If you wish to have your poetry chapbooks, poetry books, children’s books (prose and poetry) translated from English to French French to English Mauritian Kreol to English English to Mauritian Kreol please feel free to send them to :
vatsfrankness@gmail.com
Translation Fee: U.S $0.08 (Rs 3.73 Mauritian currency) per word
Translation of Individual poems may also be considered. Please send 5-12 poems if you wish to have a small number of your poems translated. Those poems will be published on my blog.
I’m a writer/poet and an artist and I’ve been into poetry -writing for more than 30 years with 15 books published.
I have launched Women Poets read in August 2024 . The aim of this online reading event is mainly to encourage women poets to voice out through their poetry.
I will be conducting the second session of Women Poets read in November.
Details of the poetry reading session are as follows:
Title : Women Poets read
Date : 16 November 2024
Time : 19h00 (7PM) Mauritian time
Venue: Online through Zoom/Google Meet
Fee: Free/ No fee
Theme: Any
Poetry style : Any , provided decent language is used
Number of poems to be read : 2
After the event the poems read by each poet will be published in written or video formats.
Links to join the event will be e-mailed to each poet upon acceptance of invitation.
For further details please e-mail me to: vatsfrankness@gmail.com
Richard Doiron, Canada’s Peace Poet, bilingual (English-French) has his works in print over 60 years. His poems have been published in hundreds of paper books, anthologies, periodicals and personal collections. He is also the author of novels, biographical works, essays, and lyricist (several songs recorded). He is a graduate in journalism and is a Certified Lifeskills Coach. His work has been read at the United Nations University for Peace, Costa Rica and published alongside a dozen Nobel Prize Winners by invitation, including the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Desmond Tutu. His works have been translated into all major languages, UN 2000.) His writings have been showcased at the John Lennon Peace Tower, Reykjavik, Iceland. He is a participant in local, national, and international literary festivals He has been awarded 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award ,winner with World Poetry; 2017, Lifetime Achievement Award with Pentasi B World Friendship Poetry; 2017 nominated for “There is a Winner in You”, Lifetime Achievement Award with ARTeryUSA, nominated by James Pasqual Bettio, former senator in the California Senior Legislature, twice nominated for the Governor-General’s Award and Canada’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize, nominated to the Order of New Brunswick, Canada 2019. He was also nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, 2019, via Dr. Epitacio Tongohan, the Philippines. Named LAUREATE OF THE IVAN AIVAZOVSKY INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AND ART PRIZE 2022 (Ukraine- USA-Germany). He has posted poems online daily for 23 years in a variety of groups around the world, showcased in media on an ongoing basis on radio, television and in print. His most recent recognitions have been July 2024, Yugen Quest Review: WE Illumination Award 2024 (Poetry, Participation, Inspiration).
Here are three poems and a short story by Richard Doiron:
Prophet Tears
Were we attuned to prophet tears for what they are when one appears, a mantle worn like none before because, by God, there’s always more for us to learn, the truth revealed, in increments, therefore to field such deep design, as field the few, no doubt we’d weep like prophets, too!
Ancestors Dance (Sonnet #5100 in series)
Ancestors dance upon each blade of grass the fields alive for everyone to see and dreamers dream to see paraders pass their eyes now cast upon that family tree.
Ancestors dance upon the mountainside the hills alive for steps upon the stone and dreamers dream such dreams as coincide with things that are (if are too little known).
Ancestors dream whereas the rivers run the streams alive for gurgling that is heard and dreamers dream the dream has just begun as will be dreamt forever afterwards.
Ancestors dance upon the dashing dawn, let dreamers dream the dream is dancing on.
