Paris – Page 2 – Deuxiemepeau Poetry by Damien B. Donnelly

BOOKENDS; EVEN IN THE FINAL FALL THERE CAN STILL BE A SPARKLE

I sit in between streets, in between ageing and learning, learning to forget and trying to remember, eating time before it’s cleared away as people pass, some looking and leaning, some desiring to linger, longer, not knowing I’m soon to be going, not noting I’ve been removed from the menu, replaced in his city […]

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BOOKENDS; OCEANS OF COLOUR, PHOTOGRAPHY

For Liz… All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly At D’Illimination, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 26th Nov, 2019

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BOOKENDS; A CITE OR A SHADOW

A city and a shadow, a choice; to stay or leave, to concede and crown myself as conquered and then be crushed or to continue on as committed commuter, to be complacent or constantly curious for more light so as to comprehend the darkness, to break down the barrier between all there is to […]

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BOOKENDS; WORDLESS WEDNESDAY, PARIS, EYES OF A TOURIST

All photographs by Damien B Donnelly

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BOOKENDS; STUMBLING THROUGH THE DREAM, WIDE AWAKE

I was silent once amid the noise, stumbling through smothering, a bare canvas cradling nothing in arms that had promised everything. I circled the globe once to find that home was just a word, a word that makes a memory to plot a beginning, not weighted but weightless. I am, like you all, no […]

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BOOKENDS; KISSED BY SOMEONE ELSE’S KING AT CHRISTMAS

Lights danced on shivering trees dressed in a blanket of snow while a tale was told of a boy, born to be king, to never know choice. I kissed Christmas in someone else’s shadow and we whispered in the absence of his voice. I dreamt of a crib where a kid had kept faith […]

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BOOKENDS; A SHADE CAUGHT IN THE SHADOW

I walk in circles now, following paths forward that crossover roads I once considered. Time trips onward but no longer is the line straight, no longer a captive of direct. This light is lit now like a last lap, here, in this place once prized, once positioned next to pride on platforms now too […]