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La fleur de l'éveil

Au milieu d'un jardin
Parmi autant de couleur
Mon attention est captivée
Par une seule fleur

Une fleur délicate
Parmi autant d'autre
Une fleur pure et belle
Sans aucune faute

Ça c'est ce que j'ai vu
Dans un jardin infini
Ça c'est ce que j'ai cherché
Pour compléter ma vie

Pour compléter mon être
Pour rendre ma vie plus belle
Pour me faire croire au futur
Dans ce monde mortel

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french   love

Ode to a Red Rose

Oh, crimson Rose, nature's gift of grace, 

Your ruby petals entice fairer sex embrace, 

Your lusciousness evokes men's hopes and dreams

Erect stance stems, a metaphor for love’s extremes.

Your thorns remind us that the path of love’s not smooth, 

Yet tenacity helps us hold on to love we can not lose.

Avoiding those thorns that safeguard your velveteen bloom, 

We choose flush t...

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Le discours sans parole

Il y plusieurs manières
D'un message transmettre
De donner des informations
Et de se faire connaître

Sans jamais faire un son
Sans jamais parler
Mais j'arriverai à te comprendre
Si je sais t'écouter

Si j'arrive à regarder
Au fond de ton regard
Je comprendrais tes sentiments
Sans me décevoir

Si je te vois sourire
Je regarde dans ton cœur
Alors dit moi tout
Sans jamais avoir peu...

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french   love   realization

La complexité simpliste du sourire

Une première impression
Peut définir l'avenir
Et il suffit d'un sourire
Pour une relation établir

Un sourire naturel
Rempli de sincérité
Réchauffe le cœur
Et me mets à rêver

Un sourire pur
Pleins de sentiment
Que captivé mon attention
Et mon âme intensivement

Parce que le sourire est simple
Et est simple à regarder
Mais il ne veut pas dire
Que c'est facile à déchiffrer

Un s...

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french   love

La vérité derrière le regard

On a toujours dit
Que les yeux sont le miroir de l’âme
Ils sont la porte de la vérité
Que la sincérité proclame

Le lieu cache
Derrière un regard
Ouvert au monde
Mais difficile de percevoir

Le seul lieu
Où il n’y a rien à cacher
Où la beauté est pure
Pour ce qu’arrive à la regarder

Où un seul mot
C’est égal à l’infinie
Ou un seul moment
C’est le temps d’une vie

Où l’éternité
...

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french   love

Nature's Wedding

Let the melodious song

of the numerous creatures

that reside here with us along,

in the lands and the skies

guide our light feet.

 

Step forward,

and bathe in the light of the sun.

As she blesses our love

and ignites our skins and soul.

In this bittersweet moment, 

tinged sour by all that could have been,

should have been ours,

let us surrender our hearts

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poetry   marriage   love   life   celebrate   queer   virtue   unity   peace   development   hope

Two souls

Two independent souls
Separated by land
Sky's apart from each other
Each in their homeland

Two souls searching
For what they had seen
In the world of their desires
That they saw in their dreams

Two souls walking
Deep in the night
Lost in the darkness
Searching for their light

Two lonely souls
Wishing to the starts
Asking for a way
To heal their scars

Two souls wanting
To f...

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The Flickering Of A Candle

There was such a tenderness 

In the beating of her heart

But, such a terrible wailing 

To go unheard 

Her hand lay open & empty 

Her eyes

Mostly closed

A smile could occasionally flicker

Like the flame of a candle 

Dancing before it becomes smoke.

 

On that last night 

When the rain poured

And the moon hid

Her hand slowly closed

Her cheeks dimpled with ...

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Family   love

The lyrics of my feelings

At bottom of my heart
Deep inside me
My feelings are whispering
That they want to be free

That they want to express
The meaning of their existence
That they want to be shared
While singing with persistence

While searching for the heart
That they want to complete
They sing without stop
In a tone that is sweet

And in a white sheet
I write the lyrics of my feelings
I write the des...

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introspective   love   hopes   feelings

The poet’s fight

I have always heard
That love is a war
That it’s a battle of feelings
That can go very far

And in this serious battle
I am one of the players
I am the one fighting
To achieve my prayers

I need to be strong
And use everything I can
I need to be myself
I need to have a plan

I need to strike first
I need to give the first blow
I need a good impression
I need anything to show

B...

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love   Hopes   desire   Resolution

What's the point

What's the point of dreaming
If I'm not sleeping
What's the point of my legs
If I'm not walking

What's the point of my imagination
If I'm not thinking
And what's the point of my eyes
If I'm not seeing

What's the point of those words
That my heart is writing
What's the point of those feelings
That my soul is screaming

What's the point of everything
When only me is here
And what'...

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introspective   thoughts   Hopes   love

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