Monday, November 30, 2020

Souhait Saisonnier, Seasonal Wish...

 

Mogette La 2CV Coquette

Very bad bilinguale poète...

Made a pause, ce matin, elle

S'est aventurée en mélange

Of sounds of mésanges

And faucons crécerelles 

The day après Avent

In frosty fields of seasonal...sapins


Yes, ah oui!

Christmas pine trees

You see!

From her friend and voisin

Albert

Who cultivates there

Epicéa and Nordmann

For les gens du coin


...That is to say, c'est à dire

The locals, ici, here

Mogette, or her propriétaires

And d'autres personnes, ici, or there

In Pays of Loire rivière


15,000 trees this year from la sapinière...

Yes: quinze Mille

For the Christmas feel-

ing...

At this time of frosty air


And, most importantly, a wish très sincère

Dear friends, chers et chères

... ami.e.s Mogettistes

From your amie mécanique, magique

At risk of sounding like a health freak,

Or donneuse-de-leçon geek...


She simply wishes you all

This winter day

Good health; bonne santé


And please, please, amis and amies

Do your best

If you can

(While we wait for le vaccin)

For the rest

Of year of  viral merde Twenty-Twenty

Ensemble, collectively

In good conscience, avec prudence

a-plenty ...


Please try not to make expéditions

From North to South

Or East to West

Of your home régions or nations

Whatever the règles and regulations

May be...


And let's keep this coronaviral malédiction

En exclusion 

(Excuse la clunky poésie...)

From friend and family

Célébrations 


AB  30 11 2020


Thursday, November 12, 2020

Souvenir...Remembrance

 

Mogette La 2CV Coquette

Very bad bilinguale poète

Paused yesterday

At home in Vendée

... to remember

A 11 heures, for all of us

On eleventh of November

With coquelicot poppy

And cornflower bleuet

And  leaf of eucalyptus.



The flowers, fabriquées

By personnes agées,

In village of Somme

Called Villers-Bretonneux

Between Amiens and Albert...

Australian Memorial

... British Arch at Thiepval...

And cimetières allemands as well.



And for two minutes yesterday

On autumn tilleul limeflower branch...

With bouton bud for next printemps spring

Mogette observed the silence

And remembered souffrance suffering

And thought of espoir, HOPE

That our precious projects for EUROPE

Could bring.