Hebert Logerie Poems

When I am wrong
I read a few psalms
Afterwards I sing a song
The criminal who roams
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Poetry is a naturally simple speech
Poetry is a well-organized speech
It is the profound expression of the soul
The digital or verbal dialect of the heart
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Yo dije 'que te amo' esta mañana
Y tú respondiste: gracias
Te equivocaste cariño
Deberías haber dicho: yo también te amo.
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Pretty darling, I am ignoring you today
Because you're trying, on Valentine's Day
To break my heart and badly destroy my soul
I'm looking the other way, because I'm no foul.
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Ouçam, queridos amigos. Meu nome é Hébert.
Brierre, Vilaire, Laferrière, Césaire, Baudelaire,
E escrevo palavras bonitas,
E cerca de muitas coisas bonitas.
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This is no joke. Some dictators
Want to have a referendum
And then amend the constitution
To incorporate eternal immunity
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La Llave De La Cerradura De Mi Corazón

No sabía si mi amoroso corazón tenía una puerta
Y este portal también tenía una cerradura dorada y una llave
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You know women love poetry enormously
And men love style, harmony immensely
The hallucinatory and the pharaminous musicality of the words
An explosion of love can calm or appease the waters
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Listen, dear friends. My name is Hébert.
Brierre, Vilaire, Césaire, Baudelaire,
And I write beautiful words,
And about umpteen beautiful things.
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Haiti
Is a long ago
Kidnapped country
Before the parturition of the harmful bayonets
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