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"parisian" poems
A moonlit dance beneathe constellations       not Taurus or Gemini, Delphinus or Orion                  but stars we named together                    linking lines from star to star        hands pointing in air so cold a tear falls and                            another   leaving a roadmap on my cheeks             that you                             chase                                        chase                                                   chase             lifting the palm of your hand                  so cold to the touch I shiver             feeling the beauty of my tears          that glisten like Venus in the midnight sky              of this cold Parisian night   you smile in jest and      I misplace the space   between you and I and that sky   whispering "do you love me?"     how could I resist the beauty of                  our second to last kiss. © Sia Jane
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Apr 28, 2015
Apr 28, 2015 at 7:24 PM UTC
Centaurus
See those red windows by Midland Park Where the schoolyard stands empty in the frozen dark See that Neon motor in 21st gear And the only question is "why are we here?" In memory motel with unchanging rates I still see the Moon Glow in your face By the edge of the stream with bread in hand Two doves chase the wind to a foreign land As our voices are carried to a teenage past In naïve reclusion we knew couldn't last With a palette of hate I still can taste I still see the Moon Glow in your face Weathered storms on a Parisian stage The book can't be written unless you turn every page On a worn out, de-facto, company car The diamonds will promise to make you a star In sovereign rule of my mind's estate I still see the Moon Glow on your face On Ebony's wings coming down from the sky Miracle rides close behind The waves from Mexico have long since passed No moment is forever and it won't be the last With ocean eyes and a passioned embrace I still see the Moon Glow in your face
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Aug 18, 2015
Aug 18, 2015 at 1:23 PM UTC
Moon Glow
imagine an underground network of rapists preying on tourist & local girls; having an agreement w/ the pimps & cops [same]; the tourist guides leading the ladies of all types, mostly young, stupid & white - blonde is better; local girls hitting puberty, getting dragged into the den at twelve get a choice, if they live; the dens filled w/ liquor & drugs; partying a little or just jumping her, dragging her to the open floor; she wakes up naked, thankfully not dead, her purse nearby; she goes to meet her new Desi bf at the bazaar where he introduces her to his friends; that night the same thing happens; it happens for a week then a month, then she helps the gang get other girls into it; it goes on all summer, & on into another summer, the winter filled w/ hot springs & expensive dates on the paved side of the street; Bollywood stars in American cars paying her **** who pays her coyote who pays the cop to get her to Europe on a tourist visa to work an exclusive Parisian Brothel
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 6:32 AM UTC
the good rapists [a prostitute's tale]
GOD GOES FOR A WALK God goes for a walk. it is the depths of Winter but, at a whim he makes it ...Spring. Because. He can. I also, as it happens have gone for a walk & am surprised by the sudden change of the weather. . ? ...whatever! He is wearing a yellow gangster style fedora. He looks like Marlon Brando being The Godfather. He sports the brightest of yellow waistcoats which compliments the purple shirt...purple trousers. He strides along with His Paisley patterned  Parisian walking stick whistling the music of The Spheres. The World bows before him. He is well pleased with Himself, un- -til: He encounters me coming towards him dressed in a gangster style yellow fedora the brightest of yellow waistcoats not to mention the purple shirt...purple trousers. I, also, possess a Paisley patterned  Parisian walking stick. We nod politely saying nothing but... He is miffed at me wearing His outfit and I also miffed at Him wearing mine! We pass each other God & creature. And ******* if He doesn't make it Winter on the very next step. He was always a Jealous God.
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 2:08 PM UTC
GOD GOES FOR A WALK
Walk by numbers in the Parisian palette , spreading the paint around in a long line of lip red scarlet. Pipette sized width following you as you tread on stone, you’re new. Sit with the trains and listen to walls and notice small change, loose change on the floors. Passenger’s stare moves you from carriage to carriage, regardless of UK, American baggage. Surface again, the longest breath you’ve ever held has escaped again into winter’s cold. Steps climb and feet follow, Anubis with a rifle watching over- graffiti crowd control for the younger; sad face, a smile face, Sacre Coeur white face. Sink down along the track, railway men hanging large and fat. Tea for two with warm milk, tea for two without the milk, no tea- up and leave, tip with guilt. **** kicker Paris scruffs her shoes amongst the paint, the blues, the museum’s closed. Again, we have to wait for the universe to align before we get to see her smile. Wait, keep waiting, Mars is coming, revolving towards us. Doors unlock and we enter a tide of tourist and artist and the modernist futurist- lost in this department. She sits there still, not smiling Paris, without you no coffee would ever be deemed good. Without you, I’d be lost and artless and heartless and broke. Even when you take the covers from under me- I’m still warm.
