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Title: Dans Le Fondu Des Mots: Poésie

Author: Huguette Bertrand

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Première partie

Zone de tendresse

libertés permises

si tant loin du corps

une douceur fluide

de l'aimante obscure

ses paroles translucides

répandues sur les noeuds

troublants d'une blessure

sur velours parfumé

en ses songes repose

inaltérée

désir secoué

par tant de baisers

allés se rejoindre

dans le tourbillon

des mots rouges

Ce carnage dans les mots

suspendus sur le temps

carnet rieur

de tous nos maux

accomplissent l'automne

d'un présent à l'autre

repasse dans la mémoire

un vieux cri d'amour

brisé s'enchaîne

autour des formes

courroux d'une chair

pulse le sang

les sens tendus

10.10.00

Sous un ciel écorché

la mort ose

devenir saison

dépouillée se repose

de ses soeurs frivoles

surannées

bouillonne sous l'écorce

en ses sens

épuisés

cette morose

ose la mort

peu de chose

à l'aurore

19.10.00

En un clin d'oeil

les encres anéantissent la nuit

d'un trait

tracent des silences rouge sanguin

au coeur des pierres

au rythme des sens

s'animent les formes

dans un regard

oppressé

24.10.00

Vie

secrets

ascension

jusqu'au sommet des sens

en plein désir

en plein délire

se consument

dans le feu du poème

ses frémissements

25.10.00

Assis sur le temps

le coeur trempe dans l'attente

étale sur le blanc

des pensées brumeuses

spontanées

en mouvement

25.10.00

Étoilé

l'automne fou

en ces douces colères

annonce un hiver sombre

rage sage

son innocence

27.10.00

Bel espoir

dont les lèvres

sont la pulpe de mes désirs

29.10.00

Faut-il s'en vouloir

d'être là

à crier des mots

qu'on ne veut plus entendre

passant par le noir des incertitudes

collées sur le pavé d'un monde

à fric à freak

dans l'entre-deux langues

la nôtre extensible

à n'en plus finir de vivre

mais toujours en cette langue

du poème que nous sommes

surprend nos moments fous

exaltés

en nos âmes harnachées

par des silences mous

persistants

Rire rouge

devant la lune folle

poussière d'espace

rôdeuse vieille rôdeuse

allègrement se promène

sur la voie des songes

sous facettes multiples

s'éprend des va-nu-coeurs

épave flottante frivole

sur la noirceur d'une page

glisse entre les mots

pose son regard unique

sur le multiple

reconnaît et recrée le monde

à chaque instant

31.10.00

L'INNÉ DIT

Cette ébauche m'a éveillée

m'a emmenée par la main

jusqu'aux murmures

ses vibrations

à travers le miroir d'une harmonie

lourd trésor

à peine délivré

se déplie sur le tracé du feu

suit le contour du corps

au risque de brûlures

effleure le gémissement de la vague

contorsion du ciel en son ventre

glisse sur les eaux trouble du désir

emporté en son remous

vers aussi loin

que les distances qui les séparent

14.11.00

Des brins de nostalgies

par vagues poudreuses

emportent les espoirs

vers de lointains lendemains

sans lendemain

vers des horizons spontanés

aussitôt vus puis disparus

vers d'interminables saisons

que la vie égrène

sur un fauteuil sur mesure

à la mesure des recommencements

sans demi-mesure

ni le quart d'heure appréhendé

ni l'instant d'après

échoué sur le corps des mots

en leur plus doux paysage

entrevu au large

par ce va-et-vient

des gestes luxuriants

18.11.00

Enfants du Sud

Enfants du Nord

qui du dehors avez froid

quand le dedans s'éprend d'un geste

d'une parole unique

venue dire

je t'aime

03.12.00

DE CONFIDENCES EN ÉVIDENCES

Séducteur le temps

se joue des époques

reprend sa marche

secoue la soif

en un respir redit le tendre

refait les gestes

posés sur l'affranchie

vent doux

vent d'âmes

souffle sur l'immense

grise le temps

ses évidences

04.12.00

Un soupir moribond

trainait sur la place

de l'espoir

respirait les échos

