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Write On Magazine's Featured Poet

Olga de Mercouly

Poet and Artist from Paris, France
brought to you by The Tampa Bay Poetry Council

From a collection of Olga de Mercouly's
original oil paintings entitled,
"Where Does the Sea Begin?"

Where Does the Sea Begin?
By Olga de Mercouly

Where does the sea begin?
Where is the end of the wave,
The time and seasons
And the ground swells?
Where does the sea begin ?
In its heart is the wave,
Mother of all times,
Begotten by winds.
Its crests, o marvel,
Jagged scales,
Hemmed by the sun
With pearly needles,
Without equal handwork
Embroidered by the sky.
Where does the wave begin,
Where is the end of the sea
Which gives us manna
And governs the universe?
Rhythmically by the will of time
The tireless tide
Which nibbles the shore
Through its captivating song
Plunges us into dreams,
The dunes echo it.
And we can hear,
Vibrating as a golden harp,
The exhausted foam
Which continues to cry again.
Harmonious language
That the sea knows how to speak.
And you, wise pcet,
You can imagine
Haloed with soft sprays
The eternal beauty
With numerous perfumes.
The sun which falls asleep
On the moving wave
Seems to withdraw
A multicoloured sheet,
Shades of the night.
The moon is wearing
Its angel-coloured dress
And its silken cape
Slowly unfurls
On the crimson horizon.
Where does the sea begin
Which governs tlne universe?
In its emerald green vault
The sky is going to trap
Its ballet of stars
Captured by the sea.
And the light mist
Heralding the dawn
Transforms into dew
This hymn to beauty.
O unreal paintings
Created in the space.
O immortal pages
Of this eternity.

© 1996 copyright Olga de Mercouly

From a collection of Olga de Mercouly's
oil paintings entitled,
"The Tears of the Sea."

A Newborn Child
By Olga de Mercouly

A newborn child cries and dies
Because he is hungry
but our granaries are filled
A newborn child trembles and dies
Because he is cold
we know it
A child runs away and dies
Because of the war
And we close our eyes
Children grow up and die
In misery
with no one there
A child grows up under a starless sky
We have so many stars
Think about these children
Give them a star
In the blue of their sky
And offer them paintings
to reflect the true life
then offer them a smile
And a helping hand
Offer them our laughter
and they will give us theirs.

© 1996 copyright Olga de Mercouly

From a collection of Olga de Mercouly's
oil paintings entitled,
"In the Foam of Time."

When You No Longer See
By Olga de Mercouly

When you no longer see
Along this beach
My footprints
Erased by the wind
When the will-o'-the wisps
Around the marshes
Abolish time
Then, I'll come back
Walking on that shore
In the fragrant nights
And I'll look for you
I'll pick up in space
Tne spray of the oceans
And I'll give my laugh
To the stars and the winds
When you don't see any more
Along that beach
My footprints
Worn away with time
O yes, I'll come back
To listen to your voice
to make you a necklace
Of golden grains of sand
And of the foam from the waves
To tell you: I love you
But you'll not hear me
And I'll shout your name
Through the clouds
Perhaps you'll see
The mark of my body
Covered with sand
I'll wait for the mist
Enveloping the earth
Impregnated with the mystery
Of life and death
Then you'll feel
The mark of my body
And the air on my face
At the end of that lane
Which leads to my name
Engraved on that stone
In its ivy cradle
There, will be our union.

© 1996 copyright Olga de Mercouly

About the poet. . .

Olga De Mercouly is both a poet and an artist
and was recently awarded the 1996 Poetica Poet of the Year Award. She has published four booklets of poems entitled, "Amour, Espace et Temps," (Love, Space and Time), "Les Larmes de la Mer," (The Tears of the Sea), "Dans l'Ecume du Temps," (In the Foam of Time) and "Lumieres abyssales," (Abyssal Lights). In each one of her books, she develops her favorite topics -- dream and beauty, love and peace, life and death. Because she refuses mediocrity and half-heartedness, she expresses her search for absolute and for a universe of beauty and love with impulses of sincerity and conviction strong enough to become often heart-rending. And all that, with the music of the sea and the waves playing in the background.

Olga De Mercouly has taught poetry courses in French schools. She is a member of several literary Academies and Societies such as The European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Literature, The Society of French Writers, and the Society of Writers in French Language.

During the past 20 years she has been the honored guest of numerous foreign academies and cultural organizations including the Belgian Royal Academy in Brussels, the Swedish Royal Academies in Stockholm, the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture in Sofia, the Gulbenkian Institute in Lisbon, Portugal, the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and most recently Estonia, UNESCO in Paris and St. Petersburg and Moscow in Russia.

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