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Oct 24, 2012
Oct 24, 2012 at 4:32 AM UTC
Paris In Winter Is How I See Paris In My Head
Preface **When the broad mind has opened, to gaze the stars that shinning in the unfathomable skies and the glittering Nature, its flowers’ fragrances given to taste the wealthy realms of her, as well as Earth's mysteries—that I ever think of to feel and by my thoughts that spread so deep to try to work with things that sounds of ‛creative’. Here I the ‛moody soul’ started his first journey, leaving his home  a few years ago and his up-start was through Literature, Science and Arts and Fiction. Writings and paintings here I believed to be most powerful and that those more often need to convey by the Artist’s conscience and the intensity that gains moral knowledge and appreciation. Here the book has the pictorial paths of Quest and the wanderings, all by imagination’s boat, sails from the western Ideas and its enthusiastic flow. Some finds hope along and also hopelessness, God and Love vagabonding among these ink-stained pages. Dreamt in the wandering world where no chains shall bind, from the dark veiled lands to the daring spark, no atoms that obscure the force calling light, to aim the glad precious moments of life, to embrace me with a silence and its whispering magic, where gate of hope’s always open to bliss, thundering words are always from roam, the nocturnal pleasure that I only know, and when all will run away as time—why I alone in the upward steps of solitude that caressing wild only wings? If I met Life as a strange stage of different senses—and I only say you to enjoy the aggressive fruits of my invention. Here it is for all of you can read and evaluate.** Nithin Purple Acknowledgement                                        **This book is dedicated to my parents of Love and support, from where I got the powers to be inspired—to write and prove. Special Thanks to Parisian Author and poet Roman Payne of ‛cultural book’ for supporting me as a writer of varying tastes.  Also Writer, Wilson B Sanchez of New York, who first gave suggestions   and his valuable sparkling comments of self-improvable topics, which I always bother. Belated friend, poet and writer, Curtis Plaskon from France for his valuable support. Also Poet Timothy & Hilda from Virginia, to them I had good writing memories. And for all the Indians, this book is an open heart to read.**
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 3:06 AM UTC
Preface & Acknowledgement For My book 'Halcyon Wings'
Preface **When the broad mind has opened, to gaze the stars that shinning in the unfathomable skies and the glittering Nature, its flowers’ fragrances given to taste the wealthy realms of her, as well as Earth's mysteries—that I ever think of to feel and by my thoughts that spread so deep to try to work with things that sounds of ‛creative’. Here I the ‛moody soul’ started his first journey, leaving his home  a few years ago and his up-start was through Literature, Science and Arts and Fiction. Writings and paintings here I believed to be most powerful and that those more often need to convey by the Artist’s conscience and the intensity that gains moral knowledge and appreciation. Here the book has the pictorial paths of Quest and the wanderings, all by imagination’s boat, sails from the western Ideas and its enthusiastic flow. Some finds hope along and also hopelessness, God and Love vagabonding among these ink-stained pages. Dreamt in the wandering world where no chains shall bind, from the dark veiled lands to the daring spark, no atoms that obscure the force calling light, to aim the glad precious moments of life, to embrace me with a silence and its whispering magic, where gate of hope’s always open to bliss, thundering words are always from roam, the nocturnal pleasure that I only know, and when all will run away as time—why I alone in the upward steps of solitude that caressing wild only wings? If I met Life as a strange stage of different senses—and I only say you to enjoy the aggressive fruits of my invention. Here it is for all of you can read and evaluate.** Nithin Purple Acknowledgement                                        **This book is dedicated to my parents of Love and support, from where I got the powers to be inspired—to write and prove. Special Thanks to Parisian Author and poet Roman Payne of ‛cultural book’ for supporting me as a writer of varying tastes.  Also Writer, Wilson B Sanchez of New York, who first gave suggestions   and his valuable sparkling comments of self-improvable topics, which I always bother. Belated friend, poet and writer, Curtis Plaskon from France for his valuable support. Also Poet Timothy & Hilda from Virginia, to them I had good writing memories. And for all the Indians, this book is an open heart to read.**
