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Spanish Guitars A few years ago, in 2011, I went to a concert of young classical guitarists.  Just before or after, I don't recall, I saw an exhibition of Picasso's guitars at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1101). This poem ensued.  This is one of the lost poems I mentioned, recently rediscovered on an archaeological dig. Spanish Guitars two weeks pass. I have seen two guitars one of wood, one of sheet metal. both were alive, both were inanimate both birthed for display, useful for granting pleasure and heating up le jus d'creation products of a tradesman's craft, animated to pierce my brain and pleasure me with the realization that when you see what I see When you, you hear, What I see we all perforce speak but one language, an alphabet of music, art and love A young, oh so most beautiful Croat guitarist girl, Ana, coaxes an urgency from her love, the blonde wood, she takes Piazzola's notes, as if they were Picasso's thoughts and set them within so days later, the resonance plucks at my temples Picasso, like a little boy, collects collaged bits and pieces of life's stuff most ordinary, postage stamps, playing cards, wallpaper, pieces of cardboard, cutouts from Le Journal, and with fingers delicate sticks and glues discrete notes, individually nothing but pieces of this and that, bits and bobs superimposed on faux woodwork, presenting an instrument tooled to conjures up a milonga^, the sounds of angels dying, a fandango of trembling tones a sonnet of sounds, celebrating human touch upon animal, strings taut, feasts both, a banquet, a  triomphe of sounds that tutors my senses to hear sheet metal guitars imprisoned in museum glass gush sounds of parallel lines and delicate contrasts, A duet of animate, inanimate Virtuosity All is clarified. One language. Many dialects. Both, Spanish guitars. ^ a milonga has many meanings, but here, refers to a Argentine tango dance party
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Aug 21, 2013
Aug 21, 2013 at 1:14 AM UTC
Spanish Guitars
Spanish Guitars A few years ago, in 2011, I went to a concert of young classical guitarists.  Just before or after, I don't recall, I saw an exhibition of Picasso's guitars at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1101). This poem ensued.  This is one of the lost poems I mentioned, recently rediscovered on an archaeological dig. Spanish Guitars two weeks pass. I have seen two guitars one of wood, one of sheet metal. both were alive, both were inanimate both birthed for display, useful for granting pleasure and heating up le jus d'creation products of a tradesman's craft, animated to pierce my brain and pleasure me with the realization that when you see what I see When you, you hear, What I see we all perforce speak but one language, an alphabet of music, art and love A young, oh so most beautiful Croat guitarist girl, Ana, coaxes an urgency from her love, the blonde wood, she takes Piazzola's notes, as if they were Picasso's thoughts and set them within so days later, the resonance plucks at my temples Picasso, like a little boy, collects collaged bits and pieces of life's stuff most ordinary, postage stamps, playing cards, wallpaper, pieces of cardboard, cutouts from Le Journal, and with fingers delicate sticks and glues discrete notes, individually nothing but pieces of this and that, bits and bobs superimposed on faux woodwork, presenting an instrument tooled to conjures up a milonga^, the sounds of angels dying, a fandango of trembling tones a sonnet of sounds, celebrating human touch upon animal, strings taut, feasts both, a banquet, a  triomphe of sounds that tutors my senses to hear sheet metal guitars imprisoned in museum glass gush sounds of parallel lines and delicate contrasts, A duet of animate, inanimate Virtuosity All is clarified. One language. Many dialects. Both, Spanish guitars. ^ a milonga has many meanings, but here, refers to a Argentine tango dance party
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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
That watershed moment when the eye goggles comes off, is akin to winning the Burleigh Horse Trials with the much coveted Trophy. Meeting a Rambler as an equal on an arduous fog clouded valley along the Devil's Punchbowl, or a French Phrase Book that's almost perusal by nature, under the Arc de Triomphe How I long to be accomplished as one of the few, rather than a casual follower of Velleity .
