Alain Poems - Poems about Alain

Soul Rose Fulcrum

... my soul-rose has a fulcrum 
sometimes
veined petals spread a  c  R    o   Ss 

skies unknown
                           thorns ready 

for piercing when blood
too perfumed passionat...

Categories: alain, allegory, allusion, change, character,
Form: Free verse

Until You Ultimately Come Back

...Step by step. O Woman, the Guardian Angel of my heart
I would follow you to the road of happiness
I would make enormous sacrifices to join your path
I implore you to have absolutely no doubt
I’ll...

Categories: alain, emotions, feelings, future, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

Anna and the French Kiss

...Anna's boyfriend comes from France
Stars in her eyes from French romance.

Now our boyfriends are all homegrown
We want a French kiss the seeds are sown.

Alain is compliant and does...

Categories: alain, funny, school, silly,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Live At Umbria Jazz

...LIVE AT UMBRIA JAZZ

Fahir Atakoglu, Alain Caron
Horacio “El *****” Hernandez
Live at Umbria Jazz, music so muscular,
driving and relentless that it feels like
the thunderstorms inside of my he...

Categories: alain, art, music,
Form: Free verse

The Guy In Aisle Nine

...“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year
 probably isn't learning enough.”           — Alain de Botton


convinced me to roll curlers
let them hang loose
roam the villag...

Categories: alain, humor, youth,
Form: Light Verse

If Ever I Had a Country : Lx and Lxi

...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LX - LXI

The Yijing says : " If the common folk commit crimes, the fault for them shall reside with this one person (i.e., the Sovereign) himself… " Transl. R. J. Lynn...

Categories: alain, bullying, immigration, leadership, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Alain Villain, the Suit

...I can hear my suit breathing in the night
hanging on the closet door
it likes to be called Alain Villain
and while I eat salad from the bowl
it devours umbrellas in a bathtub
and gets stronger e...

Categories: alain, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Ballade: In Favour of Those Called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Poem

...Ballade : In favour of those called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Ballade en faveur des dénommés Décadents et Symbolistes

						for Léon Vanier*

(The texts I use for my t...

Categories: alain, poetry,
Form: Ballade

Prison Souvenirs, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Poem: Souvenirs De Prison, March 1874

...Prison Souvenirs, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem : Souvenirs de prison, March 1874*

(Verlaine was sentenced to serve a term of two years in prison for having shot his erstwhile lover in the arm...

Categories: alain, angst,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

The Virgin Maid of Orleans, Translation of Paul Verlaine's La Pucelle

...The Virgin Maid of Orleans, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s La Pucelle
					To Robert Caze* 

Even as the blaze crackled around the stake’s pyre,
Joan was deafened by the clergy’s brutal chanting,
Har...

Categories: alain, betrayal,
Form: Sonnet

The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine's La Soupe Du Soir

...The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s La soupe du soir

						To J.-K. Huysmans

(Verlaine here paints a stark tableau of working-class or peasant life shorn of any symbolic or imaginary r...

Categories: alain, poverty, stress,
Form: Elegy

To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part One

...Part One

“Apart from its popular conception of transmigration, (which is) sometimes almost humouristic, Manimekhalai offers a documentary contribution of immense value, under an easily accessible fo...

Categories: alain, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse

The Legend of Celine, the White Lady

...THE LEGEND OF CELINE,  THE  WHITE  LADY


In French Canada  no legend is more tragic than that of Celine, 
A beautiful Quebec maiden who, long  ago, fell in love with Alain. 
He  came galloping ...

Categories: alain, loss, love, mysterywedding, city,
Form: Quatrain