cette scène me rappelait vaguement une photo de Lee Miller « Portrait of Space, 1937 : éviter de son mieux d’éprouver de la pitié pour les plus vulnérables, ils le sentent et vous en veulent pour cela.

Elle détestait la pitié

que l’on déposait dans ses yeux

Elle préférait l’hostilité guerrière

des aventuriers courageux

et lorsqu’elle grattait la cuvette de son fauteuil poussiéreux

Elle se souvenait que naguère

Elle avait défié les dieux.

#4259 poetry

photo: Tenby, North Beach, the bond with nature is very strong, whether ones wants it or not.

excerpt from a poem published in Moebius magazine no. 39 in 1989

The fracture of the earth that looks at me with all its eyes, that lingers in dying, heightens my sense of defeat and the evening’s distress. Keep going straight and you will reach where my icy rigor proves nothing, where your lips set in boredom are already paling, where your barbaric eye is fading.

You tremble strangely at the threshold of my disarray, which suddenly reintegrates into the course of history.

My poetic journey through words and image/ Mon journal poetique a travers les mots et les images