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Masonic Poems by Bernard Ghilissen

Bernard Ghilissen

is the Association of Masonic Arts Ambassador to Belgium. He joined Freemasonry in 2002 and currently serves “Les Vrais Amis”, Retinne, Belgium as Junior Warden.

He is a writer of masonic poetry and prose and is interested in mausic, painting and the restoration of antique furniture.

Poems

Le maillet

Terrible, le coup du maillet

Symbole de l’autorité

L’impétrant, courbé, arrive

Sans comprendre, entame ses pas

Dans sa tête les bruits dérivent

De l’équerre et du compas

The mallet

Terrible, the blow of the mallet

Symbol of authority

The apprentice, curved, arrives

Without understanding, begins to override

In his mind the noises derive

From the square and compass

Pilier de la beauté

Proche du Septentrion

Pilier de la Beauté

Les apprentis viennent d’enter

Jouant à peine du faucillon

Difficile affaire

Comprendre et se taire

De midi à minuit

En secret répandre les fruits

Pillar of Beauty

Near of the Northern

Pillar of Beauty

Apprentices just enter

Playing hardly of sickle

Difficult case

Understand and be silent

From noon to midnight

Secretly spread the fruits

Frère toxique

Arrivent des Frères toxiques

De noir vêtus dans l’âme

Leur esprit maléfique

Ne connait pas le blâme

Ils éructent leur venin

Avant de boire le vin

Leurs empreintes sont partout

Dans l’âme leur seul atout

Tout pour détruire et nuire

La lumière ne peut luire

Toxic Brethren

Arrive toxic Brethren

Dressed in black at heart

Their evil spirit

Knows no blame

They belch their venom

Before drinking wine

Their fingerprints are everywhere

In the soul their only asset

Everything to destroy and harm

Light cannot shine

Links

• Association of Masonic Arts present http://masonicarts.net/masonic-poems-honorable-brother-bernard-ghilissen/
• AMA Ambassadors http://www.masonicarts.org/309666946