Fabrice B. Poussin

(i.)
 
Trying to Exist
 
There was once a little universe
crowded with abandoned worlds
dimming planets and wandering sparks.
 
In the midst of this quiet chaos
particles swirled aimless in a dark substance
chasing lives dreamed up in an unknow realm.
 
Seeking a likeness in the mysterious substance
two would slow, pulled by an eternal force
that brought them close as to begin life.
 
Devoid of human features
they may have been giants or midgets
yet older than this odd mixture of all origins.
 
Their presence could be sensed
as if two lovers holding in a tight embrace
in the intimacy of their wedding dress.
 
 
(ii.)
 
Scarred faces
 
Faces float, menacing nearby;
they grin, they scream, they decay.
 
Loves, and friendships melted away,
only to return in Halloween masks.
 
Their appeal worn away, faded,
overtaken by the inner ugliness of souls.
 
Roses wilted, gentleness turned to ash,
of features stolen from forgotten corpses.
 
Little remains of those gleeful memories,
while a cruel stench hovers, relentless.
 
The joy twists in an agonizing query;
there is no return after death’s frigid kiss.
 
 
(iii.)
 
Smell of younger days
 
Flavor of absent memories
into one snapshot of forgone years
scent of mysterious objects
unattached.
 
Listening to the forest singing
brushes paint images of broad strokes
alive with energies of millennia
in unison.
 
His eyes closed onto a landscape
only he, can distinguish
overwhelmed by a past never really
forgotten.
 
Sensations are many beyond the self
merging within to another birth
where he can rest a weary soul
a little while longer.
 
 

 
 
Fabrice B. Poussin is the advisor for The Chimes, the Shorter University award winning poetry and arts publication. His writing and photography have been published in print in the United States and abroad. He teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, La Pensee Universelle, Paris, and other art and literature magazines, where he has also featured here at Poetry Life and Times & Artvilla.com. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.
 
 
 
 
 
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times at Artvilla.com ; You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author & https://poetrylifeandtimes.com See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)

 
The veil is thin perhaps unreal, somewhat untrue,
distance it is, in faint tone, he faces the apparition,
a step and she is not nearer, a step and she seems… gone…
He may despair as a hand reaches out aimlessly.
 
Into the lightness of the night, tending the darkness of a morn’,
undefined as others, she sings of assured forms;
he can not know for certain in the ruins of the fortress,
ghost of the lady of middle times or mistress of his soul.
 
She may sit on a cornerstone, birther of life eternal,
disappear into the dungeon wall, or hold in her hand
the statue of a powerful lord almighty, in her feebleness
yet she desires, she wants, she yearns for a life hers.
 
Take courage young squire, the mist is traitorous,
when fearing the treasure that lies beyond the image,
she is, she exists for the one who braves, unknown,
reward awesome, you will live in paradise.
 
Misty, undefined, unreal to the outsider,
yet she is, no doubt, remains of her existence;
have faith, believe, as you walk toward the apparition,
the embrace tightens; she will crush your heart into hers so.
 
 

 
 
Fabrice B. Poussin is advisor for The Chimes, the Shorter University award winning poetry and arts publication. His writing and photography have been published in print, including Kestrel, Symposium, La Pensee Universelle, Paris, and other art and literature magazines in the United States and abroad. He teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times ; his publications include
 
All the Babble of the Souk , Cartoon Molecules and Next Arrivals, collected poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande´s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist and the recently published Tesserae , a translation of Carmen Crespo´s Teselas.
 
You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)

Mystery is grand in the old barn,
seeking your way through lost treasures,
misplaced identities of days long gone.

A forgotten window remains hidden
below corrugated panes, half rotten boards,
between darkness and obscurity.

Eyes to the two sides of a complete tale.
in slumber of deep decades under the dust
of lives only it keeps in its memories.

The mirror of two souls in a-temporal gaze
speaks only to the accomplice of the one
who once sealed its fate in an unlikely safe.

Time capsule in paragraphs of broken dreams,
in cobb webs, as in a shady shroud,
its fractures will never heal, signatures of the past.

I carry the remains to light, as if to resuscitate a pal,
another self in the stories frozen, immobile,
and to chance upon images of those now lost.

Fabrice B. Poussin

Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry,
his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and dozens of other magazines. His photography
has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.

Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times his publications include All the Babble of the Souk and Cartoon Molecules collected poems and Key of Mist the recently published Tesserae translations from Spanish poets Guadalupe Grande and Carmen Crespo visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)