Contemporary poetry: Composing multilayered visual narratives

Visual poems, informal, linguistic innovations
Period: 04.2018 / 11.2026

Poetry Repertoire

Multilayered visual poems, sensitive poetry, poems intertwined with visual art — poetically depicting proposed concepts, drawings, painted drawings or eclectic innovative food recipes

1. The memory of memories
Date: 2024

The memory of memories,
Waving a smile to time and life,
Painting the hues of soul strings' melody,
Echoes of embraced becoming.

Notes: Earliest registered poem in the 2024-2026 era.

2. L Points / Key board heart
Date: 2025

Key board heart,
a cosmic loom,
Love, life, liberty bloom,
Stars in soft wings's embrace.

Notes: Digital drawing, cosmic loom, inner vision, "L" symbol.

3. Pink Moon
Date: 2025

Eye of a gentle hue
Stars in cosmic breaths,
Slow down, heart can see

Notes: Digital drawing (100x70cm); cosmic breaths.

4. Touch of a sound
Date: 2025

Streetlights softly gleam
Touch of a sound, a thousand eyes
Stars in us all, listening

Notes: Digital drawing; shared musical resonance.

5. Roots of life / A ginSong SengSymphony
Date: 2025

Ancient whispers grow
Ginsong melodies in flight,
Life's sengsymphony journey.

Notes: Portmanteau linguistic innovations (Ginsong, Sengsymphony).

6. To WU: AllWays
Date: 2025

Soft touch, gentle sigh, hand in hand allWays one
Crane's soft call, of a glacier's hearts breath intertwine
Moon's perl on a sea sand's shell
The memory of our whispered vows inks
The taste of love embraced
Endless flows universes worlds
Infinite flights in starlight bloom

Notes: Neologism "allWays" merging temporal eternity and spatial paths.

7. Echoes in the Unseen
Date: 2025

A chord calls in the quiet air, a rhythm starts to hum,
Our soul's deep knowing, softly to become.
A sound unheard, across the boundless blue,
Vibrate with the one I'm drawn to.
No distance, where and when we meet,
A silent current, butterfly sweet.

This longing ache, a universal plea,
In every tremor calling to simply be,
For what is eternally meant to unite,
The unseen sound of the soul and bodies softly to be whole,
Until this quiet waiting finds its fulfillment.

Notes: Jazz improvisation cadences, mixed Nordic/Asian style. Tempo: Languid, with a gentle, yearning breath.

8. Water seeds
Date: 2025

(Version 1)
What if it takes
A seed breath
Tale to tell to
Eye of stars to
Read life's reeds
To sea to see and see

(Version 2)
What sea to see
A seed breath
Tale to tell to
Eye of stars to
Read life's reeds to
See sea see

Notes: Variations with syllable structure, to offer co-creation lecture multimode; homophonic wordplay on sea, see, seed.

9. L'encre d'étoiles / Star ink (Version courte)
Date: 2025

(Version FR)
L'encre d'étoilesv Trace des baisers,
Touches d'air en brise
Signe les yeux. le coeur

(Version EN)
Star ink

Trace of kisses,
Touches of breeze air
Sign the eyes.
the heart

Notes: Short quatrain on breeze air, kisses, and star ink.

10. In your arms
Date: 2025

In your arms
I turn to seasons
Of love to point a wave
Miracle of you

Notes: Innovative haiku style; multidirectional matrix.

11. Sunset in the sky
Date: 2026

Hear the light's sound
Eyes melting red and gold
Are soon touching the stars
Remain me speechless
To touch again your
Sunset in your eyes

Notes: Synesthetic poem matching a red/gold drawing.

12. Athena
Date: 2025

À chaque son des tes regards
Tes petits baisers au creux des étoiles
Hâtent se poser comme des ailes
En touchant du bout de l'air
Nos lignes des lèvres
Amour en notes déposés

Notes: Lyrical French poem with wing and musical note metaphors.