You Dream a Dream
You dream a dream of sunny days of butterflies while music plays of loving arms that hold you tight of roses red and starry nights and memories made that take you there
You dream a dream of precious things of promises and wedding rings of kisses sweet like vintage wine of chemistries when they combine from heaven high an answered prayer
You dream a dream of something more of tranquil times an end to war of poetry and works of art of loving words that touch your heart with not a place but there’s a friend
You dream a dream of peace on earth of minds that merge for all they’re worth of kindness done in every deed of famine gone for all we feed with thoughts like these that never end
The Day Habib Picked Fariba Roses
Where the roses grew unimpeded and in fields far-flung in their abundance, Habib, the son of Mohab and of Moraza, picked with a most exuberant zeal the six choicest roses his eyes chanced to focus upon. Not far in the distance Fariba, beloved of his heart and soul, would soon enough accept from him his gift of roses. This she would do with as much reverence as if she were the grateful recipient of a poet’s most sacred and celebrated offerings…
“For you, my dearest Fariba, the six roses the field of plenty have surrendered unto me,” said the jubilant Habib, his heart racing feverishly, his eyes gleaming with the light of love, his mind reeling in the realization that the accepting hand was the hand of manifest destiny. As for his soul, it was now soaring across the eternal realms of majesty and mystery.
“Oh what joy, Habib! What utter joy you have infused into my heart this very day, this day whereupon the angels sing as if there were no tomorrows in heaven!
“Be it known that in these roses I perceive rainbows and rain, as I likewise perceive the gracious wings of butterflies and bees, sharing with those their eagerness for the heady brew which permeates the field, that very field whereby your hand so eagerly plucked this bouquet now assigned to my board. Oh Habib, from off my board, from out that earthen vase, now holding your gift of roses to me, there now emanates the soulful song imparted to the ambassadors of love by the summer wind when it springs across the valley in the fullest heat of summer.
“And of this very room itself, truly has it become as the shaded sanctuary that affords the giant cedar when the sun is ablaze overhead, and the body is in need of respite. My eyes briefly closed, I hear in this, also, the gurgling sounds of the spring which sprouts forth from the earth to quench the thirst of the weary wayfarer.
“Oh, Habib, what more might I, Fariba, daughter of Rahullah and of Keshvar, say to you, my dearly beloved, with regards to these flowers?”
That day, Habib, son of Mohab and of Moraza, had his many thoughts, and flashed his many smiles, as likewise did his beloved Fariba. No, he was not a poet, no more than was his beloved Fariba a poetess. And yet the two lived their glorious and golden moment, as lovers have forever done and forever will do. But that day, as destiny would have it, it was the poet, Pouya, the searcher, who was a witness to it all. And it was he who lived their loving thoughts and he who assigned the gleam in their hopeful eyes and the smiles upon their loving faces to the pages of tomorrow and of all the tomorrows that ever might follow.
I’m a writer/poet and an artist and I’ve been into poetry -writing for more than 30 years with 15 books published.
I will be launching Women Poets read in August. The aim of this online reading event is mainly to encourage women poets to voice out through their poetry.
In each session , I will be inviting 4-5 poets from different countries to read 2 of their poems and share their views about poetry.
Details of the first poetry reading session are as follows:
Title : Women Poets read
Date : 10 August 2024
Time : 19h00 (7PM) Mauritian time
Venue: Online through Zoom/Google Meet
Fee: Free/ No fee
Theme: Any
Poetry style : Any , provided decent language is used
Number of poems to be read : 2
After the event the poems read by each poet will be published in written or video formats.
Links to join the event will be e-mailed to each poet upon acceptance of invitation.
For further details please e-mail me to: vatsfrankness@gmail.com
Here are 2 songs sung by Reza Dulymamode , singer of Belizean Diving Resort (Duo music band):
Hours of Abstention
Song for Karine
About the music band:
Belizean Diving Resort is the musical project of Reza Dulymamode and Thomas Grimaux who have been friends since their teenage years in Pessac, near Bordeaux (France). Their songs represent a lo-fi, minimalistic form of folk music focusing on emotion.
I have the pleasure to share the French short movie Karine at the music store (2024) featuring Mauritian radio host/journalist, actor, poet and musician, Reza Dulymamode.
Thank you Reza Dulymamode for allowing me to include that movie for World Music Day 2024 on this blog!
