GLOBAL LANGUAGES

A globe moves as a big balloon in a swimming-pool
and teaches transparent geography to the swimmers









The language of love
is silent and seeking
in life's loudly speaking
from down to above.

The language of silence
in love with creation,
a soul's inspiration
is full but still widens.

The language of silence
and love seem the same:
they show us the flame
but speak without violence

Of burning and brightening sunny salvation
of finding some peace on our blue-shining block.
Love makes man and wild flowers spread on this rock
where all life is looking for balanced vibration.

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Jan Arends, Torroella de Montgrí (Girona).Text and picture.
'Poetic lines', 2008.

CIVILIZED WORDS

For Myf who said that 'civilizations
are but a thin layer of veneer'

Words of love and charity
queue to enter in these lines.
Are they made of vanity
hidden in the must of wines ?

Layers of words are thin and end
in shining covers of veneer.
Civilized they're standing up and
form some lines so soft and clear.

Watch the moving of a finger
on a well-tuned guitar-string:
sounds can tell you everything.

Jumping words of love and kindness
float around both you and me
making life a song to be.

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Jan Arends, 'Poetic lines' Torroella de Montgrí, 2003.

MY MUSE IN MAJORCA...

Every now and then poetic lines arrive.
Some of those lines appeared in this blog.






Carmen enjoying a laughing lunch on the Island of Majorca.

Some simple lines for Carmen

My wife and my life
are two poems in one:
some lines and a life
in a love that we won.