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I want to live in Europe. I want to run in the Bavarian Forest. I want to be left in the English rain. I want to feel the Russian Frost. I want to skate in the Alps. I want to feel the French Luxury. I want to taste the Belgian Chocolates. I want to sleep in the European Palaces. I want to feel the Papacy Monastic. I want to feel the taste of French Cheese and Scottish Whiskey. I want to hear the Italian Piano. I want to read English Poetry. I want to hear the Spanish legends and don't forget the olive there ! I want to feel the magnificence of the Parisian Events. I want to swim in the Danube River. I want to be inspired by the fascinating paintings. I want to be amazed by the beauty of the churches there. I want to read about the greatness of the European History from there. I want to search in The Vatican Stores and Warehouses for answers I was looking for. I want to dream about reading the books that have been hidden in the Invisible Palace of Books in Berlin. I want to walk among the shelves of The National Library in London. I want to go shopping in the streets of Paris and Milan. I just want to be European, I want to live in Europe. - Shilo
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Aug 4, 2014
Aug 4, 2014 at 11:50 AM UTC
I want to live in Europe.
I cannot look at you, Mme Cotillard. You are too Paris to me, too Parisian. Far too French. Much different from Français je sais.   Your voice, when speaking what i know, Remains elegantly mischievous; playfully mysterious. I cannot look at you, Mme Cotillard. The bags under your eyes, i know. They're blue with longing wonder. They are so French. I know because i've kissed Their cheeks in greeting, both left and right. I see them in my mirror and say "bonjour, comment ça va?" I cannot look at you, Mme Cotillard. I know your face too well. It reminds me of the photos i've thrown away Je ne sai quoi. I cannot look at you, Mme Marion Cotillard.
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Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 11:40 AM UTC
Mme Cotillard
The Holy Ones I want to shove socks in my pants, so it looks like I have one of those Italian-line painting ***** I want to do it when I go to the grocery store so fourteen-year olds and thirty-year olds alike stare at my junk as it fills the stitches of my pelvic arena, I want to make eye contact with mothers and grandmothers, brothers and dads as they shift uncomfortably in those handicap battery powered carts that are reserved for the handicapped but are often only used by the near-morbidly obese, near because they’re not quite dead yet, morbid because they can’t help but imagining my **** sliding past their tongue and what it feels like as the tip pushes past their uvula and they gasp for air through their nose because they’ve never had a **** like this in their mouth before. This would be my **** **** This would have me making lists of adult film star names for film star jobs I’d never take because I’d be busy making lists of phone numbers, the college girls I’d have my pick of ******* and the mothers and grandmothers who I’d be happily turning away from while I select my own organic radishes from the produce department at the specialty market on Vine. This **** is better than a rolled up wrapped stack of hundreds or the leather jacket I had in high school, it’d be better than when I walked down Michigan Ave in Umbro Valentino donning a Parisian accent, I can see me having to buy new briefs just to make room for this **** And my own **** getting jealous of the girth I’d be faking it’d swell up, and in the middle of ordering my four-pump Vanilla Almond milk Latte from Starbucks my gray wool socks would fall to the floor, and up from the band of my Acne Jeans would bulge the tip, just the tip, like she said when I was in college, or just the tip like I said when I just needed to feel something other than how emotionally wrecked you made me feel when you told me not to touch you anymore. You ****** me up righteously. And still, 380 women later, I’m ****** up and I don’t have a single pair of socks to wear
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Jan 13, 2018
Jan 13, 2018 at 1:34 AM UTC
The Holy Ones
The Holy Ones I want to shove socks in my pants, so it looks like I have one of those Italian-line painting ***** I want to do it when I go to the grocery store so fourteen-year olds and thirty-year olds alike stare at my junk as it fills the stitches of my pelvic arena, I want to make eye contact with mothers and grandmothers, brothers and dads as they shift uncomfortably in those handicap battery powered carts that are reserved for the handicapped but are often only used by the near-morbidly obese, near because they’re not quite dead yet, morbid because they can’t help but imagining my **** sliding past their tongue and what it feels like as the tip pushes past their uvula and they gasp for air through their nose because they’ve never had a **** like this in their mouth before. This would be my **** **** This would have me making lists of