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Nov 21, 2012
Nov 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM UTC
Athletic Prowess
Peut s’ouvrir un débat long comme l’éternité de savoir si vrai ou faux avait raison Don Gomez qui harangua son fils en disant : « Ce n’est que par le sang Qu’on lave tel outrage. » Ô quel mot fer, quel mot acier, sans une goute d’étain ! Le mot sans verdure, le mot rouge sans mélange, plus rouge que le sang, visant perdre le souffle au donneur de soufflet ! qui pourra le baptiser cannibalisme ou bien légitime défense ? Quoi qu’on dise, tranchons : ce fut verser le sang. Et jugeons : Ce qu’à l’époque fut d’or l’acte de le Cid1 Compeador ne le serait point aujourd’hui. C’est comme le triomphe d’Achille2 Sur son ennemi Hector. Les deux grand guerriers, avides de sang et de gloire malsaine, vallées et plaines coururent, lacs et rivières nagèrent, étangs et marécages pataugèrent, monts et collines gravirent, et descendirent en volant, se voulant l’un l’autre proie, et l’emporta le plus criminel. A l’Epoque Contemporaine Pas toute victoire ne se couvre de lauriers. La Pucelle d’Orléans ne fut-elle brûlée vive par l’ennemi, son tueur ignoré par tant, et son Nom à jamais porta la couronne à la façon de la Sainte Vierge qui jamais ne lutta que contre le péchée, et son arme au combat ne fut que piété, contrairement à Charlemagne qui fut couronné de fer dont il eut son bon usage. Le trépas d’un héro ne tue pas l’héroïsme. Ce fut le cas, ce semble, du Prince Né **** d’un palais royal. Ce Prince qu’on le nomme : Mohammed Bouazizi. La montée au sommet ne fut pas improviste ni sujet de surprise ; c’est le fruit du courage bénit, lequel conditionnera et la pluie et le soleil dans tous les coins du monde. 1. Le Cid : Personnage Principal de la Tragi-comédie qui porte son nom de Pierre Corneille dont la première représentation eut lieu le 5 janvier 16372. 2. Achille et Hector sont les personnages les plus célèbres de L’Iliade d’Homère VIIIe siècle av. J.-C.
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 11:47 AM UTC
Pas toute victoire ne se couvre de lauriers
Peut s’ouvrir un débat long comme l’éternité de savoir si vrai ou faux avait raison Don Gomez qui harangua son fils en disant : « Ce n’est que par le sang Qu’on lave tel outrage. » Ô quel mot fer, quel mot acier, sans une goute d’étain ! Le mot sans verdure, le mot rouge sans mélange, plus rouge que le sang, visant perdre le souffle au donneur de soufflet ! qui pourra le baptiser cannibalisme ou bien légitime défense ? Quoi qu’on dise, tranchons : ce fut verser le sang. Et jugeons : Ce qu’à l’époque fut d’or l’acte de le Cid1 Compeador ne le serait point aujourd’hui. C’est comme le triomphe d’Achille2 Sur son ennemi Hector. Les deux grand guerriers, avides de sang et de gloire malsaine, vallées et plaines coururent, lacs et rivières nagèrent, étangs et marécages pataugèrent, monts et collines gravirent, et descendirent en volant, se voulant l’un l’autre proie, et l’emporta le plus criminel. A l’Epoque Contemporaine Pas toute victoire ne se couvre de lauriers. La Pucelle d’Orléans ne fut-elle brûlée vive par l’ennemi, son tueur ignoré par tant, et son Nom à jamais porta la couronne à la façon de la Sainte Vierge qui jamais ne lutta que contre le péchée, et son arme au combat ne fut que piété, contrairement à Charlemagne qui fut couronné de fer dont il eut son bon usage. Le trépas d’un héro ne tue pas l’héroïsme. Ce fut le cas, ce semble, du Prince Né **** d’un palais royal. Ce Prince qu’on le nomme : Mohammed Bouazizi. La montée au sommet ne fut pas improviste ni sujet de surprise ; c’est le fruit du courage bénit, lequel conditionnera et la pluie et le soleil dans tous les coins du monde. 1. Le Cid : Personnage Principal de la Tragi-comédie qui porte son nom de Pierre Corneille dont la première représentation eut lieu le 5 janvier 16372. 2. Achille et Hector sont les personnages les plus célèbres de L’Iliade d’Homère VIIIe siècle av. J.-C.