13. When
Date: 2025

When beat by beat
How light points
Every instant of becoming
Now and then embraced

Notes: Minimalist poem on light points and the instant of becoming.

14. Jailli
Date: 2025

Jailli ton regard
Immuable caresse
Bas reliefs articulent
Une infinie
Toucher de nos êtres
Amour murmurant
Ailes ouverts embrasées

Notes: Lyrical poem on low-reliefs and embraced wings.

15. J'imagine
Date: 2025

Ailes
Temps
Astres infinis
Mains entremêlées
Étincelles des nos reves

Notes: Christmas day poem on infinite stars and intertwined hands.

16. Nocturne breakfast
Date: 2025

(Version 1)
Slice of Moon
Slice of Sun
Love to kiss your mornings
Points points [...]

(Version 2)
Spans of Moon
Spans of Sun
To your mornings love kiss
Points points [...]

(Version 3)
Space of Moon
Space of Sun
Kiss to love your mornings
Points points [...]

Times of Moon
Times of Sun
To your mornings love kiss
Points points

Notes: 3 variations evoking the unspoken word "Time" and mode multi-lecture.

17. Oiseau infini (nvelle lettre)
Date: 2026

Moi de tes ailes
Vols en moitié
Pensées en notes
Un oiseau infini
Nouvelle lettre

Notes: Short poem on half-flights and thoughts as notes.

18. Unissons
Date: 2026

Douceur de tes regards
Air aux notes ailés
Lignes volantes
Accords, amour, silences
Unisons se cherchant
Fins sons entremêlés

Notes: Musical poem on winged notes and floating lines.

19. L for u (Longing for)
Date: 2026

Douceur de ton regarde
Touche de nos temps infinis quand être
Descend, monte, inspire,
Tourne, emplie les universes
Comble comblant quand être.

Notes: Poem on longing, being, and universal breathing.

20. L'ouïe
Date: 2026

L'Ouïe

Et si on clos
Et quand on clos
Et où on clos
Et comment on clos
Et si
Et
Universes
Fut

Notes: Acrostic: l'Oeuf (The Egg), linking the primordial through silent sound notes, hearing, beginnings, universes, within a poetic structure. Exploration of sensory closure and universal silence. Painted drawing: Pbstf (de l'intime et du cosmos)

21. Melting pot / Dédicace Nouvelle Vague
Date: 2026

Pour ton ton de tes notes
Touche les étincelles
Flocons de neige
Des temps d’une reine
Qui a fondue la glace des larmes
Des notes entremêlées

Notes: Inspired by Nouvelle Vague's cover of the song "Melt with you".

22. Title: Shining smile
Date: 2026

Close eyes
To see the smiles
To you opened
Lips shining
Close, closed
Light blue seen around
Unspoken yet embraces
Unseen yet sounds
Unheard yet smiles
Unfelt yet looks
Unlived
Yet
Close

Notes: Anaphoric structure built on the prefix "Un-".

23. Notes d'Apollon
Date: 2026

Nuits mouvantes
Onctueuses notes
Tes cordes vibrantesv En étincelles unies
Seules airs d'âme

Notes: Evocation of Apollo's lyre and soul airs.

24. Songe d'une nuit ailée
Date: 2026

Souvenirs de nous
Oh toi, d'une infinie
Nuit des songes
Games d'un doux regard
Et envols ailés

Notes: Composed for the homonym painting.

25. Voiles en plein soleil
Date: 2026

Voiles de toutes couleurs
Où sons touchent écumes
Intemporel, l'amour vivant
Lumières du noir devenu
Au touches des soleils

Notes: Written for the homonym painting.

26. Waving
Date: 2026

Strings circles
Universe playing
Life timelines
Pass, come
Stages touch
Waving

Notes: Reflection on cosmic timelines and life stages.