adult film star names for film star jobs I’d never take because I’d be busy making lists of phone numbers, the college girls I’d have my pick of ******* and the mothers and grandmothers who I’d be happily turning away from while I select my own organic radishes from the produce department at the specialty market on Vine. This **** is better than a rolled up wrapped stack of hundreds or the leather jacket I had in high school, it’d be better than when I walked down Michigan Ave in Umbro Valentino donning a Parisian accent, I can see me having to buy new briefs just to make room for this **** And my own **** getting jealous of the girth I’d be faking it’d swell up, and in the middle of ordering my four-pump Vanilla Almond milk Latte from Starbucks my gray wool socks would fall to the floor, and up from the band of my Acne Jeans would bulge the tip, just the tip, like she said when I was in college, or just the tip like I said when I just needed to feel something other than how emotionally wrecked you made me feel when you told me not to touch you anymore. You ****** me up righteously. And still, 380 women later, I’m ****** up and I don’t have a single pair of socks to wear
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On a scale of 1-10, if you could save one person, and one person only; who would it be? Venetian beaches and Parisian streets, on the other side of the world, someone is drowning. Literally. Drowning. But on the flip side, 1+1= 2; or a window to peek outside and see that blue flamingo. That one, right there. Yes, you! You. You're the one I would save, scales impossible to measure the beauty of those architectural realms. Hurry up and float to me, you idiot, because U+I= love. Or is it the other way around?
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM UTC
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her smile and tortoise shell glasses her picture perfect delicious curves scented by parisian roses she steps neatly into the bustling room and with just a hint of a smile she stops the room cold in it tracks as all heads turn and i must stop and smile to myself even the other girls desire to be in her arms even they dream for a moment of dancing in bed tonight she leans down and places a tender kiss on my cheek and the room slowly drifts back to its own dreams she a tender perfection worshipful and giving joys she sits with me and her tight jeans are soft and warm under my hand and i find myself fascinated by how she fills up my senses in a moment i make love to her essence on the air and passionately tenderly kiss her presence so near to me that it sets me afire she takes me as i take her
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Dec 21, 2013
Dec 21, 2013 at 5:28 PM UTC
tortoise shell
Pine tree horizon, stretched to the point of rupture over the divine cardinal points around A round world which's center is me. Roads I'll maybe walk, most of which I won't but the voyage goes on anyway as long as I have feet. Nothing this generation gets: I chased this out of a bad bet, and found heaven in a net. We ate the scenery that day let it drip onto our ***** sleeves drying in the cold night the stars, God they were bright. It makes me feel alone here in suburbia, where the buffalo don't roam, it's impossible to feel so small and so free, so careless, in this city, For there is more to Electricity there's more to useless junk, there's boy Scouts going on a real adventure, their adventure out of their hell tha smelly parisian cage of pipes, tubes, teachers and tests. They get to breave here in Eden, they see they're missing out, they cheer the sun all morning, till the nightime dries him out. They get to hug the moon, to face the secret truths under a piece of cloth, a brown sky tent from which they feel like they get it: Men were apes and they still are they cannot live inside a jar and when we breave that honeyed air, when the smelly brezze rushes through our clotted hair we finally get to peek over the mountain, and love it with all we got.
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Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 5:52 PM UTC
Over the Mountain
Being underage is like living in the prohibition era There's always a party going on somewhere Golden girls with bobbed hair and flowing clothing Bad boys over-age importing alcohol in. The roaring under-20s The tales of the Jazz age There's always a dance to have A friend to stick with A boy to catch your eye. I never got invited to parties That is, until I reached the roaring heights Of high society When for one night I was the focus of your attention No other girl danced as much with you. People were taking drags on long cigarettes Noise everywhere, wild young hearts aflame You caught my eye once more And you looked at me the way all girls want to be looked at. Our courage bubbled over, I gave you a kiss on the cheek A Parisian end to the night And I let you go off Into the misty green light.