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1 Iron-bodied, you stand giant; a thousand feet into the air, rigid metal swaying in the wind. 2 Neck-breaking, 3 Sears Tower -- world-reflecting, glass-paned -- eclipses you, yet pales in your shadow. 4 Your ironwork: murky, camouflage brown in the daylight, beautiful only by the twinkling dusk. 5 Prostrated, the multitudes hope to ascend, flashes melding with the hourly light show -- 6 Capture the splendor across the city! 7 L'Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Elysee, Notre Dame, ... 8 Euros squandered in trite gift shops, 9 -- Attention les pickpockets! -- 10 Key chains, pens, 4 by 6 postcards... Miss you loads. Wish you were here. 11 I climbed you. And now? 12 I watch from Trocadero; fountains alive, illusions in place but observed from afar, removed; 13 Apart from the greedy, flocking masses. 14 One day, you will fall, and with you the congregations that kneel before you to wait in the line of impatient, shoving, babbling, 15 Hallelujah tourists. 16 And when your feral echoes fade to rubble on the crucified pelouse, 17 We at the grand marble square will blink and miss it and wonder: 18 Were you ever there at all?
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Nov 15, 2011
Nov 15, 2011 at 12:04 PM UTC
Le Tour Eiffel
That year in Paris you took Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment to read when you weren’t touring the sites and you became so immersed in the book that you became Raskolnikov and killed the old woman and her half sister and looked about the streets you looked for the detective Porfiry whom you suspected was following you about and as you sat in the Champs-Elysées or stood by the Arc de Triomphe you thought of all the famous who had stayed here in this fine city Henry Miller Ezra Pound Hemmingway Debussy Van Gogh and that fanatical conqueror ****** with his sick smile under that silly moustache and that evening your brother in the hotel room puked in the bidet after sour wine or too rich food as you looked out the window on the Parisian street to see if Porfiry was out there waiting for you to charge you with the murderous crime you didn’t do.
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Jun 6, 2012
Jun 6, 2012 at 3:12 PM UTC
PARIS 1973. (POEM)
Sonya liked the Eiffel Tower, the art galleries, the Arc de Triomphe. We met in a café in a back street of Paris, coffee, small cream cakes, she smoking her French cigarettes. You have regrets? She asked. Most of us do, I said. When my father died I regret things I didn't say to him, she said, always the regrets, and when Mother go and leave, I thought it was because of me, I regret not trying to find her when I was older, she added. I sipped the coffee, taking in her blonde pulled-back-in-a-tight-pony-tail hair, her red lips, opening and closing with words. Regrets are useless things, I said, you can do nothing with them, they change nothing, don't make one feel better, only worse. She looked at me, her steely blue eyes sharp as blades. One cannot choose to regret or not, it is there, like scar, one cannot push out, she said. I regret having regrets, I said, if I counted up all my regrets and could turn them into coins I’d be a rich guy. She inhaled on her cigarette; her fingers were browning where she held the cigarette so often. I regret my first boyfriend, she said, he wanted *** all the time, like animal, always the wanting *** *** *** I looked at the waitress passing by the table, tight black dress, white apron tight about her waist, nice legs. Yes, that can be a problem I guess, I said, awkward on dates; when or do you get down to *** on the second date or third or not at all? She sipped her coffee, looked at me, blue eyes to sink in. Not have *** she said, until both are ready, until both agree time is right. I noted the waitress pass by again. Nice behind, I thought. Regrets, Sonya said, always there, like sin, once it bite into soul hard to get out. Yes, I guess so, I said, I've been in the confessional more times than a ***** drops her draws. She flushed, looked away. I put a hand to my lips; the things(regretted), I thought, I say.
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 4:19 AM UTC
SONYA IN PARIS.
