Bon Temps

Good Times


To the Poetry Soup Planning Committee,
many thanks for the great job you’ve done!
Paris weather in August is perfect.
The convention was glorious fun.

I can’t deem one experience greatest.
Every moment of each day was grand.
All the readings and speeches inspired me;
not one workshop was boring and bland.

The presenter who translated poems
of the French masters mesmerized me,
and I’ll not forget Hotel Da Vinci
and the Louvre, with such wonders to see!

On the last night, our dinner at Galette
was divine. Then we had to go home.
Hope it’s not too soon to make suggestions:
Let’s have next year’s convention in ROME!


Written in anapestic meter

If we really had a convention like this one, I'd have to rob a bank to afford it! 


 
Date: March 7, 2019
Contest Title: The First Annual Poetry Soup Convention
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Y. Avatar
March 24, 2019 at 8:13 AM
Hi Janice, What a clever and well written write. Great location too. Congratulations on your 2nd place win. It was well deserved:-) Alexis
Canerdy Avatar
March 24, 2019 at 1:01 PM
Thank you so much, Alexis! Janice
Faulkner Avatar
March 23, 2019 at 6:29 PM
So clever to put this as a thank you, congratulations on your win!
Canerdy Avatar
March 24, 2019 at 1:02 PM
Thank you so much, Michelle! Janice
Gauthier Avatar
March 23, 2019 at 5:00 PM
Original perspective on the theme. Congrats on your podium finish, Janice.
Canerdy Avatar
March 24, 2019 at 1:02 PM
Thank you so much, Line! Janice
Michael Avatar
March 7, 2019 at 5:46 PM
How you wrote poem from imagination is grand...I thought it was fact...Well done
Canerdy Avatar
March 7, 2019 at 8:23 PM
Thanks so much, Arturo! Janice
Pandit Avatar
March 7, 2019 at 7:29 AM
A joy to read this poem, Janice..appealing sights and sounds you captured of Paris...and much appreciated invitation to convention in Rome. A win in my opinion.
Canerdy Avatar
March 7, 2019 at 4:02 PM
Thanks so much, Vijay! Janice
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