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Apr 9, 2016
Apr 9, 2016 at 7:42 PM UTC
The Roaring Under-20s
I never told you this story: The story is, when we first me, first falling in love, I had a choice. I was at a party, with my friends, and you texted me. You wanted to get drunk, bring a friend and show off some new guy you met. And I was talking with a beautiful French girl. She was impeccable, with long dark hair and she scared many of the guys away with the intensity in her stare. Her accent made every word a masterpiece, and her style strict Parisian. She did it all like we could do it, but she did it differently. And she could dance. I asked my friend what I should do. He took a drink and told me “If she comes man, she’ll only want to dance with you.” He said this as he glanced at the beautiful French girl smiling at me, and I smiled back at her. And that sealed the deal in the kitchenette. So I walked backed to her, and she held out her hand. She pulled me in close, and I could smell her hair. She smiled as she taught me, laughed as I failed, and it took a while to get the hang of it, but I finally prevailed. And I danced with the French girl. I ignored your texts, blocked your calls. And it was her that I was texting on my walk home, forgotten about you at a bus stop far from home. It was the feel her of her body against mine I missed, not yours. And even though I later chose you, I later fell for you, and I later lost you, that night, I chose her. I chose the dream over reality; someone knew over a scene well seen; I chose love, I chose me. And do I regret that decision? Well, out of all the decisions I made which lead me to loving you, I have absolutely no regrets in dancing with the beautiful French girl. Maybe it was a precursor, a sign I should have taken. But to me, it’s just a memory, and a memory I’ll never forget, a memory I'll always have about dancing with the French girl in the downstairs kitchenette.
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Aug 29, 2013
Aug 29, 2013 at 4:39 AM UTC
The French Girl
I never told you this story: The story is, when we first me, first falling in love, I had a choice. I was at a party, with my friends, and you texted me. You wanted to get drunk, bring a friend and show off some new guy you met. And I was talking with a beautiful French girl. She was impeccable, with long dark hair and she scared many of the guys away with the intensity in her stare. Her accent made every word a masterpiece, and her style strict Parisian. She did it all like we could do it, but she did it differently. And she could dance. I asked my friend what I should do. He took a drink and told me “If she comes man, she’ll only want to dance with you.” He said this as he glanced at the beautiful French girl smiling at me, and I smiled back at her. And that sealed the deal in the kitchenette. So I walked backed to her, and she held out her hand. She pulled me in close, and I could smell her hair. She smiled as she taught me, laughed as I failed, and it took a while to get the hang of it, but I finally prevailed. And I danced with the French girl. I ignored your texts, blocked your calls. And it was her that I was texting on my walk home, forgotten about you at a bus stop far from home. It was the feel her of her body against mine I missed, not yours. And even though I later chose you, I later fell for you, and I later lost you, that night, I chose her. I chose the dream over reality; someone knew over a scene well seen; I chose love, I chose me. And do I regret that decision? Well, out of all the decisions I made which lead me to loving you, I have absolutely no regrets in dancing with the beautiful French girl. Maybe it was a precursor, a sign I should have taken. But to me, it’s just a memory, and a memory I’ll never forget, a memory I'll always have about dancing with the French girl in the downstairs kitchenette.
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The blind Parisian has never seen the tower, or the lights that illuminate his city of birth The deaf Italian never heard the opera, or Core 'ngrato from a Tuscany street corner I never looked into your eyes and saw the cosmos I am distracted by the power of corporate America The unflinching pacifist still stands atop a suit of armour with his arms outstretched and Syria rejoices as the stench of liberty matches gun powder and familial genocide Oh western world, have you forgotten your past so soon? Explain to the deaf man how her voice sounds or Explain the colour spectrum to a blind child and then deny the tears that water your cheek Tell the dyslexic that words are meaningless for it gives him comfort and turn your back on the monetary religion of which we are indoctrinated Take your ******* industry and bring it to it's submissive knees Your weapons too, they are a disgrace Empathy is universal Love is blind [Cliche] [Cliche] End. A return, or a refrain, addendum to the ideas thenceforth It's enough to leave a man crying in his coffee, Starbucks specialty **** your poets, burn your books and gouge your eyes This world is not broken, we are.