Sonya liked the Eiffel Tower, the art galleries, the Arc de Triomphe. We met in a café in a back street of Paris, coffee, small cream cakes, she smoking her French cigarettes. You have regrets? She asked. Most of us do, I said. When my father died I regret things I didn't say to him, she said, always the regrets, and when Mother go and leave, I thought it was because of me, I regret not trying to find her when I was older, she added. I sipped the coffee, taking in her blonde pulled-back-in-a-tight-pony-tail hair, her red lips, opening and closing with words. Regrets are useless things, I said, you can do nothing with them, they change nothing, don't make one feel better, only worse. She looked at me, her steely blue eyes sharp as blades. One cannot choose to regret or not, it is there, like scar, one cannot push out, she said. I regret having regrets, I said, if I counted up all my regrets and could turn them into coins I’d be a rich guy. She inhaled on her cigarette; her fingers were browning where she held the cigarette so often. I regret my first boyfriend, she said, he wanted *** all the time, like animal, always the wanting *** *** *** I looked at the waitress passing by the table, tight black dress, white apron tight about her waist, nice legs. Yes, that can be a problem I guess, I said, awkward on dates; when or do you get down to *** on the second date or third or not at all? She sipped her coffee, looked at me, blue eyes to sink in. Not have *** she said, until both are ready, until both agree time is right. I noted the waitress pass by again. Nice behind, I thought. Regrets, Sonya said, always there, like sin, once it bite into soul hard to get out. Yes, I guess so, I said, I've been in the confessional more times than a ***** drops her draws. She flushed, looked away. I put a hand to my lips; the things(regretted), I thought, I say.
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on the steps of the notre dame i lost my sense of color every moonbeam through the cracked walls of the House of God danced around me like blue gypsies performing a ritual upon every ringlet of hair on my head in the catacombs of paris i lost my sense of touch every skull feeling like silk dead calcium caressing the flesh beneath which my bones were moving alive and restless beneath the arc de triomphe i lost myself the curve of stone caving in on me like a Parisian Goliath and I, a madman David names of fallen soldiers engraved upon the walls breathed back to life from dust they have returned they reach into my cerebrum their stone fingers pulsing with the hymnals of war to meet with the battle of indigos and crimsons coursing through every nerve of my anatomy behind the eiffel tower i lost my art paris lights beating down a beast sleeping through the tides of eulogies and odes its orphans have to offer
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Mar 18, 2016
Mar 18, 2016 at 2:32 PM UTC
the parisian madman
Night sky over Paris, doesn't speak starry love tonight intimate soul, maker of my spirit's whole, Paris would love to hold close to it's broad heart, didn't we elope through the Metro tunnel of experiences,then I made you wear my coat to protect you from winter cold, hid you in the cozy interior of my memory well lit, where you wait on a hope, unsuspecting losing all sense of time.Still at Arc de Triomphe , I  wait for the train that never comes, I suspect you are a prisoner, in the urban jungle of La Defense beyond the lonely whiteness of Grande Arche time the marauder comes in without knocking, he must have took you away, none will know when the tunnel of our experiences, once we knew are bare I'll be going alone soon in a dark train to nowhere where are you, where are you, my voice chokes and fail
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Mar 15, 2015
Mar 15, 2015 at 7:13 AM UTC
Lament for the prisoner in the tower of lost love
