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Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Saturday, July 28, 2012

It is time to

Wordle: It is time to


It is time to go back home
When the overload of culture
Turns you away from another
Castle, museum, church,
Painting, sculpture or concert.
It is time to go back home
When your bloated body
Says enough of brioche, foie gras,
Oysters and rich solid food
Ingested three times a day.
It is time to go back home
When your digital caméra
Displays the message
Memory is full.
It is time to go back home
When you are getting homesick
And miss your familiar environment
And are tired to be at strangers beck and call.
Then it is time to collect
Your small hoard of souvenirs
Quickly bought on a street corner
And to return home.
Well, welcome home my dear!
L. Bailliet©
27/07/2012

Wordle: Il est temps de

Il est temps de rentrer à la maison
Lorsque la surcharge de culture
Te détourne  d'un autre
Château, musée, église,
Peinture, sculpture ou concert.
Il est temps de rentrer à la maison
Lorsque ton corps boursouflé
Dit assez de brioche, foie gras,
D’ huîtres et de riches plats
Ingérés trois fois par jour.
Il est temps de rentrer à la maison
Lorsque ton appareil photo numérique
Affiche le message
Mémoire pleine.
Il est temps de rentrer à la maison
Lorsque tu éprouves  le mal du pays
Et que te manques ton environnement familier
Et que tu es fatiguée d'être à la botte d’ étrangers.
Alors il est temps de recueillir
Ton trésor de petits souvenirs
Vite acheté à un coin de rue
Et de rentrer chez toi.
Eh bien, bienvenue à la maison ma chère!
L. Bailliet©
27/07/2012

Monday, July 23, 2012

What about the premiums?

Wordle: What about the premiums?

There are lots of countries I've never visited
 I've never even touched South America
I would have like to see the Argentinean Pampa
To the cape of Horn
The heights of Chile and Peru
Experience the wilds rhythms of samba
And the soft ones of the Caribbean islands
The pyramids and deserts of Mexico.
Lately the world has taken on a darker tint
Shrinking it to a tainted blood bath with religions
All fighting against each other
In order to clean the world of its evil roots
When it's not pure destruction led by greed.
Not a very nice age of Aquarius,
Not quite  what it was promised to be, is it?
Mind you I would also like to have been able
To travel in time, something is really missing
In that respect don't you think so?
I would have like to follow in the steps of Marco Polo
To visit the Far East, or step in those of Casanova
In his travels of the European courts
Be there on one of the red priest concerts
In the rich Venetian republic cathedral.
A visit of ancient Rome and Egypt
Would have to be compulsory
As well as one to the fabled Byzantium.
Me thinks that one could really have
Lots of fun on time travels.
Mind you insurance premiums would
Certainly be at a premium!
Can you start to imagine the costs?
L. Bailliet©
23/07/2012