27. Thrill of a March feather look
Date: 2026

I look to you
Evening to morning
You look to me
Morning to evening
Nights and days
Knights of true love
I, me, we
We, me, I
I, you, we
We, you, I
Me, I, we
We, me, I

Notes: Mathematical permutations of pronouns (I, me, you, we). Unconventional burstiness.

28. ED 9,2 (Earth Day 2026)
Date: 2026

Et depuis 4,6 milliards d'années
Une petite planete bleue
Verse ses eaux
Des rivières et des fleuves
Pour la vie
Je t'aime et je te remercie

Notes: Earth Day poem celebrating 4.6 billion years of life.

29. JATi U
Date: 2026

Clef d'opale jade blanc
Accords jadis murmurés
Encre les etoiles
De tes yeux emplis
Caresses montées
Descendant
Les temps et espaces
Infinies notes
En n’en plus finir
Les temps
Les espaces
Les accords
Les notes

Notes: Lyrical poem with precious imagery (opal, white jade).

30. b in G
Date: 2026

blue is in G
Lying down on me
Unique notes
Endlessly
In love with you
Nor for getting
G out of blue and black
Refrain repeat
Even rose and miles
Even then, every Now
My and mine all
Drain
Call t'rain notes
Do a warm up
Down to the rivers

Oh ...
blue in G

Notes: Bilingual musical poem combining G note, blues, and drain sounds.

31. Flying thoughts
Date: 2026

Fly close to me
Largo movement
Yellow sound
In light green waves
Near beat of heart
Growing in
Thoughts touch
Harmonies close
Only hues whispered
Universes colours
Go see return notes
Hugs round and around
Times of times around
Stars around with

2u

Notes: Acrostic poem spelling F-L-Y-I-N-G T-H-O-U-G-H-T-S.

32. Encre d'étoiles (Poème miroir)
Date: 2026

Encre d'étoiles
Noir étincelé
Creux de l'amour
Rivières des temps
Espaces toutes couleurs

Notes: Reversible poem readable both forward and backward.

33. Live EE
Date: 2026

E is a noted note
Stars wish in strings
Time laps in the airv Accents on the way
Tiny sparks filling
And waving in scales
Round on keys
Dreamers night cords
E is a late noted note

vi llover

Notes: Inspired by Eliane Elias's live solo piano version of "Esta tarde vi llover".

34. Moving moves
Date: 2026

moons halfs
in airy notes
open whispers
in sky's heart whitely
wings uniques
in waves
in colors
in notes
in

Notes: Informal plural 'halfs' used as a musical morphological license. The letters (m i o i w) create a visual mirror symmetry matching the drawing.

35. Goutes d'étoiles / Stardrops
Date: 2026

(Version FR) Vagues ouvrants
Instants du coeurv Rêves de toi
Cercles entremêles
Embrassées
Goutes d'étoiles

(Version EN) Open waves
Instants of heart
Dreams of you
Intertwined circles
Embraced
Stardrops

Notes: Bilingual poem.

36. Sounds of a tale of lives
Date: 2026

Destiny weaves its delicate strand
A tale of lives, ancient lands
Tears and laughter, sorrows, sighs
Spacetime fly notes, hearts, sounds

Notes: Delicate strand of destiny, ancient lands, spacetime flying notes.

37. Voiles de car en e
Date: 2026

Voiles d'étoiles
Oú rêves de toi
Immuables airs
Longuement se cherchant
Embrassées, baisers
Sourires en arcs vibrant

Notes: Star sails, vibrating arcs, immutable airs.

38. Aux. / To.
Date: 2026

(Version FR)
Papillons aux ailes ouverts
Ondulent leurs notes en moitié, goutes
Ecoumées s'écoulent, en instants se recherchant

(Version EN)
Butterflies with open wings
Undulate their notes

in halves, beads flowthdrifted
glidelapsing in instants
seeking each other

Notes: Explores portmanteau words / linguistic innovations (écoumées, flowthdrifted, glidelapsing).