He Told Me About Paris he told me about Paris after making love… how he once sat in the Café de Flore as a boy… awaiting his mother who danced for a living… he told me about Paris over morning coffee, and no mention of the night before he talked with love for a city I’ll never know…. strolling along the river Seine in sunsets of orange and tangerine… he told me about the The Musée du Louvre as he made Coriander omelettes … squeezing fresh lemon in glasses of ice water… la Ville Lumière… he murmured as he gazed deep into my eyes City of Light and Love… I’ll take you there… if you dare to come he promised as he lay a soft tender kiss on each toe… he told me about Paris… and the Notre-Dame Cathedral and Café de la Paix, where the streets were Prolific with revellers and the after-opera crowd… I’ll take you to The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel he whispered as he placed a Bracelet on my wrist and we can hold hands as we stroll around the monument… I’ll take you to Paris, in the Autumn, he promised our feet will crunch the golden leaves of the Jardin des Tuileries…. … so young I was… such a dreamer… floating on visions that he wove with love- - he told me about Paris, his voice husky with longing and I too young to realise… he was dreaming too…. Sharonlee©9-
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Jul 27, 2013
Jul 27, 2013 at 1:35 AM UTC
He Told Me About Paris
Ilsa's hair blew like silk in the soft Parisian breeze. Rick looked 10 years younger driving his sportster down Champs-Elysees. Arc de Triomphe was in the distance. Young, radiant, Ilsa was the most beautiful woman in the world. Every man who ever saw her instantly fell in love with her, myself included. The German army was only a day from entering Paris, but that didn't stop Rick from proposing to Ilsa in La Belle Aurore as Sam played AS TIME GOES BY. That Ilsa didn't meet Rick in the pounding rain at the train station as they had planned to take it to Marseille on their way to Casablanca foreshadowed the protracted, brutal war the Nazis had already begun one conquest after another across Europe. But ****** was not prescient enough to realize "...a kiss is just a kiss...." and in his Berlin bunker first swallowed a cyanide capsule then put the muzzle of his revolver into his mouth and pulled the trigger, his only constructive act since becoming Chancellor in 1933. TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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Dec 18, 2022
Dec 18, 2022 at 7:59 PM UTC
LA BELLE AURORE
L'un toujours vit la vie en rose, Jeunesse qui n'en finit plus, Seconde enfance moins morose, Ni vœux, ni regrets superflus. Ignorant tout flux et reflux, Ce sage pour qui rien ne bouge Règne instinctif : tel un phallus. Mais moi je vois la vie en rouge. L'autre ratiocine et glose Sur des modes irrésolus, Soupesant, pesant chaque chose De mains gourdes aux lourds calus. Lui faudrait du temps tant et plus Pour se risquer hors de son bouge. Le monde est gris à ce reclus. Mais moi je vois la vie en rouge. Lui, cet autre, alentour il ose Jeter des regards bien voulus, Mais, sur quoi que son œil se pose, Il s'exaspère où tu te plus, Œil des philanthropes joufflus ; Tout lui semble noir, vierge ou gouge, Les hommes, vins bus, livres lus. Mais moi je vois la vie en rouge. Envoi Prince et princesse, allez, élus, En triomphe par la route où je Trime d'ornières en talus. Mais moi, je vois la vie en rouge.
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Ballade de la vie en rouge
We were at a club in Paris called L’Arc. It’s an outdoor club (spring break plus covid safety) that’s underneath the Arc de Triomphe. It’s 10PM and we’re coming from a night tour of the Louvre. The night sky was clear and it was 65°f. I was with my posse of (3) roommates and two guardiennes (provided by my Grandmère) who travel with us at all times. The man chatting me up was as hot as middle-school but honestly, it was hard to fake an interest in whatever he was saying. Was my ½ interest going to ruin us - this thing we’d shared for 5 minutes? No, he seemed to say, our connection was stronger than that. Finally, I focused on his WORDS. It was hard because the music was so loud. Hey, this is off-topic but who’s your favorite French band? You don’t HAVE one, do you? No, because they ALL positively felate. It turns out that he was a tiger - inviting me home for a respectfully quiet banging session - because he lived with his mother. I reacted like any college freshman would at first by thinking I was about to be sick. Don’t flag me as antisex (If we’re flagging), I like a joystick now and then. They’re cute and like dogs, they’re always glad to see you. But the idea was disgustingly retro - my parent dodging days are over. Besides, our (roommate) agreement for this trip ostensibly forbids random hookups and did I mention our two escorts in tow? I kept my cool. After all, we had another tray of shooters coming - staying put was clearly the right decision. He took my semi-blank reaction for the rejection it was and disappeared back into the crowd. C'est la vie