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Mar 27, 2013
Mar 27, 2013 at 12:45 PM UTC
Before the Dawn, Adorned, We Are Still Standing Here but Existence is No Longer Relevant
CECI N'EST PAS UNE ORANGE A Parisian orange lay bang in the middle of the street. I couldn't have avoided it this orange of all oranges lost & stranded but still as big & bold & bright as a new found sun in an unknown solar system. It invisible to all bicycles cars and feet. A cat gave it a cursory glance. The soundtrack of Paris happening just off stage. Now everyone had vanished except me & this orange. Somehow it found its way to my head & unraveled itself in a concentric spiral a swirl of orange peel & white pith like a Can-Can dancer's skirt. I ate it. Oblivious to everything else my first French orange. A Parisian orange lay bang in the middle of the street. I couldn't have avoided it this orange of all oranges lost & stranded but still as big & bold & bright as a new found sun in an unknown solar system. It invisible to all bicycles cars and feet. A cat gave it a cursory glance. The soundtrack of Paris happening just off stage. Now everyone had vanished except me & this orange. Somehow it found its way to my head & unraveled itself in a concentric spiral a swirl of orange peel & white pith like a Can-Can dancer's skirt. I ate it. Oblivious to everything else my first French orange.
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Sep 7, 2019
Sep 7, 2019 at 5:04 PM UTC
CECI N'EST PAS UNE ORANGE
you're sweet with your personality you're colorful with your emotions you're soft inside when you have a crunchy (tough) exterior you're expensive, no, you're worth more than anything you're a treat in my life you're just like parisian macarons
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Feb 18, 2014
Feb 18, 2014 at 9:05 AM UTC
just like parisian macarons
A sip of smoke finds a path, Around the spirals of my fate. The blur of individuality Stops the painful memory Of taking my fingertips, My identity, Into your soft lips. What do you think now, naive ancient eternal love? Do you remember waking up To find my hair crawling towards your teeth? I slowly felt nocturnal curls pull me back to your tongue. So I cut it all off, And painted my visage with impulsive creativity. Your incandescent presence Drips with Parisian chords of street harps Praying Hallelujah to the Sacre Coeur steps. Please make this tremble of blood Return to a mortal rhythm. These disjointed bones of our past portrait Gaze up from the grave we carelessly built. Now, I return to see the selfish paint I threw upon her face. Those golden highlights sing alongside the praise of starlight, Beneath the temporal dust of our separation. I can't bare to look at you, So I mar my own past perfection, With some new hope to understand The graveyard you abandoned so long ago.
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Apr 29, 2013
Apr 29, 2013 at 5:26 AM UTC
L. (A Rush of Dusk: Part I)
Jean Chevalier was A Parisian man. He led a simple life, He had no big plan. 'La Résistance' In took he part, He felt it was right In his Parisian heart. The German soldier smirked, Strapped in his ranks, He looked down at Jean And fantasised war tanks. Jean was stuck in the métro Since about half past three, His stomach was aching, A cigarette needed he. The German Soldier, however, Breaking the 'law', Lit one up and Opened his enormous jaw. His pink, beefy face Took a long drag, Jean clung to his country, Clung to his flag. Jean gasped for a cigarette, The soldier saw in his eyes. But Jean managed yet To stay dignified. The soldier whips out a fresh one, For Jean, condescendingly. But without batting an eyelid, Jean declares: "Non, Merci."
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Jan 18, 2015
Jan 18, 2015 at 2:03 PM UTC
Petit Jean Chevalier
Alone in a snowy field, Branches plead, Moans lost in the wind while flurries dance, Heavy with fruit long since spoiled, Mutinous apples cling, Their coppery smirks defy Persephone's call to plunge, They hold tight, Swelled with spongy pride, Winter's swirling display fuels rebellion, Their snowy caps worn with aplomb, Parisian pommes de neige usurp nature's order, Flexing branches like Diana's bow, A heart-shaped shadow in the wood, Threatening to break, While robins bide their time.