39. Alnaïr arcs
Date: 2026

Alnaïr arcs

A star at Dalmatian distance
101 Alnaïr years to see it
For the 1st time playing
Universes' sound of
Colors in arcs fus

Notes: Ode to the star Alnaïr ("The Bright One"); light arcs envisioned as a cosmic time-travel ship.

40. C2E
Date: 2026

Close the eyes
Come to me
Evenings' nights
Even ever for
Colors days soundsv Two to chords times
Even me, even you

Notes: Written for an ink/acrylic drawing on a Moleskine notebook.

41. Chagall
Date: 2026

(Version FR)
Chaleur douce
Hors des temps
Accords brillent.

Goute leurs goutes
Amour couleurs d'étoiles
Lettres en notes
Là, la Lune
Baisers ouverts entremêlés

(Version EN)
Gentle warmth
Timeless Choirs shine.

Taste their drops
Love, star-colored
Letters in notes
There, the Moon
Open kisses intertwined

Notes: Acrostic spelling C-H-A-G-A-L-L.

42. Open Moon
Date: 2026

Open moon, light flights
In your arms
White soft strings
Love, moves, in colors
Open

Notes: Matrix allows 3 reading modes (horizontal, vertical 4-word cadence, vertical word-by-word with Moon transitioning into a verb).

43. A shell saga / Saga d'un coquillages…
Date: 2026

(Version FR)
Chut… caresses des sons
Une lumière aux teinte mouvant
Des anneaux de désirs se rassemblent
Accords en la, de sable
Pulsations, couleurs d'étoiles
Vagues d'amour

Saga d'un coquillages…

(Version EN)
S'h... caresses sounds
A moving hue light
Gather rings of desires
A chords of sands
Pulses, stars colorsv Waives of love
A shell saga...

Notes: Composed for a homonym original painting in Athens, Greece.

44. A Yayoï
Date: 2026

A Red tsuru
Inner singularity
Graceful flight
Always eyes
To you
Oh you

Notes: Dedication poem to Yayoi Kusama.

45. Sonnet des ailes / Sonnet of Wings
Date: 2026

(Version FR)
Sens les ailes
Soit les ailes

Ailes de jours
Ailes de nuits

Ailes d'amours
Ailes de vie

Instants des 1000 couleurs
Caresses douces

Ailes des nuits et des jours

Regards des coeurs

(Version EN)
Feel the wings
Be the wings

Wings of days
Wings of nights

Wings of love
Wings of life

Instants of a thousand colors
Gentle caresses

Wings of nights and days
Gazes of hearts

Notes: A condensed 10-line incantatory structure written in Athens, Greece.

46. flori de cires (cherry blossoms)
Date: 2022

(Version RO)
privindu-te
iti cresc flori de
cires in palme
astri din privirea ta se avanta
catre adancul cerului
instelat de flori
de cires plutind
agale catre orizonturi de armonii soptite
in pulsatiile verzi albastre ale sufletului chemandu-ne
sa ne fim orizonturi

(Version EN)
looking at you
cherry blossoms grow in your palms
stars from your gaze soar
towards the depths of the sky
starred by cherry blossoms floating
swiveling towards horizons of whispered harmonies
in the green-blue pulsations of the soul calling us
to be our horizons

(Version FR)
en te regardant
des fleurs de cerisier éclosent au creux de tes paumes
de ton regard s’élancent des étoiles
vers les profondeurs du ciel
constellé de fleurs de cerisier en suspension
tournoyant vers des horizons aux harmonies murmurées
au sein des pulsations vert-bleu de l’âme qui nous appellent
a etre nos propres horizons

Notes: Organic flow lacking punctuation, exploring the apo koinou effect.

47. Ένας Γατ(ουδισμ)άς / Une Cha(n)t / A Ca(n)t
Date: 2026

(Version GR)
Ένας Γάτας
Το φεγγάρι
Να σου πει
Πως σ' αγαπάει

(Version EN)
A Cat
The Moon
To tell you
That loves you

(Version FR)
Une Chat
La Lune
Te dire
Que t'aime

Notes: Poetic licenses like children writting (Une chat, a cat, Ένας Γάτας). Written to accompany a drawing on hotel reception paper in Athens.