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Mar 23, 2022
Mar 23, 2022 at 12:33 PM UTC
He was hot
We were at a club in Paris called L’Arc. It’s an outdoor club (spring break plus covid safety) that’s underneath the Arc de Triomphe. It’s 10PM and we’re coming from a night tour of the Louvre. The night sky was clear and it was 65°f. I was with my posse of (3) roommates and two guardiennes (provided by my Grandmère) who travel with us at all times. The man chatting me up was as hot as middle-school but honestly, it was hard to fake an interest in whatever he was saying. Was my ½ interest going to ruin us - this thing we’d shared for 5 minutes? No, he seemed to say, our connection was stronger than that. Finally, I focused on his WORDS. It was hard because the music was so loud. Hey, this is off-topic but who’s your favorite French band? You don’t HAVE one, do you? No, because they ALL positively felate. It turns out that he was a tiger - inviting me home for a respectfully quiet banging session - because he lived with his mother. I reacted like any college freshman would at first by thinking I was about to be sick. Don’t flag me as antisex (If we’re flagging), I like a joystick now and then. They’re cute and like dogs, they’re always glad to see you. But the idea was disgustingly retro - my parent dodging days are over. Besides, our (roommate) agreement for this trip ostensibly forbids random hookups and did I mention our two escorts in tow? I kept my cool. After all, we had another tray of shooters coming - staying put was clearly the right decision. He took my semi-blank reaction for the rejection it was and disappeared back into the crowd. C'est la vie
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Ma douce main de maîtresse et d'amant Passe et rit sur ta chère chair en fête, Rit et jouit de ton jouissement. Pour la servir tu sais bien qu'elle est faite, Et ton beau corps faut que je le dévête Pour l'enivrer sans fin d'un art nouveau Toujours dans la caresse toujours prête. Je suis pareil à la grande Sappho. Laisse ma tête errant et s'abîmant À l'aventure, un peu farouche, en quête D'ombre et d'odeur et d'un travail charmant Vers les saveurs de ta gloire secrète. Laisse rôder l'âme de ton poète Partout par là, champ ou bois, mont ou vau, Comme tu veux et si je le souhaite. Je suis pareil à la grande Sappho. Je presse alors tout ton corps goulûment, Toute ta chair contre mon corps d'athlète Qui se bande et s'amollit par moment, Heureux du triomphe et de la défaite En ce conflit du cœur et de la tête. Pour la stérile étreinte où le cerveau Vient faire enfin la nature complète Je suis pareil à la grande Sappho. Envoi Prince ou princesse, honnête ou malhonnête, Qui qu'en grogne et quel que soit son niveau, Trop su poète ou divin proxénète, Je suis pareil à la grande Sappho.
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Ballade Sappho
The Eiffel Tower stabbed at a midnight as blue as an old Muddy Waters track. From a distance, its lace-iron skeleton looked like a slick and oily spider-web crowned with a glittering neon diamond. (My Grandmère's home is across the street from it). “Do you want to go climb it?” I’d asked Peter (my bf). “Naah,” he’d replied, “too crowded - what’s next?” We’ve been tourist-ing all of the big Paris sights. As we night cruised the Seine, the rivière looked dark and perilous - a phthalo-green snake slithering north westerly at six times the speed of the Nile. We took a guided tour of the Louvre - it’s a crowded fortress and you can’t see the Mona Lisa up close. We day-toured the palace at Versailles, with its ghosts of past grandeurs and revolutionary, royal beheadings. The Arc de Triomphe is just an unsafe round-about. As we Uber’d around it, I turned to Peter saying, “Joke time: What’s more dangerous: a shark or an American driver in a Paris traffic circle?”
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Mar 12, 2024
Mar 12, 2024 at 12:03 PM UTC
Paris la nuit
À l'allure Ou tout se passe L'Univers Vit à la dure Et grimace, Débonnaire Les drones Tuent, Les transgénique Prônent Les goûts confluent En clique L'artificiel Triomphe Impunément Le superficiel Se gonfle De compliments Alors, fatigué Du futur Le temps s’arrête Couvrant de baisers Impurs Les couples en fête. L'Amour Triomphe toujours Sur le faux Mes yeux de velours Sans détour, T'aiment, sans dire un mot.
