Poetry and stuff for fun

Le nuvole scure / Dark clouds Nel' mezzo corso del nostro lavoro Ci ritroviam' nelle nuvole 'scure Cosa facciam' con questi sogni d'oro Rimettigli col Diavolo oppure

Mignonne, allons Sweetie, let's go see the rose Bloomed just this morning -as it shows Its purple beauty to the sun Alas - it's withering, drying, curling Dying even as unfurling As the merciless minutes run Seeing this, it is your duty Carpe diem - seize…

[This poem contains references to the current DebConf at IMT Atlantique, Brest and may not make sense to those not here] Debconf25 at Technopole Brest Is my first and thus therefore the best Matching known names to faces But impossible places Find i14 roo…

From 2011 Tsunami haiku - for Sophia Spring flowers blossom Earthquake waves threaten, prove Impermanent world

Laborare est orare To work is to pray Making that your credo, Live holy through the day Don't disallow the Spirit - Since Heaven's your goal Allow the poetry of God''s love To bless and heal the soul

Every common frog or toad Should learn to cross an English road Though signs warn drivers "Natterjack" They still get squashed going there and back

"No man is an island" though some would wish it so Aloof, alone: above others' to and fro Self-reliant: not dependent on world's show "Intire unto itself" - and they reach their goal What profit self-wholeness if they lose their soul?

Here's to Zippy and Nemo, Jennyfur and Kay And Val with best wishes for this Christmas day Here we may have snow - for Van Wert, I don't know From two cats and two - here's best wishes to you.

A double length Debian release means the Release Team don't get much peace What with last minute breaks And the time that it takes Treat them with respect today, please The media teams on the hook As we follow our normal play book With laptops all primed…

What we leave behind ============== Every year there's a Debconf And the next year, there's one more Debconf23 was in Kochi Busan is 24 The time is fine for cheese and wine For Mao and for much more There's always space to drink and dine And new good thin…

Mille Regretz Mille regretz de vous abandonner Et d'eslonger vostre fache amoureuse, J'ay si grand dueil et paine douloureuse, Qu'on me verra brief mes jours definer.

Carpe diem Don’t fret Leuconoe on what may be Take this advice, just as it comes from me Don’t ask – it tempts fate – what should be our end And Babylon’s horoscopes are no-one’s friend Take what Jove gives us – one last winter or storms Like those that f…

Vixi Puellis nuper idoneus Until just now, I've lived for Love And did well under her arms I've sheathed my weapon: now my lyre Hangs with her other charms With the axes and the nightlights And the bars to force the way So put them up on the left wall As…

After Horace Pyrrha What perfumed sweetie presses you this hour Pyrrha, within your cave, that rose-strewn bower?

Dido's farewell to Aeneas And did you think to steal away to sea And let your silence speak the truth to me?

The vision of Dido Trojan Aeneas,hidden, surveyed all the new Enraptured, stock still, fixed upon the view The beauteous Dido with a bustling throng Came to the temple, girdled by the strong Young men at arms, as Diana at the front Went with her Oreads ar…

Ovid once banished on Dacia's distant shore The Eternal vanished: Goethe saw Rome no more Isis to Chelt you came: for marmalade, toast and tea Explaining Ovid and exile's geography Few souls to listen early in the cold "The Meta" made Latin myths from the…

Ding, dong, ding - at Epiphany Catholic angels cease singing polyphony Three eastern sages, wise Magi Bear gifts 'neath a portentous sky Then Queen of Heaven and family flee Making the God-child a refugee Ding, dong, dong, at Theophany Orthodox bells ring…

Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, à la chandelle, Assise auprès du feu, dévidant et filant, Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous émerveillant : Ronsard me célébrait du temps que j’étais belle.

Vom Himmel bis in die tiefsten Klüfte Ein milder Stern herniederlacht; Vom Tannenwalde steigen Düfte Und hauchen durch die Winterlüfte, Und kerzenhelle wird die Nacht.

Ah !

Orpheus at the outset Though all would know his name, the lyre He'd have to steal his father's spark And pitch his game - and tuning - higher Were he to lieder in the dark No latent anguish : that hidden hiss Had meant that he had come to Dis The legacy O…

My lady sleeps, dreams borne by distant seas 'Posed as a goddess taken at her ease Her ivory skin ambered by golden light A modest varnish veils parts hid to sight No thoughts of Cupid, Paris, Trojan wars The model's cheap and common - and she snores

Back-referenced Ennius, heroic metre Dust mote atoms: what, then, sweeter?

If, unexpectedly, I hear your voice My heart stops, leaps and strains to cross the void An instantaneous frequency response Reflex emotions' plot is cardioid