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I EXALT MY BELOVED POETS’ BRAY

...
I have tasted my beloved poets’ Bray
In the three great books of our literature:
"The Book of Good Love," "La Celestina," and "Don Quixote"
As well as in García Lorca's The Ass
Who directed La ...

Categories: apollinaire, allegory,
Form: Free verse

VISUAL poetry PART 1 apollinaire

...traces
of performance
expand
  shape
&
wide-ranging
   interdisciplinary
calligrammes—poems
 of
 visual
images
 bio-morphed
    together
  word
&
de·lin·ea·tion
    as a
sensation
 ...

Categories: apollinaire, art, word play,
Form: Didactic

Bistro Boheme - a French poetry band that sets old classics into song

...How does it sound when Rimbaud rocks and Baudelaire has got the Blues? 
When Verlaine vibes to the beat and Apollinaire to arpeggios?
Bistro Bohème tries to answer these questions!
We are a French...

Categories: apollinaire, autumn, culture, depression, endurance,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

ORPHISTA apollinaire delauney

...ORPHISTA 
murals
in
 a fullness
   of reality
with
 simultaneous
  contrasts
 oracolour
  in lured
esoteric
  emotions
of expressed
  preoccupations
...

Categories: apollinaire, art,
Form: Didactic

The Best Company Ever

...I love so much the book company, 
More than anything in the world,
More than cats or butterflies,  
Looking at the books in my room, soothe me,
Henry James amazes me, what intelligence,
Yachar K...

Categories: apollinaire, appreciation, art, books,
Form: Free verse

Caligramme the Form

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A form of  Modern Visual Poetry createdby Apollinaire


here- my dynamic paraphrase translation of Apollinaire I'll Pleut
 

It rains voices

         of women

fallen from memory:

i...

Categories: apollinaire, poetry,
Form: Verse

Clerihew Apollinaire

...Guilliaume Apolilinaire*
playwright poet extrordinaire
He wrote poesy sans punctation
his lineage though was Polish-Belarussian

*Read aloud here

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=8s&v=73aTfJS20h...

Categories: apollinaire, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew

Verse Freed To Paraphrase

...a dynamic paraphrase translation of Apollinaire I'll Pleut in this youtube clip above
 

It rains voices

         of women

fallen from memory:

in you also o raindrops,

        rains

...

Categories: apollinaire, tribute, word play,
Form: Verse

It Rains a Dynamic Paraphrase

...a dynamic parphrase translation of Apollinaire I'll Pleut
 

It rains voices

         of women

fallen from memory:

in you also o raindrops,

        rains

the crucial events 

    ...

Categories: apollinaire, poems, poetry, rain,
Form: Verse

Writers Block

...Blank pages stare back at me 
waiting for my mind to pour 
its' heart out. 

I grab my pen, throw on my 
headphones wait, wait for my 
mind to give my heart words 
that need to be written. 

...

Categories: apollinaire, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Local Observations: Humorous Or Otherwise

...I thank God for every idiot 
Who I come to meet;
Because idiots remind me,
It can never be too late 
For me to use a different street, 
Where I can find myself some much needed peace.

I thank...

Categories: apollinaire, philosophy, political,
Form: Free verse

Britain Breaking

...We must correct this inequality
Of Britain reaching breaking point,
Wheezing out gestures of Apollinaire identity, 
The philosophy has invited everyone to comment.

Leave so quickly and make eve...

Categories: apollinaire, anxiety, break up, change,
Form: Free verse

Page 69

...Honey, let’s take a trip
….to the bed, away 
From the lights and sound of home cinema;
And there, I’ll read you, with passion
This rare book I chanced upon
at a local bookstore, when I was 
Loo...

Categories: apollinaire, art, funny, husband, life,
Form: Free verse