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 11:25 AM UTC
Univers (French-poème en Français)
Last night I went to Paris with my first ever muse and held her one hand while we held the Triomphe in the other We basked in books we bought in the rue de la Bûcherie and gazed at herons in the Seine We were two tired birds that perched atop the Eiffel one lazy night, ready for a kiss That's when my eyes fluttered open like the birds in Paris
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Dec 4, 2019
Dec 4, 2019 at 11:30 AM UTC
Last Night in Paris
YOU may be in the museum about cheese, glass art, bicycle history, or history of wooden bags. Not waiting for anything. And I just have time to steal travel brochures, offer a route around town, at the door of the hotel restaurant, after a lazy breakfast I chewed. You may be among the crowds at the Arc de Triomphe monument, at the end of the Champs-Élysées. A digital screen is spread out, a row of chairs is laid out, and the big flag is flown. An ordinary man, preparing an unusual speech, that evening. You may be in the departure room of the Frankfurt Airport, with the Arab Emirates airline tickets, disrupting the chaotic time, saying goodbye to the cold German weather, which I had previously tried to greet. You must be somewhere, making some sort of experiment with distance and time, testing a hypothesis. And you smile, imagine the witty thing you will later conclude. And I do not stop guessing what's possible.
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Jul 20, 2017
Jul 20, 2017 at 1:17 PM UTC
Sort of Experiment with Distance and Time
Fable VI, Livre IV. Or çà, mes amis, essayons De vous redire en vers tout ce que la chandelle Disait naguère en prose, en voyant ses rayons Porter jusqu'à six pas la lumière autour d'elle. « Ce n'est pas tout-à-fait la clarté du soleil, Et je n'éclaire pas une sphère aussi grande. À cela près, je le demande, xxMon rôle au sien n'est-il pas tout pareil ? À votre gré, monsieur, à votre goût, madame, Écrivez, jouez ou lisez, Tricotez, brodez ou cousez, À qui veut en user je prodigue ma flamme. Vous blâmez le soleil de trop tôt se coucher, De se lever trop **** ; qu'il dorme en paix sous l'onde, Et l'on ne saura pas s'il est nuit en ce monde, Pour peu qu'on ait pris place à cette table ronde, Et que l'on pense à me moucher. » Cependant le soleil, averti par les heures, Plus alerte et plus radieux, Avait abandonné les humides demeures, Et ses premiers rayons doraient déjà les cieux. À mesure qu'il perce et dissipe les voiles Par la nuit étendus sur le monde obscurci, Voyez-vous pâlir les étoiles ? Les étoiles, la lune, et la chandelle aussi ! Ainsi, dans mainte académie, Passez-moi la comparaison, Le faux esprit s'éclipse auprès de la raison ; Le bel esprit s'éclipse à côté du génie. « Mon enfant, » dit l'astre du jour, En plaignant sa rivale à demi consumée De perdre sa gloire en fumée, « Veux-tu de ton triomphe assurer le retour : Fais tout fermer, porte, fenêtre, Volets surtout ; fais que la nuit Règne à jamais dans ce réduit : La nuit te fait briller ; je la fais disparaître. »
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Le soleil et la chandelle
Fable VI, Livre IV. Or çà, mes amis, essayons De vous redire en vers tout ce que la chandelle Disait naguère en prose, en voyant ses rayons Porter jusqu'à six pas la lumière autour d'elle. « Ce n'est pas tout-à-fait la clarté du soleil, Et je n'éclaire pas une sphère aussi grande. À cela près, je le demande, xxMon rôle au sien n'est-il pas tout pareil ? À votre gré, monsieur, à votre goût, madame, Écrivez, jouez ou lisez, Tricotez, brodez ou cousez, À qui veut en user je prodigue ma flamme. Vous blâmez le soleil de trop tôt se coucher, De se lever trop **** ; qu'il dorme en paix sous l'onde, Et l'on ne saura pas s'il est nuit en ce monde, Pour peu qu'on ait pris place à cette table ronde, Et que l'on pense à me moucher. » Cependant le soleil, averti par les heures, Plus alerte et plus radieux, Avait abandonné les humides demeures, Et ses premiers rayons doraient déjà les cieux. À mesure qu'il perce et dissipe les voiles Par la nuit étendus sur le monde obscurci, Voyez-vous pâlir les étoiles ? Les étoiles, la lune, et la chandelle aussi ! Ainsi, dans mainte académie, Passez-moi la comparaison, Le faux esprit s'éclipse auprès de la raison ; Le bel esprit s'éclipse à côté du génie. « Mon enfant, » dit l'astre du jour, En plaignant sa rivale à demi consumée De perdre sa gloire en fumée, « Veux-tu de ton triomphe assurer le retour : Fais tout fermer, porte, fenêtre, Volets surtout ; fais que la nuit Règne à jamais dans ce réduit : La nuit te fait briller ; je la fais disparaître. »
