Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
The most humble is happiest.
The most efficient, most simple.
Good hearts beat in many people…
Common sense knows how to harvest !
And there is far more, there is Love !
There are birds, singing by the grove,
Nature all around, abundance,
Mystery ! As the children dance…
We are blessed ! Oh, I knew sorrows,
In times past yes, but still I hope,
For better days and tomorrows…
Yes, the Skies hold us on their scope,
We men, women, youngsters, should know,
Joy, desire, waters of hop.
The party In Berlin…
There was music around, all of us were dancing,
To the loud, frenetic melody and scansion,
Though we were three hundred, we would not feel tension,
Only the love, the smiles, as these speakers would sing…
Yes ! Even if I had come alone to the place,
I was feeling upheld by the crowd as I moved,
With the rhythm, so strong ! Soon our party improved :
When I saw at my side a cute girl’s smiling face.
« Mm » Thought-I. « This woman is pretty ! Attractive ! »
And I bounced for some more, my eyes shut, with a smile…
Then there after we kissed. I proposed we would leave.
We walked for a moment in the surrounding woods,
Let apart what followed when a quarter of mile,
Further, we sat and leaned, and kissed, and kissed, moulded…
The Elephant
I saw a bathing elephant,
In a pond, once in Cambodia,
Very tall, massive, elegant,
He splashed along with euphoria…
« Sire ! » Addressed-I to the beast,
« Oh, what a joy to me also,
To see you happy, makes me so,
Glad, inner ! I feel my heartbeats… »
He replied in a loud trumpet,
Some words I didn’t understand,
In Khmer… Then rolled up on the sands.
« Cheers to you, graces to the Skies !
Glories to Ganesha the wise…
I witnessed here their true prophet. »
Timothee Bordenave.
Field reports.
Timothee Bordenave is a French author of poetry, fiction, and essays, who writes both in English and in French.
He has published about twenty books now, along with hundreds of blog entries and many media editions worldwide, and he keeps on writing today.
He is also an international plastician artist. He used to work as a library director, then shifted to be fully creative.
He lives and works in Paris, France