d'un lointain plaisir

incrusté dans l'âme

de son présent

toujours soupirait

entre les attentes

désordonnées

04.12.00

OSER BAS

Je pense

J'ose

Je fais

Je dis

J'écris

emportés par les tempêtes du Nord

mes mots se dispersent

entre silence et ombre

en petits tas de cendres

s'affaissent sur l'éphémère

quelques braises encore

veillent sur la folie des gestes

improvisés

05.12.00

Un ciel rose m'est tombé dans l'oeil

par mon unique fenêtre

m'a montré des femmes de silence

femmes de pluie

marchent dans leur nuit

voilées

murmurent sans écho

abandonnées dans leur regard

clos

07.12.00

Il pleut des jours glacés

sur un amas de mots effarouchés

déployés sur l'aujourd'hui

que demain rassemblera en un texte

long comme l'hier

16.12.00

La dureté des pierres

me prononce à chaque instant

me porte vers les mots

danse des mots sur les lignes

danse sur ma toile

débordent le cadre des tristesses

toujours combattues

dans l'amplitude du mouvement

17.12.00

À l'eau toit, là-haut

sous une pluie d'étoiles

quand la peur rebelle hurle ses maux

défie les couleurs confuses

délirante projette sur la toile

l'infini d'un mouvement en pointillés

que la main trace d'un instant à l'autre

en ses durs silences

parmi ses jeux de lumières incandescentes

éclate

marque le temps

ce temps d'être là

dans l'instant

instant des recommencements

17.12.00

Les mots immobiles

tracent mes silences

sur le mouvement des choses tues

mots tuant les maux

couleur des mots

au fil d'instants morts

morts des maux

mots des morts

mortellement mots

incarnés dans le mouvement

des maux

tus

17.12.00

Rage de vie

rage de mots

rage de couleurs

répandue douce

au coeur de l'événement

reprend le geste

refait les mots

recrée la forme

retour au cercle

renaît la vie

son mouvement

ondulé

18.12.00

À coeur à corps perdu

de l'oeil aux pieds

par les deux bouts

entre midi et quatorze heures

courir pattes blanches

derrière un lièvre

trébucher sur le rêve des autres

noyer ses peines dans l'eau remuante

des désirs

changer de cap

s'asseoir sur une branche

surveiller le temps

se moucher de temps en temps

semer des feux

ça et là

embrasser quatre chemins

puis ensuite s'endormir

entre les bras d'une étoile

à mourir de rire

dans un plume

éphémère

23.12.00

Au rythme de la mémoire

un long poème s'écrit

sans fin épelle l'amour

en d'intimes enlacements

déposés dans l'écrin des jours

d'images en musiques

de musiques en paroles

paroles assidues

de connivence avec la terre brute

ses arrogances

ses manigances

à la croisée des regards

nus

23.12.00

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Deuxième partie

Oui la vie

ce long poème agité

par le rouge et le noir des saisons

reprend la clé s'ouvre la porte

cherche la trace

du temps recueilli

se chuchote

en mille mots

transperce la peau

jusqu'au coeur se faufile

à travers pulsations

inédites

25.12.00

Dans l'obscurité

j'avance dans mes pas bleus

sans trahir la lumière autour

traces d'argile

sur les silences

en nos chairs s'abreuvent

à la source des désirs

éclatés en sanglots

coulent sur la dure

emplissent les murs de mille voix

par vagues et chuchotements

d'une caresse se conjuguent

aux embrassements des lendemains

effrayés

25.12.00

En ses doux murmures

me convie à la table des silences

durs silences

en son poème

dévoilés

à la frontière

une caresse enserre l'obscur

dépose en son centre

un regard neuf

25.12.00

Avait-il mal à son monde

poète qu'il était

s'abreuvait à sa source

en ses fibres

par son sang l'écrivait

l'oeil coquin

souvent le buvait

d'un verre à l'autre

à travers ses larmes rieuses

écrivit son long poème

jusqu'à sa fin

26.12.00

Si loin

le soleil s'abandonne

dans le chaud regard de l'oeil

que transpercent les mots

