Poems by Thierry Renard
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immensity of you
Immensity of you on our common paths finding you again and wrapping my arms around you promised to my caresses and my forays the singular journey to the limits of our simple affair we erect higher and higher Immensity of you and me in the simplest of our gestures half of the universe held by our wild famished fingers between hunger and hunger to quench our thirsts we must master the herbs of silence unearth the slightest of desires allow this crazy pace to bore holes into us Immensity of you our dyslexia of the quotidian transfiguration of vain undertakings the basest of our needs missing pieces of the sentimental puzzle of poetics Immensity of you and me skin against skin the finest of your threads roundness of your planes and the mane of your month of May breast mouth lip the various fruits without taint of omertà bones blood flesh entanglement the hollow of your back Immensity of you at times as I return to you as love fragile and broken always present and dancing forgive the darkness of my clouds my powerlessness Immensity of you forever and ever we with our murmurings sharing totally intermingling ruggedly Immensity of you and love till our next encounter English translation by Antonio D’Alfonso from I travel the world © Ekstasis Editions, 2015 La Traversée du jour © Éditions Bérénice, 2010 one day at a time At times I write in rhyme At times I write in rhyme Often it’s just a dream Often it’s just a dream Stress never leaves my fingers Never leaves my fingertips I love to read book after book I love to read book after book I travel the world whistle and smile I travel the world whistle and smile I never waste my time Never waste my time Expectancy is solid and firm Expectancy is solid and firm I am no pundit at some crossroad I am no pundit at some crossroad I am no guru people sigh for My dream is a sky on fire English translation by Antonio D’Alfonso from I travel the world © Ekstasis Editions, 2015 Motel Terminus, 2015 (unpublished manuscript). |
Thierry Renard was born in Lyon, France, on 14 August 1963. His mother of Italian origin was from the Piemont region, and his father from Lyon. He studied to be an actor at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique of Lyon. His work as an actor and poet was noticed as early as 1978. He is managing director of Espace Pandora in Vénissieux (Rhône).
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