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Port Au Prince is also the color of the French Riviera I remember Napoleon's failure and how it felt to be banished from human touch I can still hear the grandeur I can still see the monument I made for myself I miss Paris, I miss that kind of love Port Au Prince is the color of triomphe
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Apr 25, 2017
Apr 25, 2017 at 3:29 PM UTC
Paint Chip
Beneath the Eiffel's iron lace, A tabby cat prowls with feline grace, Past Arc de Triomphe, she sets her pace, On moonlit nights down the Champs Élysées. Prowling around cafés and bustling streets, She slips into wine-soaked conversations, Witnessing love's soft declarations, While dodging bikes and hurried feet. Her whiskers twitch at fresh baguettes, As dawn breaks on the Seine's calm flow, Lounging, watching artists come and go, From her sun-kissed, with a view parapet. Notre Dame's gargoyles watch her pass, Through shadows of restored spires, In all its reverent wonder, to be admired As pigeons scatter on morning mass. Up to Montmartre's charm and winding ways, She naps peacefully on warm window sills, As church bells toll from sacred hills, Lost in the wonders of her Parisian days. ©️Lizzie Bevis
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Nov 7, 2024
Nov 7, 2024 at 10:23 PM UTC
A Cat in Paris
À Madame ***. La rose humide et vierge encore, Que l'aube embellit de ses pleurs, N'est pas plus fraîche que les fleurs Que votre pinceau fait éclore. On vante la voix et les chants De la plaintive Philomèle : Vos airs ne sont pas moins touchants, Et vous chantez aussi bien qu'elle. Par vous est réhabilité Cet art accusé d'imposture : Mensonge plein de vérité, Par vous il devient la nature. Mais de ce triomphe entre nous Ne tirez pas trop d'avantage : La nature a fait mieux que vous, Bonneuil ; vous êtes son ouvrage. Écrit en 1790.
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La rose humide et vierge
We'd been and stood by the Arc de Triomphe had coffee in some street cafe and Sonya talked about existentialism and Sartre and Camus I sipped my beer and watched her lips moving and how she had brought her blonde hair into a fine ponytail and the top she was wearing was nice and tight and kind of hugged her ******* and her eyes so ice blue I wanted to drink there or maybe swim around one creates ones own truth she said there is no objective truth and I noticed how she sat the way her legs were crossed and how her foot dangled as she spoke sandalled foot red-painted toenails or there is also the leap of faith idea she went on and I wondered if when we got back to our hotel late evening and she was still sober or I whether we would have *** and that ***** foreplay like we did late night or that time at midday.
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Apr 19, 2016
Apr 19, 2016 at 3:27 PM UTC
AT MIDDAY 1973
Quand je me sens mourir du poids de ma pensée, Quand sur moi tout mon sort assemble sa rigueur, D'un courage inutile affranchie et lassée, Je me sauve avec toi dans le fond de mon cœur ! Tu grondes ma tristesse, et, triste de mes larmes, De tes plus doux accents tu me redis les charmes : J'espère ! ... car ta voix, plus forte que mon sort, De mes chagrins profonds triomphe sans effort. Je ne sais ; mais je crois qu'à tes regrets rendue, Dans ces seuls entretiens tu m'as tout entendue. Tu ne dis pas : « Ce soir ! » Tu ne dis pas : « Demain ! » Non, mais tu dis : « Toujours ! » en pleurant sur ma main.
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L'absence
Dans la pâleur de l’hiver un rayon de soleil triomphe sur la palette de la saison froide, couvrant ainsi les couleurs désaturées d’une teinte de pêche dorée
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May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016 at 8:34 AM UTC
Echantillon hivernal