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Reply To Carl Brouard

...It is not mandatory
However, I feel that it is my duty
To respond to Carl Brouard
‘Knowing how to drink is not an art
Drinking is not a duty’
But a necessity which is obligatory
As it is crucia...

Categories: aznavour, chocolate, drink, inspiration, literature,
Form: Rhyme

Des Nuits D Amour

...Des Nuits d'Amour
 

A fine tablecloth, Lenox china,
sterling dinner ware.
Tall, elegant candles in shiny
golden candelabras.
Un chantes, d' amour fill the 
starry night that I can smell in y...

Categories: aznavour, love,
Form: Rhyme

Yesterday

...Yesterday when I was young so many happy songs were waiting to be sung...
     ~Charles Aznavour

Tonight as I listen to the radio
a song reminds me of being once young.
Outside I hear the w...

Categories: aznavour, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

She

... She 

 wrapped in ribbons of light
Oh, so sweet a smile
lit
those pistachios in fiery eyes

refilling the vessel of a soul 
counting all strings plucked
in excited ...

Categories: aznavour, desire, sweet, symbolism,
Form: Verse

Camille Desmoulins Fall of the Bastille

...Camille Desmoulins was a poet at the time of the French Revolution,
his enthusiastic speeches were practically the trigger for
the inspiring Revolution of other revolutions ... he acted together
t...

Categories: aznavour, allusion, history, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry

The French and I

...


It was so long ago, the camera in my heart, 
had almost forgotten it and so~
Let this be a tribute to Roget and his gracious 
mother, the owners.....
A French bar, Le Montmartre,filled ...

Categories: aznavour, french,
Form: I do not know?

Des Nuits D'Amour

...

A fine tablecloth, Lenox china,
sterling dinner ware.
Tall, elegant candles in shiny
golden candelabras.
Un chantes, d' amour fill the 
starry night that I can smell in your 
heavenly h...

Categories: aznavour, love, relationship, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse

Translation of Yesterday When I Was Young By T Wignesan

...Translation of YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG
By T. Wignesan
(Written by : Herbert Kretzmer)

(Variously sung in a host of styles, moods and orchestration by
exquisite soul-movers like Roberta Fl...

Categories: aznavour, joy, life, song, sorrow,
Form: Ballad

Charles Aznavour and I

...Charles Aznavour and I

Once in Southgate, I bumped into him
I apologised, so did he, and we continued on our way.
Further down the street, I said to myself 
you touched a famous man, thought of...

Categories: aznavour, anger, color, confidence,
Form: Blank verse