Notes About The Poem

Soupris is French for "sighs". "All things al dente (or to the tooth)" means let all the resistance fly away too.

Poetry Soupris

Poetry soupris
Soupris being French for sighs
And we all breathe them
At different times in our lives

We breathe them in relief
And maybe in our sleep
Exhaled after we've railed
Against the nightly thief

Poetry soupris
Potato soupris served cold
Alphabet soupris
Spelled out in the bowl

Sighs of relief
Sighs that matter
Sighs of release
In thoughts that scatter

(Carole Landis
"The sigh heard round the world"
Only Twenty-nine 
When we lost "your baby" girl)

Sorrowed soupris
During suffering endured
Godly suffering
Soupris when your cured

Soupris relenting
Served during your sentence
The sighs, the soupris
As we seethe through repentance

Now that the war is over
And you have traveled home
Awaiting and waiting
To breathe out this soupris poem

Let the soupris fly away 
And all things al dente (to the tooth)
If this were the Seventies
I’d hope your needle finds its groove
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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