Dull lullaby...

The fear
Of the night to come
Hanging on white sheets
The only calming down gesture
In this primal anxiety
Shadows
Dancing in the night
Threatening
As I try to retain
The beauty of a rose
In my confused mind
The fountain
With the birds nearby
In the broad daylight
I try to unfold the ritual
Of a familiar song
A sweet lullaby of comfort
That could chase the shadows away
But the candle goes out quickly
The melody becomes a murmur
A sigh
Vanishing in the dark
Of a fast beating heart
The fight seems like
The ultimate one
A fight of no return..
..Until tomorrow night...

Cold sweat

I hang on to
The saving thin white light
Under the bedroom door
The smothered voices of adults
In the room nearby
The changing intonations
Of the TV program

Confined there,
I understand,
Become aware
Of
Death
Merciless, irreversible
The wave,
That will take us away

Late, in the silent night
Where thoughts learn how to grow
Familiar echoes
Reverberate
As I still cannot sleep
In the tired
Uncalmed
Adult body clay

Summer whisper...

The lightness of the dragonfly
Grasps my wandering gaze
I take a chance
To catch
This furtive green fairy
In the hollow of my hands
The twirling of its flight
Unites with the sacred
Unreachable music
Of this static summer day
Bewildered,
By the window pane
I let a dream escape
Out of the unlocked prison
Of my thoughts
A liberated weight
A murmur hanging on the lips
The stream
Of some wondering words
A breath, a sigh,
Floating in heavy silence
Dancing softly
Like an insect wing
Lifted by the warm, shiny season

The 'Diamante' poems..

Infinity,

Dizzy, mysterious, cosmic

Puzzles, dazzles, questions

Time, space, love, soul

Splits, frees, burdens, concludes

Irrevocable, fixed, dark

Ending

Passion

Sensuous, bright, thoughtful

Burning, raising, revealing

Desire, thrill, nothingness, tears

Hurting, bleeding, cutting

Unenlighted, careless

Coldness

La multitude

Bruyante, agitée

Mélange, tourbillone, absorbe

Le flot, l'essaim, la distance, l'exil

Etouffe, libère, questionne, écoute

La silencieuse, vide

Solitude

(Multitude

Noisy, hectic

Mixing, absorbing, twirling

Streem, swarm, distance, exile

Suffocates, frees, questions, listens to

The empty, silent

Solitude)

Inspired by 'The Diamante poem' form:


The Diamante poem is arranged in a diamond pattern using seven lines in the following manner:


Line 1: noun  (noun, the opposite of line 7)
Line 2: adjective, adjective (2 adjectives describing line 1)
Line 3: verb, verb, verb ( 3 verbs relating to line 1)
Line 4: noun, noun, noun (2 nouns about line 1 and 2 nouns about line 7)
Line5: verb, verb, verb (3 verbs realting to line 7)
Line 6: adjective, adjective (2 adjectives describing line 7)
Line 7: noun (noun, the opposite of line 1)