Vatsala Radhakeesoon Writer/poet/Organizer
Karine at the music Store (Short movie – French)
Directors: Jérémy Sulpis , Reza Dulymamode Producer/Editor: Jérémy Sulpis Voice over: Reza Dulymamode Also starring: Thomas Grimaux, Lucile Milien
Amidst all forms of Music, Classical Music reflects the soul of this amazing artistic field. Thank you Kenneth Babajie for allowing me to feature your captivating video of piano performance!
Vatsala Radhakeesoon Writer/poet/Organizer
Kenneth Babajie Mauritius
Here is a video of Chopin’s Waltz (romantic music) performed by Kenneth Babajie:
Bio: Kenneth Babajie is a Classical piano performer and piano teacher. He has been a former journalist. He has received part of his training at Cannes from 2000 to 2002. He has a Licentiate and Fellowship in piano performance (ABRSM) and a BSc degree in Political Science (University of Mauritius).
Here are two Spanish songs by Rafa Bocero featured on this blog for World Music Day 2024:
Bio (in Spanish):
Rafa Bocero es un trovador que invoca el misterio del duende.
Reivindicando con ello que Trovar viene de Tarab طرب
palabra árabe que designa la esencia…
…Ese duende en el Flamenco
Con un estilo único, este compositor, intérprete y guitarrista transita entre lo actual y lo ancestral. Creando algo auténtico en todo lo que hace y haciendo siempre algo diferente… Más allá de los géneros establecidos, él ejerce el suyo propio con especial sabor a Urban/Folk.
Realizó su primer concierto en 1995 y en 2006 hizo su debut discográfico con el álbum “Esencia” Gracias al apoyo del legendario guitarrista Vicente Amigo.
Ha actuado y grabado en países como Irlanda, Alemania, EE. UU. Gales (UK), Portugal, Cuba, México y España Con multitud de apariciones en medios de comunicación nacionales y extranjeros, incluidos de máxima audiencia.
Ha puesto música e interpretado joyas de la poesía española, latinoamericana y anglosajona. Con el aval de entre otras instituciones, de la “Casa del Poeta” de México, el Centro Cultural “Pablo de la Torriente Brau” de Cuba, la “Yeats International Society” de Irlanda o la “Dylan Thomas State” de Gales y es director y coordinador artístico de “Córdoba Trovadora, Encuentro de trovadores ciudad de Córdoba” producido por el IMAE (Instituto Municipal de artes Escénicas) en colaboración con la Delegación de Cultura, y la gestión del centro de creación y producción cultural La Casa Azul. Donde han actuado trovadores como Pedro Guerra, Javier Álvarez, Nuno Barroso, Miriam Toukam, Urbil Artola, Ulayya Pedraza y el propio Rafa Bocero entre otros.
Una trayectoria musical de más de 25 años, motivada por una constante búsqueda de la belleza, a través de un mensaje sincero, emocionantes melodías y unas letras profundas.
Here are two songs by Jennifer Lynn featured on this blog for World Music Day 2024:
Bio :
Jennifer Lynn is a Canadian, award nominated singer/songwriter. She also placed in the TOP 24 at the Best Of Tin Pan South Songwriting Festival for her song “Bluebird.” (A song from her debut album also of the same name.)
Her most recent single is called “Sinner Like Me” and is available everywhere you listen to music, along with the music video, available on YouTube.
With her debut album “Bluebird” already under her belt, she is gearing up to release her sophomore body of work within the next couple of months.
All of Jennifer’s music is available everywhere you listen to music online. You may also order physical copies of her debut album “Bluebird” through her website under the “Shop” category.
Here are two songs by Giles Matthews featured on this blog for World Music Day 2024:
Bio:
Giles Matthews is a singer and songwriter from South Wales, United Kingdom. He began songwriting with his school friend, Ian Smith. They formed a music duo called Desire. Desire recorded two albums and played concerts on the live scene. In 2003 , he went to Berryhill studio to record his first solo album, with hit producer and songwriter John David. He has recorded and written four albums at Berryhill studio. Songwriting for him is an expression of being alive and bringing magic to the world .
Vatsala Radhakeesoon Poetry, Prose, Translated Works 