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Apres Poems - Poems about Apres

William Herebert translations

...“What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight?”
by William Herebert, 14th century
translation by Michael R. Burch

Who is he, this lordling, who staggers from the fight,
with blood-red ...
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Categories: apres, bird, joy, love, song,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSkiing Is

...Skiing Is… 

Skiing is…
Alpine thrill ride on four inch boards
Boggy in the bumps – a schuss to the lodge
Carving a turn leaving icy rooster tails in the air
Drag lift to ride on thick moving r...
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Categories: apres, fun, winter,
Form: List



Bake Off Off

...It’s the Great British Bake Off
And I’ve got to week six
But I think it’s all over since
They’ve  dissed my bread mix.
They said it was rubbish 
When I baked my plum duff
And Mary said my cake
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Categories: apres, anger, food, humor, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLets Go Skiing

...Let’s go skiing ! Said my wife 
It gives you such a thrill
So off we flew to Canada 
To face the bitter chill

We took a bus from Calgary
To Banff’s National park
Found our hotel, went to bed
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Categories: apres, adventure, fun, holiday, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberJe Vais Apres Toi French Verse- I 'M Coming After You-

...JE VAIS APRÈS TOI French Verse-
I’m Coming After You-

Par tes yeux je vois la teinte de ton cœur ;
Votre esprit s'élève au-dessus de tout ce qui ne l'est pas ;
La beauté de ton sourire,...
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Categories: apres, analogy, appreciation, engagement, how
Form: Lyric



Apres Le Deluge

...Après le déluge 

Après le déluge, moi
2 1/2 hours to work in my car
It’s part of the game
And I’m grateful
Driving in circles
I am faithful
To my calling

What have you become?
What have ...
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Categories: apres, beauty, courage, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Sonnet 4 'The Beauty of the End, Is, It's Beginning'

...The Beauty of the End, is, It's Beginning!
For Aspen never rise, till fire is still,
And all Endeavors, Loves, and Lives are Ash...
All that is product of the Human Will
Persists, till not a ston...
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Categories: apres, death, fire, introspection, life,
Form: Sonnet

A Cute Ankle

...Alone, aging actor alive after abuse.
Adult adept, adapt action above acute ankle.
Admit ached, agree affix aptly crepe.
Ashen apres, amigo angry apart afore. 
Asked aloof aunty avoid awful baloo...
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Categories: apres, anger, care, courage, cute,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUsung Heroines Sung

...Unsung Heroines Sung

below in palace kitchen
over fire in wattle hut
during lunch breaks coffee chatter
or the health spa apres sweat
where ever women gather
when ever women are
comes a quie...
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Categories: apres, appreciation, courage, discrimination,
Form: Free verse

Friends

...Tel un phoenix tu renais apres chaque deception
et tu fais pour trouver une solution
crois moi les vrai amis qui peuvent taider
sont beaucoup moins nombreux que tu peux imaginer
7 est leur nombre...
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Categories: apres, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse

I Love You No Matter What

...Je t'avoue , ton existence
Est bien devenue une indifference
Apres tout ce que tu as fais
Pourquoi suis-je en train encore de parler

Tu n'as plus de place dans mon coeur
Esperons que tu es par...
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Categories: apres, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberApres Moi Le Deluge

...--  Just a bit of silliness --

"Baissez le rideau, la farce est jouee..."
                          ---- Daumier

39 & 1/2 days had passed; 
the rain had lessened.
Noah, grungy and grumpy,
p...
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Categories: apres, bible, boat, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Bouzingo: the Gathering of the Poets

...The boy was aged about eighteen,
Pale and pensive, 
Weary and frail in appearance. 
He could have been 
Goethe's Werther, 
Senancour's Obermann 
Or Chateaubriand's melancholy hero, 
Embraced b...
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Categories: apres, paris, poetry, poets, youth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRappelez Vous, Remember

...Rappelez-Vous
(English translation below original French)

Rappelez-vous les petits fils 
Qui ecoutaient leurs grand-peres
Raconter des histoires d’ infanteries 
Et de battailles de la premiere...
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Categories: apres, death, father, friend, loss,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberSiesta

...The
apres
dejeuner,
post-brandial-
choice...
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Categories: apres, food, funny, life
Form: Lanterne

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