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Ardennes Poems - Poems about Ardennes


Night on the Seine
...Night on The Seine 1939 Silver and gold from city lights daub the black river like brush strokes from VanGogh. The Seine murmurs against La Rive Gauche where dreams of artists linger, the......

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Categories: ardennes, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member France II
...Let hope rely upon your Maginot for swift retort has choked your Gallic might. It crushed your will beneath its undertow as diligence receded in the fight. Your flailing forces teeter on defeat ......

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Categories: ardennes, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



The Greatest Generation
...THE GREATEST GENERATION by JOHN M. ARRIBAS Many Have Called Them the Greatest Generation They Had Struggled and Survived, an Ugly Depression It Was an Era of Hard Times and Simple Divers......

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Categories: ardennes, america, courage, freedom, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Pride In the American Troop
...They held the field, men side by side, Their will intact, their fears subside. They mustered in so many fields, And held the ground, refused to yield. At Lexington went toe to toe, With British ......

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Categories: ardennes, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Everyday I Wonder
...Jasmine breezes o'er fields of white Sounds of robins in the early sunlight Dew drops glisten under skies of blue I gaze out my window and think of you I wonder are you there t......

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Categories: ardennes, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Clouds Over the Ardennes
...Reflected sunset; Pink cotton candy under Full moon, azure sky. In Spring 1981 I was living in Charleville-Meziers in the Ardennes dep......

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Categories: ardennes, beauty, color, mountains, sky,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member To a Public Prosecutor, Translation of Paul Verlaine's a Un Magistrat De Boue
...To a Public Prosecutor or a Judge of Mud*, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s : A un magistrat de boue* Remembrance from the year 1885 Dedicated to the late internationally-famous ......

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Categories: ardennes, judgement, , cute,
Form: Quatrain
Playing Cards In Church
...- I had been on a long hike with my men from Juno to the Ardennes on the way my comrade lost a leg and my Mother had passed away when I had sailed the Atlantic to Uk shores But please don't court......

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Categories: ardennes, forgivenessmen, men,
Form: I do not know?
Enola Happy
...I think that what happened was that we all wanted to be Oedipus and possess our mothers. But because society frowns on such couplings, we actually sought to BECOME our mothers. Since only a wom......

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Categories: ardennes, historywoman,
Form: Free verse

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