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We Have Created The Night

We Have Created The Night

We have created the night I hold your hand I watch

I sustain you with all my powers

I engrave in rock the star of your powers

Deep furrows where your body’s goodness fruits

I recall your hidden voice your public voice

I smile still at the proud woman

You treat like a beggar

The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in

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‘At Dawn I Love You’

‘At Dawn I Love You’

At dawn I love you I’ve the whole night in my veins

All night I have gazed at you

I’ve all to divine I am certain of shadows

They give me the power

To envelop you

To stir your desire to live

At my motionless core

The power to reveal you

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The Word

The Word

I have an easy beauty one that is happy.

I glide on the surface of winds.

I glide on the surface of seas

I have grown sentimental

I no longer know the guide

I no longer move silk over ice

I am diseased flowers and stones

I love the most chinese of nudes

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The World Is Blue As An Orange

The World Is Blue As An Orange

The world is blue as an orange

No error the words do not lie

They no longer allow you to sing

In the tower of kisses agreement

The madness the love

She her mouth of alliance

All the secrets all the smiles

Or what dress of indulgence

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Uninterrupted Poetry

Uninterrupted Poetry

From the sea to the source

From mountain to plain

Runs the phantom of life

The foul shadow of death

But between us

A dawn of ardent flesh is born

And exact good

that sets the earth in order

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Ring Of Peace

Ring Of Peace

I have passed the doors of coldness

The doors of my bitterness

To come and kiss your lips

City reduced to a room

Where the absurd tide of evil

leaves a reassuring foam

Ring of peace I have only you

You teach me again what it is

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Nusch

Nusch

The sentiments apparent

The lightness of approach

The tresses of caresses.

Without worry or suspicion

Your eyes confide in what they see

Seen by what they gaze at.

Confidence of crystal

Between two mirrors

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Certitude

Certitude

If I speak it’s to hear you more clearly

If I hear you I’m sure to understand you

If you smile it’s the better to enter me

If you smile I will see the world entire

If I embrace you it’s to widen myself

If we live everything will turn to joy

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Our Life

Our Life

We’ll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs

We know in pairs we will know all about us

We’ll love everything our children will smile

At the dark history or mourn alone

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Air Vif

Air Vif

I looked in front of me

In the crowd I saw you

Among the wheat I saw you

Beneath a tree I saw you

At the end of my journeys

In the depths of my torment

At the corner of every smile

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The Curve Of Your Eyes

The Curve Of Your Eyes

The curve of your eyes embraces my heart

A ring of sweetness and dance

halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,

And if I no longer know all I have lived through

It’s that your eyes have not always been mine.

Leaves of day and moss of dew,

Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,

Wings covering the world of light,

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It’s The Sweet Law Of Men

It’s The Sweet Law Of Men

It’s the sweet law of men

They make wine from grapes

They make fire from coal

They make men from kisses

It’s the true law of men

Kept intact despite

the misery and war

despite danger of death

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