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 8:09 PM UTC
Defiance
The City of Lights liberty's burning flame black terror assailed to despoil her aims A lamp to the world illumes liberated pathways its Arc de Triomphe heart scarlet droplets stain the secular graces of enlightened ages defiled and condemned by fanatical excess civilizations clash social fabrics torn Muslims denigrated republicans mourn the death of tolerance spiraling spike of hate a fractured city the closure of gates dark shadows trundle down The Champs-Elysees the fraternity of brotherhood deeply wounded and frayed republican ideals will be surely tested Charlie Hebdo's critical voice sorely missed, forever rested Music Selection: La Marseillaise Oakland 1/7/15
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Jan 8, 2015
Jan 8, 2015 at 1:49 AM UTC
Parisian Shadows
A Tale of Two Cities, Marie Antoinette, Les Misérables, Populaire and Jacqueline Boyer— Van Gogh and Monet and all things the Louvre— Louise Labé and Louis Aragon, Camus, Voltaire, Baudelaire… I’ve been breathing in pieces of France, Eating baguettes, Dreaming of their kisses, Committing the curl of their words to memory, To maybe find out just why they say the French love better. Maybe if I’ve established the impartiality to the Eiffel tower and the familiarity of romantic cheek-and-cheek-kiss greets, I will grin under the Parisian Moon, whispering with some curls of my own: Je suis heureux.
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 11:05 PM UTC
French and Love
When I was wee my feets was small. They found no grip, I'd trip and fall. I'd stumble bumble left and right From morning sun to bed-time night. But as I grew my feets did too. They grew out of both sock and shoe! And when I slept they grew some more. They grew right out my bedroom door! They grew right out onto the lawn And when I woke my feets was gone! I sat there scared within my bed Just wondering where my feets had fled. Did my feets go out on a trip Along the Mighty Mississip? Were they stomping Kansas corn, Or hanging ten in Californ? Hiking in Saskatchewan Or Yucatan or cold Yukon? All day long and into night I worried of my Feets's plight. Worried that they'd never phone To tell me they was coming home, Worried that I'd be bereft Of both my feets, the right and left! And so I pictured my two feets Just wandering dark Parisian streets, Or alleys in the south of Spain, Or freezing in the Russian rain, Or separated in Des Moins Without the calf, the knee, the ***** But wait! Hold on! What's this I see? I'm such a goof, oh silly me! I did not lose my big old feets! They were just sleeping 'neath my sheets!
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Jan 30, 2011
Jan 30, 2011 at 9:57 PM UTC
Feets
Her name was Nanette - A student from France Who wore red blouses And **** red pants She wanted to check out The U.S. of A. So a couple with twins Hired her right away The twins had their own Ideas for fun They loved Disney World Their place in the sun They frolicked on rides, Ate hot dogs galore, Loved parades, Mickey Mouse, Fireworks, and more But Nanette's heart wasn't in it The job was no fun She had no real interest In tending to the young Nothing could cheer up This nanny from Paree She'd rather read tabloids Than watch twins under three She clearly preferred The company of guys With muscles, tattoos, And Jello shots on the side The guys were bad boys Completely entranced By the Parisian charmer And her flair for romance But the parents were upset With her profligate passion They decided to dismiss her In a daring fashion They took her to the Tower of Terror one day And left her shrieking As they ran away And that was the last time They ever caught sight Of that naughty Nanette From the City of Light
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Sep 4, 2015
Sep 4, 2015 at 5:07 PM UTC
The Naughty Nanny
Tucking Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment into the bedside cabinet of the cheap Paris hotel having cleaned the greasy sink and bidet you walked out on the street breathing in the Parisian air smelling the perfume of the restaurants on the side walks seeing the sights taking photographs as memoirs drinking the wines and beers and that fish with eyes still there putting you off you tried to get out of the cheap cafe but paid for the meal you couldn’t eat the fish eye gazing up at you dead eye battered fish and the Left Bank and night and you taking in the sights and lights and those ****** sitting in windows like gifts to have wrapped but not take home or the **** films you never went to see in those cinemas you just walked by or the Eiffel Tower day right to the top the view splendid the sight historical or those rides on the Metro riding the wrong carriages looking out for the train inspector pretending to be Aussies giving it the yak and later in your hotel room taking out Dostoyevsky and entering the Russian world of ****** and deceit   and being followed you imagined by the detective looking out onto the Parisian street from the open window of your room gazing at street corners and shadows   or remembering that French girl in the cafe who served you with bright eyes black and white dress and white apron the fine long legs and wiggling behind recalling the old priest who once said too much *** will make you blind.
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May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 at 1:42 PM UTC
PARIS WITH DOSTOYEVSKY.