les uns derrière les autres

sans fin redisent

l'amour en pointillés

d'ébats en combats

par le sang

la vie l'écrit

le boit le lie

au dernier regard

ennivré

04.01.01

Dans les veines

d'un horizon glacé

la substance des jours

traîne sa longue plainte

sur la langueur des solitudes

verse le sang

rougi au feu des amours

sur la page

incendiée

04.01.01

Ne tirez pas sur le poète

il marche dans sa chair glaise

entre les regards apaisés

et les bouffées de silence

que l'amour ému

toujours remue

jusqu'à l'ivre-mort

mort ivre du vivant nonchalant

toujours il marche

dans sa glaise

glaise de vie

amour à vie

amour à mort

13.01.01

Étendu blanc

sur un long souffle

l'hiver murmure des flocons

à n'en plus finir

s'attaque à nos endurances

apprises par coeur

quand déjà s'entend

le ruissellement des sèves

dans les veines d'avril

sous la glace

rompue

17.01.01

À bout de souffle

le dernier mot

s'écrase sur les phrases

glisse dans les abysses du coeur

sans retour givré dans la splendeur

d'un instant mort d'amour

c'était l'autre histoire

une histoire imaginée

dans le nu d'un instant

une fièvre passagère

un passage démentiel vers le haut pavé du ciel

un ciel incarné dans un corps bien né

gémissante tendresse en corps accord

perle douce perle rare

d'une autre histoire

ses mouvements

passagers

20.01.01

En l'absence du désert

j'ai longé l'avenue des échanges

dans une ville étrangère

j'accentuai mon pas

sur une toile vierge offerte

aux reflets du soleil

emprisonnés dans la passion

de mes gestes spontanés

mouvements crépusculaires

allés se noyer rebelles

dans les fragrances de l'aube

emportée dans le remous d'un horizon

estompé

29.01.01

Désir au pair

perdre l'idée

l'idée des mots

mots m'ont tuée

tué le nous

encore debout

le bout de tout

tout à l'envers

retour autour

d'un tour de taille

entaille le verbe

verborescence

à sens unique

nids d'hirondelles

ne riront d'elle

d'une aile à l'autre

sauter des mots

sauter des monts

montée de vie

via l'amour

29.01.01

Histoire de parole

parole du sens

sens en mouvement

musique des mots

mouvement rythmé

cadence du corps

d'accords brisés

reprend son souffle

retour aux sens

remet les mots

rejoint le sens

son mouvement

05.02.01

Le temps ne m'aime plus

le temps ne m'aime plus

que dans l'éphémère des instants

dérive d'instants sur l'âme fragmentée

dérive les fragments sur les mots

beauté mouvante d'une parole

au-dessus de l'abyme

prison de soie

prison de chair

assiégée par la vague

d'une mer amoureuse

son repli

10.02.01

Lui parler près du coeur

murmurer en son centre

ce doux temps

cet espace

à travers le silence

à jamais

poétique

16.02.01

Affaissée dans ses mots

une femme sur un lit

de désirs se replie

quand l'esprit d'un oiseau

de l'épaule s'évade

d'une douce emprise

des distances

d'une parole

à demeure en son être

exposée

au soleil des durées

17.02.01

L'AMER ARRIMÉ

Charmes de chair de serpent

rampant sur ses misères

déployées sur le temps

d'une nuit mensongère

s'est dressée une barrière

en mon coeur de métal

faisant trève de tout mal

que mon âme ne tolère

excusez-la

excusez-moi

ça va oui merci

et vous moi non plus

s'arrime de vous à moi

sans moi la détente

s'abandonne la jouissance

jouirez-vous non pas du tout

tout à vous en mille bisous

dans le délire du tout à nous

18.02.01

EN TOUT SENS

Magnétique

elle est sans cesse en mouvement

elle bouge beau dans ses heures

chaque instant la ramène

sur le douillet du tendre

son corps roule exalté

dans les flammes du coeur

trempé dans la gourmandise

d'un regard neuf

plonge dans le plaisir nu

jusqu'au seuil de l'abandon

s'accorde aux ondes de qui l'a vue

à travers l'absolu de son infinitude

20.02.01

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