48. Despre iubire
Date: 2018

(Version RO)
Dar din Inima Creatorului
E iubirea-agapi, ce transcede
Spre infinit, al căilor drum
Pe curcubee de nuanțe,
Radiindu-și lumina cea dulce
Etern, profund și în mii de frecvențe
Inima vorbește, tace, ascultă și iartă
Urmând calea vieții și a sieși,
Bucurie și râset semănând în suflete,
Iar și din nou, mereu acolo fidelă
Rămâne perpetuu centru a ce este,
E Iubirea-agapi, sofie și esență.

(Version FR)
Don du Cœur du Créateur,
C’est l’amour 'agapè', qui transcende
Vers l’infini, le chemin des chemins
Sur des arcs-en-ciels des nuances,
Rayonnant sa douce lumière
Éternellement, profond, et en mille fréquences
Le cœur parle, se tait, écoute et pardonne,
Suivant la voie de la vie et de soi,
Joie et rire semer dans les âmes,
Encore et encore, toujours la fidèle
Demeure perpétuellement centre de ce qui est,
Amour-agapi, sagesse et essence.

Notes: Acrostic spelling "Despre iubire". Has nothing to do with religions. Part of the multimedia book Eliah's voyages (in rainbow worlds).

49. P.S.
Date: 2026

Plumes
Sons
Light
Life
Histories
Books
Eyes
See
Silence
Hear

Notes: Tiny FrEnglish poem spontaneously written while publishing visual artworks.

50. Encre de mes rêves / Ink of My Dreams
Date: 2026

(Version FR)
L'encre encre
L'encre étoilée
L'encre encrée
L'en clé d'encre

Au creux de mes rêves

(Version EN)
The ink inks
The starry ink
The inked ink
The ink-key

In the depths of my dreams

Notes: Written alongside an original handmade painted drawing in a notebook.

51. Sons couleurs des rêves / Sounds-colors of dreams
Date: 2026

(Version FR)
Sons couleurs des rêves

au creux de mes rêves
pensées aux ailes d'amour
te rêver sourires embrassés
aux doux sons couleurs de tes rêves

(Version EN)
Sounds-colors of dreams

in the hollow of my dreams
thoughts with wings of love
dreaming of you smiles embraced
to soft sounds colors of your dreams

Notes: Poem accompanying the drawing with the same name.

52. Sweet waves
Date: 2026

Eyes looking shy
A thought sound
Round like the
   sunset waves

Notes: Poem accompanying the drawing with the same name.

53. Autumn drops
Date: 2026

Autumn drops
Loving thoughts under raindrops
Blind mode 1line drawing tomorrows'
Drop(s) of longing warm thrills
Notes of colors wings open today

Notes: Four lines without punctuation, a poem echoing the wave of raindrops and the sensitive colors of their music, transforming their shapes and flight (wings open) into a complementary accompaniment to the homonymous drawing.

54. Dots rising
Date: 2026

Kiss by kiss
Thousands smiles
Dots rising
Skies and times
Suns and moons
Longing me and you
In up and down
N lines waves in
Lyra's sounds colors

Infinite dots

Notes: Poem written Oct 30th, as part of the visual composition painted drawing 'Rising kisses'.

55. A ride in the sky
Date: 2026

Li(c)horn eye
Ring of lights
Lie on top
Stars in line
In your arms
A ride in the sky

Notes: A tiny poem linking astronomical observation of an Athenian night sky and intimacy, where celestial alignments collapse into the warmth of a shared embrace.s

56. Art trace of a breath
Date: 2025

A trace of a breath
Resonance beyond
The remains of a silent note
Art

Notes: Acrostic 'Art'.

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